Juliana Francis Blog: April 2014

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

N5.6Bn Pension Scam: Adeleke, 11 Others Now to Be Re-arraigned May 2

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, today postponed the re-arraignment of a former Oyo State Head of Service, Mrs Kudirat Iyabo Adeleke and 11 others implicated in a N5.6Billion pension scam.
Justice Adegboye Gbolagunte postponed the re-arraignment till May 2, 2014 following the sudden collapse of one of the defendants, Mr. Oguntayo Banjo, who allegedly had an asthmatic attack when the court was about taking their pleas.

IGP CONGRATULATES NIGERIAN WORKERS, ASSURES THEM OF ADEQUATE SECURITY FOR MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS

As the Nigerian workers join their counterparts worldwide to mark the International Workers’ Day celebration, the Inspector General of Police, IGP MD Abubakar has assured them of adequate security during the occasion and beyond.

The IGP notes that the Force will leave no stone unturned in ensuring the safety and security of Nigerian workers, as they participate in all lined-up May Day activities nationwide.

In this wise, the IGP has ordered all Police Commands to put in place robust security measures aimed at ensuring a hitch-free event.

N979m Subsidy Scam: Court Refuses to Vacate Warrant on Ogunbambo

Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on Monday, April 28, 2014, dismissed an application asking the court to vacate the warrant issued against an oil marketer, Oluwaseun Ogunbambo.

Ogunbambo is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside Habila Theck and their company, Fargo Energy Limited. over an alleged N979.6 million fuel subsidy fraud.

The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde today, April 28, declared that Local government in Nigeria cannot achieve its aim of bringing development to the grassroots if the problem of systemic corruption was not curbed. Lamorde who was represented by Bolaji Salami, director, Organisational Support, stated this at the opening ceremony of the EFCC/ALGON Training on Anti-Corruption, Fiscal Responsibility and Effective Leadership for principal officers of Local Government Councils in Nigeria.

AGAINST the growing security risk in the country, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Monday, said the May Day celebration, scheduled to hold on Thursday, will be held amid tight security.

While lamenting the lingering insecurity situation in the country, as well as rising level of poverty, the congress warned those attending not to carry any bags, while vehicles should be parked, at least, 200 meters away from the Eagles Square, venue of the programme.
The union said this year’s event is coming at a time when the country was under attack from insurgents, while also urging the government to take measures to end the siege.

We’re recruiting, acquiring equipment to detect explosives –DIG

As part of efforts to combat the insurgents, the Nigeria Police Force is now acquiring equipment that will detect explosives.
The Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) Investigation, Mr Peter Gana, disclosed this yesterday during an interactive meeting with security stakeholders at the Police Officers’ Mess, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos State.

Everything, it seems, has a price. The price Miss Idowu Akinwunmi has to pay for her allegation that she was raped by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Onikan Police Station, a Superintendent of Police (SP), Adekunle Awe, is enormous.

Abducted girl: Police begin manhunt for assailant

Police said they were working round the clock to arrest the fleeing mobile policemen, who kidnapped an eightyear- old girl from her parents’ apartment where she was sleeping and took her into his room.
The Lagos State Police Public relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, disclosed this yesterday in a telephone interview with our correspondent.
The policeman, alleged to be a member of MOPOL 22 Squadron, identified as Gbuchenge Augustine, used an instrument to hit the little girl, Amarachi Abakwan, on the head, attempted to break her neck and then sealed her mouth and tied legs and hands before hiding her under his bed at No. 1, Olufowobi Street, Ikosi Ketu.

Mob burns kidnappers to death

One of the suspected kidnappers

INDICATIONS have emerged that radical recommendations for change by various committees of the national conference, which would require constitution amendments, would meet with stiff opposition by top operators of some of the systems involved.
Nigerian Tribune can reveal that recommendations of certain committees that would fundamentally alter some arrangements in the polity were getting on the wrong side of their chieftains, now said to be making moves to ensure that the recommended changes did not materialise.
A source told the Nigerian Tribune that efforts in the past to effect such fundamental changes being proposed in the polity came to nought, because those behind them were purely on self-serving missions.

Gunmen kill DPO, 2 children in Zamfara •Set police station ablaze •2 children were killed —Police

TRAGEDY struck in the small town of Faru, in Maradun Emirate Council of Zamfara State, when suspected cattle rustlers killed a divisional police officer (DPO) and two children and then set the police station ablaze.

The attack came three weeks after gunmen stormed Yargaladima village in Dansadau Emirate Council and killed over 200 people.

THE 3RD EYE:DPO detained for raping detainee

Since the news of SP. Adekunle Awe, former DPO of Onikan Police Station, Lagos State, broke; I had heard a lot of commentaries against and in support of his conduct from different policemen. Awe was alleged to have raped a suspect, Idowu Akinwunmi while she was under his custody. While some of the arguments were sensible, others were outrageous.

Save my sons from prison, widow begs governor

A widow, Mrs. Patience Adumekwe, whose two boys have been remanded in prison for almost two years, is calling on the Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan to intervene and help her sons regain their liberty. According to the widow, her sons, Chika and Charles (Omoh) were charged with the murder of a 400level undergraduate identified as Ogikighere Emmanuel, alias Onos.
Mrs. Adumekwe, who said that her children were innocent of the charges levelled against them, added that the case had no witnesses. She explained that the only witness was the complaint, who also happened to be the deceased boy’s mother, Mrs. Anna Mayemi.

Two in custody for stealing three-month-old baby

Two persons have been arrested in connection with the stealing of a three-month-old baby in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. One Amos Ibeenegh, who works with the state Social Welfare Office, was arrested with his alleged girlfriend, identified as Chinyere Okeke.
The suspects were said to have conspired to steal Terhide Agbeha while his mother was out.

Group seeks APC chieftain’s arrest for battering wife

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Women Arise for Change Initiative, has called on the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye, to order the arrest and prosecution of one Bashorun Bayo Awosanya for battering his wife.
The President of the organisaDr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, who made the call, said on April 20, Awosanya returned from a social party and pounced on her wife, Ms Victoria Motunrayo Awosanya, and beat her mercilessly for flouting his order and attended the social gathering he asked her not to go.

Eight-year-old girl discovered under policeman’s bed

A mobile policeman, Gbuchenge Augustine, of Mobile Police Unit 22, Ikeja, Lagos State, has disappeared after an eight-yearold girl, Amarachi, was found under his bed. The girl’s mouth was sealed while her legs and hands were tied when she was discovered.
Amarachi also had a broken skull and twisted neck. She was very weak, unable to speak and motionless.
Augustine, with force number 400823, was said to have fled as soon as he heard that the girl had been discovered in his one-room apartment at No. 1, Olufowobi Street, Ikosi Ketu.
Some of the residents of the area claimed the man wanted to use the girl for ritual.
That, however, has not been established. The incident attracted the ire of the youths in the area who mobilised, chanted war songs and frantically searched for the policeman.

'To me it was just bizarre. It was always Oprah, Stedman and Gayle - and Gayle more than Stedman': Oprah's stepmother reveals the 'unhealthy' relationship star had with close friend in part two of EXCLUSIVE bombshell interview

After 14 years of marriage to Oprah's father Vernon, Barbara Winfrey is being forced out of her marital home by Oprah, leaving her homeless. In part one of MailOnline's world exclusive interview, Mrs. Winfrey laid bare the truth about the talk queen's belittling treatment of her and Vernon, Oprah's father. Here, in part two, she gives the inside story of Oprah, Stedman Graham and Gayle King.

It has never been a relationship noted for displays of passion. Across 28 years of dating Oprah and Stedman Graham could never stand accused of having publicly sizzled.

But on this particular evening there were fireworks all right, just not the sort either could have enjoyed.

It was the eve of Stedman’s nephew’s wedding some eight years ago, said Barbara Winfrey, 66, the ex-wife of Oprah's father Vernon.‘Stedman was going to be best man but they argued and his nephew didn’t want him anymore.

Threesome: Stedman Graham, Oprah and Gayle King are practically inseparable, says Barbara. 'I don't know any man I've ever dated who could tolerate that'

Pensive: As Barbara Winfrey faces eviction from the home she shared with Oprah's father Vernon for the past 14 years, her thoughts stray to how the talk queen has manipulated the people in her life

‘He turned to Oprah and said something like, “I don’t know why you’re still with him. He’s no good."’

At that all hell broke loose. In the argument that followed Oprah, now 60, revealed detailed knowledge of Stedman’s life, his movements and who he was spending his time with when she wasn’t around.

Boy who raped his younger sister 50 times in two years - starting when he was 13 and she was just nine - is jailed for 10 years

A teenager who repeatedly raped his sister - starting when she was just nine years old - has been jailed for 10 years.

The shocking case came before Lincoln Crown Court this week, when a judge told how the boy raped his sister over 50 times during a two-year 'campaign'.

The boy had denied six charges of rape between 2008 and 2011 but was found guilty by a jury following an earlier trial.

Three disabled children 'smothered in their pyjamas by their mother' may have been dead for more than 24 hours by the time police were called

Three severely disabled children allegedly smothered in their pyjamas by their mother may have been dead for more than a day before they were discovered, it emerged today.
Neighbours say three-year-old twins Ben and Max and their four-year-old sister Olivia were last seen playing in the garden at the family’s £2million home in south-west London on Easter Sunday.
Worried friends had been unable to contact Tania Lawrence, 42, for 24 hours and called police, who arrived at property at 9pm on Tuesday to find the children dead in their bedrooms.
Their mother was found injured in the bathroom and taken to St George’s Hospital, Tooting, south London, and arrested on suspicion of murder after treatment to minor wounds.
Today her banker husband Gary is said to be 'beyond shock' and will arrive back in the UK from South Africa, where he had been with their eldest daughter Taya – who is not disabled – to celebrate her eighth birthday.

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Murder investigation: Investment banker Gary Clarence is flying back to the UK from South Africa after three of his four children were found dead at home (pictured here with his twin sons)

Lagos captures 62,789 criminals in data base

Lagos State Government yesterday said that it had sentenced no fewer than 2,592 offenders to compulsory community service such as washing of toilets and sweeping of public places in the last 11 months. This was as the government also disclosed that it had completed processing of 1,369 criminal case files out of 1,440 sent to it by the police.
The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Ade Ipaye, disclosed this during the 2014 ministerial press briefing at the state Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja.
Ipaye said that the conviction of the offenders to undergo community service was not only to reduce the congestion in the prisons but also to check stigmatisation of the convicted persons over minor offences.

Help locate my husband, policeman’s wife cries out

A seven-month-old pregnant mother of three, Mrs Mary Emmanuel, has called on the River State Police Command to help locate her “missing” husband. The woman made the appeal during the visit of the wife of the Commissioner of Police, Mrs Chinyere Ogunsakin, to MOPOL 19 barracks yesterday.
The MOPOL Commander, M. P. Abubakar, presented the woman to Ogunsakin, who is the state chairperson of the Police Officers’ Wives’ Association (POWA). Emmanuel gave a tearful account of how her husband had “disappeared” for over seven months.

Father builds house, buys motorcycles from proceeds

Parents, syndicate make money from baby’s cancer

Police in Lagos have rescued a two-yar-old baby girl from a syndicate making money from the lump on her face. The baby, Chinasa Ananko, was rescued in conjunction with Mrs Jacinta Nwakaego Nworie of Hands that Care Foundation. The syndicate, which includes her parents, explored the baby’s health condition to get money from individuals moved by her plight. Police have also arrested six members of the syndicate using Life Care Foundation as smokescreen to defraud people.
The suspects are identified as Chukwukka Eze (24), Amaka Ani (20), Chinasa Eze (22), Monday Nnoni (27), Vincent Okoro (25) and Tochukwu Obi (24). Also in custody is the baby’s mother, Mrs Victoria Ananko. But the Managing Director of the fake charity foundation, identified as Mr Samuel Ependu, has fled since the arrest of his workers. The police also said they would soon go to Anambra State to arrest the baby’s father, Mr Innocent Ananko.
Mrs Ananko disclosed that since they started the business last August, her husband, a former struggling commercial motorcyclist, has started building a house.

Police deny sect killing of policemen on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

There was panic in Lagos yesterday over a purported Boko Haram attack along the ever-busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, which reportedly claimed the lives of nine policemen and 11 civilians.
The report, which went viral on the social media, had it that the suspected Boko Haram men numbering 18 were armed with AK 47 rifles.
The social media broadcast said: “If you are on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway going towards Ibadan, please turn back. Eighteen suspected Boko Haram members are on the highway now displaying their skills.
Nine policemen and 11 civilians had been confirmed dead by these gunmen while trying to stop them from shooting.”

Bessem with torn clothes

Bessem Okafor, the estranged wife of the pastor of Mountain of Liberation Miracles Ministires, Dr. Chris Okafor, has accused her husband of beating her up at their home in Magodo, Lagos.

Bessem who left her home in 2012, said she had, a few weeks ago, gone to visit her four children who were in the custody of their father.

The visit was said to have been arranged by a lawyer from the Office of the Public Defender, Lagos State Ministry of Justice, and her husband’s lawyer, Mr. Onyechukwu Ubani.

She said, “I have not seen my children for nine months and our lawyers agreed that I could come see them at home after school hours by 5pm. I went to the house at the appointed time, but my children were not there.

“I had to wait outside in the compound until 10pm before my husband arrived; the children were not with him. They were later brought home by the driver about 12am. By then it was clear I couldn’t leave again, I had to spend the night.

“The following morning, I bathed and dressed them for school. They pleaded with me to stay back until they returned and since I hardly spent time with them the day before, I agreed.”

A few hours after her children had left for school, Bessem received a phone call from Chris who had also left the house. He allegedly questioned her presence in the house and ordered her to leave.

When Bessem insisted on staying till her children returned from school, Chris allegedly sent a policeman who was part of his entourage to the house.

‘My father didn’t know I was a robber’

In May, 2013, at about 8am, four trailers drove into Reckitt Benckiser Nigeria Limited, a Pharmaceutical Manufacturer company, located at Plot C2/3, Km 32, Agbara Industrial Estate, Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Agbara, Abeokuta North, Ogun State. The four trailers were occupied by a 13-man gang of robbers.
They were in military and navy uniforms, armed with guns. Innocent eyes thought the uniform men were escorts that came with the trailers to transact business at the warehouse.
The day was a Sunday; a day when the ever busy street was as quiet as a graveyard, with most residents having gone to churches. The gang had allegedly robbed that company close to 15 times.
That Sunday’s operation led to the gang’s waterloo. The gang moved into the company’s warehouse, secured a family living in a quarter attached to the company.
They met five victims in the house: two females and three males. One of the robbers raped one of the female victims, before proceeding to tie them.The victims’ mouths were cello taped, while their eyes were blindfolded.
Their legs and hands were also tied with rope brought along for the operation by the gang. Months after the operation, the gang finally met its waterloo.
While some of the gang members are still at large, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), has arrested about nine gang members, identified as Deji Akinwunmi, Okiefa Gods power, Shola Komolafe, Ezekiel Dikeocha, Tunde Oyedele, Osagedele Happy, Taiye and Kehinde Balogun (twin brothers), and Samuel Kingsley.
Some of the gang members revealed the role each of them played. Deji Akinwunmi, 24, an undergraduate with Gateway Polytechnic, 300 level, studying Electric-Electronic, the leader of the gang, came to work in the Pharmaceutical company as a security guard attached to Asco Security Company.

EFCC Charges NDE to Fight Corruption

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, has charged management and staff of National Directorate of Employment (NDE) to take up the gauntlet in the fight against economic and financial crimes in the country as the Commission cannot do it alone.

Lamorde who was represented by Osita Nwajah, deputy director, Public Affairs, stated this on April 23, 2014 at the anti-corruption sensitization programme organized by the Commission for staff of NDE in Abuja. “The essence of this programme is to take the anti-graft campaign to the workplace, and encourage workers to have a buy-in, as the EFCC alone cannot fight and win the war against corruption in Nigeria,” he said.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today (April 23, 2014) arraigned one Tajo Sani Yunusu and his company, Sani Brothers Oil and Gas Limited, before Justice Dije Abdu Aboki of Kano State High Court on a 2-count charge bordering on issuance of dud cheque.

The accused allegedly collected 125, 000 litres of diesel valued at N20, 000, 000 (Twenty Million Naira from the complainant, one Amanallahi Ahmad Mohammed, and gave him three Zenith Bank Plc cheques for the sum. However two of the cheques were dishonoured on presentation at the bank due to lack of fund standing to the credit of the drawer.

I returned to robbery after leaving prison –Suspect

A robbery suspect, Gbenga Saka, seems not to have learnt any lesson from his previous encounter with the law. Barely three years after walking out of the Kirikiri Prisons, Saka is probably on his way back.
The suspect, now in the custody of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State, said he was arrested for attempting to rob a building at Alagbado area of the state. Saka and members of his gang were arrested by SARS team led by Inspector Toyin Omosebi, which also recovered three guns from them.
The suspect, who said he was not praying to return to prison, blamed his friend, Joseph, for initiating him into robbery. Recalling his sojourn in prison, Saka explained that he became a guest at Kirikiri Prisons after police arrested and recovered a stolen Honda City car from him in the Ikorodu area of the metropolis in 2011.

20-year-old boy sells WAEC exam answers online

A 20-year-old boy, Mohammed Abiodun Raheem, has been apprehended for selling answers for the on-going Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) online.
Raheem was paraded yesterday at the head office of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Yaba, Lagos, before being handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Man beheads two-year-old boy, rapes mother

Police in Ogun State have arrested a middle-aged man, Mahmud Bashir Ibrahim, for allegedly beheading a two-year-old boy in Ofada community in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area.
The suspect was said to have committed the crime on Saturday shortly after raping the mother of the infant. Ibrahim reportedly sold the severed head of the boy to an unknown woman in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

Policeman arrested for beating, stripping woman

Police authorities in Lagos State have ordered the arrest and detention of a policeman, Corporal Muhammed Nasir, who beat and stripped a woman naked. The video of the beating and stripping had gone viral on YouTube since Friday.
It showed the policeman, armed with an Ak47 rifle, brutalising two women at a street in Lagos. He dragged one of the women into a muddy water and stripped her naked. The altercation was alleged to have started over his demand from one of the women, a food seller, to sell him fish alone, without food.

How we robbed with stones in traffic –Suspect

Mustapha Idris, the son of an Imam, shunned the Q’uranic injunction and turned to the underworld. Idris, now in police custody, disclosed that he and his gang members used to smash motorists’ windscreens with stones before robbing them in traffic jam.
The suspect and his gang members had been robbing motorists on Mile 2 and Apapa routes for many years, until his arrest. When other members of the six-man gang escaped, Idris was not so lucky. According to him, their mode of operation was to use elements of fear, surprise and shock on their victims and others around before robbing them.

Men in military uniform snatching our motorcycles –Riders

Commercial motorcyclists in Mowe, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State have cried out over the rate at which armed men in military uniform snatch their motorcycles.
The riders said they had lost over 30 motorcycles to armed robbers in the last couple of months. According to them, the robbers usually pretend to be passengers but when they get to lonely places, they will pull out guns, order the riders to stop and take the motorcycles.
“They have snatched about 30 motorcycles through this method in Mowe alone. “Some of us got the motorcycles on the agreement that we would pay back in installments. “The motorcycles are being collected from us by men who posed as passengers,” one of them, who gave his name as Tunde Ojo, said. Ojo said his own incident happened in January, when two men approached him and said they should be taken to Lagos Street in Mowe area.

Villagers hack man to death, burn his body, car

Easter Monday started as a merry-making day for a man identified as Lawrence, his wife, Lydia and two daughters, Lorena and Lauretta.
But the day ended tragically for the family. The family was travelling from Jalingo, Taraba State capital, to Benin in Edo State to attend a relation’s wedding.

Man commits suicide over inability to pay debt

A middle-aged man identified as Mr Aniefiok Okon allegedly stabbed himself to death at the weekend for his inability to pay a N150,000 debt.
The incident, which occurred at night on Oron Road by Edet Akpan Avenue, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, shocked the residents of the area. It was gathered that the yet-tobe- identified creditors were disturbing Okon to pay them. But unable to pay, Okon decided to take his life, to avoid further harassment.

Ritual: 17 arrested as mob attacks suspected den

There was pandemonium yesterday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, as a mob attempted to set ablaze a two-storey building which was suspected to be a ritual killers’ den.
The house, located at No. 30 CDA Asipa Street, Ijaiye, Abeokuta and owned by a retired deputy superintendent of police, was invaded by hundreds of angry youths who were promptly dispersed by armed policemen. At the end of the confusion, which turned out to have been ignited by a false alarm, the police arrested 17 people.

Murdered police officer’s pistol recovered from robber

The service pistol of a murdered Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Peter Tabugbo Chukwukeluo, who was shot several times right at the gate of his home last year, has been recovered from a suspected robber.

This latest breakthrough in the investigation came just after his family members petitioned a nongovernmental organization, Network on Police Reforms in Nigeria(NOPRIN), alleging that a commissioner of police was frustrating the unraveling of the deceased’s murder.

Chukwukeluo, with AP No.94329, a Barrister at law, serving in Imo State Police Command was trailed to his house in Owerri and shot by some gunmen on June 30, 2013. He died later at a hospital.

It was further gathered that Chukwukeluo visited his friends at Mopol 18 Command, Owerri, from where he called his wife to let her know that he was with his friends watching football.

Randy DPO: Police made me swear on the bible before giving report for hospital-victim

Fresh facts have continued to emerge about the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), in charge of Onikan Police Station, a Superintendent of Police(SP) Mr. Adekunle Awe, who was accused by his female detainee, Miss. Idowu Akinwunmi of raping her while she was under his custody.

According to the victim, she was made to swear on the bible by the police that she was telling the truth before a police report could be given to her, to go to hospital.

DPO's mattress has green, white colours-Victim

The means devised by the panel to unravel the truth is by listening to Miss. Akinwunmi and the DPO and going to scene of crime to investigate and corroborate their stories.

The panel comprised of the Officer in Charge of the Human Right Department in the Lagos State Police Command, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mr. Olu Falomo, Officer in Charge of X-Squad, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Mr. Kola Okunola, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), in charge of Admin, Mr. Felix Ogundeji, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), in charge of operations, Mr. Tunde Shobulo and the Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide.

Randy DPO: I caught her having sex with her boyfriend in my bar-victim’s madam

While the controversy surrounding the case continues, with the victim alleging that she was arrested by her madam Mrs. Pelumi Idowu, for showing mercy to a customer and allowing the customer to spend the night in the bar, Mrs. Idowu has put a spook in her story, alleging that Miss. Akinwunmi was tailoring the reason for her arrest, insisting that the victim was arrested because she was fond of bringing men to her bar for sex.

Other DPO, policemen are doing it-Policemen

*New DPO takes over Onikan

The embattled Divisional Police Officer, (DPO), in charge of Onikan Police Station, SP. Adekunle Awe, who was alleged by Miss. Idowu Akinwunmi, his detainee of raping her while she was in his custody, was on Thursday detained along with five other policemen and women for rape and extortion.

Meanwhile, a new divisional police officer, identified as Mr. Kayode Ayeni, a Superintendent of Police (SP), has taken over the seat of Awe at Onikan Police Station. Ayeni, before his move to Onikan division, is the Divisional Traffic Officer, Adeniyi Adele Police Station.

While Awe was detained for rape, other policemen and a woman Inspector, all from the DPO’s station were detained for collecting the sum of N30, 000 from the victim and her brothers.

PRINCIPAL of Government Girls Secondary School, where schoolgirls were kidnapped last week, Asabe Kwambura, has said 190 schoolgirls, and not 77, remain missing.

The head teacher told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Hausa service that parents of 230 girls had reported them missing, but 40 had managed to escape.
Earlier, the Borno State governor said about 77 of the teenagers had not been accounted for.

Scorned woman set up Facebook account falsely branding businessman a paedophile and charity thief and phoned his friends to tell them he’d hanged himself

A scorned woman falsely labelled a businessman whom she'd had a brief relationship with as a 'paedophile' and 'charity thief' on social media then called his friends to tell them he had hanged himself.
Donna Fraser, 39, of Drumchapel, Glasgow, met Paul Anderson, 41, through a dating website in June 2013 and then asked him to move in with her.
But when he had 'doubts' and declined, she then bombarded him with up to 50 text messages a day, Stirling Sheriff Court heard today.

Donna Fraser arriving at Stirling Sheriff Court, where she pleaded guilty to stalking a businessman she met through a dating website

Britain's youngest parents revealed as father of the new mother, 12, says: 'Ashamed? No, I'm proud' as well as declaring, boyfriend, 13, 'a great kid'

The father of a 12-year-old girl who has become Britain’s youngest mother insisted yesterday that he is proud of his daughter.
The schoolgirl, who became pregnant by her 13-year-old ‘boyfriend’ when she was still in primary school at the age of 11, gave birth to a 7lb 4oz girl on Sunday.
At 12 years and three months, she is five months younger than the previous youngest UK mother.
The Year 7 pupil and the baby’s father, who are said to be ‘totally in love’ and who have been going out for a year, are believed to be Britain’s youngest parents.
Today, her 'father' said that he would stand by his daughter - but admitted that he 'broke down with emotion' when discovering only four weeks ago that his eldest daughter was about to give birth.

New record: A couple have become Britain's youngest parents after a girl aged 12 gave birth. Their faces have been pixellated to protect their identities

Jamaican killer we can't deport because he is GAY: Illegal migrant suddenly remembers he is homosexual to avoid being kicked out

An illegal immigrant who stabbed a 15-year-old schoolboy to death less than a year after arriving in Britain cannot be deported because he claims to be gay, judges ruled yesterday.
The 29-year-old Jamaican was jailed for life aged 16 when he and another schoolboy knifed Abdul Maye to death over a £10 debt outside his school in east London.
A judge at the Old Bailey ordered that he be kicked out of Britain once he had served a minimum of eight years.
Judge Paul Focke told the thug, who cannot not be named for legal reasons: ‘You are a Jamaican national and within months of coming to this country you committed murder.

A 31-year-old lady, who was detained at a divisional police station on Lagos Island, has accused the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of the station of raping her. The lady, identified simply as Miss Akinwunmi, alleged that the DPO, a Superintendent of Police (SP), instructed one Inspector Ajiduwe to bring her to his office for debriefing of her case.
The DPO (names withheld) allegedly pounced on the lady and raped her after Ajiduwe left the office. Akinwunmi, who claimed she was arrested on April 15, about 1am, added that she was reported to the police by her ‘madam,’ identified as Mrs Pelumi, who runs a local cafeteria at number 11, Keffi Road, Ikoyi, Lagos State.

A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of six suspected killers of a Lagos governorship aspirant, Funsho Williams, has said the victim died as a result of lack of air intake, due to manual strangulation.

The witness, John Obafunwa, stated this before Justice Adeniyi Adebajo of a Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere, on Wednesday.
Obafunwa, a professor and Chief Forensic Pathologist of Lagos State, said this was the result of the post-mortem carried out on Mr William’s corpse.

ABDUCTED SCHOOLGIRLS RESCUED, 8 STILL MISSING •1 terrorist captured

THE over 100 schoolgirls abducted on Monday night at Chibok, Borno State, have been rescued.
The military, in a statement, said only eight of the abducted girls were still missing.
Military men and local hunters, alongside members of vigilante in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, on Wednesday, pursued the insurgents in search of the abducted school girls and rescued 80 of them.
This came as the military confirmed that more students of the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok were freed on Wednesday evening in the ongoing search and rescue operations to free the abducted students.
In a press release signed by Major-General Chris Olukolade, the Director of Defence Information, the principal of the school confirmed that only eight of the students are still missing.
He also confirmed that one of the terrorists who carried out the attack on the school has also been captured.
The military intervention and search and rescue operation to ensure the safety of the remaining students is ongoing in the suspected areas.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that the insurgents, who had earlier stopped an articulated vehicle loaded with food items in order to take the girls away, got stuck in the bush while they were trying to cross over the muddy area in the bush between Chibok and Askira/Uba.
Father of one of the rescued girls, Malam Ali Iliya, who spoke with newsmen on phone, said “my daughter said when the trailer got stuck, some of the girls began to jump out and run for their lives and she followed suit.

Boko Haram: Monarch, 18 others killed in Borno

Jonathan, ex-Heads of State, governors, service chiefs meet today over insecurity

For the third consecutive day, suspected Boko Haram insurgents struck again yesterday, killing no fewer than 19 persons, including a district head. The insurgents launched separate attacks in Wala and Sabon Kasuwa of Gwoza and Hawul local government areas of Borno State.
A resident of Wala, who craves anonymity, told our correspondent on phone that the terrorists, who were dressed in military uniforms, attacked vehicles plying the Gwoza- Maiduguri highway at Wala, a distance of about 130 kilometres from Maiduguri.
He said: “The gunmen stopped motorists and asked where they are from. If they found out that you are from Maiduguri, they slaughter the person, saying that since you send us out of Maiduguri, we would not spare you.”

How the position you sleep in with your partner reveals the strength of the relationship

Are you someone who likes to cuddle up against your partner at night? Or do you tend to wake on the other side of the bed, facing the wall?
New research shows that the position in which we sleep is highly revealing about the strength of our relationships.
The key is the distance between couples, according to a study of 1,100 people.
Partners who sleep less than an inch apart are far more likely to be happy together than those maintaining a gap wider than 30 inches, the researchers found.

The happiest couples: Partners who sleep face to face while touching were found to be 100% satisfied in their relationships

Results: Couple who sleep while touching were found to be much happier than those who don't make any contact while sleeping

Kogi Speaker’s children kidnapped

AN unspecified number of suspected gunmen invaded the country home of the Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Alhaji Momoh Jimoh Lawal, in Okengwe on Tuesday morning and kidnapped his two sons.
Alhaji Lawal, who normally spends his weekend at his village, had left home on Monday morning for Lokoja the state capital, leaving behind his wife, Hajiya Safiya Lawal, and the children at home.

Boko Haram

No fewer than 100 female students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, were on Monday night abducted by members of the outlawed militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

The incident took place less than 15 hours after four suicide bombers detonated Improvised Explosive Devices, killing 89 people in a busy motor park in Nyanya, a satellite community bordering the Federal Capital Territory and Nasarawa State.

Just before the news of the abduction spread on Tuesday, there was pandemonium at the National Assembly as a bomb scare forced lawmakers and workers to hurriedly close their offices.

Parents told the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation that the girls, who are Senior Secondary Schools Examination candidates, were woken up at about 10pm in their hostel by the insurgents and ordered into four waiting lorries.

A pupil, who did not wish to be named, was quoted as saying that she managed to escape after seeing some of her classmates jump out of the back of one of the lorries.

Businesses standstill as FCT residents mourn blast victims

Business activities at Nyanya Market, located on the outskirt of Abuja, were paralysed on Monday following the early morning bomb blasts at the vehicle park, which officially claimed over 71 lives and injured over 124 people.
The blast, which occurred around 7:05am was said to be mounted in a small car parked under a tree between the extreme of Nyanya bridge and the park.
The park is occupied by SURE–P buses plying Nyanya to different parts of the city. The park is usually a beehive of activities for tricycle operators, truck pushers and hawkers.

I embraced robbery after losing bank job -Suspect

A robbery suspect, now in the custody of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State, said he took to robbery after he lost his job.
The suspect, Mr Joseph Sunday, said he had no means of taking care of himself and his dependents after he was laid off by First Bank of Nigeria. Sunday, who was apprehended by SARS in March, this was second time he was arrested for robbery.
The suspect also disclosed that he had gone to prisons twice because of one robbery operation.

We didn’t know we were going for robbery –Twins

The 27-year-old twins, Kehinde and Taiye Balogun, 27, arrested for the robbery at Reckitt-Benckiser Pharmaceutical, have denied being part of the robbery gang.
Taiye and Kehinde are not just twins; they are both welders and operate the same shop. The twins said they did not know that N10,000 given to each of them, for rendering their professional services, was for robbery operation.
According to detectives attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State, the gang attacked the company 15 times and even raped a female resident in the Agbara area where the company was located.

Pakistani student arrested with N228m drug

A 19-year-old Pakistani student, who came into Nigeria with the aim of touring Victoria Island, has been arrested for smuggling heroin into country. The drug is estimated at N228 million.
The suspect, Iftikihar Muhammed Arslan, was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). He had cleverly hidden the prohibited drug in a smaller bag inside his luggage.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday April 15, 2014, arraigned one Adagun Moshood Olalekan before Justice O. A Taiwo of the Lagos High Court, Igbosere, on a 17-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and possession of fraudulent documents.
Olalekan pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, today April 15, 2014, arraigned one Dr George Odabi along with his company, Deo Gratias International School Limited, Abuja before Justice Peter Kekemeke of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja on a 3- count charge bordering on issuance of dud cheque and breach of trust.
The accused, who is the managing director of Deo Gratias International School Limited Abuja, is said to have sometime in September, 2013 received a forty million, one hundred thousand naira (N40, 100,000.00) loan from one Mrs. Egbunola Ogungbesan for the renovation of his school but reneged on his promise to pay back.

Executive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde today disclosed that the Commission has recovered N4.3billion from suspects involved in the petroleum subsidy scam. He made the disclosure Tuesday April 15 when the management of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency led by its Executive Secretary, Mr. Farouk Ahmed paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja.

NYANYA ATTACK: IGP URGES NIGERIANS TO UNITE AGAINST TERROR

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP MD Abubakar, CFR, NPM, mni, psc has urged all Nigerians to rise in unity and firmly stand their ground against terrorism.
Speaking on the recent unfortunate terrorist attack on Nyanya Motor Park, on the outskirts of the Federal Capital, Abuja, the IGP states that such occasion calls for a united fight against the common enemies of our land.
He charges the citizenry to shed all political, ethnic, religious or sectional leanings and rally round the national flag at this trying moment of our nationhood, by remaining vigilant and cooperating with the security agencies in their bid to stamp out terrorism.
He warned against all forms of divisive, inflammatory and provocative statements capable of heating up the polity and distracting investigators.

NDLEA DETECTS 11.5KG OF CANNABIS IN COSMETICS

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have detected 11.5kg of dried weeds suspected to be cannabis inside cosmetics. Anti-narcotics agents made the discovery at the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) warehouse during screening of goods on a KLM flight to Suriname.

NDLEA Commander at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos, Mr. Hamza Umar said that the drug which was hidden in cosmetics was destined for Paramaribo, capital of South America country, Suriname. In his words, “the suspect, Oguike Franklin, 33, brought a consignment of cosmetics for shipment to Suriname. In the process of search operation, officers found out that some of the soap containers had been replaced with dried weeds that tested positive for cannabis. The drug weighed 11.5kg”.

The 33 year-old Aba based electronics trader said that he was introduced into drug smuggling by a friend when his business was no longer flourishing. “I am a trader living at Aba, Abia State. It was my friend that introduced me into smuggling cannabis to South America. He told me that I could earn 5,000 dollars. My business has been going down and I am indebted. This is my first time” the suspect stated. He is married with a child.

NDLEA CONFISCATES 240 MILLION NAIRA DRUGS AT MMIA

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have seized illicit drugs valued at two hundred and forty million naira (N240,000,000) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos. The drugs weighing 95.93kg were seized between January and March 2014. A total of nineteen (19) suspected drug traffickers were also apprehended. The suspects include sixteen males and three females.

NDLEA Commander at the Lagos Airport, Mr. Hamza Umar gave the breakdown of arrests and seizures in the first quarter of 2014 as follows. “Within the first quarter of 2014, the Airport command seized cocaine 9.060kg, heroin 16.950kg, cannabis 27.235kg, methamphetamine 3.4kg, ephedrine 2kg, morphine 14.96kg,apresoline 3.505kg, pethidine 10.82kg and diazepam 8kg. The total weight of seized drugs in the period under review is 95.93kg while persons arrestedare16 males and 3 females” Hamza stated.

The suspects

The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State, has arrested a gang, which, operating in military camouflage and merchant navy uniforms, attacked Reckitt-Benckiser pharmaceutical 15 times and even raped female residents at the Agbara area of Ogun State.

The 13 man-gang’s waterloo started after the company, sick and tired of the incessant attacks, alerted SARS, which embarked on investigation.

While some are still at large, the police have arrested about nine gang members, identified as Deji Akinwunmi, Okiefa Gods power, Shola Komolafe, Ezekiel Dikeocha, Tunde Oyedele, Osagedele Happy, Taiye and Kehinde Balogun(twin brothers), and Samuel Kingsley.

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Lagos captures 62,789 criminals in data base

Father builds house, buys motorcycles from proceeds

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