'Respectable looking' middle-aged shoplifters steal thousands of pounds worth of make-up and electricals using a PUSHCHAIR

These CCTV images appear innocent enough - a 'respectable looking' middle-aged couple stroll casually down a shopping aisle laden with a basket and baby pram.

In fact, the pair pictured are serial shoplifters suspected of stealing thousands of pounds worth of cosmetics and electrical items using an empty pushchair.

On each occasion captured by surveillance cameras, the woman enters the store and brazenly fills her basket with around £500 worth of items.

Caught in the act: The couple pictured are wanted for a series of shoplifting offences in Plymouth and south Devon - the pair use an empty pram to hide their stolen goods

Her male accomplice then joins her a short time later and transfers the goods into his empty pram before leaving the store.

Finally, the woman abandons the basket and walks out of the shop without making a purchase.

Forced to watch crucifixions, stonings and beheadings and taught to fire machine guns as big as they are: How Islamic State training camps for children are swelling its ranks with junior jihadis

A video has emerged reportedly showing children at training camps run by the Islamic State firing machine guns that are almost as big as them.

The footage released by the terror group shows small children sitting reading from the holy book before showing a youngster, wearing a ski mask, firing an automatic weapon, which he struggle to control as he fires it.

It then shows another boy assembling a weapon, while other children look on in the background.

The youngster in the ski mask who is shown firing an automatic weapon, which looks almost as big as him

It also shows a youngster assembling the weapon, as children are forced to take lessons in handling weapons 

A young boy holds a machine gun while other children at the training camp look on 

Ebola: Cleric assures Nigerians of divine intervention

FOLLOWING the spread of the infamous Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and the fear it is generating in many quarters, Nigerians have been called upon to have faith in God and be rest assured that “God will intervene against the spread of deadly diseases in the country.”
This was stated at a special meeting of the Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) worldwide, under the spiritual leadership of Reverend (Dr) P.I. Togbe, held on Friday, 29th August, 2014, at CCC, Agbowo Parish, Ibadan, to shed light on certain issues and chart a way forward for the church.

Fraudsters who hypnotise victims arrested in Ogun

FRAUDSTERS who hypnotised their victims to dispossess them of their belongings have been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command at Ibara area of Abeokuta Ogun State.
In a press release issued and signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, it was stated that detectives attached to Ibara Division of the command apprehended the suspects when one of their victims reported her ordeals in the hands of the suspects to the police after they had collected some amount of money and valuables from her and many others.

Man arraigned in court over N22m hajj fee •Remanded in prison for not fulfilling bail conditions

AN accused, Alhaji Olujide Semiu, a.k.a. Sarito has been remanded in prison custody pending the fulfilment of bail condition granted him, after he was arraigned in court on Thursday, August 28, 2014 on a three-count charge of conspiracy, obtaining under false pretence and  conversion of N22million meant for intending pilgrims during Hajj 2013.
At his arraignment, in Chief Magistrates’ Court 1, Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo State, presided over by Chief Magistrate Fatimah Badrudeen, the first count read “that you Alhaji Olujide Semiu ‘m’ and Alhaji Ibrahim Omo Oba ‘m’ now at large on the first day of April 2013, at about 1.30p.m., at Oyo State Pilgrims Welfare Board, Ibadan, in the Ibadan Magisterial District did conspire to commit felony to wit: obtaining money under false pretence and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 516 of the Criminal Code cap 38 volume 2 Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria 2000.”

Boko Haram ‘funded through CBN’ —Australian negotiator reveals •Obsolete weapons hinder Nigerian military

IT was made known on Saturday that a large chunk of the funds used by the terrorist group, Boko Haram passes through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), unknown to many officials.
According to latest reports, this disclosure was made by an Australian, Dr Stephen Davis, who had close links with the terrorist group and had worked as a go-between for government during negotiation.
Davis, who said he was disclosing all he knew about the Islamist group because he could no longer bear what the kidnapped Chibok girls were going through, affirmed that Boko Haram commanders told him that a senior CBN official (names withheld) was fully involved in the funding of the insurgency.
Davis, in an interview with an online publication, TheCable, said Western countries could not trace the majority of the source of funding to Boko Haram because “it is done through a legal channel; through the gatekeeper; the CBN, and that makes it very easy to cover up.

Ebola: NYSC reduces orientation course to one day •Cancels typical exercises

Against the backdrop of the presidential pronouncement that all schools in the country should not reopen until October 13, 2014 due to the current  measures to contain the Ebola Virus Disease, the directorate of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has indicated that graduates participating in the 2014 Batch B orientation course would spend between one and two days on the course, as against the normal 21-day programme.
    The NYSC management made this known in an advertorial published in a national daily on Saturday.
According to the advertorial, the abridged version of the 2014 Batch B orientation course will run between September 1 and  8, 2014.

Ebola: Police raid Lagos hotels, arrest 39 foreigners

Men of the Nigerian Police from the Area A Command, Lion Building, Ikoyi, Lagos State, and operatives of the Nigerian Immigration Service, on Friday raided one hotel and a guest house on Lagos Island, arresting 39 foreign nationals over the Ebola Virus Disease scare.

Jonathan’s SECRET pact with US, UK, ISREAL: CRUSH BOKO HARAM INSURGENTS BY OCT. 31

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• Chibok girls, others may be freed soon

President Goodluck Jonathan has put in place a multi-lateral military operation with top security brass from Britain, the United States and Israel, with a mandate to crush the Boko Haram insurgency by the end of October 2014.
Top security sources told New Telegraph on Sunday that some subterranean collaborations were underway between British spy agency, M-15; the U.S Central Intelligence Agency; and Israel’s MOSSAD to ensure a successful operation. They will also ensure the recovery of the female students of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, abducted since April 14.
The multi-dimensional operation which is a combination of tactical and intelligence measures, enjoys the participation of the top echelon of the military, and two emirs with strong military background. They have reportedly expressed disdain over the near destruction of the North by the Boko Haram insurgents.
“I can tell you of the presence in the country of top military brass from the said countries for this purpose. They have been holding high level meetings, gathering intelligence and mapping out operational strategies with the Defence Headquarters.

EBOLA: NDLEA SCREENS SUSPECTS BEFORE DETENTION - GIADE

Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Ahmadu Giade said that the Agency has put in place measures to medically examine suspected drug traffickers before taking them into custody. The NDLEA boss who made the disclosure in Lagos at the weekend stressed that suspected drug traffickers including persons who test positive for the ebola virus will not go unpunished. All commands of the Agency have been directed to carry out compulsory pre-detention screening to prevent the deadly ebola epidemic.

According to Giade, “ebola victims found in possession of narcotic drugs shall not be allowed to go scot-free. I have issued an operational directive on new suspect handling guidelines because of the ebola virus. There must be proper ebola pre-screening examination before a suspect is detained. So far, we have not had any case of ebola patient involved in drug trafficking in the country. If any drug suspect tests positive for ebola, he or she shall be handed over to the medical authorities and shall be prosecuted as soon as a clean bill of health is issued”.

‘He makes loves to me in the presence of our grown-up children’

A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, has  dissolved a 17-year-old marriage between Rukayat and Rasaq Muniru, over  their diferences on sex.
Rukayat  told the court that Muniru was shameless  and found nothing wrong in having sex with her in the presence of their grown-up children.
“Muniru rented a room  in a face-face  apartment for me  and our four children, both male and female, at Olunloyo area of Ibadan, Oyo State capital, because he has married  another wife.
“He sees nothing wrong in having sex with me in their  presence as matured as they are.
“Whenever the children saw us making love, I used to remind him of the negative  effect  it might have on them and  task him on the need to  rent one more room for our privacy.

Declaration of caliphate: Ex Generals alarmed by Boko Haram •Military seeks Jonathan’s will to fight •Army chiefs in Maiduguri

Prominent retired Generals in the country are alarmed that Boko Haram terrorists  appeared to be gaining the upper hand in their war against Nigeria.
One of the retired Generals, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who visited Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Friday, was said to have voiced out to some of his close associates that he would not mind putting on his military uniform again in the face of the embarrassing declaration of an Islamic state in the North East by Boko Haram amid reports of the terrorists victory over the Nigerian army in several battles in recent days.
Two other former military rulers, among other retired military top shots, it was reliably learnt, have also expressed similar shock to underscore the danger presently assailing the country’s territorial integrity.
Two weeks ago, former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, declared to newsmen that he still had his military uniform at home and would not mind wearing it again to defend the country from the terrorists.
A former ECOMOG airforce chief, retired Air Vice Marshall Mohammed Audu Bida, addressed a press conference on Friday in Abuja, where he blamed the present helpless situation in the North East on what he called the lack of political will to deal with the insurgency.
He called on President Goodluck Jonathan to give orders for an all-out war against Boko Haram in the interest of the country.

Woman in detention for burning 14-yr-old genital

THE police in Abuja, on Friday, detained a woman for allegedly forcing a 14-year old girl to sit on a hot stove as punishment for bed wetting.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the incident, which occurred on August 23 at Dutse Alhaji, in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), resulted in severe scorching of her genital.
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs Altine Daniel, who confirmed the incident, added that the girl, a sister-in-law of the accused, was receiving treatment at the Garki General Hospital, Abuja.

Dogs eat corpses of Ebola victims in Liberia •As virus spreads to Senegal

DOGS are digging up the corpses of Ebola victims buried in shallow graves in Liberia and eating them in the street, villagers have claimed.
Furious residents of Johnsonville Township, outside capital Monrovia, raised the alarm after packs of wild dogs were spotted digging up corpses from a specially-designated ‘Ebola graveyard’, dragging them into the open and feeding on their flesh, according to the Daily Mail of UK.
The grisly scenes came three weeks after government health officials tried to desperately stem the country’s rising infection rate and hurriedly buried the bodies despite a heated standoff with villagers who refused to give their permission to use the land.
But rather than resolve the dispute, Liberia’s Ministry of Health burial team dug the graves at night to avoid further confrontation, making the infected bodies easy targets for scavengers, villagers said.

Ebola: 160 placed under observation in Rivers

Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu

Following the death of an Ebola victim in Port Harcourt, Rivers State during the week, at least 160 persons that made contact with the victim have been identified and put under observation.

The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Sampson Parker, stated at a news conference at the state’s secretariat in Port Harcourt on Friday that the people had shown no signs of the Ebola disease.

He, however, said that the people were strictly under watch.

The commissioner added that the baby of the widow of the late health worker, who has since been quarantined, was in good health.

While dispelling rumours that the state was not working with the Federal Government in tackling the spread of the disease, Parker said, “Rivers State now has a mobile testing unit for testing blood samples for the virus. A national Ebola response team has been set up and headed by the Minister of Health, Professor Oyenbuchi Chukwu.”

He also stated that all places identified to have been visited by the late victim after he met with an ECOWAS diplomat, Oluibukun Koye, were being decontaminated as part of measures to contain the spread of the disease.

The late doctor’s residence, the Green Heart hospital, where he was treated and the morgue where his body was kept, were part of the places being decontaminated.

Meanwhile, there was panic in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital in Cross River State over a suspected Ebola case on Friday.

The scare was intensified when a member of the National Conference from the state, Mr. Orok Duke, took to his Facebook page to spread the information.

Duke said an Ebola patient arrived from Port Harcourt and had been quarantined.

But the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr. Thomas Agan, expressed shock over the situation while describing Duke’s claim as unfounded.

Late doctor knew diplomat had Ebola virus –Rivers

Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi
| credits: www.thisdaylive.com

The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Samson Parker, says the late Dr. Samuel Enemou, who treated Olu Koye, a Nigerian diplomat with the Economic Community of West African States, was aware that the diplomat was a carrier of the deadly Ebola virus.

The commissioner stated this during a press conference in Port Harcourt on Friday evening.

Parker said, “He had received the late Dr. Patrick Sawyer in Lagos. Upon developing the symptom, confided in a female colleague, called Lilian, who contacted the late Enemuo. It was after contact was established with Dr. Enemuo that Olu Koye flew to Port Harcourt to see him.

“To conceal his movement, Koye, who had been quarantined among other people for having primary contact with the late Dr. Sawyer, the Liberian-American who transmuted the Ebola virus into Nigeria, sneaked out of the isolation unit where he was being observed and took a flight to Port Harcourt and switched off his phone so that he could not be reached or traced should he answer a call.”

On arrival in Port Harcourt, he said Koye checked into Mandate Gardens, a local hotel in the Rumunokoro area in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.

The hotel is within the Rumunokoro area where Dr. Enemuo’s private health facility, Sam Steel Clinic is located.

Parker added, “From what we have gathered so far, Dr. Enemuo, knowing that Koye was positive of the Ebola virus took some measures of precaution to protect himself while treating Koye.

“Knowing the enormity of what he was doing, Enemuo upon Koye’s departure for Lagos, poured bleach all over the room that Koye slept in order to sanitise the place.”

Citing adultery, Oyakhilome’s wife Anita files for divorce in London

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Despite rebuttals of allegations that their marriage had hit the rocks, it has emerged at last that all may not be as rosy as Pastor Chris Oyakhilome’s publicists had always claimed.
The wife of the Christ Embassy founder, Rev. Anita Oyakhilome, has filed for divorce in a United Kingdom court, citing “unreasonable behaviour” and “adultery”.
A report published by TheCable said the suit was filed on April 9 this year at the Central family Court, High Holborn, London, UK., on Anita’s behalf by Attwaters Jameson Hill Solicitors.
…alleges adultery
The dissolution of the marriage between Christ Embassy Church founder, Pastor Christian Oyakhilome, and his wife, Rev. Anita Odegwa Oyakhilome, has entered the final phase. An online news portal, The- Cable, reported that the wife is seeking divorce on the ground of “unreasonable behaviour” and “adultery.” She outlined several allegations against the pastor which TheCable said it could not publish for legal reasons.
The divorce case, with Suit No FD14D01650, was filed on April 9, 2014 at Divorce Section A, Central Family Court, First Avenue House, High Holborn, London, UK, on Anita’s behalf by Attwaters Jameson Hill Solicitors, a full-service law firm with expertise in commercial law and a strong consumer focus in family, wills and estate, personal injury law and medical negligence. Efforts to reconcile the popular couple, whose church is one of the biggest denominations in Nigeria and has branches all over world, have failed.
They have two teenage daughters, Sharon and Charlyn. Oyakhilome is the president of Believers’ Love World Inc., the registered name of the Christian ministry, while his wife is the vice-president.
The pastor, according to an elder of the church, has denied allegations of adultery and believes his wife is being influenced by “bad friends” who are intent on destroying their home.
While Anita believes she has been relegated in the scheme of things in the church, her husband has reportedly accused her of trying to usurp power and authority above her seniors in the ministry. Sources told TheCable that the pastor had been making efforts to avoid divorce in the hope that the wife would eventually have a change of mind.

Operation Wese: NDLEA busts syndicate after six months tracking

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‘Reckless killings in Nigeria traced to drugs’ 
Ever since operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement (NDLEA) started field operations, the raid and destruction of 184 hectares of cannabis plantations in Ondo State, seems to be the most challenging.
Like a scene drawn out of Hollywood, the operatives had gone into a forest in Ondo to carry out surveillance on cannabis traffickers, which lasted six months.
They had mixed with the residents, living from hand to mouth, while they scurried into forests at night and ferried information to headquarters by daylight. They knew that if their mission was discovered before completion, they would pay with their lives. Indeed, one of them described the operation, which was tagged, ‘Operation Wese,’ as “the mother of all operations!”
New Telegraph gathered that a combined team of 100 NDLEA officers, drawn from eight commands finally raided Wese Forest Reserve in Ondo State and destroyed 184 hectares of cannabis plantations.
NDLEA spokesman, Mitchell Ofoyeju, said that the raid, which lasted 72 hours, successfully led to the dismantling of a cannabis syndicate known as Akunnubas.
Akunnubas is a top notch syndicate, ran like a full fledge company. It has a Treasurer, Eke Sylvester, 37 and other five members of the association.
In the course of the operation, NDLEA dismantled the syndicate and arrested members of the gang.
The suspects have been identified as Friday Julius, 28, Azonobi Godwin, 21, Leke Cletus, 29, Festus Osagie, 30 and Charles Osanebi.
The busting of the syndicate also revealed the modes of operation of cannabis production syndicates and related implications for the country.
According to investigation, this full-blown drug-trafficking network has an Executive arm which oversees the administrative affairs of the group.

37 Commissioners of Police promoted to AIGs

The Police Service Commission today, announced the promotion of 30 Deputy Commissioners of Police to the rank of Commissioners of Police after their success in the recently concluded interview exercise organized by the Commission.

The officers are: Pius U. Imue, Valentine U. Ntochukwu, Felix Goodluck Ogundeji, Frederick Taiwo Lakanu, Hilda Ibifuro-Harrison, Micheal Ogbodu, Nwodibo Ekechukwu, Etop John James, Ademola Omole, Olushola Emmanuel Amore,  Joshak Habila, Adegbuyi Samuel Damilola, Rasheed O. Akintunde, Istifanus Shettima, Jimoh  Omeiza Ozi-Obeh, Ibrahim Lamorde, Ghazalli Mohammed, Peace Ibekwe Abdallah, Victory Niro Menta, Clement O. Adoda, Austin I. Iwar, Adekunle J. Oladunjoye, Adaji-Adejo-Gabriel, Sobulo B.T.M., Mohammed Lawal Hussein, Ishaku Alhaji Barau, Emmanuel T. Inyang, Olufemi Olanipekun Oyeleye, Gabriel Achong and Ezekiel Danboyi Zang.

Robbery is fastest way of making money– Suspect

A suspected armed robbery suspect, Sule Aliu, 21, has told policemen attached to the Lagos State Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, that he abandoned his shop, where he repairs air conditioners and take to robbery because money from robbery was easy to make.

Aliu was arrested alongside others, namely Ibrahim Martin, 20,  Adekunle Miceal, 19, Nnamdi Atumphrey, 22, and Yinka Arokoyo, 32.

According to police, the gang specialises in snatching handsets, bags,ATM cars and other valuables from unsuspecting victims during traffic jam.

‘NSCDC didn’t push any vandal into the lagoon’

The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Security and Defence Corps, Mr. Mefor Chibuzo has dispel allegations that officials of the corps pushed a suspected vandal into the lagoon.

According to Chibuzo, the operation that led to the incident, was actually based on information gathered from an informant.

He revealed that the corps got information that some persons who sell vandalised petroleum products were around certain areas in Lagos State.

Randy DPO demoted, placed on suspension

Five months after a 31-year-old lady who was detained at Onikan Police Station was raped by the divisional police officer, a Superintendent of Police(SP) Mr. Adekunle Awe in Lagos, news has now filtered in that the policeman has been demoted and placed on suspension.

This revelation was made by a member of the panel constituted to investigate the rape case instituted against Awe.

Drug abuse deadlier than genocide, says NDLEA

Death occasioned by drug abuse is more dangerous than genocide, says the Murtala Mohammed Airport (MMIA), Lagos, Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mr Hamza Umar. Umar made this submission during a presentation to the participants of Course 36, at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos.
He said: “Apart from the genocide of the Second World War, no other phenomenon has had more debilitating consequences on mankind like the pandemic drug scourge. Drugs induce social vices, civil upheavals and other forms of criminalities.”
According to Umar, narcotic drugs and psychoactive substances have been identified as a major cause of broken marriages, social vices, civil upheavals and other forms of criminalities. He added that narcotic drugs negatively affected industrial relations and millennium development goals.

Accident claims five, eight Ekiti varsity students injured

 
DANGEROUS CELEBRATION Eight final year students of Ekiti State University almost lost their lives while returning from a night club after celebrating the end of their study

At least five persons, mostly traders going to Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, died in an accident on Ado-Ifaki Road yesterday. Eight final year students of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado- Ekiti, were seriously injured in the crash.
The accident involved a lorry carrying the traders and a Mazda car conveying the students. Also in Lagos yesterday, 18 passengers and the driver survived a crash at Otedola Estate on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
But in the Ekiti crash, the driver of the lorry is currently on life support at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti. The students, according to sources, were returning from a night club in Ado-Ekiti where they had gone to celebrate the completion of their final year examinations.

Community submerged by flood seeks Lagos govt help

Regular visitors to Waheed Ewenla Street in the Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area know better than to go to the area whenever it rains.

This is because the area is usually submerged by flood after any downpour.

Residents said the community had been battling with the problem of flooding for the past 10 years.

PUNCH Metro observed during a visit to the community that the major cause of flooding in the community was the lack of drainage in the area.

When our correspondent mentioned the fact that the community lacked drainage channels, an elderly resident, Ayo Akinsowon, explained that many landlords did not give room for gutters while building their houses, adding that the portion of lands that were supposed to be used for rain water collection in the area had been sold by land grabbers, popularly called omo onile.

NSCDC absolves officials from graduate hawker’s death

The Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Service and Civil Defence Corps has denied that its officials engineered the untimely death of a graduate, Felix Babalola, who sold recharge cards under the Meckwen Bridge, Victoria Island.

PUNCH Metro had reported on Thursday that Babalola died while running from the officials of the NSCDC, who had stormed the area to arrest hoodlums. Babalola was said have slipped and fallen into the Lagoon.

Eyewitnesses, who spoke with our correspondent, said the NSCDC officials, however, prevented the people from helping the victim out of the water. It was said that one of them pointed a gun at the victim as he made desperate effort to get out of the water, threatening to kill him if he did so.

But in a statement by the corps’ spokesperson,

Police arraign mother for killing son

The police have arraigned a 33-year-old mother, Margaret Odunlade, and two others, for allegedly killing her son, Tunde Sumola.

The police said Margaret, her sister, Olayemi Odunlade, and her second husband, Folorunsho Emmanuel, beat up the 13-year-old to death before dumping his corpse in the canal.

The incident happened on Emmanuel Street in the Ikeja area of Lagos.

It was learnt that Margaret had separated from Sumola’s father and was remarried to 40-year-old Emmanuel.

She was said to have on August 2 gone to the Ijebu Ode area of Ogun State to pick the boy from where he was staying with a guardian.

On getting home late in the night, her second husband was said to have refused to allow the boy into the house.

Suspect vows to preach against robbery if released

 

 

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a suspected armed robber, Adekunle Martins, who specialized in snatching valuables from people along the Third Mainland Bridge, in the Oworonshoki area of Lagos.

The police stated that Martins allegedly belonged to a gang who made use of weapons such as cutlasses and guns to attack motorists on the highway, particularly in the early mornings.

Our correspondent learnt that Martins, along with his colleagues, were arrested by operatives of the state Special Anti-robbery Squad after a tip-off had reached the Operation Commander, SP Abba Kyari.

It was further gathered that the valuables the gang usually snatched included handbags, telephones and laptops.

Cops capture fleeing awaiting trial suspect

A mild drama ensued on Thursday at about 2.30pm on the premises of a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja when one of the accused brought for a trial in the magistrates’ court attempted to escape.

It was gathered that the accused, Friday Onochie, attemped to flee shortly after he was arraigned on one count of stealing before Magistrate Margret Dan-Oni.

Onochie was alleged to have stolen clothing materials said to be worth several millions of naira.

The magistrate had granted him bail, but ordered that he should be remanded in custody pending when he would perfect his bail conditions.

Lagos commercial bus driver, others beat up cop

•Ojokoro Magistrate’s Court

The police have arraigned a commercial driver, Idowu Arisekola, before an Ojokoro Magistrate’s Court in the Ifako-Ijaiye area of the state for assaulting a policeman attached to the Ijaiye Ojokoro Police Station.

It was learnt that the cop, Akintunde Adepoju, was controlling the traffic at the Ajala bus stop when the driver and his conductor, who was still at large, confronted him.

The driver, our correspondent gathered, caused a traffic snarl by obstructing the road with his bus.

While trying to evade arrest, it was reported that Arisekola drove the bus recklessly and rammed into another vehicle.

It was further gathered that the duo took the cop to a joint where they and some touts were alleged to have tortured him. Adepoju was, however,

Court remands four for killing 21-year-old

An Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court has remanded four men in custody for allegedly killing 21-year-old Adekunle Ramoni.

The incident happened in the Odonguyan area of Ikorodu, Lagos State.

The suspects, Emmamuel Reuben, Ikechukwu Atuma, Tobiloba Ogunyemi and Joseph Isaac, were arraigned on Thursday at the Ebute Metta Magistrate court on two counts of murder.

The charge reads in part,

Inside Brangelina's secret French wedding: How Brad Pitt 'gasped when he saw his bride in white dress and veil as sons sons walked her down the aisle and younger daughters scattered petals'

A spokesperson for Brad Pitt, 50 and Angelina Jolie, 49, confirmed the couple got married on Saturday in a small chapel in a private ceremony at Chateau Miraval, France, the property they bought in 2011.

A source tells E! News the Oscar winner walked down the aisle in a white dress which was 'very traditional, but very Angie, it was comfortable but plain white floor-length antique lace and silk.'

While the designer of the dress is still unknown, the website claims the star 'definitely wore something that once belonged to [her late mother] Marcheline Bertrand.

 

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Special moment: Brad Pitt 'gasped' when Angelina lifted her veil when they wed in France on Saturday.

'It was a small locket with a photo of her mother inside it. She had a veil and Brad gasped when he lifted it because she looked so stunning.'

Jolie walked down the aisle with her eldest sons Maddox, 13, and Pax, 10, on each arm.

Her daughters Zahara, nine, and Vivienne, six, threw petals, and Shiloh, eight, and Knox, six, served as ring bearers.

EFCC Re-arraigns 8 Suspected Oil Thieves

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on Thursday August 28,  2014, re-arraigned Adedamola Ogungbayibi, Olaniran Olabode, Suraju Gasali, Moses Emmanuel, Wilson Bonsi, Padoun Kayode Jacob, Okparaodi Omaka Uche and Onyeogo Happy before Justice O.E. Abang of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on  a 5-count charge bordering on conspiracy and illegal dealing in petroleum product.

 They were originally arraigned before Justice Saliu Seidu of the same court on June 16, 2014. 

 

The defendants got into trouble on February 19, 2014, when they were arrested by men of the Nigerian Navy who were on routine patrol. The Nigeria Navy Ship ANDONI intercepted MT Good Success and its sixteen member crew ,  along the Lagos waters. At the time of arrest, it was discovered that while MT Good Success had authority to carry 350 metric tons of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), it was loaded with 1,459 metric tons of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS). Officers  of the Nigeria Navy  then handed over the vessel, its contents and crew members to the EFCC for further investigations.

N1.6bn Fraud: Defence Stalls Arraignment of Kebbi Accountant-General

The arraignment of Kebbi State Accountant-General, Alhaji Mohammed Arzika Dakingari and Muza Yusuf, Managing Director, Beal Construction Nigeria Limited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice Sabiu Bala of Kebbi State High Court, Birnin-Kebbi scheduled for Thursday, August 28, 2014 could not go on after all.

Dakingari and Yusuf were to be arraigned by the EFCC for offences bordering on conspiracy, obtaining by false pretence, abuse of office and money laundering.

Though, the accused persons were present in court, they could not take their plea as defence counsel, Suleiman Usman told the court that he had a pending application challenging the jurisdiction of the court to hear the matter.

Farmer left with a chunk missing from his skull after horrific fall has it rebuilt by 3D printer

A Chinese farmer left with a large chunk missing from his skull is to have it repaired with the help of a 3D printer.

The man, known only as 46-year-old Hu, was injured after falling from the third floor of his home in Xi'an, Shaanxi province. 

Doctors are now planning to re-build his skull with a titanium mesh created by a 3D printer. 

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The man, known only as 46-year-old Hu, was injured after falling from the third floor of his home in Xi'an

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Doctors are now planning to re-build his skull with a titanium mesh created by a 3D printer

The custom-made implant will be inserted under Hu's skin and attached to his skull.

If the procedure is successful, doctors say the mesh will restore the original shape of his head.

Deadly Ebola outbreak could affect up to 20,000 people, say world health chiefs as they reveal there may already be 12,000 victims - four times the current estimate

The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa could infect more than 20,000 people, the World Health Organisation has revealed in a bleak assessment of the deadly disease.

The United Nations health agency issued plans to combat the outbreak in four West African nations - Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria - where it said the actual number of cases could already be two to four times higher than the reported 3,069. The current death toll stands at 1,552.

The news comes as a new outbreak was confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a pregnant woman contracted the disease from infected bush meat and passed it on to health workers. 

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Treatment: The World Health Organisation has revealed plans to combat Ebola in four West African nations - Guinea (pictured), Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria - where it said the actual number of cases could already be far higher than the reported 3,069. The death toll in the West African epidemic alone currently stands at 1,552

Woman butchered heavily pregnant mother-to-be with a kitchen knife and then tried to remove her baby from the womb before admitting everything to police in chilling confession

A Mexican woman has confessed to stabbing an eight-months pregnant mother in the stomach with a kitchen knife so she could steal her unborn baby from the womb, according to police.

In a graphic confession, Maria Rodriguez, 29, from Tepic, Mexico, told police she decided to kill Nadia Avila and remove her baby after lying to her family about being pregnant.

She will now appear in court on two charges of murder, for the baby and the baby's mother, according to police.

In the chilling video confession Rodriguez says she first beat her victim unconscious after luring her to her home in Tepic with a promise of free baby clothes.

250 soldiers are stripped, then slaughtered like animals

Sickening footage appears to show Islamic State militants parading around 250 captured soldiers through the desert in their underwear before they are killed and their bodies piled on the bare earth.

An Islamic State fighter claimed the men were from the Syrian government's Tabqa air base which extremists seized on Sunday, handing them warplanes, helicopters, tanks, artillery and ammunition.

The video, which has not been independently verified, is too graphic to be published in full.

It begins by showing dozens of men being marched through the desert wearing only their underwear. It then fades to black, resuming with a pile of bloodied bodies stacked on top of one another.

 

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'Another ISIS war crime': Footage and photographs have emerged of Islamic State fighters marching more than 200 soldiers across the desert to their deaths in only their underwear after capturing Syria's Tabqa air base

Step-father arraigned for raping 11-year-old daughter

A 36-year-old step-father has been arraigned before the Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrates for sexually violating his 11-year-old daughter.

The accused, Daniel Ediet, raped his daughter, God-gift Paul.

The little girl told police that her step father sometimes in 2012 forced her into sexual act whenever her mother was not around, and ever since then it has become a routine.

Man sexually violates 3-year-old girl in church

A 19-year-old man, Arogundade Opeyemi, has been remanded at Agodi prison, Ibadan, Oyo State, for allegedly defiling a three-year old girl in a church.

 

The suspect was remanded by a magistrate court pending hearing of the case on September 12, according to a statement by the Oyo State Police Command.

 

The suspect was said to have had a carnal knowledge of his neighbor’s daughter in a church at Kuola area of Apata, Ibadan, on August 2.

Murder of Edmark MD: No crime in having a younger lover

There’s no man or woman who doesn’t need love. No matter how rich a lady is, she needs a guy



 

The lover of Njideka Lizzy was paraded last week. He is just 31. Lizzy was 39.
It was at the parade ground that I got talking with my friend, Ivy Kanu, from Television Continental.
I was trying to express my feelings towards Lizzy. How I pitied her tragic end. But Ivy cut me short.
She couldn’t stomach or understand older women who go for younger men.
Hum!
What can one say to that?
Many people would argue that it’s because younger men are stronger and last longer in bed than older men.
Or that a younger man can maintain erection than older ones.
But my argument is different.
Like I tried to tell my beautiful Ivy, most times, it’s all about love.
There’s no man or woman who doesn’t need love. No matter how rich a lady is, she needs a guy.
The night, most times, becomes cold and loneliness bites like an angry bitch on such nights.
Even those who scoffed at love are the ones who later fall like a lead. They’re the hardest hit.
Sometimes, we fall in love with the wrong person. How does one even begin to know the right person to fall in love with?

What’s wrong with marrying prostitute?

Then move on to do something they feel is more important, while the kids grow to become a terror to society

 

 

Wonders will never end!

I just said that to pique your interest.

I’ve gotten to the age where nothing shocks me anymore.

Nay! Definitely not in this 21st century; with kids now described as ‘millennium kids.’

What the heck does that even mean?

You don’t know? It means kids get to do weird stuff and parents will smile like fools and say: “Ha! Kids of these days!”

Then move on to do something they feel is more important, while the kids grow to become a terror to society.

Oops! Sorry for digressing. Yeah, I know. I’m bad.

Anyway, I was discussing with my friend, Williams. The subject matter was marriage.

He said: “I don’t have a steady girlfriend because I prefer prostitutes.

“You’re kidding!,” I said in shock.

“Why? Because I prefer prostitutes or because I told you the truth?”

“I mean, why would you prefer a prostitute, to a nice homely girl?”

“Come off it, how many of these girls are ‘nice, homely’ girls?”

The devil in your marriage

I’ve found myself in such a situation. Telling myself that it was not destined to be, made me able to cope with my pains, frustration and not being able to understand how everything just crumbled like a pack of cards

Most times, when we begin to have problems in our marriages, we blame Mr. Devil.

Or sometimes, we turn spiritual or philosophical. Blaming some unknown and unseen forces or soothing ourselves that the relationship, ‘was not meant to be.’

I’ve found myself in such a situation. Telling myself that it was not destined to be, made me able to cope with my pains, frustration and not being able to understand how everything just crumbled like a pack of cards.

Yes, most times, the way we want our relationships to go, is not often the way the cookie crumples.

My point is that we blame everything, everybody and anything except ourselves for the failure of our relationships.

You look for devil where there’s no devil.

You drag out your dirty linens outside, to spread before you friends and yet you fail to see the devil in your marriage.

Your friends are probably the devil in your marriage.

I was listening to two friends/neighbours in my compound.

Let’s call a spade, a spade. I was eaves dropping.

One was having serious marriage crisis with her husband. It’s so bad, that she’s threatening to walk out of her marriage.

26-year-old man gets N10,000 fine for theft

A Magistrates’ Court in Minna yesterday sentenced a 26-yearold man, Rabiu Umaru, to four months’ imprisonment or N10,000 fine for house-breaking and theft. Umaru was arraigned in court on a three-count charge of house-breaking and theft contrary to sections 347, 288 and 327 of the Penal Code.
The police prosecutor, Corporal Haruna Aze, told the court that one Shaba Chado of Old Airport Quarters, Minna, reported the matter to ‘A’ Division Police Station, Minna, on August 5.

Hoodlums injure youth leader after PDP primary

Suspected party thugs at the weekend attacked and injured youth members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Otu-Jeremi, headquarters of Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State.
Speaking with our correspondent on the incident yesterday, the PDP Youth Leader in Ughelli South, Mr Hitler Sadiq, who was also one of the victims, described the attack as shocking and unexpected, alleging that the attack was as a result of the recent PDP primaries held in the state.
He said: “It all started on August 22 when (one honorable) came to my house to warn me, threatening to kill me and my boys.

Man robs, kills former employer in Kano

Police in Kano have arrested one Abubakar Abdurrahman aka Daddy, who confessed to have killed Alhaji Bello Akanbi, the owner of the popular GAP Hotel.
This came as the police also two persons for parading themselves as police detectives. Daddy told journalists that he went to steal from Akanbi who was his former boss.
But, according to him, on realising that the man was awake, he engaged him in a fight and stabbed him several times until he gave up the ghost. He admitted that he was sacked from the hotel for stealing.
The state Police Commissioner,

Violent clash claims six in Delta community

At least six people were said to have been killed in Ughevwughe community, Ughelli-South Local Government Area of Delta State in a violent clash between groups vying for the president-general position of the community.
Also, seven others, who sustained serious injuries, have been hospitalised, while property estimated at N20 million were destroyed. Hundreds of people have fled the community.
According to investigation, the contenders are from Ohere District with three quarters – Ekrevwere, Ekrovie and Ekropeki – where the position was zoned to. An indigene of the community, Mrs Ighofuela Ukre, alleged that one of the groups initiated the attack.
She said:

10 die, 90 missing as boat capsizes in Kogi

 TRAGEDY 90 people are still missing while 10 are feared dead in a boat accident in Kogi State

At least 10 persons lost their lives yesterday when a 300-capacity wooden boat capsized at Ebe village in Lokoja Local Government Area of Kogi State. Other passengers aboard the boat are still missing.
Ebe is the home town of the former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon Abdulrahaman Dangana. Over 100 passengers, who boarded the boat, were said to have sunk into the River Niger as a result of turbulence allegedly caused by the clash between a security patrol team and a boat conveying oil bunkers.

Fleeing graduate hawker drowns during NSCDC raid

A 37-year-old graduate of Accountancy, University of Lagos, who sold recharge cards under the Meckwen Bridge, Victoria Island,Lagos State, has been chased to his death by men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.

Babalola Felix fell into the Lagoon as he was running to avoid being arrested by the NSCDC officials. The incident happened last week Monday afternoon.

Our correspondent gathered that the NSCDC men had invaded the area to rid it of hoodlums.

Confusion had resulted as people in the area fled in different directions on sighting the security operatives.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Babalola, who was also running, fell into the water after he slipped.

Eyewitnesses said efforts to rescue him were resisted by the NSCDC officials, who threatened to kill anyone who ventured near the scene.

The victim was said to have drowned after one of the officials pointed a gun at him to prevent him from coming out.

When our correspondent visited the area on Wednesday, he saw an eyewitness, who said she did not make statements at the police station because she feared she would be detained.

57-year-old man in remand for stealing mosquito net

A 57-year-old man, Lawrence Isidor, has been remanded for two weeks after he was alleged to have stolen a mosquito net belonging to one Mrs. Gracious Odo, a resident on Marble Street, Happy Land Estate in the Ajah area of Lagos State.

It was learnt that the defendant slapped the woman when she accused him of stealing the net.

The defendant was on August 11, arraigned by the police before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court , on two counts of stealing and assault -─ to which he pleaded not guilty.

The charges read, “That you, Lawrence Isido,r on August 10, 2014 at about 2pm on Marble Street, Happy Land Estate, Ajah, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did steal one mosquito net value N800, property of Gracious Odo and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 285 (5) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

Gunmen abduct two-year-old girl in A’Ibom

Three unidentified gunmen have abducted a two-year-old girl, Miss Patience Essiet, in Ukat Ubium, Nsit Ubium Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State.

The mother of the abducted girl, Ms Affiong Tommy, 20, said the gunmen broke into the room through the back door around 4am on Wednesday.

She said the gunmen first broke into her brother’s room, kicked him and asked him to lie still. She added that they threatened to shoot him if he tried to shout or run away.

Tommy explained that two of the gunmen left her brother’s room and went into her room, where her daughter and mother were sleeping.

She said the gunmen, claimed to be police officials, who had been sent by their Divisional Police Officer to conduct a drug search in their house.

She said

Robbers attack bank driver

A driver with the Guaranty Trust Bank, identified only as Felix, was attacked on Wednesday morning by suspected robbers around Olopomeji Bridge, Oworonshoki Expressway, Lagos.

Our correspondent learnt that Felix was on his way to pick the bank workers with the staff bus when he was attacked around 6am.

An eyewitness, Babajide Kabiawu, said the robbers, after dispossessing him of the Toyota Hiace bus, pushed him into an oncoming vehicle.

Task force nabs 13 for drug peddling

The Lagos State Task force on Environment al and Special Offenses (Enforcement) Unit has arrested 13 suspected hard drug peddlers in the Lekki area of Lagos.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspects were nabbed after officials of the task force stormed their hideout on Wole Olateru Street, Lekki Phase 1 on Tuesday.

Chairman of the task force, Bayo Sulaiman, a Chief Superintendent of Police, on Wednesday said the exercise was long overdue.

He added that the residents of the area had written several complaints to the government on activities of the arrested suspects and others at large.

The fateful seconds before nine-year-old girl accidentally shot her gun instructor dead with an Uzi

These images show the seconds before a nine-year girl accidentally shot her gun instructor dead on Monday.

Recorded at the Bullets and Burgers shooting range in White Hills, Arizona, the edited 22-second clip plays up to the point where the girl loses control of an Uzi, striking 39-year-old Charles Vacca.

The shocking recording taken by the girl's parents and released by police shows Vacca standing closely next to the girl when the gun recoiled as she fired on full automatic mode.

As the clip unfolds, Vacca is seen to instruct the girl to hold the weapon with two hands at all times and to take a perpendicular stance to the target.

Then Vacca asks her to fire one shot for him, which she does.

Then, Vacca tells the girl to adjust her stance and squeeze the trigger to let off a volley, but something goes wrong when she fires a second time.

His last words to the girl are: 'Alright, full auto.'

MAN ESCORTED OFF AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT FOR SMELLING BAD

A 27-year-old Frenchman claims he was kicked out of an American Airlines flight because he smelled bad — and was admonished to 'take a shower' by the crew.

The passenger, identified only as an Algerian-born man named 'Mehdi,' says he was about to board the Dallas-bound plane at Paris' Charles-de-Gaulle Airport when he was approached by flight attendants.

'The crew and passengers complained of your smell,' one flight attendant told the man, according to cell phone footage watched by Agence France-Presse.

'You're with an American company, this is American territory and the captain has the right to refuse you,' the crew member added, according to AFP. 'You will not be flying today.'

'I saved all my clothes I was raped in but the police lost them and said it was my word against his': Shocking claims of Rotherham sex abuse gang victim whose parents sent her abroad when authorities failed to protect her

Victim: Emma, now 24, (picture posed by model) who was raped every week by a paedophile ring, says she kept the clothes she was abused in but South Yorkshire Police lost the evidence and told her a prosecution was unlikely

A 13-year-old schoolgirl 'raped once a week, every week' by an Asian gang from Rotherham saved the clothing she was abused in and handed it to police but they lost the evidence and encouraged her to drop the case, it emerged today.

Emma was forced to drop the charges after officers told her it was 'her word against theirs' and it was unlikely her attackers would ever end up in court.

After two years of countless rapes her parents, who made persistent complaints to South Yorkshire Police and Rotherham Council, sent her abroad so she could escape her abusers once and for all. 

Emma, now 24, was one of 1,400 victims habitually abused by men in the town – almost all of them of Pakistani origin - and many of the paedophiles are still walking the streets, she said.

Husband, 72, smothered his fifth wife, 57, then hanged self because he couldn't face another divorce

A pensioner with a string of failed marriages behind him smothered his fifth wife with a pillow and then killed himself as he struggled to cope with another divorce, a coroner ruled today.

Chauffeur Terence Kirby, 72, and his wife, Myrna, 57, were found dead at their home in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, by their son, Freddie, at least 48 hours after their deaths.

An inquest heart that Mr Kirby, who had suffered depression and alcohol abuse in the months before he died, had lived apart from his wife of 30 years for two years. 

Senior Hertfordshire coroner Edward Thomas heard that Mrs Kirby, a carer and regular churchgoer, had filed for divorce in October 2012, three months before her and her husband's bodies were found.

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Terence Kirby, 72, and his wife of 30 years, Myrna, 57, were found dead at home by their son, Freddie

Mr Kirby was admitted to Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield for treatment for depression.  He was regularly visited by his wife, and discharged in December 2012, two days before Christmas, to be cared for at home by his wife and community mental health workers.

Woman suffers horrific injuries after she is punched in the face at Notting Hill Carnival for telling man to stop groping her

A woman has been left with horrific injuries after being assaulted by a man who groped her at Notting Hill Carnival.

Mary Brandon uploaded a photograph of her injures to Facebook after the attack on Monday.

Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation into the incident which, the 22-year-old said, has made her think twice about how to respond if she is attacked again.

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Mary Brandon was assaulted at Notting Hill Carnival after telling a man to stop groping her. She uploaded a photograph her injuries to Facebook (left) after the attack 

The young woman said the man did not stop touching her despite her telling him to at the Caribbean festival in west London on Monday. 

Posting a photograph of her battered and bruised eye socket on Facebook, she wrote: 

Operation Cross Country: Recovering Victims of Child Sex Trafficking

In many ways, Nicole was a typical teenager. In high school she tried cigarettes and alcohol, but she says, “I was pretty much a good kid. I didn’t really stay out late, I always came home, I never stole anything. I did what a lot of teenagers do.”

By age 17, however, things were deteriorating at home. Her parents were divorced, her father was absent, and she and her mother had an on-again, off-again relationship. That’s when Nicole met a man who took her shopping and showered her with attention. “He was gorgeous and he had charm,” she said. “I didn’t really think he was going to turn out to be…” Her voice trailed off as she tried to find words to describe Juan Vianez, the pimp who forced her into prostitution and later brutally beat her.

FBI CATCHES SERIAL KILLER AFTER MURDER OF 15 VICTIMS

At about 11:30 on the night of July 22, 1991, Milwaukee Police Department patrol units saw a partially clothed man stumbling down the road near an apartment building on North 25th Street. A handcuff could be seen dangling from his wrist. The young man reported to police that he had been threatened with a knife inside that apartment building, prompting the officers to investigate. And the first report on the incident to FBI Headquarters indicated that the police arrested a man named Jeffrey Dahmer at his apartment, where they had discovered what could have been the set of a horror movie—numerous body parts belonging to multiple victims.

In serial murder cases, the FBI’s role is often that of providing forensic and other investigative support in an ongoing investigation. That was certainly the case with Dahmer.

After analyzing our options regarding jurisdiction in this case under the federal kidnapping statute, the Bureau offered its laboratory and identification services to local authorities in Milwaukee. To help identify previous victims, investigators began tracing the killer’s trail across the U.S. and around the world. Behavioral analysts, also known as profilers, participated as well.

Corrupt Officials Jailed for Abusing Justice System

In the run-up to the 2012 primary elections in Mingo County, West Virginia, a group of officials adopted a campaign slogan to promote their political slate: Team Mingo. But the judge, sheriff, and county prosecuting attorney who were part of the alliance—among the most powerful men in the local judicial system—used their authority to serve their own interests rather than those of the citizens who elected them.

 

“These men essentially ran the county’s legal system,” said Special Agent Jim Lafferty, who investigated the case out of our Pittsburgh Field Office. The ringleader was Circuit Court Judge Michael Thornsbury. “The judge and his team were the power in Mingo County,” Lafferty explained. “They didn’t like anyone who tried to oppose them. If you were an attorney or an individual who wanted to get a fair shake in the court system, you had to play whatever game they wanted you to play. It was a toxic environment.”

INVESTMENT FRAUD: MAN DUPES 75 DOCTORS

 

This $80,000 boat owned by California con man David Rose was seized after law enforcement determined he had purchased it using funds he stole from his investors.

It’s an age-old scam: A smooth-talking individual offers an amazing investment opportunity—with promises of large returns—that turns out to be completely bogus. But because there are always people willing to accept these kinds of claims at face value and hand over their hard-earned money, it’s a scam that continues to be effective.

Consider a recent case in Orange County, California, where just-convicted David Rose duped more than 75 doctors and dentists from around the country into shelling out more than two million dollars for him to invest in companies involved in researching and developing emerging medical technologies. But the investment money, despite what he promised, never made it any further than Rose’s own bank accounts.

DPO detained over escape of killer cop

The police top hierarchy has ordered the immediate detention of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), in charge of Okota Police Station.

The DPO, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Mr. London Aloba, was said to have been detained for allowing a corporal who shot and killed two civilians who were on motorbike to escape.

The order for the arrest, detention and immediate interrogation of London came from Abuja after family members of the deceased wrote petitions.

Robbery suspect arrested after 10 years on wanted list

A suspected robber, described as notorious, has finally been nabbed by detectives attached to the State Criminal Investigations Department (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State.

 The suspect, identified as Obinna Okorie was said to have been on the police wanted list for more than 10 years.

It was gathered that aside from SARS and FSARS hunting for him, police divisions were also frantically trying to arrest him.

Defilement: Girl, 5, stuns police after asking for gun to molester

Policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Yaba, Lagos State, were stunned on Friday after a five- year-old girl demanded gun from the police so that she could shoot the man who sexually defiled her.

The suspect, Okafor, 22, was said to have taken the girl, Chimuanya into an uncompleted building at Dansa area of Badagry and sexually defiled her.

The minor was with her mother who was a trader when Okafor told her to come.

Three men arrested for stealing boss's gold of N23m and sold for N185,000

The Lagos State Special Anti – Robbery Squad (SARS) has arrested three men who stole their boss's  gold chain valued at N23 million and sold it for a paltry N185,000.

The suspects are Moses Obande, 32,  Ogbulaja Ogaba a.k.a Too much 28 and Izuchukwu Eze Obi  , 36.

 It was gathered that Moses came to Lagos in 2007 with his family and was employed on October 2013 with fake school certificate which he used  to secure security guard job at 44, Unity road, Mobolaji Bank Author way, Lagos, worki with one Chief Mrs. Uduak N Ekong who sell gold jewelry . Apart of his duty was to check in and checkout customers.

NDLEA destroys 50 hectares of Ondo cannabis plantation

• NDLEA officials at the cannabis plantation

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency rekindled its war against the growing of cannabis in the South West as it destroyed over 50 hectares of cannabis plantation in Epele Forest Reserves, Ondo State.

The agency deployed 70 operatives from its commands in the South West and 50 labourers in an operation which lasted all night from Monday to the early hours of Tuesday.

The growers of the weed had gone deep into the forest to establish colonies of cannabis plantation, making it almost inaccessible to law enforcement agents.

Chairman of the agency, Ahmadu Giade, described cannabis cultivation as a threat to national security.