Bank Driver nabbed with N620,000 and 19 GTB ATM CARDS

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested Dare Oladujoye, a driver with Zenith Bank, for allegedly being in possession of 19 Guaranty Trust Bank ATM cards and the sum of N652, 000.

It was gathered from reliable source that the suspect was using the cards to withdraw money from an ATM at Ogba branch of GTB when a security guard raised the alarm.
The Commissioner of Police for the state police command, Mr. Umar Manko, said as of the time of his arrest, the suspect had withdrawn N652, 000 from the ATM.

Manko said, “On July 26, 2012, around 8:30pm, there was a distress call that there was commotion at GTB, Ogba branch. On getting there, the suspect was seen with 19 ATM cards.

“He is an employee of Zenith Bank and we wondered what he was doing with the 19 cards. He was arrested and as of the time of his arrest, he had cashed N652, 000. The matter is under investigation.”

The suspect however denied stealing the ATM cards. He said whenever he lent people money, he would collect their ATM cards as collateral and return them after payment.

He said, “I usually loan people money and I’ve been doing it for over a year. Whenever I loan people money, I will collect their ATM cards and their Personal Identification Numbers. When they repay me, I return their cards to them.

We where paid 20million to kill Oshiomole's aide- Suspect

A suspect in custody in connection with the murder of Olaitan Oyerinde, the Private Secretary to Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole, has reportedly told police interrogators that he was offered N20m for the job.

He said he was paid N200,000 as part payment with which he recruited four others.

Five suspects, including the Executive Director of the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), Rev. David Ugolor, have been arrested in connection with the murder.

Rev. Ugolor was picked up on Friday by the investigating team from the Force CID in Abuja. His office and residence were ransacked. He was arrested after the suspect named one “David” as the sponsor of the murder.

Police sources said the suspect identified Rev. Ugolor during an identification parade as the “David” that sponsored the killing.

    It was gathered that the suspect told police investigators that the deal to kill Olaitan was sealed at a restaurant in Benin City and that Rev. Ugolor pointed Olaitan to him at a bureau de change where the late Olaitan had gone for a transaction.

He said they trailed the late Olaitan to a place where he (Olaitan) and Ugolor had a drink before following him home to carry out the killing.

  Ugolor took the late Olaitan home the night he was shot and he was the person called by Olaitan’s wife to take him to the hospital after he had been shot.

Police sources said Ugolor and the suspect met on Sunday. Ugolor reportedly questioned him.

Ugolor, however, said he was being framed up for the murder of Olaitan.

A statement signed by the Programme/Policy Officer of ANEEJ Innocent Edemhanria, in Benin City said the relationship that existed between the late Olaitan and Rev. Ugolor was convivial and neither of them could plot the killing of the other. 

The statement said: “The suspect who is accusing David Ugolor is of a northern Nigeria origin and is completely unknown to Rev. David Ugolor, colleagues and friends. At the moment, the police are still holding onto David as they carry out their investigations on the allegation we consider spurious.”

“We suspect strongly that somebody high up somewhere is framing up our Executive Director  Rev. David Ugolor, over the murder of the personal aide to Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

“Rev. David Ugolor is a life saver, not taker as his natural penchant for poverty eradication, enlarging the voice of the voiceless, assisting the poor and needy is unparalleled in his almost 25 years of  effective and result-oriented activism. 

  “While, we wouldn’t want to obstruct police investigations on the murder of our friend, Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, as a law abiding corporate citizen, we insist that Rev. David Ugolor is innocent of any accusation being leveled against him. We call for his immediate release so he can rejoin his family.” 

The late Olaitan was murdered on May 4 at his Benin City home by unknown gunmen.

Source ;Ascology

New Yorkers celebrate approval of Gay marriage in New York

The party's platform drafting committee voted to include language backing gay marriage during a weekend meeting in Minneapolis, the official said. Democratic delegates will formally approve the platform during the party convention in Charlotte, N.C. in early September.

President Barack Obama will officially accept his party's nomination at the convention, which marks the start of the fall campaign blitz. Republican rival Mitt Romney will get the GOP nomination a week earlier during his party's convention in Tampa, Fla.

Seeking to ramp up enthusiasm among Democrats, party officials said Sunday that former President Bill Clinton will deliver the nominating speech on Wednesday night of the convention. Obama and Biden are to speak on Thursday, the convention's final night.

Several prominent Democrats began pushing earlier this year for support of same-sex marriage to be included in the convention platform, which lists principles the party supports. The effort got a boost in May when Obama voiced his personal support for same-sex unions.

The Democratic official would not comment on the exact language of the pro-gay marriage plank approved by the drafting committee. It was unclear if the party would call for any national action to legalize gay marriage.

Obama has said he considers gay marriage to be a state issue, not a federal matter.

The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publically about the platform committee's decision.

The move was first reported by The Washington Blade.

BOKO HARAM strikes two police stations in Sokoto-Viewers disgression is adviced

Nigeria's Islamist sect the Boko Harams this afternoon launched  attacks on two police stations in sokoto state. First was at the Yan Marina police station which is located in the heart of the city when a suicide bomber in a  car loaded with bombs was denied access into the station it blew up at entrance gate according to a senior police office who pleaded to be anonymous for security reasons.
 While the second explosion was at the Sokoto’s Unguwar Rogo station .

Lawai Danfili reported saying “We had a loud explosion around the police station. The impact of the explosion shook houses in the area. We all moved indoors,” he said.Number of casualty is yet to be ascertained.

India experiences severe power outage

A massive power cut has caused disruption across northern India, including in the capital, Delhi, BBC reports.
 It hit a swathe of the country affecting more than 300 million people in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan states.

Power Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde said 60 per cent of the supply had been restored and the rest would be reinstated soon.

It is unclear why supply collapsed, but states using more power than they were authorised to could be one reason.

Mr. Shinde said he had appointed a committee to inquire into the causes of the blackout, one of the worst to hit the country in more than a decade.

The outage happened at 02:30 local time (2100 GMT) on Monday after India's Northern Grid network collapsed.

Monday morning saw travel chaos engulf the region, with thousands of passengers stranded when train services were disrupted in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.

Edo PDP want Tony Anenih to resign

Chief Tony Anenih appears to be on his final journey into political oblivion following calls by aggrieved members of the party from the three senatorial districts in the state for his removal and the State Chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbir, from the “day-to-day running of the party in the state”.
Presently, an imminent crisis which may permanently change the configuration of the Edo State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is in the offing.
This was a fallout of leakage of a list of proposed members sent to Abuja by the leadership of the party for appointment into federal boards.
Already, “leaders of the party across the three Senatorial Districts are planning a major meeting in which they are likely to call for the voluntary disengagement of Chief Tony Anenih and Dan Orbih from the day-to-day running of the party,” a source revealed yesterday.
 
The imminent “make or mar” meeting is coming on the heels of a major crisis of confidence currently rocking the party as a result of its dismal performance in the 14 July governorship election in the state.
Impeccable sources disclosed that the names allegedly submitted to the Presidency for consideration for appointment into the various boards by the state leadership of the party included Sarah Adetugbobo, Uyi Ogbemudia, Matthew Uroghide, Dr. Abies Osemwenkhae, Bayo Ogbomo, Levis Aigbogun and General Godwin Abbe from the South-South Senatorial District of the state.
Others are Chief Tony Anenih, Tony Aziegbemi, Giwa Egbomehe, Ben Erhilebodiaye, Dr. Francis Olifuh and John Yakubu from Edo Central Senatorial District.
Other proposed members of federal boards from Edo North sent to the Presidency by the State leadership of the party are Chief Dan Orbih, Pascal Ugbome, Zakawanu Garuba, Johnson Abolagba and Tunde Akogun.

It was reliably gathered that the leakage of the names was causing serious disaffection among members of the PDP in the state, with members of the party fine-tuning their strategies for the “battle ahead”.
The party members are said to be angered by the fact that most of the proposed names were stooges of a national leader of the party who allegedly contributed to the losses the PDP suffered in recent elections in the sate.
At the meeting being planned for Wednesday this week at an undisclosed venue in Benin, the party leaders are expected to call on the national body of the party to intervene in the crisis rocking the party in thesState and to carry out a major overhaul of the party in such a manner as to restore members’ confidence.

Federal Government evacuates Nigerians from troubled Syria

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Olugbenga Ashiru, on Monday said about 50 Nigerians had so far been evacuated from Syria following the ongoing crises in that country.

Ashiru told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the evacuees complied with government’s directive to leave Syria.

The minister advised other Nigerians to vacate the Middle East nation.

"We have evacuated quite a lot of Nigerians from Syria, it was not an airlift exercise like we did in the case of Libya because they are very few.

"From the report I got, those moved so far are less than 50, long before the situation deteriorated we advised them to move.

 "Some have decided to stay behind but it is their choice,"he stated.

The minister also said the families of the Charge d’Affairs and officials at the embassy had been relocated to Lebanon.

NAN recalls that the Syrian conflict began on March 15, 2011 with public demonstrations as part of the wider Arab spring and developed into a nationwide uprising.

Nigeria and Syria established diplomatic ties in 1961.

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PDP to dissolve state Excos-Tukur

The executive committees of some chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are to be dissolved soon,  National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has disclosed.
Tukur who spoke to newsmen in his country home in Yola, Adamawa State, however, did not disclose the chapters to be affected.
    Attention is, however, focussed on many of the chapters of the party in the South-West that have been locked in inter-party crises since the conduct of the last state congresses.
Zonal chairman of the party in the South-West, Segun Oni, welcomed the proposed dissolution yesterday, saying the move by the national chairman would help ongoing moves to make the party in the region to be all inclusive.
Tukur said the PDP was set to come out with the criteria to be used in effecting the dissolution of the state executives, though he emphasised that irregularity in the constitution of the state executives would come into play.
He affirmed that the issue had been concluded and ratified by the party.
The plans to sack some state executives was immediately welcomed by Oni, the national vice-chairman of the party in the South-West where many of the states are presently enmeshed in intra-party conflicts.
“The thinking of the zonal chairman is also in line with that of the national chairman and I can confirm to you that here we have complaints that are being looked into,” Oni said yesterday through his Special Assistant on Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka.
“The thinking of the zonal chairman is to have an exco that will represent all the members of the party, where everybody would be adequately represented not the situation where one person will now say that he has the party in a state and others are left out,” he said.
Continuing, he said that the dissolution would also enable those who are presently outside the party but want to come in to have a role and representation in the executive. He mentioned the situaiton in Oyo State where the possible return of former Governor Rasheed Ladoja has become a divisive issue among some stakeholders in the state chapter.
However, a PDP chieftain in Oyo State, Mr. Kehinde Olaosebikan denied any rift between Ladoja and the former governor of the State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala as he disclosed that the two were working together for the interest of the party.

I will continue disturbing Jonathan-Tunde Bakare

  Fiery Lagos-based General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has declared that he would not relent in the struggle to ensure that the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan become accountable and sensitive to the people of the country.

  Pastor Bakare, who spoke on Sunday following his invitation by the State Security Service (SSS) days ago, also denied that he was arrested by the security officials, but that instead, it was an opportunity for the security officials to appeal that he should tone down his preaching and statements about President Jonathan.

He said he would never tone down his preaching or succumb to pressures until the President became aware that he was representing the people of his country.

“We have been lied to as a nation and there is no sincerity in this government’s words or actions.

“Can you imagine that, as the nation is burning, Dame Patience, the First Lady, is busy pursuing and obtaining the status of an absentee Permanent Secretary?

“Does this make any intelligent sense except to political morons and imbeciles?”

He also expressed his pessimism about any satisfactory outcome concerning the current arraignment of the alleged oil subsidy suspects.

    According to him, “concerning all the window dressing, the shenanigans and the charade going on in respect of the subsidy thieves, it is my considered opinion that the efforts of this government cannot deliver justice, neither are they meant to.”

     Concerning his encounter with the SSS, he said he was supposed to travel out of the country after his press conference, but decided to stay back so that people would not think he had absconded especially since he was not around previously when an earlier invitation from the SSS came.

“I therefore stayed put, and, true to type, they showed up at my house in the pursuit of their legitimate duties the following day, Monday, the 23 July, 2012, at about noon.

“I would have ignored the whole episode and moved on to other things today but for the need to clarify some issues and to share the vital lessons we can glean from the SSS episode as well as other matters that cropped up following my visit to the State Security Service department. Let me deal with the lessons first,” he said, in a statement he titled: ‘How To Change Government Peacefully: Social Mobility Is No Longer Frozen In Nigeria.’

     Pastor Bakare, who said he was treated with utmost civility by the men of the SSS in Shangisha area of Lagos, added that he did not stay there for eight hours as reported by some media houses but that he only spent one hour between 3.10 pm and 4.10 pm.

“The State Director himself had earlier visited me here at The Latter Rain Assembly in November 2011, making the same request that I tone down my message where politics is concerned, especially with regard to the person of President Goodluck Jonathan.

    “I gave the State Director a signed copy of Sunday’s lecture and promised to send him past publications and documents from the SNG office,” he said adding that he would continue to pray for the SSS officials as they continue with their legitimate duties.

Pastor Bakare, who quoted copiously from the Bible to back his message, used the opportunity to warn those he referred to as agents of the state within the church who are influenced by the crumbs they get to desist from such.

Child traffickers intercepted in Lokoja

Members of the Joint Task Force (JTF) stationed in Lokoja, Kogi, on Sunday intercepted 20 vehicles conveying more than 103 children, suspected to have been trafficked.The JTF Commander, Lt-Col. Gabriel Olorunyomi, made this known to newsmen in Lokoja on Sunday.He said that his men became curious when they discovered that the occupants of the vehicles were mostly children, accompanied by some men and women.He said that the vehicles and the occupants had been taken to the Army Records Headquarters in Lokoja, where they would be screened to ascertain their actual destination.
Olrunyomi, however,said that 103 of the passengers were children with ages between 3 and 16 years, while 79 others were of 19 years to 53 years.He said that preliminary investigations revealed that the vehicles were conveying the passengers from different communities in Benue, Cross Rivers and Kogi.    “Most of the passengers are from Obi, Oju and Gwer Local Government Areas of Benue, while the remaining few are from Iyala Local Government Area of Cross Rivers and Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi,’’ he said.
All the passengers, apart from giving similar excuses for their movement from their various communities, also said that they were all heading to Ondo, Ekiti, Osun, Oyo, Ogun, Lagos and Edo states for the first time in search of vacation jobs, while some said that they wanted to go and do some farm work.
Two of the drivers, Bolaji Olusola and Adedeji Oluwaseun, told newsmen that they picked up the passengers at motor parks.They said that some of the passengers paid their transport fares at the loading points, while some promised to pay theirs when they got to their destinations.
The JTF on July 27 arrested a man conveying 10 children with ages ranging between 6 and 16 years in an ash colour Camry car to Lagos.The man, who was arrested on the same route, was later handed over to the police for interrogation.
Also addressing journalists, Maj-Gen, Alphonsus Chukwu, the Commander of Army Records, said that the children might be victims of child trafficking.He said that initial interrogations revealed that the children would be received at their destinations by some yet-to-be-identified persons, who would then pay their transport fares to the drivers.
Chukwu said that the drivers were also suspected to be accomplices, as they failed to produce the passengers’ manifest and agreed to carry many of the passengers without collecting their transport fares at the loading points.The army officer said that the vehicles, drivers and passengers would be transferred to the police for proper investigations and action.Chukwu, however, said that the development indicated that many parents had failed in their responsibility toward their children’s upbringing.He urged parents to take proper care of their children so as to ensure that they did not fall into wrong hands.
Source: PMNEWS

Tanker explodes in front of MTN complex Abuja

Residents of Maitama District in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital city, were thrown into panic today when a truck delivering diesel at the MTN premises caught fire and exploded in the high brow neighborhood.

The area was condoned off by security agents, but police spokesman Frank Mba told SaharaReporters that there were no fatalities or injuries in the incident.

Benin-Ore Accident claims 13 lives

A headlong crash between an IVECO Truck and a commuter on Sunday morning along the busy Lagos -Benin highway has killed thirteen people. One person was critically injured and is currently receiving treatment in a hospital close to the scene of the accident.
The auto accident involving two vehicles occurred on the Benin–Ore part of the Lagos –Benin highway.
Road safety officials reports that a Toyota Hiace commuter bus with 15 passengers on board  crashed headlong into an IVECO Truck while it was descending a steep slope.

The two vehicles collided head on at 7.45 AM on kilometer 53 before Ohosun near the boundary of Ondo and Edo state.
The bus which was driving against the traffic when the crash occurred is registered to Anambra state mass transit company.
The accident led to the instant death of 13 males, another male was critically injured and rushed to Shiloh Hospital Ugbogui for medical attention. The death victims of the accident were also deposited in the mortuary at the clinic.
Source:sahara Reporters

HORROR!!!! Patient vomits Reptile in hospital

    A businessman  named Edward Asuelimen, in Kubwa, a community on the outskirts of Abuja, gave the residents of the community the shock of their lives when he was reported to have vomited two live lizards while on his hospital bed.
     The businessman said he had woken up in the morning of July 16 with severe pain in his stomach. “I woke up a few minutes after 5 am. In less than two hours, I had visited the toilet four times. Then I felt excruciating pain in my stomach. It got to a point where I could hardly prepare my children for school,” he said.
    He however still managed to take the children. However, halfway to the children’s school, the pain had become unbearable that he decided to get some drugs from a store along the way. But a few minutes later, Asuelimen barely managed to walk out of the store by himself. His wife who was with him then that he should seek medical attention in a hospital following his plea of, “Help me quickly, I can’t breathe.”
He was admitted at Unity Clinic and Maternity Home, which was nearby. At the hospital, Asuelimen said “The Holy Spirit pushed me to speaking in tongues… afterwards, I felt a strong urge to vomit and I did… When my wife tried to get something to clean my mouth and pack it, I saw a lizard crawling out from the vomit on the ground. The nurse that attended to me saw another one and wanted to kill it.” When he saw the lizards, the first thought that struck him was that he had been poisoned. But the pain ceased after he vomited the reptiles. The doctor told him that he had just received divine healing.
        The Medical Director of Unity Clinic and Maternity, Dr. Stephen Nwaedozie, also confirmed the incident saying, “When I got to the car, I saw Edward writhing in pain. I brought him out of the vehicle and attended to him. We started praying for him. Not long afterwards, my nurses told me that he had vomited lizards… I personally burnt the lizards and poured anointing oil on them and buried the carcasses. As soon as we did that, the man recovered from the stomach pain. He is a child of God and with faith he told them to bring him to my hospital and when he came here, God delivered him. So we praise God.”

Seven cultist paraded by SSS over Rape incident

The directorate of the State Security Service (DSS) in Kwara State yesterday paraded seven students of one of the Colleges of Education in the state over alleged abduction, rape, cultism, and for being in possession of fake currency notes.
The suspects who were paraded before journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital were Abdulrasak Abubakar, Musa Sikirullahi, Kamaldeen Isiaka, Olanrewaju Lawal, Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Tunde Yusuf and Abdularaham Jimoh.
The DSS director in the state, Williams Ologba, told journalists shortly before parading the suspects that items recovered from them were cult masks, charms, locally made pistol, three cutlasses of different sizes and N72, 000 fake currency notes in N500 denominations.

HORROR!!!!!Mysterious fire deforms girl 11days to wedding

If Charity Okoroukwu, a 27-year-old woman, who graduated in Business Administration from the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Enugu, had known that danger was lurking around the corner 11 days to her wedding, she would not have attempted to refuel a kerosene lantern on December 17, 2011.

On that fateful day, she was refuelling the lantern when it caught fire, exploded and left her with third degree burns. But till date, a yet unsolved riddle still bothers her about the incident. The fire, which disrupted her life, did not affect the keg containing the kerosene. At the time, the native of Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State was awaiting mobilisation for the mandatory national youths service scheme. Now, she needs more than N2 million for a plastic surgery.

Charity, fondly addressed as ‘Chacha’ by her friends at the IMT, told Daily Sun: “When I was in the IMT where I graduated on December 6, 2011, I was popularly known as Chacha. Few days later, I left Enugu for our village in Anambra State to prepare for my wedding that was to hold on December 28. On December 17, which was exactly 11 days to my wedding ceremony, I wanted to put kerosene in one of our lanterns and it exploded. So, the fire burnt my body without mercy.

“People that were around poured water on me and I was rushed to a nearby hospital. I was later transferred to another private hospital in Awka. I spent more than two months there before I was discharged. My bill at the hospital was well above N500, 000. In spite of the treatment and the money involved, I was not okay as at the time I was discharged,” she said. Charity, who noted that she was five months pregnant when the fire burnt her, stated that the wedding was held in the hospital. Her husband, according to her, insisted that the wedding must be held to shame the devil. She continued: “After that, my husband, who has been residing in Lagos, asked me to come. When I got to Lagos, we went to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Ebutte Meta. At the FMC, I registered for ante natal. Shortly thereafter, we were referred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).

“I was admitted when I got to LUTH and I was subjected to series of tests. In the hospital, I had my baby through caesarean section because of my condition. We named the boy Victor Chidera. Victor means victory and Chidera means what God has written. I gave him the name because of my condition and the circumstances, surrounding his birth.” Charity appealed to kind-hearted Nigerians, philanthropists and corporate organisations to assist her so she could undergo a corrective surgery in Israel.

“Please, help me because I don’t like my present condition. Now, I cannot stay wherever is hot. I must stay indoors in the afternoon because of the sun. Please, help me. I pray that neither you nor your children will have this kind of experience. The explosion has spoilt my beauty.”   Charity’s mother, Mrs. Grace Nnamezie, described the incident as an attack masterminded by evil forces. “How could the fire burn my daughter and didn’t touch the keg, containing the kerosene?” she wondered.

A private medical practitioner,  Olakunle Adigun, said the surgery could be done at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). He said, however, that it would be in three stages: face, arms and abdomen. The first stage, he said, would gulp about N400, 000, while the second stage would cost about N650, 000.

“The cost for the third stage has not been given but the first two stages will cost above N1 million apart from other miscellaneous expenses. If all other expenses and the third stage are factored into the surgery, the total cost will be more than N2 million,” he stated. Adigun expressed hope that Charity would be better off after the surgery.

While Charity can be contacted on the mobile numbers 08032229181 and 08033037223, a bank account number 0005774736 has been opened in her name, Charity Nnamezie, at the Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos branch of the GT Bank.
Culled :sunnewsonline

Boko Haram kills 2 kill JTF soldiers in Bornu

It was a bloody weekend as two JTF Soldiers were killed  along Baban Layi ward of Maiduguri Metropolis when some suspected terrorists laid ambush in one of their base  few metres away from the Shehu’s palace where a suicide bomber struck at a Central Mosque yesterday.
     The incident,  took place at about 2pm which forced residents of the Shehuri ward and environs to vacate their homes as they would no longer resist the sound of sporadic gunshots that followed from the JTF upon their arrival at the scene.
     The JTF Spokesman,  Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa who confirmed the incident, said, a JTF patrol vehicle was attacked at about 1300 hrs of the day in Shehuri general area by suspected Boko Haram terrorists and the attack was resisted.
The incident, according to Sagir led to the killing of two members of the terrorist group, 2 JTF personnel who were unfortunately wounded, and are stable but are now responding to treatment at UMTH.
Sagir explained that 25 suspects have been arrested so far in connection with the incidence.
Similarly, an improvised explosive device was detected by own troops and detonated by the bomb disposal unit of the task force. The incident occurred at Bulunkutu area, of Maiduguri metropolis today at about 1130 hrs. Thus, the shootings and explosion are the result of the mentioned occurrences. Earlier,
Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, the JTF spokesman stated that “Following intelligence report, a special operation was conducted on Thursday, July 26, and early hours of Friday, 27 July, 2012 in Maiduguri.
  “The operation led to the arrest of 26 suspected terrorists believed to be members of the terrorists group at Biafra Bula-Bulin, Kasuwan Shanu and GRA in Maiduguri metropolis.”
Musa said that the suspects were believed to be the brains behind the killing of two Indians on Wednesday in Maiduguri.
“Some of the suspects were responsible for the killings of two Indians, a cleric and several others in Maiduguri in the
recent past.’’
   Musa said that two AK 47 Rifles, three magazines, 200 rounds of 7.62 mm Special ammunition were also recovered during the raid.
“We also recovered a primed Improvised Explosive Device, which was detonated by the Bomb Disposal Unit of the JTF as well as cutlasses, daggers and charms.
“There was also a blood stained cloth used during the killing of a cleric in Kasuwan Shanu, Maiduguri.”
Musa said that the items and suspects were kept in the custody of the JTF for necessary action. (NAN)

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Ex-Senator's daughter kidnapped in Port-harcourt

A few days after  four kidnappers,  including a woman were arrested and their victim  rescued   by  the state Police Command Kidnappers, gunmen yesterday abducted the daughter a former senator  in Port Harcourt.


Saturday Sun  gathered  that  the victim, Mrs. Diepreye Dagi Darego, daughter of  Senator Nimi  Barigha-Amange, was  abducted  on the Port Harcourt International Airport Road. She  was said to have gone to the airport to  receive her sister  before the bandits struck at around 9am. Senator  Amange, who confirmed  the incident on telephone, said the hoodlums shot severally at  the car, before they  kidnapped  and took  his daughter to an unknown destination.


He said: “My daughter, Mrs. Diepreye Dagi Darego, was kidnapped in Port Harcourt today (yesterday) around 9am. She  was  going to the airport to pick her sister.”   According to him, the victim  went  to the airport to pick up  her sister, who  was planning  her  traditional marriage,  billed  to commence  in Bayelsa  State today (Saturday).

Amange  disclosed  that  the bullet-riddled   vehicle  had since been recovered, adding that  they  were yet to  ascertain  his daughter’s whereabouts. He further  disclosed that  there had  been communication between the kidnappers and his relatives, expressing confidence that  his daughter would soon regain  freedom from her abductors.


The former senator, who represented  Bayelsa-East Senatorial District, between 2007 and 2011, assured  that the anti-kidnapping squad, attached to the state Commissioner of Police’s office, and other security agencies, including the State Security Service (SSS), were working  round  the clock to ensure that Diepreye  is released.

When reporters  contacted the Command’ Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ben Ugwuegbulam, said he was not aware of the incident. He asked: “Where did it happen?”

HORROR!!! Two Brothers caught with human parts of their deseased brother

The entire Festival Town, commonly called FESTAC in Lagos was thrown into pandemonium on Thursday evening as a decomposing body of a man was discovered inside a duplex on B Close, House 6 of 3rd Avenue. The decomposing body, it was gathered, was that of the younger sibling of two brothers allegedly living together in the duplex which was left for them by their deceased parents.

The corpse was identified as that of Akinbuyi Ajayi,  39, living in the same apartment with Toye Ajayi and Omotola Ajayi, who were identified as his brothers.  He was allegedly killed by his brothers and his body kept in a room inside the flat. The corpse had been mutilated by the two brothers. A police source alleged that Toye and Omotola were selling the body parts of their brother for money, adding that the two were caught with some human parts which eventually led to a search on their apartment by law enforcement personnel.

Toye and Omotola  were suspected to have chopped off the head, hands, private part and part of the two legs of Akinbuyi  and allegedly sold them to suspected ritualists. The decomposing body of Akinbuyi was moved by the policemen attached to FESTAC Police Station led by the Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Mohammed Mu’azu, a Chief Superintendent of Police and officials of Amuwo Odofin Local Government council to a morgue, while the police took other items recovered from the house into custody.

Residents of FESTAC came out in their large numbers to watch the horrifying spectacle as the council officials and policemen removed the body. Apart from the body that was recovered from the house, charms, amulets, a pot filled with human blood and two large dummies of human beings were discovered.  Some of the charms and amulets were concealed inside a carton with the inscription: Lord Krishna Agabarthi 999.

Omotola, who claimed to be an engineer denied knowing anything about the corpse. He claimed to be jobless, adding that he depended on goodwill of people to survive along with Toye. He denied knowledge of the death of his brother. He explained that Akinbuyi was arrested recently by sanitation task force, adding that the deceased spent three days in prison. 

Omotola also said Akinbuyi was born in 1973 and that he usually went out and came in at will. He told the police that his brother’s killers must have committed the act before dumping the deceased inside one of the rooms. He further said  their father died in a motor accident recently. Their father, he claimed, was the owner of the duplex where they live. Akinbuyi’s corpse was dumped in one of the rooms upstairs.

Toye described himself as a primary school teacher. When the police asked him where he teaches, he could not utter a word.
Source:sunnewsonline

President Jonathan appoints new Senior Special Assistant on public Affairs

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday appointed Dr Doyin Okupe,a medical doctor and former spokesman to former President Olusegun Obasanjo as its new Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs.
This is coming on the heels of various criticism on the handling of the information of the Presidency by his Media Special Adviser ,Dr Reuben Abati.
Feelers from the villa stated that the Presidency is not happy with the various negative bashing it has been getting from the media of late and needs a much more experienced and combatant information manager to handle its image.
Dr Abati is seen as very compromising
on issues and less proactive on defending issues that has to do with the image of the president.
The recent bashing of the First lady Dame Patience Godluck Jonathan on the hosting of the African First Ladies conference seems to have been the last have been the last straw that broke the Carmel’s back

Mother abandons baby in CANAL!!!!

It was shock and pity recently at Yaba, when a mother abandoned her baby boy, thought to about a week at canal near University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka-Yaba.
       Such was the shock, pity, and anger from passers-by, even as many cried, when the baby, still with the placenta, was found dead about 10.00 a.m. on Tuesday.
An eyewitness said the baby was discovered by a student, who “raised alarm at the shocking sight of the baby swaddled in a lace wrapper and abandoned in the canal.
“A Good Samaritan in the neighbourhood, Abdulbalai Hambali, lowered himself into the canal with a ladder and brought out the body.
“Men and women shed tears at the sight of the beautiful baby, many cursing the mother for being so heartless”, the eyewitness said.
“She could have left the baby where people would see him and take him to safety in the many Motherless Babies’ Homes.
      “She had an alternative to killing her baby,” one angry man said.
A lady, Juliet Okoli said: “A woman gave birth and threw the baby into a canal with the placenta uncut. She must be wicked and heartless after carrying a pregnancy for nine months.
“I wish I could lay my hands on her and squeeze the life out of her. What happened to the motherless baby’s home, why couldn’t she take the baby there?”
Another woman said, “Oh my God! After nine good months?  Why?”
     Trying to explain what happened, a woman Mrs. Titilayo said: “It could only be the handiwork of teenagers, who are not yet ripe for motherhood.
“This is what we get in a society where no one cares about morals, where cohabitation and fornication are becoming the norm.”

Four killed as gunmen raze down police station

Information reaching our news desk indicates that at least FOUR people have been confirmed dead while several others sustained various degrees of injury when gunmen, suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sects stormed a police station located in the Local Government headquarters of  Gubio Local Government Area of Borno State.

Eye witness account says the attackers stormed the local government, destroying a police station and the local government secretariat.

Speaking with our correspondent over the phone, a man who pleaded anonymity said “it was not a good sight, as many of us ran away from our houses and took refuge in safer places. We have never experienced such in this local government, but I do not know if any civilian was killed. I know that four corpses of police officers have being conveyed in a vehicle to a hospital. Security is now beefed up around the local government and we also learnt that the police have made some arrests.”

Another man who spoke with our correspondent  also disclosed that during the attacks, some of them locked themselves in their various homes, but were later advised by relatives to run out of their houses as it was no longer safe to remain in the house, hence they had to run out for their safety.
The Borno state Police Commissioner Bala Hassan who confirmed the incident said “two policemen and one civilian were killed in the attack in Gubio local government.”

CULT clash leaves 3 dead in benin

   The relative peace that had hitherto been enjoyed by residents of Benin –City, Edo State, before and after the governorship election in the state, was, yesterday, disrupted,  when cult groups unleashed terror among themselves in the City, leaving three persons dead.
  It was  gathered that no fewer than three persons were reportedly killed while several others were seriously injured in a renewed cult-clash in three different locations in the city between two rival cult groups, the Air Lords, aka Eiye and Black Axe.
    Report say  some of the victims were killed when an argument ensued among them over the sharing of money allegedly given to them by politicians.
   It was also gathered that two men riding on a motorcycle suspected to be members of the Eiye confraternity shot a member of a rival Black Axe cult group, whose name could not be ascertained at press time.As soon as this happened, the Black Axe members were alleged to have stormed the Okhoro Road area apparently on a reprisal mission and swooped on two rival members, killing them in the process.
   The death on Zabayo Road was said to have occurred at 11p.m., on Wednesday, shortly before the arrival of joint security patrol team, Operation Thunderstorm got to the scene in response to a distress call from an unidentified resident.
  One of the victims, identified as Nosa Ebohon aka Biggy, lived on Ojo Street at Ugbowo axis of the City.
Biggy who just graduated from the University of Benin and waiting call up letter from the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, it was gathered, was killed at  9a.m., after dropping his mother off at her office, yesterday.
  He was said to have parked his car at a drinking joint on Uwasota Road, Ugbowo where he was having some drinks with his friends, when two unidentified men, in commando style on a motor bike shot him at close range.
  He died on the spot and his body was deposited at University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH mortuary.
When contacted, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Olayinka Balogun, who could not confirm the incidents, said he had just resumed at his office after being away from the state following  his deployment during the election.
Source :Vanguard

Vigilante group sets suspected CULTIST ablaze.

A suspected cultist was apprehended and set ablaze Monday by members of a local vigilance group in Ovwian, Udu Local Government Area of Delta State.
He was allegedly caught, snatching a mobile phone from unsuspecting members of the public, with his friend at Emedjor Street.
However, one of the cultists was unlucky, as the local vigilance group chased them, catching him in the process while his partner escaped.
Leaders of Ovwian community, had, about two months ago, summoned all security agencies and members of the public parents to the community town hall and warned that anyone caught indulging in cult activities would be burnt to death.
The charred remains of the late suspected cultist were left unattended at the NBTC Junction, Ovwian till the next day before they were removed to unknown destination.

Gunmen kill two brothers in Port-harcourt

Two brothers, Ahamefule Chimezie and Prince Chimezie, have been shot dead by unknown assailants in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The incident occurred on Tuesday, at Ozuboko area of Abuloma in Port Harcourt, at about 10:45pm, while returning home.

It was gathered that their killers left their bodies in their Honda Accord car. Also, there was a robbery incident in Abuloma in the early hours of yesterday, at about 4:30am. According to a reliable source, hoodlums armed with matchetes broke into the home of one Mr. Benson, a staff member of Federal Government Girls College, in the area near Port Harcourt.

The victim was said to have been robbed of undisclosed amount. The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Benjamin Ugwuegbula (DSP), when contacted, confirmed the death of the  two brothers

Army donates Anti-Bombing devices to Church and Mosque

Nigerian Army, Thursday, unveiled and presented vehicle stoppers to some Churches and Mosques, as part of its corporate social responsibility in curtailing the spate of suicide bombing at worship centres across the country.
Presenting the devices in Abuja, the Chief of Civil Military Affairs, Major Gen. Bitrus Kwaji said the vehicle stoppers were designed to stop any vehicle from all angle at any speed.
He added that the anti-bombing devices would be distributed to the representatives of Christian and Muslim bodies, who should in turn produce it in mass for distribution, while stressing that security is everybody’s business.
His words, “it has been discovered that most attacks of suicide bombers are being carried out with vehicles loaded with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). The mode of operation is simple as a suicide bomber drives his vehicle straight into his target and explosion occurs.
“In order to disallow bombers from reaching their targets, this invention comes in handy as it forcefully stops any vehicle that comes in contact with it at whatever speed.
“The unfolding security challenges confronting the nation amongst which is the Boko Haram terrorist menace have continued to hinder the congress of the transformation agenda of Mr President as well as the development of the nation at large.
“The terrorists over the years have continued to attack places of worship (churches and mosques) in order to destabilize the nation. This has necessitated the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) to charge all corps and services of the Nigerian Army to provide ways and means of curtailing this menace.
“This charge has yielded a lot of responses as we witnessed the commissioning of an indigenous Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) by the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces during the recently concluded Nigerian Army Day Celebration in Kaduna.
Receiving the devices on behalf of the Religion Bodies, Very Rev. Monday Okonkwo of the Methodist Church, Nyanya and the Executive Secretary of the National Mosque Abuja, Alh. Ibrahim Jega expressed satisfaction with Military Authorities, just as they promised to be security conscious, to complement the efforts of security agents, in riding the country of terrorism”.
They also called on faithful to join hands with authorities in their various churches and mosques, to prevent any further attack, and report any suspicion to the relevant authorities, insisting that, government can not do it alone.

Source:Vanguard

TRAGEDY!!!! 20FT container falls on pedestrian along Lagos -Ibadan Express way

Tragedy struck Thursday morning when a trailer carrying a container which was poorly lashed fell on a female pedestrian along Berger axis of Lagos-Ibadan express way.
The trailer was heading out of Lagos at about  7a.m when it lost one of its tyres, which resulted in the driver making loosing control of the truck.
As he struggled to regain control of the truck, it tipped over to its right side.
As the truck fell, it landed on the woman, who was walking beside the road, in search of a commercial bus to her destination.
The unnamed woman died instantly while a gridlock formed on the outbound Lagos side of the busy expressway for hours.
Traffic officials are currently at the scene trying to lift the truck and its container with a crane back on the trailer’s tyres.

Baby born with three legs...

What would have been a news of joy turned out to sadness when the families of  Ahmed of Bayo LGA of Borno state discovered that their baby girl was given to birth with an abnormality of having three legs on the 18th jume 2012.
The family’s joy quickly turned to sorrow as they witnessed many abnormalities surrounding her birth.

A surgeon at the Federal Medical Centre in Gombe states Nafisat needs intensive surgery to keep her alive.

Unfortunately, her parents have no means of paying for this expensive surgery.

They’re calling on Nigerians especially the first lady of the state to come to her rescue.
The medical director of the Federal Medical Centre in Gombe said the baby stands the risk of dying if the surgery is not carried out immediately.

Nafisat is currently in the Special Baby Unit at Gombe Federal Medical Centre and she is struggling with

Imperforated anus
Other multiple abnormalities

“The patient has to undergo a series of surgery in order to correct various enormities.” – Dr Adamu Madugu, the Medical Director of Federal Medical Centre, Gombe

Baby Nafisat is currently living on different medical gadgets and she needs N1 million for important corrective surgery.

Madugu said with N1 million, Nafisat would be able to pay for her surgery, drugs, investigation, pints of blood, feeding and accommodation.

“Unfortunately, the parents cannot afford the money due to financial constraints,” said the Surgeon who solicited that only government can help the poor parents to save the life of the baby.

We are appealing to good Samaritans out there to please help this baby girl in anyway you can.

Presidency denies buying 200 Exotic cars for African first ladies

The Federal Government yesterday reacted over the report which stated that its purchased 200 exotic cars for the ongoing African First Ladies Summit holding in Abuja.
The government said the cars being used in the programme were donated and will be returned to  Coscharis Motors after the event.
But Sources involved in the deal told “Daily Post”  that the Federal Government had taken delivery of the vehicle comprising of 80 units of BMW X3 and X5 series with a market value of N13.5million each, while the remaining 120 are exotic models of Honda, Jaguar and others.
In statement signed and issued by the presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati said“The true facts of the matter are as follows: The African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM) which is holding its summit in Abuja is a Non-Governmental Organisation. Its activities are funded by stakeholders and members of the private sector who support and identify with its objectives.
“In accordance with its modus operandi, the AFLPM set up several committees, including a finance committee to raise funds and sponsorship for the organization of its Abuja Summit. As part of its own contributions to the successful hosting of the summit by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, Coscharis Motors Ltd.  offered to provide some cars for the event at no cost to the organizers or the Federal Government of Nigeria.
“Under an agreement signed by the committee and Coscharis Motors, all the cars will be returned to the company after the summit
“admits in the report that it could not confirm if the cars were “bought outright or hired” yet it went ahead to publish the totally unsubstantiated headline claim”
Source:Daily post

TRAGEDY!!!!! Man beheads 7yrs old boy for Rituals

A man arrested by the officials of the Department of State Services (DSS), Joan Yakubu has confessed that he used N50 bread to lure the seven year-old son of his neighbour whom he beheaded.
Yakubu said this after he was arrested by the DSS officials attached to the FCT command at AYA Asokoro alongside his accomplice Ishaya Dukulung, 30.
He said his friend asked him to get a fresh human head to be sold to a client in Abuja who promised him huge amount of money.
According to him “I cut off the head of Danjuma after I persuaded him by asking if he would like to eat bread and he answered yes! So I bought bread for N50 and gave him and while he was eating, I asked him to go with me to a nearby river for a swim which did.
“When we got to the river, I entered the river while he stayed away. I told him to join me while I pretended to be washing my feet. I forced the boy to drown before I cut off the head and left the main body in the river.”
Yakubu said he later concealed the head in a bag and took it to Dakulung before heading to Abuja to meet the buyer.
The Assistant Director Operations, Ibrahim Halilu said the suspects were “arrested at the AYA Junction on July 22 at about 01:30 with fresh human head of boy of about seven years old who was later identified as Samu Danjuma from Anguwan Galadima in Nasarawa Local Government, Nasarawa state. They were arrested while they were looking for a buyer after a tip-off.”

Federal government spends N2.7Billion on 200 exotic cars for African first ladies

The ongoing African First Ladies Summit may had cost Nigeria government the host nation billions of naira as the Federal Government began delivery of 200 exotics cars ordered for use by guests.
First Lady Patience Jonathan is the convener of the event, with the theme “The African Woman: A Voice for Peace,” which is expected to be attended by spouses of African leaders.
Accordin to sources, the cars comprise 80 units of BMW X3 and X5 series with a market value of N13.5 million each, while the remaining 120 are exotic models of Honda, Jaguar and others.
“Daily Post” gathered that the vehicles were supplied by Coscharis Motors, and 180 units have already been delivered to the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Saturday.
The cars are for use during the 7th African First Ladies for Peace Mission (AFLPM) summit scheduled for 24 to 27 July in Abuja. Already, African first ladies have begun arriving in the country since weekend for the four-day event.
There was conflicting information by last night on whether the cars were bought outright or hired, and no government official was ready to speak with our correspondents on the record for this story.
When contacted, the spokesman for Coscharis Motors, Mr. Ifeanyi Nihe, by telephone on Monday, he said the company had supplied vehicles to the Federal Government but refused to state the number and cost.
“I am not in the position to give out the real value of the transaction,” he said.
When asked which government agency was handling the transaction, Nihe said, “Our company is still talking with some officials of the government. I don’t know whether it is the First Lady’s office or not.”
Nihe also refused to confirm whether the cars were sold or leased out to the government for the event.
Coscharis Motors is the same company that supplied over 3,000 units of BMW series used during the 8th All African Games also known as COJA in 2003.
A source said the transaction for the 200 cars was processed by the office of the Minister of State for Finance.
Attempts to seek explanation from the office were not successful as a spokesman declined comment while the minister of state, Dr. Yerima Ngama, did not answer calls to his phone on Monday.
Also, attempts to get reaction from the office of the First Lady were not successful. Her spokesman Ayo Adewuyi could not be reached by telephone on Monday and yesterday.
The Federal Government is supposed to be operating a “monetization” policy under which government officials are paid monies in lieu of official vehicles. Ministries and agencies, including the Presidency, are also supposed to maintain pools of limited numbers of vehicles for official activities.
It is not clear what will happen to the 200 cars after the First Ladies conference, but such vehicles usually end up being auctioned at rock-bottom prices to the well-connected or government workers take possession of them.
The main objective of the African First Ladies summit, according to the concept paper, is to “facilitate the flow of authentic conversations and ideas that will create powerful new paradigm for the African woman.”
During the conference, the foundation laying ceremony of the secretariat of Mrs. Jonathan’s First Ladies Peace Mission is scheduled be performed in Abuja.
The foundation is to be laid on the disputed land allocated to former first lady Turai Yar’Adua’s Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation (WAYEF) in February 2010 but revoked by FCT Minister Bala Mohammed in November last year and reallocated to Mrs. Jonathan’s pet project.
The AFLPM was established in 1997 and aims at the prevention and management of conflict as well as the preservation of peace through civil and humanitarian diplomacy.


Culled:daily post

Evangelist arraingned for duping church members the sum of N1.6million

The police in Lagos on Monday arraigned a 38-year old evangelist, Obiora Okoye, who allegedly obtained N1.6 million from his church members under false pretence.
Okoye, who resides at 3, Faith Estate, Toll-gate, Sango, Ogun, was arraigned at an Oshodi Senior Magistrate’s Court on a one-count charge of fraud.
Prosecutor Kehinde Olatunde said the accused in March, 2011 obtained N1.5 million from Chika Okoli with the pretext that he would procure a British visa for him and his wife.
Olatunde told the court the accused fraudulently obtained the money even when he knew that he did not own a travel agency or affiliated to any.
He said Okoye also promised to procure the complainant’s ticket and other travel documents.
Olatunde further said that the accused also obtained N103, 000 from Fidelia Ezonyeamu under pretence that he was going to help her brother, Michael Ezeifem adopt a child from a motherless baby’s home.
CULLED: PM NEWS

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