@poster, Thank God for your life. You are not alone God is with you. When there is life there is hope.
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@Ajanlekoko, Thanks for your response, Highly appreciated.

@Ajanlekoko and all, Thanks for your advice.

Pls, I want a carrier in Telecom Industries, How do I start.

I mean building a carrier in telecom.

I have a degree in Physics and little knowledge in computer engineering and Networking.

What certification do I start with.

Thanks for your reply.

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Nigeria will win this match

DETAILS emerged on Friday as to the reason former President Olusegun Obasanjo opened up on the state of health of his successor, President Umaru Yar’Adua.

Sources told Saturday Tribune that the former president was one of the few Nigerians who had seen the president in the last one month at the hospital where he is recuperating in Saudi Arabia.

Sources said that Obasanjo went to Saudi Arabia through Dubai recently and insisted on seeing Yar’Adua, who had been away from Nigeria for more than 30 days at the time.

It was gathered that Obasanjo left Saudi Arabia dejected based on what he saw and that he merely gathered himself to encourage Mrs. Turai Yar’Adua and people who were around the president.

A source said that Yar’Adua was barely able to recognise his predecessor and that the duo could not engage in discussions because of the state of Yar’Adua’s health.

It was gathered that Obasanjo had decided to keep the information to himself since his arrival from Saudi Arabia, but the information on the true state of Yar’Adua’s health informed his position at the last meeting of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), where he canvassed for the invocation of Section 145 of the constitution to make Vice President Goodluck Jonathan assume office in acting capacity.

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Akala ni joooo. Oyato Governor, 4.6bn to renovate !!!

Pls Ademlabi, How much will it cost to get a Primera 2.0 full option down to Ibadan( with full custom clearance papers).

Residents sleep in the street after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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My condolence to the Haitians
Trapped
A woman is covered in rubble in Port-au-Prince. The massive earthquake rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation.

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You can try IITA, NISER,NCEMA and IAR&T

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Mr. Erastus Akingbola’s house at No 12, Ruxcon Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, which was sealed off by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday. Inset are some of the cars in the compound.

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Happy New Year to all Nairalanders.

Year Of Our Double Blessing.,

2010 Year of Double Blessing

THE ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, who left Nigeria 37 days ago for medical attention in Saudi Arabia, was never admitted to King Faisal Hospital at all as believed by Nigerians, the Nigerian Tribune can report authoritatively.

Investigations conducted by the Nigerian Tribune on Tuesday revealed that the president was not in either of the two branches of King Faisal Hospital in Riyadh and Jeddah.

Few days after the president left the country, presidential spokesperson, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, addressed a press conference, where he told Nigerians that President Yar’Adua had been taken to Saudi Arabia for confirmatory checks, when speculations became rife as to his whereabouts.

According to Adeniyi, the Chief Physician to the President, Dr. Salisu Banye, had said Yar’Adua had been diagnosed of acute pericardits, an inflammation with the sac-like covering of the heart, on November 26.

“It was then decided that he should undertake confirmatory checks at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he had his last medical checkup in August. The medical review and tests undertaken at the hospital have confirmed the initial diagnosis that the president is, indeed, suffering from Acute Pericarditis,” the statement had said.

But investigations conducted by the Nigerian Tribune revealed that President Yar’Adua was not in either of the two branches of King Faisal Special Hospital in Riyadh and Jeddah.

In fact, a worker in the central unit of the hospital, Hubaid Al-Atabi, disclosed in a telephone conversation conducted in Arabic, that the president was never admitted to the hospital, adding that his record was not in their possession.

He, therefore, advised the Nigerian Tribune to make an enquiry at the Jeddah branch of the hospital, which further revealed that the president was also not admitted therein by a member of staff who refused to disclose his name.

The numbers contacted were +96614427502, +96614647272 (Riyadh), +96626677777 (Jeddah).

Meanwhile, a source said the president is still in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, though out of hospital.

The source said further that the president, for now, could not embark on long haul trip, thus making it difficult for him to be taken to either the United States or Germany.

The possibility is that his wife, Hajia Turai, might have decided to explore the spiritual angle by moving him to a place where the already employed marabouts can pray for him unhindered, a source said.

Another source said the family had objected to taking the president on air ambulance to either the US or Germany and even Nigeria, because of the unusual noise that it could cause.

Given the latest development, nobody, not even the aides of the president, could say authoritatively where President Yar’Adua is.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/30122009/news/news1.html

THE Federal Government, on Tuesday, admitted that it had failed Nigerians in the area of job creation, saying youth unemployment remained the biggest challenge facing the country today.

Minister of Labour and Productivity, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, who stated this in Abuja, during the launch and public presentation of the Final Report of the National Youth Employment Template, said the country, over the last 10 years, had been witnessing “growth without development,” a factor, he said was responsible for the acute job crisis Nigeria was facing today.

This is even as the Minister of Youth Development, Senator Akinlabi Olasunkanmi, revealed that over 60 per cent of Nigerians were unemployed, or under-employed, with the Nigerian youth the worse hit.

Olasunkanmi, however, said that arrangements had been concluded to create about four million jobs next year, with the commencement in January 2010 of full implementation of the National Youth Employment Policy and Nigerian Youth Employment Action Plan (NIYEAP), already approved by the Federal Executive Council.

He pointed out that the NIYEAP, prepared by his ministry, provided a multi-sectoral approach to the issue of youth joblessness, documenting the responsibility of each ministry, departments and agency and other levels of government.

On the four million jobs, he said the Ministry of Information and Communications, in collaboration with the National Communications Commission (NCC), had finalised plans to create one million jobs within the ICT sector.

The minister added that the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources had also commenced work on creation of two million jobs in the extension services, in addition to the one million jobs his youth ministry was working on, in collaboration with the private sector by next year.

But Adetokunbo said: “Youth unemployment is the biggest challenge facing our country today. We are not able to create opportunities for employment for the Nigerian youth. The issue is that should we continue like that? Something really has to be done and that is exactly what this government is trying to do.”

He added that “At my own level, I have made employment, job creation, capacity building and training the most important and number one mandate of my Ministry of Labour. We also have a plan for employment. I am committed, as the Minister of Youth Development, to do everything to bring about creation of jobs for Nigerians.”

Speaking further, Senator Olasunkanmi stated that the recent World Bank report on Growth and Employment in Nigeria covering 1999 to 2006 was an indictment of the Nigerian government, saying the report affirmed that “growth performance in Nigeria has not responded to the employment aspirations of its population as a whole, especially the younger generation.”

He said: “We are particularly concerned with the question of job creation due to threats widespread youths joblessness pose to the collective security of the nation and the orderly development of the society.

“At home and abroad, high youths joblessness is an explosive scenario as idle youths are becoming ready made tools in the hands of criminal kingpins across the country,” he said.

Yearly, thousands of graduates are churned out from the nation’s universities into the labour market without corresponding job opportunities. Thus, the minister said the template had provided key six areas of the nation’s economy that job opportunities would be created for the teeming youths, adding that there was the need also for retraining of some of the youths in some of the employment initiatives.

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First of all, Comp. Sc or Statistics or Mathematics - No way! you are better off with your Physics. Don't mind the people who say u can't get anything with a B.Sc Physics. They are short-sighted (-2.5  ). And did I hear u say your first semester GP was 4.01? Dats very good and u gotta keep it up.

All u need is motivation, check google and do a search on the kinda jobs u can get with a B.Sc Physics. See how broad physics is, and u'd be motivated. U can probably take up the Geophysics option in your final year, and if u graduate with the 4.xx GP, u'd be on your way to start a successful career in the Oil & Gas Industry. Geophysicists are highly needed and highly regarded in the Oil industry, equally as Engineers.

If u can cross over to Elect Elect, good. But don't see dat as a last resort.

If I were in your position, I'd love physics and build my GP. Aim to have a Career in Geophysics (probably with a masters degree in dat), and put in a lotta effort to dat.

Peace!

Yes I agreed with the above post.
Speaking from experience,I am physicist. After my NYSC ,Feb 2008 to be precise, I ve changed job 2ce,doing well in my field with a little IT experience.What you need is just follow ur passion and try to be good in whatever u do.With God the sky is not even ur limit.

ALLEGED FRAUD IN U-17 WORLD CUP: Cars ‘shared’ by officials tracked down - Hyundai’s trackers gave ‘beneficiaries’ away - SSS invites LOC officials

By Ade Somefun - 23.11.2009

“Hyundai was ready for such eventuality, hence we decided to install trackers in all the cars we supplied to the LOC for the competition.”

JUST as the State Security Service (SSS) has swung into action, probing the activities of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the recently ended U-17 World Cup in Nigeria, world football’s governing body, FIFA’s partner, Hyundai, has tracked down some of the 74 cars it supplied for the competition, which allegedly were shared and driven away by some officials of government.

A source close to FIFA headquarters in Zurich revealed to the Nigerian Tribune that, unknown to many, Hyundai had fixed trackers in the cars it supplied to the LOC for the competition, hence no matter where the cars were taken to, they would always be tracked down.

“We have been able to track many of the cars allegedly driven away by some officials after the competition,” the source revealed to the Nigerian Tribune.

“Hyundai was ready for such eventuality, hence we decided to install trackers in all the cars we supplied to the LOC for the competition.

“At the end of the day, all our cars would have been recovered,” the source added.

Meanwhile, officials of the National Sports Commission (NSC), LOC top officials, chairmen of sub-seats, chairmen of the various sub-committees and some other people have been invited for interrogation by the SSS in compliance with the directive given by Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan that the LOC would be probed for accountability and probity.

Vice-President Jonathan had, last week, stated that the present administration believed in transparency and the rule of law, hence it decided that the tournament’s expenditures would be audited at the end of the championship.

Sources close to the LOC told the Nigerian Tribune that the invited officials had since made useful statements to the SSS, adding that it would be a continuous process.

The sources stated that it was revealed that disbursement of fund was jointly made by the NSC, LOC, sub-seat chairmen and sub-committee chairmen, adding that the NSC approved virtually all contracts awarded by the LOC.

“So you can now see that the buck stops at the table of the chairman of the NSC,” the source stated.

Investigation conducted by the Nigerian Tribune, however, revealed that the NSC was protected by a memo from the Presidency, which gave it power to do the things it did at the end of the day.

“But I can tell you that the SSS is at the top of it all and would soon get to the bottom of how N13 billion released by the Federal Government was spent,” the source added.

Chairman of a sub-seat (name withheld) told Nigerian Tribune on Friday that he had been invited and quizzed by the SSS on the sub-seat’s involvement in the competition.

“I told them all they needed to know. I was there for two days. We are talking about accountability and the only way to be exonerated is for questions to be asked and our accounts books visited,” he noted.

When Nigerian Tribune sought clarification from the Chief Press Secretary of the National Sports Commission, Mr. Tony Ohaeri, on the involvement of the NSC on the issues of contracts that were awarded, he said that he was not a member of the LOC, nor did he work there, but noted that due process must have been followed, adding that it was not a one-man show.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/23112009/news/news1.html

God is in Nigeria.Thank God oooooooooooooooo.At last we are through to SA !!!!! ;

Tanx for the info

Get a shelter first then car.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Dimeji Bankole and his deputy, Honourable Usman Bayero Nafada, are said to have acquired nine bullet-proof cars each for their official use and in preparation for 2011 governorship elections in their respective states.

Bankole is from Ogun State while Nafada is from Gombe. Their governors are respectively serving second terms and their seats will be vacant in 2011.

The Speaker had, on many occassions, denied eyeing the governorship seat, but sources in his state have continued to link him with a possible shot at the Ogun Government House.

The multi-million naira vehicles are now in Abuja, while the presiding officers sometimes put some of the cars in their official fleet. Sources confirmed in Abuja that each of the vehicles was acquired for between N50 and N85 million and that the deputy speaker, most of the times, acted as a catalyst for the acquisition.

It was also gathered in Abuja that the cars are mostly parked at a rented apartment being used as a Guest House by the Speaker. Information, available to the Saturday Tribune, indicates that the speaker acquired the first bullet-proof car shortly after he resumed office in November, 2007, adding that the car was in his fleet during his first official trip to Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

It was gathered that because of the sensitive nature of the cars, the National Assembly had, through the outgoing Clerk of the National Assembly (CNA), Alhaji Nasiru Arab, requested for End Users Certificate (EUC) from the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) to ensure the clearance of the first bullet-proof car acquired for the Speaker.

It is not clear whether those acquired after that were also granted the required EUC. A source said that some of the cars in the fleet of the speaker and his deputy included two Range Rover Sport cars each; Two Mercedes Benz bullet-proof cars and two Toyota Land Cruiser jeeps each.

It was gathered that three of such cars each are also being cleared for the use of the officers. A source said: “There is a lot of secrecy about the location of many of the cars, but there is nothing to hide about the ambition of these two presiding officers. Initially, they were said to be seeking a return to the National Assembly to retain their seats so as to help the president in his second term bid, but the conclusions have been reached now with the lavish acquisition of bullet-proof cars.”

There are also issues with the pricing of the cars, which sources said, are on the high side. It was gathered that costs of new vehicles are not supposed to be more than N15 million higher than the regular ones, but that most of the ones purchased by the legislators have been bought at exorbitant prices.

There were also allegations, during the week, that the House of Representatives was short of cash, prompting some unusual borrowings.

But the spokesman of the House, Honourable Eseme Eyiboh, told the Saturday Tribune that the allegations against the speaker and his deputy as well as the allegations that the House was lacking fund were unfounded.

Eyiboh denied knowledge of the importation of 18 bullet-proof Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) by the presiding officers of the House for the 2011 general elections.

He also rejected speculations that the House has overshot its budget, prompting it to engage in borrowing to meet up its expenditure. Eyiboh, Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, who spoke with Saturday Tribune in Abuja, said that it was not possible for either the Speaker or his deputy to import such vehicles as there was no budgetary allocation for them.

Sources at the Office of the Speaker are insisting that the vehicles in question were those that had earlier generated controversy following the decision of the National Assembly management to replace the vehicles in the convoys of the principal officers of the House earlier in the year.

The sources noted that the vehicles, which were ordered at the time, were only just being delivered and argued that they were certainly not as many as 18 that had been rumoured, maintaining that they had nothing to do with the 2011 ambitions of the officers.

According to sources, which spoke with Saturday Tribune in confidence, the purchase of the vehicles followed a presentation by security details attached to the Speaker, who have strongly recommended the replacement of fleet of vehicles because they had gone out of shape.

“The particular incident, which prompted that recommendation, was when the flag-bearing car of the Deputy Speaker had to be towed from Gombe to Aso Rock Villa for repairs after it broke down,” the sources disclosed.

Speaking on the allegation, Mr. Hameed Bello, Special Adviser on Media to the Deputy Speaker, dismissed the existence of the bullet-proof vehicles for the principal officers as he observed the speculation was the handiwork of mischievous politicians.

“The onus is on those who are saying it to prove the allegations. We have to be careful what we do because this is the era of politics,” he told Saturday Tribune.

However, he remarked that if individual members were to buy vehicles that were personal to them, it was not the business of the House of Representatives.

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Security men yesterday prevented a mob from lynching an elderly man, Peter Ismaila of Kurmi-Gwari, a Kaduna suburb, when he was caught sexually assaulting two primary school pupils in a toilet.

Our correspondent gathered that the suspect lured a 12 year old and her friend of 11 years, all of Kurmi-Gwari, to a toilet at the Kurmi-Gwari primary school and defiled the first one but was caught attempting her friend.

The father of one of them, Mr. Monday Akwi, told Daily Trust at the Kaduna police headquarters where the suspect was paraded, that he had sent his daughter to the market to buy soybeans but on her way, the suspect lured her and her friend with N170. Akwi who said after giving them the money, he took the children to a primary school toilet and there, forcefully defiled her.

“But in the process of forcing his way through the other girl, she screamed, alerting the security guards of the primary school to the scene. They broke into the toilet and arrested the suspect in the act’’, he said. In an interview, Peter Ismaila confessed to the act but denied the claim that he defiled one of the girls before he was caught.

“I gave them money before they followed me to the toilet but I did not force them as the police and people are saying. They followed me willingly because of the money I gave them. Please stop saying that I penetrated the girls, I did not, if I did, you would have seen tear and blood in their underwear,’’ he said. The suspect who works with a private security outfit in Kaduna, said he had a wife and two children and that it was the devil that pushed him to the act.

Kaduna State Commissioner of Police Tambari Yabo Mohammed confirmed the incident and the suspect’s confession. He urged parents to always educate their children, especially the girl child on the activities of rapists. He also said that one Elkana Lawrence of Kabala Doki had been arrested for defiling one other girl of the same address. The police commissioner said the suspect was arrested following a report by the mother of the victim.

“The mother, Mrs. Grace Yakubu of Goni close Kabala-Doki, reported to the police last week that her daughter, was not walking properly and that after several questioning, the girl told her that it was Elkana that had been defiling her for sometime but threatened to kill her if she exposed him,’’ he said.

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Mother-of-three Jennifer Strange, 28, entered the California radio station contest to win a Nintendo Wii games console.

In the event - dubbed "Hold Your Wee For a Wii" - contestants had to drink a 250ml bottle of water every 15 minutes without urinating.

After eight rounds, contestants were given half-litre bottles.

Mrs Strange is believed to have downed nearly two gallons (7.5 litres) of fluid in the hope of winning the prize for her children.

She then left work early complaining of headaches, and was found dead later.

A post-mortem found she had died of water intoxication.

No criminal charges were filed in the case, but the woman's family sued Sacramento radio station KDND-FM for more than $34m.

After deliberating for two weeks, a jury awarded her husband and three children just less than half that amount.

Lawyers for the station argued that her death was unforeseeable, and her "contributory negligence" led in part to her death.

Ten of the radio station's employees were reportedly sacked after the event.

Experts say water intoxication can occur when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is altered by a rapid intake of water.

This can eventually cause the brain to swell, stopping it regulating vital functions such as breathing.

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THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC), and the Civil Society Coalition, on Thursday, led hundreds of Nigerians to the streets of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, to protest the planned deregulation of the downstream oil sector, non-adoption of a national minimum wage of N52, 200 and the partial implementation of Justice Mohammed Uwais Electoral Reform Committee’s report.

But they could not deliver their message to the Senate President, David Mark and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, as the two leaders of the National Assembly fled from the premises a few minutes before the arrival of the procession, led by the NLC President, Mr. Abdulwaheed Omar, the President General of TUC, Mr. Peter Esele, and the chairman of the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), Dr. Dipo Fashina, to the National Assembly.

However, labour threatened that if the Federal Government failed to rescind its decision on deregulation after the series of rallies, it would go for a total showdown with the government. They also challenged the Federal Government to subject the issue of deregulation to the court of public opinion by conducting a referendum to determine whether Nigerians truly wanted the policy or not.

The procession, which began early Thursday morning at the Berger end of Abuja, ended at the National Assembly, where both leaders, Senator Mark and Honourable Bankole, refused to receive the labour leaders, but ran away from the premises of the National Assembly, when the rally train was moving nearer to the Assembly.

Their disappearance was not a surprise to the labour leaders, as Nigerian Tribune was reliably informed that Senator Mark, in particular, made frantic efforts to make labour stop the rally late Wednesday night.

Specifically, Senator Mark was said to have called the leaders of the NLC on Wednesday night to tell them that he would only receive them outside the gate of the National Assembly, a proposition the labour leaders rejected.

However, about 30 minutes to the arrival of the rally, Senator Mark, who was leading the Senate plenary session, excused himself and hurriedly drove out of the premises.

The rally was later received by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Labour, Senator Wilson Ake, who assured union leaders that their requests would be looked into by the National Assembly.

Speaking at the rally, Mr. Omar said: “I want to challenge the Federal Government, if they think that deregulation is a popular policy, let them subject it to a referendum and let Nigerians decide.

“Let Nigerians decide. Because, if the essence of democracy is for the people and by the people, then let them subject it to a popular referendum. The National Assembly should also refer it to the public and let us see the result.”

In his own address, to the General Secretary of LASCO, Mr. Biodun Aremu said: “If government does not yield to the workers’ demands after this final rally, there will be a total showdown.

According to LASCO chairman, Dr. Fashina, the National Assembly had only two options; either to be on the side of the people or to be against them, adding that there was no middle way.

He stated that if the National Assembly supported deregulation, it meant that they were against the people and that people would treat them as enemies.

Dr. Fashina, however, said that many Nigerians believed that the people at the National Assembly did not win their elections.

The TUC president, Mr. Esele, in his own address, pointed out that deregulation did not mean pump price increase, regretting that a majority of the people were not educated, thus making them to give wrong perception of deregulation.

Also, Mr. Femi Falana said the Peoples Democratic Party government had been increasing fuel prices illegally, because the National Assembly had refused to perform its role.

Rather than deregulating the downstream oil sector, Mr. Falana said the government must deregulate corruption, election rigging and the looting of treasury, regretting that billions of naira had been spent on the refineries but they had refused to work due to corruption.

NLC president, Omar, delivered a letter entitled “Why we held a national rally in Abuja today, Thursday, October 29, 2009” to Senator Ake for onward delivery to the Senate president and stated that the three primary reasons for the rallies and processions were the planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil industry; fast-tracking negotiation of a new National Minimum Wage and wage review, and the non-implementation of the Justice Uwais Electoral Reform report.

Reacting, Senator Ake said the National Assembly was aware of their coming and had made provisions to ensure they had a fine atmosphere to deliver their message.

He expressed appreciation and thanked the leadership of labour for organising peaceful rallies across the country, adding that the issues they raised were very important.

Senator Ake said the National Assembly was in alliance with the position of labour as the legislature was already looking into the Uwais panel report and had subjected it to public hearing.

He also said: “We want to assure you that we are with you on this. Workers need increased salary. There is a basis for the salary to be increased. The National Assembly is also with you on deregulation. Now that it is officially before us, we are assuring you it is going to receive serious attention.”

http://www.tribune.com.ng/30102009/news/news1.html

From Oluwatoyin Malik, Adebayo Waheed, Dele Aderibigbe and Johnson Babajide - 29.10.2009

FOR two days (Tuesday and Wednesday) in Kogi and Oyo states, armed robbers went on the rampage killing 12 people, including five policemen. In Ibadan, the robbers were said to have robbed on Ososami Road before linking Anfani Road.

It was while trying to find a route of escape that they sighted a policeman in uniform riding on an okada and pursued him. The policeman, Corporal Augustine Otebolaje with force number 358706, on seeing the robbers in pursuit, attempted an escape by running into a building opposite Apostolic Faith Church at Lodge Street, Oke-Ado area.

He was, however, overwhelmed by the robbers who pumped hot lead into his neck and left hip. He died instantly. The armed men also invaded the popular Kollington Shopping Plaza area of Oke Ado, where a security man working with a fish depot behind the plaza was shot dead.

They were said to have attempted gaining access into the fish depot. The security guard, known as Dimeji, made efforts to prevent their entry by trying to lock the gate against them.

The robbers, in apparent anger, shot at the gate, which was pierced by the bullet, hitting Dimeji in the lower part of the abdomen. Dimeji was said to have walked a short distance within the depot, clutching his stomach from which blood was gushing out, before he collapsed and died.

However, they did not succeed in collecting any money, because they could not gain access through the door leading to where money was kept. The armed young men, who carried out their acts may have divided themselves into groups, as another set robbed the beer depot beside the fish depot.

The group that invaded the beer depot pretended to be customers intending to purchase a particular brand of beer, according to an eyewitness. One of the two gang members that entered the depot, it was gathered, opened his nap sack, as if to bring out money, but drew out a gun from it, assembled it and introduced himself as an armed robber.

The day’s proceeds were collected from the sales girl while the laptop belonging to the manager and his bag containing some documents and books were taken away.

The armed robbers were said to have driven in Toyota Camry cars, one red colour and the other ash colour. They escaped through the bridge at Popoyemoja area, where some boys who gave them a chase eventually lost sight of them.

A credible police source told Nigerian Tribune that the robbers abandoned the cars in Felele area and that one suspect has been arrested. Earlier, on Tuesday evening, a gang of five armed robbers had attacked a supermarket disposessing the supermarket owner of the entire day’s sale, jewellery and other valuables, after first outwitting men of the Nigeria Police, who were only 10 metres away from the scene of robbery.

The incident, which according to eyewitnesses lasted about 10 minutes, occurred at a supermarket directly opposite the popular Floreb Hotel, on Aromolaran Street, off Old Ife Road. The police, it was said, had been keeping a 24-houur illegal checkpoint, in front of the hotel, in the past four weeks.

Eyewitnesses told the Nigerian Tribune that the gang, which came on commercial motorcycles, had two of their members noisily arguing with the policemen over ‘settlement’ issues, a ploy which successfully kept the policemen distracted, while the other members of the gang robbed and completed their task and at whose signal, the “okada riders” finally ‘settled’ the officers and repositioned, for their gang members to hop on the bikes and rode off.

The supermarket owner, a middle aged woman who was still in shock, said she could not believe the attack could happen, not only because it was well before 8.00 p.m., but also because she felt the presence of the policemen should have deterred the gang.

Eyewitnesses who confirmed their helplessness said there was nothing they too could do, with the officers being so engrossed with okada riders, more so, as the gang was armed.

At the Agugu police station, though the DCO, Mr. A. Olayinka who confirmed the event, said he was yet to get the details, the station officer, who further confirmed the robbery incident, stated that the gang made away with jewellery and a yet to be determined sum of money and emphasised that the development had buttressed the need to continue to mount their checkpoint in the area.

Residents who, however, spoke on condition of anonymity said the presence of the policemen, which initially gave them a sense of security, had now turned into another thing, as all the officers did was to waylay okada riders and force them to pay ‘settlement’.

They said it was also a common practice for junior officers of the station, to routinely visit neighbourhood and arrest youths in the area, claiming they were picking ‘roguers’.

Also, in Kogi State, no fewer than 10 people, including four policemen, were killed in separate armed robbery incidents that occurred within the last two days.

The robberies occurred between Tuesday and Wednesday, with the worst hit being some banks (names withheld) at Ankpa area of the state, as robbers numbering about 20 stormed the banks in the town, killing four policemen while a man said to be a well known thug, one Shaibu a.k.a. Rambo, who had mobilised his men to confront the robbers, was killed along with two of his boys.

Two armed robbers were also reported killed during the operation which lasted several hours. Also, robbers who had laid siege to the Ankpa- Lokoja highway on Monday, robbed a vehicle carrying a corpse. The robbers were said to have dropped the corpse and forced the bereaved to lie face down at Adogo village and stole their belongings, which included money and handsets.

The corpse, according to the state acting Commissioner of Police, Mallam Abdullahi Magaji, was being conveyed from Abuja to Ankpa with the passengers on board before they ran into the roadblocks mounted by four robbers suspected to be Fulanis.

Magaji, who paraded the dead body of one of the Fulani robbers who was killed when security operatives patrolling the highway ran into the robbery, said that the three others fled the scene when one of them was killed.

Magaji who confirmed the bank robberies at Ankpa, on Wednesday, said that the policemen and the leader of the thugs were killed during the robbery incidents.

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