Let's hear word jare. Nigerians didn't want emilokan and you and your cohorts worked for his emmergence in 2023! Have you forgotten you were grossly part of the reasons this malady was brought upon us? Shift abeg
iwaeda: Police freed suspect, left me with N40m losses –Lagos car dealer
A car dealer, Chima Edmund, has accused the Lagos State Police Command of releasing a man suspected of attempting to steal a 2025 Toyota Tundra pickup worth about N130m from his showroom in the Victoria Garden City area of Lekki, Lagos State.
Edmund, founder of Mayor and Sheiks Autos, said the suspect allegedly drove the vehicle away from his showroom on Monday after posing as a prospective buyer but crashed it into a canal in the Ajiran area while attempting to escape.
The incident went viral on Tuesday, with the dealer estimating the cost of repairing the damaged vehicle at about N40m.
Speaking exclusively with PUNCH Metro on Thursday, Edmund said the suspect arrived at the dealership around 4pm carrying a bag and asked to inspect the pickup.
He said a junior staff member attended to the man, who requested the key to the unsold vehicle under the pretext of checking its engine.
“On Monday, the guy came to my outlet around 4pm. He met my junior staff and came in with a bag as a customer. He asked for the 2025 Toyota Tundra pickup, which costs around N130m, and demanded the key to check it. He dropped his bag inside it, and the staff watched him start the engine, thinking he only wanted to check it. But the man engaged the gear and drove off,” Edmund said.
According to him, the vehicle exited the dealership through a route that required a supporting slab because of the difference in elevation between the car stand and the main road.
He said the vehicle’s doors locked automatically when the suspect engaged the gear, after which he drove towards the VGC Bridge.
Edmund said his staff member pursued the vehicle but struggled to convince passers-by that the man behind the wheel was not the owner.
He alleged that the suspect drove through a residential estate in Ajah, damaged a barricade at the entrance and continued towards Chevron and Ebeano before heading to Ajiran.
“On getting to Ajiran, he could not find his way again. He realised he had driven to the end of the road, and when he could not proceed, he drove over the canal until the vehicle landed in it. That was when some boys dragged him out,” the dealer said.
Edmund said the escape attempt damaged the pickup and a barricade at the VGC entrance.
He added that he paid for repairs to the barricade and incurred expenses on the treatment of people injured during the incident, as well as the suspect’s feeding and other related costs.
The dealer said he also paid for the suspect’s medical treatment following the crash, adding that the man was not kept in a cell because of the injuries he sustained.
According to Edmund, the case was initially reported at the Ajah Police Division before being transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, where two women who identified themselves as the suspect’s mother and sister visited him.
He said the women claimed to be from Agbor, Delta State, adding that he became concerned about recovering his expenses after learning that the suspect had been released on bail.
Edmund alleged that he was pressured to withdraw the case after investigators established that the suspect had a psychiatric condition.
“I am already suspecting foul play in the police dealings because I was hurried to close the case when the man was confirmed to be a psychiatric patient. Just yesterday evening, he had been released on bail.
“For somebody who caused me such heavy damage, how am I going to bear these losses alone, knowing that the culprit has been released? Somebody attempted to steal a car from my outlet. It is sad,” he said.
The dealer appealed for assistance in recovering from the financial losses, saying preliminary estimates put the cost of repairing the damaged Toyota Tundra at about N40m.
Edmund, who said he had been in the automobile business since 1996, described the incident as unprecedented in his nearly three decades in the trade.
Religion has done more harm than good to mankind. Human beings are just stupid in their actions and God just watches and laughs. The same act that brought the stupid killers of those Bangladeshis to living beings is now immoral and its performers have to be killed! Regardless of where it's performed, death shouldn't have been an option.
Baseless accusation! Are the Yorubas not eligible Nigerians for the positions? If it were your tribal people, would you have said that? I hate being tribalistic.
Because President Tinubu lives here in Abuja, I don't want to share anything with him. I said, oga, take Senator and the two House of Representatives for your party. But in Rivers State, I'll take small for my party to show I'm the National Leader of PDP. No be so?
Imagine! The party that rejected Wike presidency has now become his marching stone. Wike is now the commander-in-chief of the party. What a twist of life!
Peller mocking everyone that once told him that he could never smell Jarvis’s pant and now that Jarvis is pregnant, they’re telling him to do DNA again 😭💔 pic.twitter.com/pIodfTsG8y
So, with projects like this you have handled coupled with glaring embezzlement of public funds, you still found it difficult to buy drugs for your ailing mother leading to her passing?! That your joke is way too expensive
fergie001: Bayo Onanuga President Tinubu's SA on Information & Strategy
Wow! What a clueless government! What's the difference between so called fuel discount and subsidy? Atiku has really exposed the Satanism of this government in terms of fuel subsidy, hence this their stupid disguise of fuel discount
Lovelink1991: A lady recalls a time when women could sleep naked after sex without worrying about their private moments being recorded and shared online. She says social media has changed things, as private nude videos can now end up trending and make women afraid of sleeping naked after sex.
I think the reason this fish brain gender of this generation was created was primarily for SEX because they don't have any productive thinking other than SEX. They are undoubtedly sexual objects - the insatiable one at that. They don't have any other thinking than the one that has to do with men
[quote author= post=140832548]Source: https://punchng.com/twin-medical-sisters-die-in-yobe/?amp[/quote]What a painful loss! But come to think of it, how did their parents of high educational pedigree forgot to adhere to precaution of not being together leading to the birth of those promising twins
Are we ever going to have a Nigeria of our dreams? It's been promises year in year out from our leaders with absolutely nothing to show for ordinary Nigerians
Tennessee Department of Corrections Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike has been taken to hospital after her heart was still beating following two lethal injections during her execution, her lawyer says.
Her legal team filed an emergency motion to halt the convicted murderer's execution as it was happening, saying: "Ms Pike has lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat and is audibly snoring."
One of her attorneys told the BBC that Pike, 50, was "being provided life-saving measures" in hospital after two syringes of pentobarbital had been administered.
Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.
The attempted execution took place at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville at about 20:00 local time on Wednesday night.
Pike was given two doses of pentobarbital, and the curtain in the witness room was closed twice, the Associated Press reports.
Media were at some point asked to leave, the news agency said.
Family handout Student Colleen Slemmer was tortured and brutally killed in the 1995 murder
Pike's legal team said in a statement to the Tennessean newspaper: "Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution.
"We take no pleasure in being right, but the concerns raised by Ms Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy."
Pike's lawyers filed an emergency motion to stay her execution and administer medical care after the lethal injection was apparently botched.
District Judge Clifton L Corker issued a ruling noting that "medical personnel have begun to administer medical care as requested in the motion".
The Tennessee Department of Correction has said it stands by all the actions it took during the attempted execution.
"The Tennessee Department of Correction followed every step of the State's lawful, established execution protocol approved by the Attorney General's Office," department spokesperson Dorinda Carter told the Tennessean newspaper.
"The lethal injection chemical in the protocol has consistently been effective, and the protocol does not allow for additional procedures beyond what was carried out this evening. Christa Pike has been transported to an off-site medical facility," she said.
Dr Joel Zivot, a professor at the Emory University School of Medicine who told the BBC he had been retained by Pike's legal team as a medical expert, said she likely never achieved a sufficient blood level of pentobarbital to cause apnoea and cardiovascular failure during the attempted execution.
"It's very possible that as a consequence of the delay of the beginning of resuscitation she will have a brain injury," Zivot said in an email.
The capital punishment went ahead after the US Supreme Court overturned a reprieve granted by a lower court on Wednesday morning. It was the second time in as many days that the justices gave the go-ahead for Pike's death by lethal injection.
In a ruling earlier in the day, judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit paused the execution saying they needed more time to consider the arguments in Pike's case.
Her lawyers had argued the jury did not get the chance to weigh mitigating evidence of Pike's documented history of childhood sexual abuse, before they sentenced her to death in 1996.
The defence said that for years, the state of Tennessee had argued in court that she lied about being sexually abused as a child.
But at a recent hearing about her execution method, the state said it did not dispute that she had suffered sexual abuse and rape.
Tennessee's governor denied a clemency request this week from Pike, the only woman on the state's death row.
J. Miles Carey/USA TODAY/Imagn Images via Reuters May Martinez, mother of Colleen Slemmer, and a retired Knoxville Police department detective outside a courtroom for a post-conviction hearing in 2006 May Martinez, mother of Colleen Slemmer, outside a court hearing in 2006 Pike was 18 when she and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, beat, tortured and killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, whom they had met at a job training camp for troubled teens.
In her clemency petition, Pike said that she intended to beat Slemmer, not kill her, but that she was unable to "put the brakes on".
"I was a mentally ill 18-year-old kid," she said in a statement. "It took me numerous years to even realise the gravity of what I'd done. Even more to accept how many lives I affected. I took the life of someone's child, sister, friend. It sickens me now to think I had the ability to commit such a crime."
The murder in 1995 created a media frenzy in Knoxville, Tennessee, after Colleen was found with an inverted pentagram - a symbol that is associated with satanic groups - carved into her chest. Pike has denied carving the symbol herself.
Before the killing, Pike had accused Colleen of insulting her and trying to steal her then-boyfriend.
Two other residents at the camp later testified that Pike had bragged about the murder before and after, and showed them a piece of Colleen's skull.
Colleen Slemmer's mother had said she wanted the execution to take place, telling the Associated Press she had waited decades to see Pike's sentence carried out.
"Every time I think about it, I think about Colleen feeling that pain and trying to get up and run," May Martinez told the agency on Saturday.
She said a group helped raise funds for her and her husband to travel from Florida to Tennessee to witness the execution.
"Not a day goes by, or a minute goes by that I do not think about Colleen. Holidays are the worst," Martinez said.
Since 1976, when the Supreme Court resumed the death penalty, only 18 women have been executed in the US, compared to 1,663 men. That's about 1% of all US executions.
These people are insensible. Oil sector has been deregulated to their knowledge and they didn't make any noise then. How do they expect Tinubu to go back to subsidy era by Friday with their stupid demand of #500, 000 minimum wage by next year? What they should be fighting for is to pressurize FG to make sure our refineries work at all cost and the general prises of all commodities come down by any means instead of increment on salary that would eventually bring more inflation and push oil prises up more.
'I was misled by Peter Obi, "the greatest liar". There was a time I told Nigerians that Peter Obi owed nothing, left no debt and was not owing any salaries, gratuities or pensions. I cannot say the same things today that I said about Peter Obi in 2023 because I now have more information'
-Kenneth Okonkwo
"I was misled by Peter Obi, the 'greatest liar.' There was a time i told Nigerians that Peter Obi owed nothing, left no debt, and was not owing any salaries, gratuities, or pensions. I cannot say the same things today that I said about Peter Obi in 2023, because i now have more pic.twitter.com/2wcMo9zono
Any claimed economy stability or blossomeness that doesn't reflect positively in the lives of ordinary Nigerians is a mere jamboree and as such nonsensical
Any Oba that involves himself in partisan politics has already invited ridicule not to talk of an Oba taking sides against the incumbent governor of his state and the one that enthroned him in the first place. I remember ex-president Obasanjo advising the current Olubadan to do away with partisan politics after his coronation. He's just lucky Makinde is unlike wicked Woke, if not, Olubadan would have had himself booted out of office
Chucks13: Insult as much as you can but I'm assuring you Makinde we will jail you after 2027 election we have collated your case files ready to be open you go weep like small pikin by the time we finish with you.
You and who are going to jail Makinde after 2027? You are clearly high on colos🤣
Women and infidelity are inseparable! Any married man that wants to live long should have that at the back of his mind. Even Cane, the son of the first created woman is adjudged a "bastard" by his criminal action. No woman on Earth is worth a man's life.
"...If anything happened and Mr President failed today, I will be the first politician to hurt Atiku and Peter Obi...I won't make that mistake of sleeping while the President loses the election, no, because I know they will come for my head..."
— BATified Soldier.🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬💯💯💯❤️❤️❤️ (@Dareybabslink) September 2, 2026
“Each day I sleep, I am thinking about the president’s reelection. When I am eating, I think about the president’s reelection. Everything I am doing now is about the president’s reelection,” he stated. Whenever you are about to fuc*k your wife or whores, I wonder if your prick is able to rise thinking about Tinubu's reelection
Politics › Re: Governor Adeleke Inaugurates Osun State Chapter Of Tinubu Campaign Council by abidem4real: 8:18pm On Oct 23
