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Chukwudi Akasike and Friday Amobi, Port Harcourt

SUSPECTED political thugs on Monday set a middle-aged man popularly known as Kpom-Kpom ablaze in Buguma Town, the headquarters of Asari-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.

It was gathered that the supporters of the People’s Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress in the area had clashed following the killing of the middle-aged man identified as an APC supporter.

Sources in Asari-Toru disclosed that supporters of the APC and PDP resorted to a free-for-all, which caused panic in the area.

Kpom Kpom, according to a source, was clubbed to death before his corpse was dragged by some hoodlums to a sand field close to Buguma New Hospital and set ablaze.

The source, who does not want his name mentioned, said, “The killing of the man made the APC group to go on the rampage and this led to a physical show of strength and exchange of gunfire by some of the supporters of the two political parties.

“There were series of gun shots; so, we had to take cover in our houses. One guy popularly known as Kpom-Kpom, who I think is an APC member was killed and burnt. As I speak with you, there is tension in Burma in Buguma.”

It was gathered that the incident had forced residents of Buguma to flee their homes to neighbouring communities to avoid being caught in the crossfire.

When contacted, the State Police Public Relations Officer of the Rivers State Police Command, Mr. Ahmad Muhammad, explained that though there was a security breach in the area, he had not been briefed on the details.

Mohammad added that normalcy returned to the area after the intervention of security operatives.

He said, “There was breach of peace on Monday in Buguma community. Normalcy has returned to the area due to the swift response of security operatives that forestalled further breakdown of law and order in the area.”

Meanwhile, the governorship candidate of the APC in the 2015 election in Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has condemned the gruesome murder of Ofinijite Amachree, an APC stalwart in Buguma, Asari-Toru LGA.

Peterside, who spoke in Port Harcourt on Monday, decried the “ongoing mass executions” in Rivers State, describing it as frightening and unprecedented.

“Amachree, who was burnt alive this morning by thugs believed to be members of the Peoples Democratic Party, was first beaten to a pulp before he was set ablaze.”

“The security situation in our dear state is distressing and we cannot continue to live under such a desperate situation. I am therefore using this opportunity to again draw the attention of the world to daily killings taking place in Rivers State.

“Last Friday, Mr. Franklin, APC Ward 4 Chairman in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area was killed and beheaded with his wife in Omoku.

“Franklin who recently moderated APC ward meeting in the LGA hails from the same ward as the State Chairman of the PDP, Felix Obuah,” Peterside said.

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The Ogun state Police Command have arrested 22 years old Umaru Muktar, a fleeing member of the Boko haram terrorist sect.

Muktar who hails from Gonge in Maiduguri, Borno state, was arrested at Kara – Mowe area of Ogun state near Lagos last February 25 following a tip – off.

Parading the suspect on Monday after at the Headquarters of the Federal Special Anti – Robbery Squad(FSARS) at Magbon – Abeokuta, Ogun state, the Commissioner of Police, AbdulMajid Ali, said the suspect had confessed to be being a member of Boko haram sect.

Ali added that Police investigation had also revealed that Muktar fled Maiduguri two and half years ago into Ogun and was initiated into the muderous Boko haram organisation by one Mustapha.

According to him, exchange of intelligence between the Command and its counterparts in Borno state coupled with support of members of the Hausa community in Kara, Ogun state, helped in the identification and arrest of Muktar.

Muktar who spoke through an interpreter said he knew few Boko haram members in Borno state before fleeing the state when the security agencies stepped – up man – hunt for the sect.

He, however, declined to disclose if he had participated in any of the sect’s savage attacks on churches, mosques, markets or motor – parks when reporters enquired from him.

Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja

The troops of the Nigerian Army have raided one of the hideouts of the Boko Haram insurgents in Doksa, Biu Local Government Area of Borno State.

The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman said in an electronic mail on Sunday that the operation involved troops of the 231, 331 battalions and some elements of the Armed Forces Special Forces 3 Division.

Usman said that the troops killed two of the insurgents and captured another identified as Musa Abdulahi.

He stated also that the the troops also recovered two military uniforms, one General Purpose Gun, one AK 47 rifle and two Dane guns.

Also said to have to have been recovered during the operation were ’25 motorcycles, 30 bicycles and grinding machines, as well as large quantity of foodstuffs.’

He said that the troops discovered during the operation that the terrorists were also poisoning sources of water supply apart from burying IEDs in the operational area.

According to him, the troops encountered two of such devices and successfully removed them.

The Acting Army Spokesman said that the troops who according to him were in high spirit as they continued with the operation against the insurgents.

Usman stated also in another statement that the troops of the 122 Task Force Battalion and the 26 Task Force Battalion carried out a major operation that resulted in the clearance of Boko Haram camps in Dure, Sambisa Forest.

According to him, the camps were cleared in Dure 1, Dure 2, Jango Dibiye and others in the operational area.

Usman said that three soldiers were injured during the attack and were promptly evacuated for medical attention.

He said that several items including materials for making IEDs, grain storage facilities, two hand-held Motorola radios were destroyed while three of the insurgents were killed.

Usman quoted the General Officer Commanding the 7 Div. Brigadier General Victor Ezugwu, as having said Dure 1 and Dure 2 were strongholds of the Boko Haram in mainland of Sambisa.

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A member of the church, Rosemary Iwoha, who claimed she stumbled on the choirmaster and the pastor’s wife in the church neck deep kissing, said, “I met them kissing one day and I reported to our Daddy about it.”

The Delta State University has nabbed a Mechanical Engineering student of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Inneh Aisosa, for alleged impersonation during an examination​.
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According to a statement by the Public Relations Officer of DELSU, Eddy Agbure, on Wednesday, Mr. Aisosa was nabbed on February 23 while writing examination for Onakpoma Oghenetega, a 400-level student of the Abraka campus of the university.

The statement said the suspect with matriculation number 0452/2010, came into the university in a Toyota Camry with registration number ABH 417 GW to write the exam for Miss Oghenetega (matriculation number FOS/12/13/212931), who is alleged to be his girlfriend.

It said Mr. Aisosa was apprehended by members of DELSU Examination Monitoring Group in collaboration with invigilators.

“With this development, it is obvious that some of our unserious-minded students have introduced new tactics to perpetrate examination malpractice,” the statement said.

“While law abiding and committed students of the university are busy reading very hard for their examinations, the lazy ones are busy engaging mercenaries from within and outside the university to write examinations for them with the sole aim of getting good grades.

“This is totally unacceptable and management of the university will not relax in the relentless was against this academic fraud.”

The statement said the university authorities vowed to deal with criminally-minded students in the war against examination malpractices.

The suspect on his knees after he was caught allegedly placing charm in front of a shop in a market.

An angry mob almost lynched a man for allegedly placing juju at a market stall in Garriki Market, Awkunanaw, Enugu, in order to recover a debt owed him.

The incident according to Guardian, occurred yesterday, March 1, when sixty -year-old man identified as Amedu, who claimed to be from Kogi state was caught early in the morning burying a charm in front of the shop of a female yam seller identified as Chidi, who was yet to pay him the remaining N17,000 of over a N100,000 debt.

Amedu reportedly resorted to using juju against his debtor when she did not pay the debt at the stipulated time and after Amedu had made several attempts to recover his money.

However, luck unfortunately ran against him as people who passed by raised alarm when they saw him burying the charm at the shop.

This attracted an irate mob that tore Amedu to shreds before help could come through the intervention of the market chairman, who brought in the police to quell the situation.

A 30-year-old commercial sex worker, Blessing Ani, has been arrested and charged before Apapa Magistrates’ court for allegedly biting off Doris Robert’s lip, her colleague during a fight over a client in a popular hotel in Lagos State, western Nigeria.

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There is twist in a matter between a 26-year-of Nigerian who allegedly demanded $5,000 from an expatriate who is the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Murtala Muhammad Airport terminal 2, Ikeja in Lagos State, western Nigeria.

The Nigerian, Rowaiye Omotayo, alleged that the expatriate, Christopher Pennick, molested him sexually and demanded $5,000 as compensation for the assault or he will expose him.

While Pennick on his own part, insisted that Omotayo was blackmailing him by demanding the money by menace.

He also alleged that Omotayo sent threat messages to him through his phone asking him to pay the money or he would expose him and bring him down.

Consequently, Pennick went to the Airport Police Division and told the police that Omotayo was attempting to blackmail and extort money from him.

Omotayo was arrested and charged before Ogba Magistrate’s court on a four-count charge of intent to steal, extortion and forceful demand for the amount.
He pleaded not guilty.

The presiding Magistrate, Mr T. O. Shomade granted him bail in the sum of N3m with two sureties in like sum.

Omotayo was remanded in prison custody pending when he will perfect his bail.
The matter was adjourned till 23 March, 2016.

As Omotayo was being taken to prison custody, he said he would open up with evidence to show that the Pennick actually molested him.

Mudiaga Affe, Calabar

POLICE detectives in Calabar are searching for a group of suspected cultists that hacked a man simply identified as Godspower for reportedly obstructing the sale of a parcel of land in the Eight Miles axis of the Cross River State capital.

The deceased, whose picture went virile on Facebook, was said to have been clubbed to death and his corpse buried in an unknown place.

The picture indicated that the Godspower suffered varying degrees of machete cuts while his hands were tied with a rope.

Southern City News gathered on Sunday from a security agent that the suspects had claimed on the Facebook that the deceased was an armed robber that was clubbed to death in the Eight Mile area of Calabar after an operation.

But security reports gathered that the deceased was killed by the gang of eight because he had consistently opposed the sale of a parcel of land by the leader of the gang, identified as Edim Edim.

National Drug Laws and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday rearrested a drug suspect Michael Nwobodo Alli, 31, after breaking through a glass wall in an attempt to escape at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja.

He was found in possession of 81 pellets of hard drugs packed in a clean Parker Whisky carton along with boxes of chocolates in a duty free bag, spokesman of the anti-narcotic agency Ofoyeju Mitchell said in statement.

The arrest took place during screening of passengers on an Emirates airline flight from Dubai.

As soon as the drug was detected, the suspect took to his heels breaking through a glass wall but was pursued by narcotic officers and apprehended with the help of security officials at the airport. Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect resides in Dubai where he works as a technician.

NDLEA commander at the Abuja airport, Mr. Hamisu Lawan said that the suspect sustained minor injuries in the process.

“During routine screening of passengers, the suspect Michael Nwobodo was found with drugs. He immediately started running and broke through a glass wall in an attempt to escape justice. Our officers ran after him and caught him with the help of other security officials at the airport. It is amazing that he could break through a glass wall but fortunately, he sustained minor injuries and had been treated,” Hamisu stated.

The suspect told investigators that he ran away because he was afraid of arrest. “I live and work in Dubai. I came to Nigeria for my father’s burial but decided to bring the drugs because I needed money. When the drug was discovered, I ran because I was afraid of arrest. I am ashamed of myself and do not know how to face my friends and relatives”. He hails from Enugu State.

NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah thanked the officers and members of the airport community for their efforts that led to his re-arrest. “I am pleased with this arrest. I thank the officers and members of the airport community for their support. We are prepared to track down drug traffickers and scuttle the activities of drug trafficking organizations,” Abdallah stated.
The suspect will soon be charged to court, the statement said.

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Olusola urged the court to dissolve the marriage because Pastor Femi Olayinka has taken the woman from him and that he was just a figurehead husband while the pastor was in charge of the woman.

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A 16-year-old girl has been hospitalized after three night guards abducted and gang-raped her till day break.
The victim lost her virginity in the process and was taken to a General Hospital where she is receiving treatment for the injuries she sustained in her private part.

The incident happened on 20 February, 2016 at Tedi town in Ojo on the outskirts of Lagos State, western Nigeria, where the victim lives with her parents and where the suspects were employed as night guards.

Following the dastardly act, the police in Ojo division arrested two out of the three suspects and charged them before Ojo Magistrates’ Court with conspiracy and unlawful carnal knowledge of the victim.
The two arrested suspects are Ugo Onuora and Bright Anaenyewu, while the third suspect is now on the run.

The victim’s ordeal started when she took a ride on a commercial motorcycle popularly known as Okada while returning to her parents’ home at about 9 p.m.

The suspects who had resumed work on that day flagged down the motorcycle rider, discharged the rider and ordered the victim to follow them to where they used as their office.

They forced her to pull off her clothes and warned her not to scream otherwise they would kill her.
The victim obeyed out of fear and they raped her in turns till early morning when they allowed her to go.

When the victim returned to her house, her parents and their neighbours who were already searching for her asked her what happened and she narrated her odeal with blood still streaming from her private part.
The matter was reported to the police who took her to a hospital and went after the suspects.

Onuora and Anaenyewu were eventually arrested and taken to court on Monday.
When they were arraigned, they pleaded not guilty.

The presiding Magistrate, Mr A. A. Paul granted the suspects bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum.
The court also ordered that the sureties must pay N100,000 into Chief Registrar’s account pending the determination of the case and evidence of tax payment.
The suspects were remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri pending when they will perfect their bail.

The matter was adjourned till 26 April, 2016.

At a time when crude oil is selling for about $30 per barrel, Nigeria’s Minister for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has expressed his conviction that the days ahead will see a barrel of the commodity selling for $50.

Speaking with CNBC’s Fast Money, the Minister disclosed that he will continue to push for production freeze consensus and was upbeat that OPEC members would be able to come to an agreement to freeze oil production as a way to combat the low oil price.

“The minister for energy in Qatar and the president of OPEC is leading that pact and there is a lot of conversation going on and there’s a lot of consensus building on the issue of the freeze.

“Saudi Arabia and Russia are aligned on the issue of a freeze, so I think the chances are very high,” Kachikwu stated.

Stressing that movements towards a freeze represent a big step in the right direction, he told the media outfit that he remained confident of his plan to work with OPEC members, adding that “the Saudi’s are quite frankly in the forefront of pushing the freeze issue.”

The Oil Minister, who explained that a potential output freeze among OPEC members has made him bullish when it comes to oil prices in 2016, said that he expects crude prices to take a major jump by the end of the year.

“I am certainly hoping for prices in the range of $45 to $50. I’m hoping a consensus can be built and that parties can begin to work together across the board, not just OPEC members, but also non-OPEC members,which is what the gulf states and most of us have pushed for. With that, you’ll begin to see movement upwards in those prices,” he stated.

The N3.6 trillion ($12 billion) standard coastal railway line contract awarded before the 2015 elections did not follow regulations guiding contract award, a House of Representatives committee has revealed in an interim report.
The contract was awarded by the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan to the Chinese construction giant, CCECC.

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A commercial sex worker, commonly known as 'Ashewo', identified as Loveth, has been arrested in Lagos for allegedly stabbing her customer during an argument over her new price, owing to the rise in the dollar.

The incident, according to witnesses, happened in a popular brothel in Ojota area of the state, when the customer and the prostitute could not agree on a price after their all night sex romp.

According to the prostitute, the man identified as Etuh , a long distance driver with a transport company, was her regular customer who spent nights with her whenever he visited.

He knew the price she charged and there was never any argument before the ugly incident until the recent rise in the dollar, making everything sky rocket, including the amount they charge for their services.

"Etuh is a driver who plies Lagos and the east and he has been my regular customer for several years. In fact, I knew him when I was in Iyana Ipaja before I moved to Ojota.

Normally, when he sleeps with me, he already knows the amount to pay me and at times when he does not have enough money on him, I allowed him to have sex with me for free.

But this time, he owed me some money from two previous visits and when he came, I told him that our price has gone up due to the rise in dollar. He was just laughing and I told him I was very serious.

I normally charge between N5,000 to N10,000 for all night but with the dollar rise, I told him I was going to collect N15,000 plus the money he was owing me.

After spending the night with me and having sex with me four times, he woke up very early to have his bath. When he came out of the bathroom, I told him to pay me my money including but he told me he was only going to pay the old price of N5,000.

I told him I would not accept the money and that he would not leave unless he paid up all my money. He got angry and slapped my about four times and to add to the insult, he tried to rape me. That was when I picked a bottle of beer that was on the table, smashed it on the wall and stabbed him with it.

I was only defending myself," Loveth narrated.

The victim was rushed to the hospital while Loveth was arrested and would soon be arraigned in court.

A Liberian, Daniel Barnney, is being held by the police for allegedly selling his nine-month-old son Emmanuel to a 43-year-old woman, Ekah Richard, for N250,000.

Barnney, one Pastor Samuel Osavitu and a worker at an orphanage, Alhaji Sunkanmi Adamu, are being quizzed at Festac Police Station over the matter.

Barnney’s Nigerian wife Ijeoma Ndoku raised the alarm over his plan to sell their son and flee to Ghana last month.

The police arrested Barnney at Mile 2 on February 12 and recovered the baby from Richard.

Ndoku said she and Barnney have been quarrelling because she did not allow him to take the baby to his aunt, who she never saw.

She debunked Barnney’s claims of abandoning the child, accusing him of fleeing with the boy on their way to buy groceries.

“It’s a lie! I didn’t abandon my baby. He said he wanted to hand the baby over to his aunt. I said it was okay since his aunt was now in Nigeria. I said it will give me opportunity to look for a job and support the family because he has not been taking care of us.

“For over three months, he has been saying he does not have money to take care of me and my baby but he usually had money to buy drinks and cigarettes. He could not even bring out N150 for me to buy pampers for our baby. Even when I wanted to take the baby to the hospital, I usually went and borrowed money; other times, our neighbours will give me money to cater for the baby.

“He used to get drunk and vomit. When I complained, he would bring out iron rod and hit it on my head. I fell down once, tried to go and open the door, but he dragged me back.

“I didn’t know his plan was to sell our baby. I said I wanted to see his aunt. He said if the aunt knows that I am around, she wouldn’t collect the baby. He asked me if I wanted the baby to die, I said no”, she said.
Ndoku said she learnt of Barnney’s plan to sell their son from his boss.

“She (the boss) told me that Daniel was planning to sell my son for N150,000. She said that Daniel said after selling the baby, he would leave for Ghana. I didn’t believe her.

“The woman said I should come back around 4pm, so that I would hear the story from some of her assistants. I told Daniel’s friend. He doubted the story too, so he followed me.

“It was in his presence that the woman told us everything. She said she became curious and concerned after she noticed Daniel was always with the baby. When she asked, Daniel told her that I abandoned the baby and ran away. She asked for my number, so that she could speak to me, but Daniel refused. That was when she knew Daniel was lying.

“I told her that Daniel told me that the baby was with his aunt. She said that was part of the reason she withheld his salary,” Ndoku said.

Ndoku said on January 29, Barnney called that he was coming to see his son, adding that when he came, their neighbours were happy and advised her to forgive him.
To effect his plan to take away the baby, she said he tricked her that they were going to buy him things.

She said when she alighted from the motorcycle (Okada ) that they took to enter a store, Barnney disappeared with the baby.
Barnney, 32, who admitted to have received N250,000 from Richard through Adamu, said the money was given to him to start a business.

He denied selling the baby, claiming that his wife abandoned the child. He said since he could not cater for the boy alone, he took him to an orphanage.

Richard, who claimed that she adopted the child, said she never knew the adoption process was illegal. She said she was advised by the pastor to adopt a child so that God can open her womb.

But Osavitu, who denied conspiring with others to steal the baby, said he was only trying to help Richard and safe the child’s life.

He said: “I have known the orphanage guy for almost nine years. He’s a good man. He’s the manager at the orphanage. I used to go to the orphanage to preach there.”

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