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C'River, Firm Sign $1.23m Pact On New Calabar
By Bassey Inyang, Correspondent, Calabar

[b]Cross River State Government and a Canadian firm, CPCS Transcom Nigeria Limited, have signed a contract agreement of $1.23 million for the development of a new Calabar Master Plan.

The state government said the Canadian firm emerged the preferred bidder above nine other companies and followed due process, leading to the award of the contract.

After signing the contract agreement on behalf of the state government, Commissioner for Lands and Housing, Mr. Bassey Oqua, said the project would also cover other urban cities in the state.

Oqua said the proposed master plan would be completed in 10 months.

According to him, at completion, it would enhance coordination and integration as well as guide all developmental programmes in the state.

Oqua said the production of the master plan would place Cross River State as the preferred destination for tourism, agriculture and industrial development, ahead its contemporaries.

Responding on behalf of the CPCS Transcom Nigeria, Mr. Arif Mohiuddin, vice president, Africa, said the firm was ready to develop a world class master plan, which would achieve international benchmark for the developmental programmes of the state. He said a group of technical experts had been mobilised from Canada to commence production of the master plan from next week.

Mohiuddin commended the state government for the high level of transparency it exhibited during the bidding process that saw the company through as the preferred bidder.

He promised that the company would deliver the job on schedule.[/b]

Police free Lebanese kidnapped in southeast Nigeria
June 2, 2009 09:53AMT

  A Lebanese construction worker and his police escort were rescued hours after they were kidnapped for ransom in southeastern Nigeria, a spokesman said on Monday.


The two men were travelling along the Aba-Port Harcourt highway when they were seized by 18 gunmen in Abia State on Sunday, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said. They were freed hours after.

"During the rescue bid, the police escort was shot severely and the expatriate was shot in the leg by the kidnappers before escaping," said Soji Alabi, a spokesman for the Abia State command of the NSCDC.

The Lebanese man and his escort received treatment at a hospital in the state capital Umuahia before the construction worker was taken away by his employers who are based in the oil city of Port Harcourt, Alabi said.

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[b]FOR sometimes now, residents of Agbowo in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State, have been under the seige of attack by suspected armed robber popularly called ‘Tombolo.’

Crime and Security gathered that this armed robber had always attacked unsuspecting residents of the area with cutlass, took their money and then pounced on their wives.

On several occasions, the suspect had successfully attacked innocent people and had sex with their wives.

It was further learnt that all efforts made by the residents to arrest the suspect had proved abortive.

Crime and Security learnt that anytime the residents might have put in place measures that could lead to his arrest, the suspect would not show up.

The residents believed that definitely their tormentor must be a resident of the area.

Consequently, the residents were said to have organised a night vigil among themselves with the aim of laying an ambush and probably arrest the attacker, but this method also failed.

Investigation in Agbowo by Crime and Security revealed that the attacker had a furniture shop in the area and that he knew most of his victims.

But he was arrested by the Oyo State Police Command recently. The day he was arrested, Crime and Security learnt many of the residents who had been attacked by the suspects beseiged the police headquarters to see the face of the man who had been using the covers of the night to reign terror on the area.

The victims were said to have openly cursed him and prayed that he would never return from his journey.

During his detention at the State Anti-Armed Robbery Squad, Crime and Security learnt that landlords and tenants of the area paid a visit to the suspect to further confirm the authencity of the arrest.

However, during his parade at Oyo State Police Command Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, the suspect, Oladimeji Olaitan, though he did not deny being a terror on the people of Agbowo, insisted that he was not a thief.

Speaking with Crime and Security, the suspect, who claimed to be an herbalist and carpenter, said he was surprised that after his arrest the people called him Tombolo.

He said he was at home when some visitors came to visit his landlord and he used his phone to call him but after some minutes, some policemen came in and handcuffed him.

According to him, since he did not have skeleton in his cupboard, he did not argue with the policemen.

On the charms found on him, he said he inherited them from his late father. “The Zain cloth is not medicinal. I am not Tombolo I, am an herbalist.

The suspect who was arrested with one Timilehin Gbemiro, said they were arrested following a bag they snatched from one woman.

Gbemiro, who claimed that Olaitan was a tenant in his father’s house, told Crime and Security that, they had snatched a bag from his father’s sister.

The Oyo State Police boss told Crime and Security the suspects were arrested based on series of complaints from residents of Agbowo area of incessant robbery attacks, leading the police to put in place, an anti-crime control strategy to curb the situation. According to him, the strategies paid off as three notorious criminals who had been massively identified as being the brains behind cases of robberies and rape in the area, were arrested.

He said that Olaitan Oladimeji and Timilehin Gbemiro [/b]


http://www.tribune.com.ng/03062009/tue/crime1.html

fraudster dupes victim of N8m - Robbers snatch woman’s car, fling her baby into bush
Adelowo Oladipo, Lagos - updated: Tuesday 02-06-2009


[b]Mrs. Adebimpe Olupero
A female suspected fraudster, Mrs. Adebimpe Olupero, is now being held in one of the cells at the Police Special Fraud Unit, Milverton road, Ikoyi, Lagos State, for allegedly collecting N8 million from an unsuspecting victim.


Crime and Security investigation gathered, that the suspect was arrested following a petition against her by one Mrs. Sola Agoro, alleging that the suspect duped her of the said amount in two installments of N4 million each.


Crime and Security further gathered that before the long arm of the law caught up with Olupero, she had been using names and offices of top government functionaries both in Lagos and Ogun states, to swindle some unsuspecting members of the public, huge sums of money, promising them plump government unexisting contracts.


However, in an encounter with the Crime and Security last weekend in Lagos, the suspect confessed to the crime and claimed that the N8 million she collected from the petitioner was meant to facilitate the award of some undisclosed contracts.


She further disclosed that the contracts were to be facilitated from both the office of the commissioner for special duties in Lagos State and another one at the governor’s office, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Also, in an itnerview with the Crime and Security, the victim, Mrs. Sola Agoro, said after much pressure on the suspect that she allegedly informed her that she had sold the contracts which she collected from the two states to someone else.


“Thereafter, she promised to refund my money and she issued a cheque, valued at N31 million and upon presentation at her bank, it was turned back. And the bank officials said the account had been dormant for a long time,” said Mrs. Agoro.


Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Police Special Fraud Unit, Mr. Saba M. Ndagi, said that the suspect would soon be arrainged in court for obtaining money under false pretences and for issueing dishonoured cheque at the conclusion of police investigation into the matter.

MEANWHILE, the long arm of the law has caught up with two suspected dare devil robbers, Eyaro Ayodele and Auscar Akinsanya, who have been snatching exotic cars on Lekki–Ajah and Epe express roads.


Crime and Security investigation gathered at the weekend, that the trouble began for the suspected men of the underworld recently when they took off from Ajegunle area of Lagos state, chattered a commuter bus and headed towards Alpha Beach, on Lekki, Ajah road, where they hatched their plans to dispossess vehicle owners of their cars.


Crime and Security further learnt that the robbery gang, numbering about ten, out of which the two suspects whose ages were put at 24 and 20 years, were arrested, while the remaining eight others are now still at large.


Insider police sources at the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department, Pant Street, Yaba, said the suspected car snatcher allegedly divided themselves into two on each side of the road, as soon as they emerged from their hideout on the fateful day and laid siege on Lekki-Ajah expressway, after which they started snatching cars, at gun point. The police sources who preferred anonymity, further disclosed that the gang succeeded in snatching four different luxury cars.


“Inside one of the cars, they met a few months old baby boy inside his mother’s car after it was snatched and the first suspect, Eyaro Ayodele, flung the baby out of the car into a nearby bush,” said the sources.


It further noted that the dastardly act of the robber was witnessed by a public spirited Nigerian, Alhaji Saka Elsin, who was said to be driving his car with some of his security personnel at the time the baby was thrown into the bush. Elesin, the Chief Executive Officer, Elesin Security Services, Limited, Lagos, was said to have instructed his security aides to give Eyaro a hot pursuit in his company’s patrol van.


In fact, the business man and his employees affected the arrest of the suspect, after which he handed him to the Police and upon interrogation, he mentioned the name of the second suspect, Akinsanya, as one of this brothers in crime,” recalled the police sources. Crime and Security checks further gathered that the baby had since been rescued by a combined team of police anti-robbery team and Elesin Security Services Ltd., and had been takenn to the hospital for treatment.


Alhaji Saka Elesin said “we joined the police in rescuing him and we took the baby to a private hospital in Lagos for treatment and he was discharged a few hours later.


Confirming the incident, the outgoing Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of SCID, Panti, Yaba, Mr, Nicholas Daru Nkedeme, in an interview with the Crime and Security, said the two suspects were now facing armed robbery and conspiracycharges at an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrate Court.

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http://www.tribune.com.ng/03062009/tue/crime3.html

Robbers kill 10 in Anambra
JUSTIN OZUZU, Nnewi


[b]It was another black Tuesday in Nnewi, Anambra State, as armed robbers yesterday held the entire town hostage during a bank robbery that lasted over two hours, killing over 10 people and leaving 12 others on the danger list. The robbers allegedly carted away an undisclosed sum of money.

Among those killed at the incident on the ever busy Ezemewi road otherwise known as bank road, include four policemen, a lawyer, and some customers inside one of the new generation bank (names withheld) and some passers-by who were hit by stray bullets while the operation lasted.

An eye witness said the robbers stormed the scene with a Hilux van and a commuter Hiace Bus and were dressed in full military regalia to beat security operatives within the bank vicinity before they eventually opened fire to commence operation, after blocking all the entrances to the scene.

Daily Champion gathered that the hoodlums who were armed to the teeth however over powered the security operatives attached to the bank before gaining entrance to the vault.

She described the incident as a mere display of superior fire power, saying one of the robbers that was stationed near her shop window was always heard calling for more magazines as soon as he ran out of bullets, until the arrival of Nkwo Nnewi Vigilante Unit who started engaged them in a gun duel.

When Daily Champion visited the scene shortly after the incident, there was heavy vehicular traffic on the road as traders trooped out en-masse to catch a glimpse of the whole saga, a situation which made it impossible to take adequate stock of the extent of damage. Even though more than fifteen vehicles of different make were sprayed with bullet.

Hon Francis Omo Okeke, attributed the increasing robbery incident in Nnewi to porous security network by the agencies, adding that only two months ago a similar incident took place on Ichi-Ojoto-Nnewi road.

He described the incident as an eye opener, while calling on the state government to ensure the security of lives and property in the area, saying no one knows what will happen sooner than later or who will be the next victim. He advocated the fortification of Nigerian security and creation of employment opportunities.

Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi to ascertain the extent casualties and the exact number of corpses deposited at the hospital mortuary, nurses were sighted appealing to sympathizers who besieged the entire premises for blood donation to save some victims in dire need of blood at the hospital wards.

Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Mr Chukwuemeka Emeka confirmed the incident has come to his table but said he was yet to briefed officially on the incident.


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http://www.champion-newspapers.com/news/article_2.htm

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Robbers invaded Ibadan, snatched 18 cars in 2 days
By Adebayo Waheed - 01.06.2009
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NO fewer than 18 vehicles were snatched in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, over the weekend. Nigerian Tribune learnt that two pastors - one in the Stone Church and an area pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) - both in Ibadan, lost their cars at gun point to robbers.

The pastor of the Stone Church, it was learnt, was shot in the leg and he is receiving treatment in an hospital in the city. One of the vehicles was said to have been recovered by the police.

Also, a vehicle belonging to a new generation bank were said to have been snatched during the period.

A source told the Nigerian Tribune that the vehicles belonged to a staff member of the bank who was in the city for the bank’s programme.

Nigerian Tribune further learnt that a vehicle belonging to a prominent Islamic preacher in the country was snatched at gunpoint, but it was later recovered by the police.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Olabisi Okuwobi, said only two vehicles were stolen within the period.

She said one was stolen from where it was parked while the other was snatched at gunpoint. She said that the two vehicles had been recovered by the police.

While insisting that the state was calm, the police spokesperson said one vehicle was abandoned by the robbers and recovered by the police while the second was tracked down, using the tracking system installed in the car.

Considering the number of cars that were snatched and recovered, she said the state was crime-free.

She assured members of the public of the police’s readiness to combat crime in the state and ensure a crime-free society.
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http://www.tribune.com.ng/01062009/news/news2.html

$osisi:
I'm happy many of you are beginning to realize that your enemy has never been the Igbo man.
The north succeded in convincing everyone else to fight the Igbo man as one Nigeria and they sheepishly followed including the " Naija delta".
They told you the Igbo man wanted to dominate you,they gave you abandoned property and you became a "Nigerian" , now who is the mugu ?
No matter the enmity between Ijaws and Igbos I'm certain Ohaneze would never say such a thing.
But you licked the behind of aboki now they don carry nama yansh put
The East have had their turn,it's now Ijaw people,Yorubas get ready.
The Nigeria your fathers fought for was the Islamic republic of Nigeria
Enjoy una one Nigeria