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Bank Robbery Gets Unusually fatal and extract from thisday newspaper By Yemi Akinsuyi, 12.14.2006


In an unusual manner, dare devil armed robbers yesterday struck two areas of Lagos metropolis, leaving about 17 people, including a mobile policeman dead.
While a set of the robbers unleashed terror at the popular Lagos Alaba International Market in the early hours of yesterday, another set, later in the day robbed the Ikorodu branch of Intercontinental Bank Plc.
At the Alaba market, an eye witness account said more than 30 armed men visited the market around 12 midnight and robbed a bank, before moving from one shop to the other, killing 15 people, suspected to be apprentices who had slept inside the shops.
The robbers, who were said to be armed to the teeth, started their evil acts by midnight and did not leave the market until around 5am.
Those who lost their lives were said to have been caught unawares, and in the process of trying to escape, were shot by the criminals, for fear of being reported to the nearby Police Station.
The robbers were said to have left with an unspecified but very huge amount of cash in different currencies and denominations.
Shop owners and traders at the electronics market were shocked yesterday morning, when they saw the number of people killed during the robbery.
Also at Ikorodu branch of Intercontinental Bank Plc, armed robbers unleashed terror and killed two people, a mobile policeman and a member of the Oodua Peoples' Congress (OPC). Unconfirmed report had it that the bank had employed the OPC member as a guard.
Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Ikorodu, Mr. Kola Iwasanmi, who confirmed the report stated that the robbers could not gain entrance into the strong room of the bank, despite all the gadgets, including gas cylinders and iron cutters used for the operation. Iwasanmi told THISDAY last night that immediately the police were informaed of the robbery, they (police) responded and battled the men of the underworld, who later took to their heels.
He said more than 600 empty shells of ammunition expended by the robbers were picked after the fierce battle with the police.
Meanwhile, two persons were feared killed yesterday, when officers and ratings of the Nigerian Navy and the Nigerian Prisons officials clashed at the Kirikiri area, also in Lagos.
A middle-aged man, who pleaded anonymity told THISDAY last night that some Prisons officials were carrying out routine check along the road that led to the barracks in Kirikiri, when a Naval officer was asked to stop which he obliged. But when it was obvious that the prison officials were delaying him unnecessarily, he decided to move his car.
According to the witness, the action of the Naval officer angered the prison officials who ran after the car, dragged the officer out and beat him, an action which infuriated some other Naval officers and ratings. The problem however degenerated into fisticuff with sudden sounds of gun shots which may have caused the death of two on-lookers who could not run for cover. When contacted on phone yesterday, the Public Relations Officer, Western Naval Command, Commander Kate Frankfort said she has not been briefed on the clash. She stated that she had gone for a medical examination on Lagos Island, but promised to get to THISDAY whenever she gets the full information.
Efforts to get the Prisons to react to the clash proved abortive as the Public Relations Officer, Zone A, Lagos, Mr. Ope Fatinikun's mobile phones were switched off.

OBJ is a total failure here is an extraction from an aticle i saw on the net by one Nigerian suming up the total failures of the old outdated,uncivilised.backward thinking and good for nothing president that claims he has done much when even a mad man on the streets will testify that no positive change has occured.

As Obasanjo packs his luggage, his result card is pathetic given the expectation. I must say that I am not one of those who expected a miracle, but I expected that given the reality on ground considerable progress would have been made rather what we are greeted with is totally disappointment in all ramifications.

Last year alone we earned 131 trillion naira, yet we cannot say that this is the fruit of the earnings. In education the reality is grim with 30 accounting departments, about 41 medical faculties, 25 Insurance departments, 36 law faculties and 45 faculties of engineering, plus countless universities going by the way this government gives them operating licenses, we produce graduates, half, quarter and any how baked with no plans as regarding what to do with them and what future to give them.

In the last one year alone I am loosing count of the number of collapsed buildings in the nation, one only prays that the nation does not fall because these buildings that collapse have the same characteristics with the nation. Dead bodies disappear in the morgue, infant mortality has not reduced, there is a drastic rise in the number of Nigerians suffering High Blood Pressure and what I refer to as Breeze Psycho-mentality, a touch of madness or insanity on daily basis.

In the last seven years Nigerians have witnessed progress in some areas, negative as one may want to appear, the fight against corruption is one, no matter the one sided nature, or the partial justice associated with it, it has produced results. But let it be know that fighting corruption is insignificant if we cannot tackle the mother hen that lays the eggs of corruption.(OBJ is the mother hen of all the corruption in nigeria today) 50 million was given to the national assembly men to support his third term campaing and nothing was said about it. the fomer speaker of the national assembley ghali umar na'abba and some of his friends showed the whole country the money OBJ gave them to impeacheh him then as the speaker of the house of assembly, transperency international still maintained that most of nigeria's corruption takes place in the presidency and still no one is asking questions.


The stark reality is that very little is changing, in Oyo it is Governor Ladoja, Garrison Commander Adedibu, in Plateau, Governor Botmang, President Mantu, in Ibadan Adedibu's son, in-law, godson all will be going to represent the people of Oyo. In Anambra, Andy Uba will or safely may be Governor,Chris Uba showed us the damage a person can do to an entire state once he has the backing of the president and nobody questions why and how.

The energy sector is not left, from the mere 3,000 mgws we had in 1999, the government promised 10,000. Sadly today we have less than 2,000, while tariffs have risen by over 300%. And billions in Naira have grown wings in the name of reforming the sector(over a trillion naira), yet the situation has remained in a state of locus standi and we are selling the company like Banana with groundnuts at less the value in the name of privatization.

The all time corrupt index has remained the Police first, the energy company NEPA or PHCN second while teachers/lectures are third. And this I suppose sums it up because these are the very institutions on which the entire system should naturally revolve around. I have left out the corruption in places such as the NNPC, Aso Rock, the other tiers of government, private sector corruption and individual corruption.

Obasanjo is leaving, will the next President have the courage to probe this man, ask his henchmen questions as to how they governed us and make them accountable? We got about $460 million  to combat poverty, HIV/AIDS recently and how these aims were achieved is only a miracle. the close to N600billion spent on roads still leaves us with less than 6% of our roads motorable.For 2 good years the charade national budget has not being implemented because of one silly reason or the other like the nation hosting the CHOGUM and the All african games yet nobody stood up and asked why?

Sometime ago in 2001 I recall that N847 million was released for crime cameras in Abuja and Lagos, where are the cameras. Like the N600M that was released for a brand Nigeria project that we never saw, now it is heart of Africa, when all we can boast of is heartless leaders. The Ethiopian Airlines would be 60 years soon, yet we do not in the real sense have a national carrier. Take a good look at statistics, the good old Nigerian airways for all its faults had an accident occurrence of just two, but sine madam anywhere belle face and messieurs any government in power were allowed, the witches of the air often find weekends on Nigerian airspace lucrative because of our negligence and stiff neck refusal to do anything right.

In this year alone the President has bought himself a new aircraft, new helicopter, the new shoes, agbadas, new women, are just a few of the news I can mention, what new thing would he leave with us as a parting gift that will impact on our lives positively. I end this essay by stating that nothing I have discussed the in last few lines are necessarily new but the fact remains that I will continue to harp on them perhaps, just perhaps they will sink into the heads of our leaders, as regards solutions, cupboards in offices of government functionaries are full of reports, recommendations of panels that only if they could be implemented, we will witness a difference in this nation.

he stepped down because he knows he will never win, nigerians dont need him he should go and keep on eating the stolen money he has till death comes his way we dont need him peroid.

IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, NEWSPAPER ADVERTS WORTH N850 MILLION WERE
PLACED TO CONGRATULATE STATE GOVERNORS AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS IN NIGERIA,
IN THE SAME MONTH, LESS THAN 200 MILLION NAIRA WAS SPENT ON EDUACTION
AND HEALTH COMBINED NATIONAWIDE"

-Isn't it time for the revolution
yet?www.Saharareporters.com

Do we naturally love underdevelopment and backwardness or what? i just cant understand Nigeria and Nigerains its not our leaders that have a problem its all of us, we seriously need help.

how do u expect people to go to church and pray and worship God alone with all the poverty, oppression and injustice going around the country, people need to be told there is hope else the idea of God will not be meaningful to many people, the cleaver pastors have noticed that and are using it to dupe the poor unclever members of the congregation, what have u got to tell a poor man that has no food and life is hell to him? u need to tell him that God cares and if he has faith and obeys him he will take him out of his present predicaments and give him what he needs and make his life more comfortable.

Poverty has eaten too deep and the only messeage that sells these days is that of prosperity, people don't need to be told that God cares with out any hope of helping them out of the abject poverty they are in, holiness alone and true worship is not what people want to hear because its of no use to most people, a way outof their present situation is what they need to hear and the cleaver pastors know just that.

http://www.dailytrust.com/news.htm

what kind of country is this? where is the police? how can robbers carry out a raid for 5 hours without any police intervention when the incident took place only meters away from a police station, na wah ohhh.

ODEKU where are u? your pips are missing u badly hope the b52 bomber jet your are in dropped the missile on the right target? hope u didnt get hit by the missile of the anti aircraft rocket launcher that was launched by IBB and his men?

@Drusilla
how do u know that christianity and judaism are the true religions? U dont know u only have faith in one of them . what about other religions who told u they arent the true religions? if u were born to a muslim family in qatar would u have made such a statement? no one knows which religoin is the right one u can only have faith in what everone u are practising. as we all know everything is this world was created differently(man, animals plants and what not) u cant just say that they white man is the right man that deserve to enjoy the earth cos he is white just as u cant say that christianity or judaism is the right religion no one knows only God we can only have faith and believe.

Has anyone ever notice that we are unromantic?

Ask yourself how many Nigerian guys eat together with their wives/girlfriends from the same plate and drink from the same cup?
How many of us take a day off to help our wife/babe with the dishes and the cooking?
How many of us hug our wife(s)/babes and kiss them before leaving home?
How many of us dress elegantly just to impress our wife(s) /babes
How many of us call our wife or girlfriend from the workplace just to tell her you miss her?
How many of us take a bath with our wife/ girl friends
How many of us play before having sex?
How many times have you told your wife/babe you love her?
Lets be truthful to ourselves and give sincere answers

what a why of getting ur husbands attention and notifying him of a divorce.

@topic
life is not all about money sometime but happiness and convinence. THERE IS NO VALUE FOR HUMAN LIFE IN NIGERIA thats the final truth. life in europe is hard but at least its secured, if u hussel u will be paid when due, infastructure is not a problem. food is also not a problem and everything out here is organised but in nigeria? na wah ohhhh, its not all about the money, to some life in nigeria is better cos when they were in nigeria people use to worship them and treat them as kings/queens but now that they are in europe or US where nobody knows them and every body is on his own they start complianing that naija is better. i have been here for 2 years and the only thing i can say is that organisation is the key to life, life is organised out here but in nigeria its jungle justice that prevails where the people up swallow the people at the bottom and make them live in miserable conditions while they and their families enjoy. if you are a legal immigrant and u have money life is really better here than in nigeria cos i was there in febuary, i was supposed to spend 2 months but i spent 6 weeks and ran. to me u just can't compare. if u want free things and are used to the corrupt way of life here then definately abroad wont appeal to u but if u are the struggling type then u just can't compare here(europe) to nigeria.

this tread should be deleted because it makes no sense its only shows how stupid and senseless the poster is.

@Todd Terry go and get a life

we need odeku to take us to the next level

Mariory:
(g) being a person whose election to the House of Assembly was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected:

Provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored; or

(h) the Speaker of the House of Assembly receives a certificate under the hand of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission stating that the provisions of section 110 of this Constitution have been complied with in respect of the recall of the member.[/i]

why is it that when the governor and all the members of the jigawa state house of assembly left the ANPP to the PDP(people destroy people) nothing happended? why are they still considered to be valid members of the house? why did'nt the members of the house of assembly vacate their seats? why did'nt INEC declear their seats vacant and conducted new elections? my people lets not be decieved this is just a merry go round and we are only fooling our selves? i am happy dariye is out but due process should be followed why is that its only OBJ's enemies that are always paying the price?