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Robbers attack Delta police commissioner’s convoy
By Shola Adebayo, Olusola Fabiyi, Fidelis Soriwei, Olalekan Adetayo and Mike Odiegwu
Published: Friday, 13 Feb 2009
The Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, Mr. Joshua Oshiomogor, on Thursday morning escaped death when armed robbers attacked his convoy at the Abudu axis of the Benin—Agbor Road.

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Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro

However, an unnamed driver of his escort vehicle and a policeman in his convoy were unlucky as they sustained serious gunshot injuries in the encounter.

But just as the attack occured, a policeman attached to a micro-finance bank located at Adura Bus Stop on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Lagos, allegedly killed two persons.

Our correspondents in Edo and Delta States gathered that Oshiomogo was returning to Asaba from Abuja, when the bandits who were heading from the opposite direction suddenly rained bullets on his siren-blaring convoy.

It was gathered that the convoy managed to escape to Agbor, where the injured policeman and the driver were admitted into an undisclosed hospital.

The bandits, according to police sources, are suspected to be the same that killed five of the six policemen that lost their lives in a robbery in Benin on Wednesday.

The Commissioner of Police, Edo State Command, Mr. Danlami Yar’Adua, and the Police Public Relations Officer, Delta State Command, Mr. Charles Muka, confirmed the attack on Oshiomogo.

But Yar’Adua and Muka said only the driver was shot on the thigh.

The Edo State Police boss said that policemen from his command and their counterparts in Delta State traced the robbers to Abudu and retrieved some guns that they took away from the policemen that they killed on Wednesday.

Yar’Adua added that a Toyota Hilux Patrol van was also recovered from the armed robbers.

He said that the robbers had traced a bullion van from Asaba to Benin when one of the police patrol vehicles that were mobilised to prevent them from entering Benin ran into them on Wednesday.

The police boss said that through the combined efforts of the police and vigilance groups in the villages around Oza-Igbanke Road in Delta State, the police located the robbers where they were sharing money.

He claimed that the policemen killed one of the bandits on the spot and recovered arms and ammunition from the scene.

In Abuja, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, sympathised with the families of the six policemen that were killed in Edo State.

Okiro, who gave a vivid account of the robberies in the state on Wednesday, appealed to residents of the state to volunteer information to policemen in order to get the robbers arrested.

He said at a press conference on Thursday that a combined team of police officers and vigilance groups were already combing the bushes in search of the fleeing bandits.

Okiro, whose views were conveyed at the news conference by the Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, said that a policeman was lost in the incident in which the bandits attacked a bullion van belonging to a bank.

He said that the robbers were unfortunate as the bullion van was empty.

According to him, as soon as the incident was reported, a detachment of anti-robbery policemen were drafted from Benin to engage the robbers in a shoot-out.

He said, “As soon as the attack was reported, Anti-Robbery men from Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Benin, proceeded to Owa, and engaged the robbers.

“One of them was killed, but two policemen sustained injuries and were hospitalised.

“The escaping robbers later laid ambush at Ugonoba and attacked the police reinforcement, killing five police officers and removing their riffles.”

He added that at that point, another police reinforcement engaged the robbers, forcing them to abandon their three vehicles and flee into the bush.

Items recovered from them, he claimed, were 54 live rounds of 7.6 ammunition, three AK 47 magazines, and N2, 000.

The police boss said that as the robbery was on in Edo State, a radio message was sent to Delta State to alert and moblise policemen from there.

The robbers, he added, later re-emerged in Agbor where they attempted to attack a convoy of Central Bank of Nigeria bullion van.

He said that the robbers were not so lucky as they lost a member while being repelled.

The police chief stated that one AK 47; 12 Ak 49 riffles; one G3 riffle; 1,279 live ammunition for AK 47 and N30, 000. were also recovered from them.

However, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone, Benin, Mr. Sulaiman Fakai, blamed Wednesday’s robberies on lack of Armoured Personnel Carriers by the zone.

He lamented that the zone which comprised Bayelsa, Delta and Edo States, had only one APC, which at the moment was not functioning.

Fakai said, “The incident of Wednesday is very sad, we lost about five men, including one DPO and one DCO. We would have done better and suffer less casualty if we had enough patrol vehicles and other amenities such as APCs and bullet proof vests.

“We have only one APC at the command in Benin and we don’t have enough vehicles for patrol.”

Also on Thursday, four persons were feared killed in two separate incidents in Lagos.

Two of the victims were reportedly killed by a policeman attached to a micro-finance bank located at Adura Bus Stop on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.

Although police authorities in the state claimed that the victims, a driver of a commercial bus and his assistant, were only injured and were responding to treatment in a hospital, eyewitnesses said they were shot dead.

Our correspondents learnt that trouble started when the commercial bus driver had a face-off with one of the drivers of the bank who was negotiating his way into the bank premises.

The argument that ensued reportedly forced policemen on guard at the bank to come to the aid of the bank‘s driver.

In the process, one of the policemen allegedly shot the commercial bus driver and his assistant at a close range.

The situation infuriated eyewitnesses who quickly mobilised and caused a stir on the ever-busy expressway.

It took the intervention of policemen from Alakuko Police Station and riot policemen drafted to the scene from Police Mobile Force Squadron 22, Ikeja, for normalcy to return to the area.

The Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, Mr. Olumide Jimoh, confirmed the incident but insisted that the victims were not dead.

Jimoh said that the errant policeman who was accused of ”misuse of firearms” was initially detained at Alakuko Police Station before the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Marvel Akpoyibo, ordered his transfer to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti street, Yaba.

In the second incident, a Mercedes Benz 911 marked XA 583 NEN reportedly ran over two occupants of a motorcycle at Alakija area in Lagos, killing them on the spot.

Police source at Satellite Town Police Station gave the names of the driver of the vehicle as Emmanuel Tawari and those of the victims as Julius Usifo and Felix Onyewenu.

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There ar way too many threads on valentine,its obvious some ppl are craving for dates (mugus)
Pray hard

Nigeria expects more looted funds from Switzerland –Yar’Adua
By Ihuoma Chiedozie, Abuja
Published: Friday, 13 Feb 2009
President Umaru Yar’Adua, on Thursday, said that Nigeria and Switzerland were working on the repatriation of other batches of looted funds to the country from the European country.

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President Umar Musa Yar‘Adua

The President disclosed this while receiving the Letters of Credence of the new Ambassador of Switzerland to Nigeria, Mr. Andreas Baum, at the State House.

Yar’Adua commended the Swiss government for cooperating with the Federal Government in the repatriation of the first batch of the looted funds.

He also praised the commitment of Switzerland to the promotion of universal human rights and called for the enhancement of the current bilateral relationship between both countries.

The new Swiss Ambassador described Nigeria as a very active “multilateral actor,” especially in the area of global peacekeeping.

Baum also praised the Yar’Adua administration’s commitment to the promotion of good governance through the institutionalisation of the rule of law.

He noted that his country had cooperated with Nigeria to return looted funds in order to send a clear message that Switzerland “is no longer a refuge for stolen wealth.”

Yar’Adua, at a separate event on Thursday, also received Letters of Credence from the new Jamaican High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Robert Miller.

At the event, the President said that a direct air link between Nigeria and Jamaica would open up and improve trade and cultural cooperation not only between the two countries, but also other countries in the region.

Yar’Adua assured the new Jamaican envoy that the issues of Bilateral Air Services Agreement and Joint Commission between both countries would be given urgent attention.

Miller, who is serving in Nigeria for the second time, described the country as “the richest in potential for greatness in Africa.”

He thanked Nigeria for sending nurses to Jamaica under the Technical Aids Corps programme.

Miller also called for expanded bilateral ties beyond oil transactions under the auspices of the proposed BASA and the reactivated Joint Commission.


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These ar ur options,choose the easiest one for u

its look like sm ppl dnt hav any1 for val

fummi,wats ur own list,
or u dnt hav a val?

Darwin was and is still a lair

her name is Ndi okereke,DG Nigerian stock exchange

seriously ar u still tryin to tell me that u dnt know wat she did?

HeatFusion:
Who is she and how exactly did she go about her "crime"?

I wouldn't waste my time explaining wat she did cos its no secret,if u dnt know wat she did,u ar obviously an alien,this forum kuma is for Nigerians and her friends.

pls sm1 should pls wake Ghaddafi up

Grizzly:
He was trying to say you are dumb.

Rflmao!

As much as anybody is entitled to his opinion,he should have respect for other ppls beliefs,
the guy has been banned from entering the UK.

Is this guy sane at all,hes got so much guts.

When there was milk poisoning in china the culprits were executed but here in Naija nothin will happen as usual

nice job Oga moderator

OBVIOUS:
Instead of a revolution, I highly suggest that we start assassinating these men.

this our last resort,Em,Xavier and co,we need the expertise of u and ur ppl.
Pls help us assassinate these thieving souls.

kobo,this ur title is very misleadin

chidichris:
this is a bias statement. what happened in edo state? how many incumbents were removed.

if you followed the judgement today, the main petitions were the govs secret cult membership and the gov and his deputy's failure to resign their former positions before contexting elections.

the court said the video clip was inadmissible based on the availability of the producer of the video clip showing a person slaimed to be gov t orji in okija shrine. again, it was confirmed that okija shrine is not a secret cult and oat taking is a legal way of deciding issues in the ibo society.

on the other hand, the gov of a state, his deputy, speaker of the house and his chief of staff are not members of civil services of a state hence they are allowed by law to context elections while in office.

the truth of the matter is that nigeria is a jungle and one man have decided to decide who sleeps where and when but the unfortunate thing is that some men are men enough to stand on the ways of obj and orji uzor kalu from the unset have proved himself worthy of denying obj control of abia state and major parts of the ibo land imo state inclussive.

onyema ugochukwu is the agent of a failed people called pdp and a devil in the name of obj. the unfortunate thing here is that he is in the wrong place.

If u see ur neighbor's beard on fire put water on ur own

Seriously the man is broke now,ill-gotten wealth does not last

May God punish IBB

our leaders rulers have blood on their hands

we ddnt expect anything less from the incumbent

This is message is embarrassingly true

Obaship crisis: Fear grips Ekiti community 11/2/2009

From Odunayo Ogunmola, Ado-Ekiti

Residents of Ijan-Ekiti in Gbonyin Local Government Area of Ekiti State, which was rocked by violence last weekend over a protracted obaship crisis, are fleeing the community over fear of a recurrence.

They fear that the invaders may return to unleash mayhem on them again, according to members of the Ogbon-Omo Ruling House.

The spokesperson for the ruling house, Mr Julius Aladesiun, at a news conference yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, called on the Federal Government to intervene in the crisis to save the town from what he called "unimaginable humanitarian catastrophe."

The Saturday bloody clash was sparked off by an alleged attempt by the monarch, the Onijan, Oba Oyewole Fada-hunsi, to occupy the private palace built by his predecessor, the late Oba Adeyemo Obarinde in 2000.

But the Ogbon-Omo clan, which had produced 13 obas, said the land and the palace belonged to it.

They also accused the Deputy Governor, Dr Sikiru Lawal of using his connections to fuel the crisis.

The deputy governor’s mother hails from Ijan and he is alleged to be supporting Oba Fadahunsi.

Aladesiun described the weekend uprising in which some houses were destroyed and scores of people injured as unfortunate.

But the Special Assistant to the Deputy Governor on Public Communications, Mr. Joseph Ogunsemi, expressed surprise that is boss is being linked to the Ijan crisis.

He urged the Ogbon-Omo clan to seek the intervention of security agencies and not to blackmail the deputy governor.

Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mr Odunayo Ategbero also dismissed the allegation that some government officials are behind the Ijan obaship crisis.

He deplored the alleged use of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) members in the last weekend violence and appealed to the government to guarantee the security of people in the community.

Aladesiun said all was not over concerning the chieftaincy crisis as the ruling house would challenge at the Court of Appeal the victory of Oba Fadahunsi of the Otutubiosun Ruling House at the high court.

The family spokesperson also warned that the chieftaincy crisis should not be mixed with politics and expressed regrets over alleged attempts in some quarters to add political colouration to the crisis.

He warned interest groups in the community to maintain peace and wait for the determination of the chieftaincy suit by the Court of Appeal.


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U guy should remember this yahoo girl,and the fraud she commited

reality4us:
Yaradua has other wives outside Turai. So she may be a daughter to any of his other wives.

yar adua has just 1 other wife apart from turai,and they are even separated making Turai now his only wife.
The pic of that girl doesnt in anyway resemble the yar aduas

I pity this girl if obj should set eyez on her

Nemesis on the way

another one

Uzor kalu God will punish u