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do4luv14:
yes, view that second pix again, and zoom into manhole, you will see how it was constructed to hold the cover, that's what am talking about,

too light, a 17years old, can remove such cover easily

do4luv14:
pls check again, about what's that � there

do4luv14:
the second pix is no proper way to make a concrete manhole cover, it's way too light, hence easy to be broken

it's should be made tick, like the thickness of the road, or better still 4ft thick

naptu2:
I took these pictures around 5 o’clock this morning, just so that you can understand what I’m talking about.

This manhole is at the Alexander Avenue Roundabout in Ikoyi. It is at the end of the Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge. This is the manhole that a jogger fell into. He was a middle aged man and he was jogging in front of me. Apparently he did not see the manhole (the tyres in the manhole were a lot lower at that time) and he stepped on the tyre and went down. Luckily he didn’t fall all the way in and I and some other people had to help him up.

(Picture 1 below)

This is another manhole at the same roundabout. My apologies for the quality of the picture, I hadn’t stopped moving at the time that the picture was taken. All the manholes at the roundabout are like this (their covers have been stolen).

(Picture 2 below)

This manhole is right at the beginning of the bridge (just a short distance from the other manholes above). I suspect that the thieves are afraid to steal this manhole cover because it is right in front of the RRS point (there are policemen and an armoured personnel carrier right beside this sidewalk). There are also CCTV cameras on the bridge. This is the same kind of manhole cover that was stolen from the manholes at the Alexander Avenue Roundabout.

(Picture 3 below)

This is a concrete manhole cover. All the manholes that are on the bridge have concrete manhole covers. Another reason that these covers have not been stolen is that there are policemen and CCTV cameras on the bridge.

(Picture 4 below)


This is a manhole on Admiralty Way on the Lekki side of the bridge. It is 70% concrete and 30% metal and it has not been stolen (probably because there is another RRS point nearby.

(Picture 5 below)


You can also see that the railings on the bridge are made of concrete. This is because of the terrible experience that the government had with the 3rd Mainland, Eko and Carter bridges. Vandals stole the metal railings of those bridges regularly.

(Picture 6 below)

naptu2:
Something really bad happened this morning. Thank God that it wasn't much worse.

I got off the bridge at the Ikoyi end and there was a man that was running in front of me. The man accidently stepped on one of the tyres above the manholes and he went down.

Thank God that he didn't fall in completely and thank God also that he wasn't terribly hurt. He was on the ground for a while until I and some other people helped him up.


People have been stealing the manhole covers at the Alexander Avenue Roundabout for a while. The covers are often replaced and then these criminals steal them again. So, right now, it seems that the government has gotten tired of replacing them and in order to prevent people from falling in, some people have placed tyres over the manholes to alert members of the public of the danger.

Yet those things are still a hazard.


The criminals do not steal the manhole covers on the bridge or the ones at the Lekki end of the bridge, but for some strange reason they keep stealing the covers at the Alexander Avenue Roundabout.

The Environmental Task Force in Amuwo Odofin has apprehended two manhole thieves while attempting to cart away the stolen manholes from 401 and 512 roads respectively.



The Chairman of the Task Force, Otunba Marcus Adetifa in his statement said; "The directive from the Mayor is clear, we are to make Amuwo Odofin Local Government inhabitable for miscreants like this.



We have not only apprehended these ones who would serve as deterrents to others in such sharp practice, we have also been able to identify the buyers of the manhole covers.



We will make sure that the syndicate-chain are prosecuted and the trade totally discouraged and unprofitable"

Afriqan:
I noticed several months ago that almost everywhere you drive in Lagos, you'll notice that manhole covers are stolen even on express roads like Ikorodu Road, Lagos-Abeokuta Express road, Ikotun, Cele Express and even on the Island.

I've come to the conclusion that those responsible for the theft are scrap metal collectors and dealers popularly called "iron codemn" but the way they carry it out without anyone to challenge them makes me believe that local boys (aka omo adugbo) may be collaborating with them as you can't come from another area and steal something without involving the locals.

I wonder what the Lagos State government is doing about this as it has caused loss of lives in many cases. I am yet to hear of anyone getting apprehended for stealing manhole covers in Lagos... What is Alausa doing!!!

Please consider gracing the front page with this vital information...

naptu2:
For quite a long time Lagosians have complained about the problem of open manholes. These holes have caused many car accidents and deaths in Lagos. For example, look at this 2017 thread.

Lamboginny Raises Alarm Over Major Holes On The Eko Bridge In Lagos (photos)
https://www.nairaland.com/3912203/lamboginny-raises-alarm-over-major#58312975

www.nairaland.com/attachments/5626169_20170710113106_jpegb3254560f00a989cbef306ea9064bed7

www.nairaland.com/attachments/5626170_20170710113108_jpegf5d5ae8064a2d13127c944311dc4515b

I saw a jogger fall into one of those open holes on Alexander Avenue in Ikoyi last year. Luckily he was not seriously injured. We all remember the sad story of Adewura Bello, a young woman who was involved in a motorcycle accident on a flooded street and who was subsequently carried by floodwaters into an open manhole where she drowned (see link below).

Photos Of The Manhole That Swallowed Up Adewura Belo And Her Bike Rider
https://www.nairaland.com/5211741/photos-manhole-swallowed-up-adewura

These manhole covers, along with bridge railings and electrical cables, are often stolen by criminals who sell them as scrap metals. For example, see this thread below:

Amuwo Odofin Task Force Arrests Manhole Cover Thieves
https://www.nairaland.com/5499284/amuwo-odofin-task-force-arrests


Governor Babatunde Fashola considered using concrete manhole covers because the theft of these covers had gotten out of hand.


The Lagos State Government is currently replacing manhole covers across the state and they replaced the missing manhole covers on Eko Bridge yesterday. The question is, how will they ensure that these new covers are not stolen?

Ayomi90:
That's exactly what am pointing out that having CCTV doesn't solve any problem, that only works for pickpockets, why are they yet to apprehend them even with the CCTV clips? I hope u get it nw.

soojar:
Please, does anybody know any other member of this isolated organization? Apart from Ishaq who is the president, the secretary, the members, even the audience sef. any other person?

Ayomi90:
So that's the only one you av? Even with the CCTV have they been captured, what about those that CCTV couldn't captured only mask? Na today Dem don dey attack banks?

jmoore:
Do you even know the purpose of CCTV?

How many attacks have been recorded?

If the faces of the suspects were captured by CCTV in their first attack, it could help in apprehending the criminals so they don't attack another location.

The absence of CCTV is why they are being called unknown gunmen. With CCTV, their identities are known.

Ayomi90:
Lol, ignorance is a disease. So all those attacks you've been seeing IPOB, ESN even DSS carry out u see them without mask? You are funny, maybe CCTV will unmask them uncle CCTV.

Kwara school: Muslim students deserved punishment – MURIC

Published on October 11, 2021
By Annie Nwosu

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has called on Muslims in Kwara State and the general public to desist from jumping to conclusions on the viral video in which students of an Arabic school were severely beaten.

DAILY POST reports that the video footage of the incident which went viral showed the students being punished for alleged misconducts.

Reacting, the group’s Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, in a statement on Monday, maintained that the action of the school authorities should not be judged in isolation.

According to him, “the fact that the parents requested the school to discipline their children must not be ignored.

“While we regard the punishment meted to the students as too harsh, we maintain that the action of the school authorities should not be judged in isolation. The fact that the parents requested the school to discipline their children must not be ignored.

“MURIC is also in possession of another video in which the students confessed that they engaged in shameful and unIslamic actions, namely, visiting a club, drinking alcohol, bathing themselves with alcohol, etc. These are horrible acts in which ordinary Muslims must not be involved.

“Arabic schools are the repository of morality and the vault of uprightness. They are the conscience of the Ummah. The offence committed by those students becomes more unacceptable when the actors are students of an Arabic school who are expected to be the epitome of morality and religiousity.

“Nigerians must brace up and understand where the authorities of the Kwara Arabic school are coming from? The students who received that beating were the black sheep in the school and they would have polluted others by taking them to the club if they had not been taught that bitter lesson.

“While we do not subscribe to merciless flogging, torture and other severe corporeal punishment, we make bold to say that children must be disciplined.

“We commend the parents of those children who instructed the school authorities to punish their children. Posterity will count them among Nigeria’s puritanists and disciplinarians.

“Those who are condemning the parents and the teachers today are those who will gladly encourage their own children and wards to participate in BBNaija’s shameful sex in public.

“MURIC stands with discipline and high moral values. In the light of the above, we urge Muslims in Kwara State and the general public to allow the Kwara State Government to investigate the incident,” the statement said.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajia Sa’adatu Modibbo Kawu, in a statement in Ilorin on Sunday, said the head of the Arabic school, who admitted to directing the punishment, has been asked to step aside pending the conclusion of investigation into the matter by the government.

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
Very correct.
At least some people are dying to protect their land while some people are selling their land for Political position. Sitting and watching their people are being killed and massacred their fingers cut off

Caseless:
they gave us the figure from the NE like this in the beginning until it became a full blown war, then everything didn't matter again. Wait until you get to that level and you don't matter again.

naptu2:
Imagine the stupid idea of people asking for data about the number of people killed in the North-East or North-West, as if they are unaware that such data has been published uncountable times by very many local and foreign agencies. These same people have participated many times in Nairaland threads that have contained such information (many of them even celebrated such publications).

What is wrong in publishing the number of people that have been killed in the South-East? Have there not been similar lists of number of people that have been killed in other areas that are affected by terrorism?


Emotions can make people, who should be sensible, to look and act stupid.

The United States Department of Justice

Maryland Nuclear Engineer and Spouse Arrested on Espionage-Related Charges

Jonathan and Diana Toebbe, both of Annapolis, Maryland, were arrested in Jefferson County, West Virginia, by the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) on Saturday, Oct. 9. They will have their initial appearances on Tuesday, Oct. 12, in federal court in Martinsburg, West Virginia. For almost a year, Jonathan Toebbe, 42, aided by his wife, Diana, 45, sold information known as Restricted Data concerning the design of nuclear-powered warships to a person they believed was a representative of a foreign power. In actuality, that person was an undercover FBI agent. The Toebbes have been charged in a criminal complaint alleging violations of the Atomic Energy Act.

“The complaint charges a plot to transmit information relating to the design of our nuclear submarines to a foreign nation,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “The work of the FBI, Department of Justice prosecutors, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Department of Energy was critical in thwarting the plot charged in the complaint and taking this first step in bringing the perpetrators to justice.”

Jonathan Toebbe is an employee of the Department of the Navy who served as a nuclear engineer and was assigned to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, also known as Naval Reactors. He held an active national security clearance through the U.S. Department of Defense, giving him access to Restricted Data. Toebbe worked with and had access to information concerning naval nuclear propulsion including information related to military sensitive design elements, operating parameters and performance characteristics of the reactors for nuclear powered warships.

The complaint affidavit alleges that on April 1, 2020, Jonathan Toebbe sent a package to a foreign government, listing a return address in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, containing a sample of Restricted Data and instructions for establishing a covert relationship to purchase additional Restricted Data. The affidavit also alleges that, thereafter, Toebbe began corresponding via encrypted email with an individual whom he believed to be a representative of the foreign government. The individual was really an undercover FBI agent. Jonathan Toebbe continued this correspondence for several months, which led to an agreement to sell Restricted Data in exchange for thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency.

On June 8, 2021, the undercover agent sent $10,000 in cryptocurrency to Jonathan Toebbe as “good faith” payment. Shortly afterwards, on June 26, Jonathan and Diana Toebbe traveled to a location in West Virginia. There, with Diana Toebbe acting as a lookout, Jonathan Toebbe placed an SD card concealed within half a peanut butter sandwich at a pre-arranged “dead drop” location. After retrieving the SD card, the undercover agent sent Jonathan Toebbe a $20,000 cryptocurrency payment. In return, Jonathan Toebbe emailed the undercover agent a decryption key for the SD Card. A review of the SD card revealed that it contained Restricted Data related to submarine nuclear reactors. On Aug. 28, Jonathan Toebbe made another “dead drop” of an SD card in eastern Virginia, this time concealing the card in a chewing gum package. After making a payment to Toebbe of $70,000 in cryptocurrency, the FBI received a decryption key for the card. It, too, contained Restricted Data related to submarine nuclear reactors. The FBI arrested Jonathan and Diana Toebbe on Oct. 9, after he placed yet another SD card at a pre-arranged “dead drop” at a second location in West Virginia.

Trial Attorneys Matthew J. McKenzie and S. Derek Shugert of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jarod J. Douglas and Lara Omps-Botteicher of the Northern District of West Virginia, and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica Lieber Smolar for the Western District of Pennsylvania are prosecuting the case on behalf of the government. The FBI and the NCIS are investigating the case.

A complaint is merely an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.