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A 34-year-old man, who poses as a Muslim cleric to defraud gullible Nigerians has been arrested by operatives of the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Ikoyi, Lagos, for allegedly defrauding one of his victims of N8 million.

The suspect, identified as Isiaka Adeleke, popularly known as Alfa, was said to have collected the sum from a childhood friend, who came for prayers for the expansion of his business.

The complainant, who reportedly took the N8 million loan to expand his dwindling business, told operatives that he confided in Adeleke that he intended to use the money to buy a truck for his business.

However, in the process, Yusuf was said to have demanded for the money to enable him go into the spiritual realm to tackle spiritual forces hindering the success of his friend’s business.

However, the victim returned a week later as instructed, only to discover that Yusuf had changed residence.

Spokesman for the Unit, Ngozi Isintume-Agu, said that Yusuf’s arrest was effected in Ilorin, KwaraState, following a petition by the complainant.

She said: “The complainant stated that he was defrauded in March and effort to reach Yusuf had been abortive as his phones were all switched off.


“The complainant further stated that the Alfa, under the pretense of selling a LEXUS 300 Car imported from USA to him, obtained additional N1.5 million and later registered the said vehicle in his name. He alleged that the total money collected from him by the suspect was N9.5 million.”

‘How I spent the money’

Adeleke, who was paraded weekend, admitted to have collected the sum and pleaded to be given time to refund the money.

Asked what he used the money for, he said: “I used part of it to buy two cars, a Toyota Camry and a Mercedez Benz and also completed my building project in Ilorin, while I shared the balance among my fellow Alfas in Ila-Orangun, OsunState.

“I tricked him into believing that I can double the money. I instructed him to put the money inside a box in my room and leave it for seven days, while he takes the key with him.

“However, unknown to him, I had a spare key which I later used to unlock the box and absconded. All I beg for is to be given time to pay back the money.”

Isintume-Agu advised members of the public to be wary of the likes of Yusuf when seeking spiritual help from so-called religious clerics, “as most of them are wolves in sheep’s clothing.”

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Friday night will be a day that both pedestrians and motorists in ogba,ifako-Ijaiye local government area of Lagos state will not forget in a hurry. The static traffic jam started at about 4 pm and lasted till the early hours of saturday.

METRONAIJA can authoritatively confirm that the bad state of the road which is under construction caused the historic traffic jam in the community and some motorists had to pack their cars in order to trek to their destinations.

The below pictures were taken at about 1am the following morning.

NO FRSC,LASTMA OFFICIALS TO CONTROL THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC

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An Hausa man is currently cooling off at Keffi Medium Prison in Abuja after he allegedly slapped Assistant Superintendent of Police Jeremiah Okporo.

According to the abused officer who was sent to settle a quarrel between Tunawa and a man named Fidelis Eke, he got a dirty slap after the suspect resisted his arrest.

Police prosecutor, Inspector Phillip Akogwu told the court that the case was reported to Karu Police station by Fidelis Eke on Wednesday Sept 18, 2013.

Presiding judge, Alhaji Umar Kagarko, ordered that Tunawa be remanded in Keffi Medium Prison till 13 November.

The offence he said contravened sections 327, 172, and 267 of the Penal Code.

The Aboki said he’s not guilty of the offence because he acted in self-defense.

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The Bible that states that, ‘in the end of the world, so many people will forsake the love of the father and purse material things’ is actually right as the word is now coming to fruition.

It was recently gathered by us that, the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) and the Christ Embassy are currently locked in a dispute over a parcel of land located along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, and the two leaders of the churches, Pastor Enoch Adeboye and Pastor Chris Oyakhilome are stoking the crisis by their actions and inactions.

According to findings, the two churches claim ownership of the land, spread across Oloke, Asese, Maba and Gideon Villages in Ogun State and have been unleashing torrent of criticism and employing mercenaries to tackle each other.

It is so amazing that the men of God who so much believes in the teaching of Christ that ‘nothing we brought to the world and nothing shall we go with’ engaged in such a dirty fight over a mere parcel of land. Sources around the area told us that, in March, this year; there was a big fight between mercenaries of the two churches on the controversial land where some lost their lives.

We learnt that the Christ Embassy’s thugs were led by one Lukman Jimoh popularly known as Ogo Oluwa and they drove to the place in a Volvo Car and Toyota Hiace Bus.

We also gathered that recently RCCG petitioned the Inspector General of Police, and asked him to intervene in the case of trespass on the church land and the malicious damaged to the church property.

In the petition, a copy made available to an online magazine called orijoreporter, while recounting how they came about the property, RCCG said that despite the fact that the land falls under the government acquisition area, the church had in June 1999 paid ratification fees for the land to the late Alhaji Tajudeen Ogoluwa (Lukman’s father) who gave the church a Deed of Surrender signed by him and witnessed by one Waidi Ogunsesan.

The church said that it was also given allocation of the land for 99 years by the Ogun State Government in a letter signed by the Director-General, Bureau of Lands and Survey, Surveyor Gbenga Ogunnoike.

RCCG also alleged that Ogun State Government issued a Certificate of Occupancy with the number 025748, dated November 7, 2006 and signed by the governor to the church.

The IG it was gathered, directed the Eleweran Police Headquarter in Ogun State to resolve the matter since the two supposed men of God, Pastor Adeboye and Pastor Oyakhilome could not come to an unanimous accord.

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The Ondo State Government on Sunday declared a seven-day mourning, beginning on Monday, in honour of the late former governor of the state, Dr Olusegun Agagu.
This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Eni Akinsola, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, in Akure.

It stated that Gov. Olusegun Mimiko had ordered that condolence registers be opened at the Governor's Office, Lagos and Abuja liaison offices as well as the 18 Local Government Areas.

The statement added that Mimiko also called on indigenes and residents of the state to remember the Agagu family in their prayers. (NAN)

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Exclusive reports reaching us from Rivers state have it that Governor Amaechi has been granted access into the government house in Port-harcourt.

According to a confirmed source that was inside Amaechi's convoy told www.metronaija.com exclusively that the government house has two gates. The gate along Azikwe Road was blocked by policemen which were following the instruction of the Rivers state Commissioner of police.

Engr Ichendu Achinewhu,a politician in Rivers state told METRONAIJA that the governor entered the government through the second gate at the old GRA road. He also said "The commissioner of police,Mbu is a professional police officer and we believe is not political but he is discharging his professional duties"


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Yoruba actress Ronke Ojo popularly called Oshodi Oke is bereaved.
The talented actress lost her agedfather, Mr Ojo few weeks ago in Nigeria.

According to sources, her dad’s death facilitated her quick return from the United State of America to Nigeria last month.
Few months back, the actress delivered her second baby for her hubby Gbolahan Anthony.

The burial arrangement of her late father is being put in place as we speak.
May his soul rest in perfect peace.

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At least three members of the same family were brutally murder on Tuesday night in Gyel, Bukuru in Jos South local government of Plateau State.

LEADERSHIP investigation revealed that a man and his two children were brutally killed in a midnight attack
Gyel, while his wife was critically injured and was hospitalised in an undisclosed hospital.

Confirming the development to LEADERSHIP in Jos on Wednesday, the Plateau State commissioner of information and communication, Pastor Abraham Yiljap said a man and his two children were killed by unknown gunmen in Gyel.

According to him, seven people have been arrested in connection with the recent attack in some communities in Foron and Kuru and would be charged to court after preliminary investigation was concluded.

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A middle aged man, Terseer Angyo, has been arrested by the Benue state Police command for allegedly beheading a 13 year old girl, Mnyorhan Asase, at Aliade in Gwer local government area of the state.

We gathered from a source that the 13 year old girl was slaughtered by her assailant in a forest area in Aliade while on her way back from a local community market in a nearby village.

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A group of suspected assassins have killed a fourteen year old Oluwaseyi Adelegan, son of the National President of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees, Solomon Adelegan at his residence in Akure, Ondo State capital.

The boy was said to have been killed in the early hour of Thursday when the assassins invaded the adelegan’s residence, located at Aduralere quarters in Ijoka area of Akure metropolis.

When we visited the residence of the deceased’s father, it was a pathetic. Sight to behold.

Scores of sympathizers have been visiting to commiserate with the bereaved family over the death of their son, Oluwaseyi who was killed by unidentified assassins.

The young boy was said to have been brutally killed and left in the pool of his own blood.


His father, Solomon Adelegan, a prominent Labour leader in the state, could not speak to DailyPost as at the time our correspondent visited, as he was weeping uncontrollably.

Information surrounding the death of the young boy is still sketchy, as the police authorities confirmed that they had not been properly briefed on the matter yet.

The Police Relations Public Officer (PPRO) Wole Ogolo said the police had already commenced proper investigation on the incident.

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hairman, Subsidy Reinvestment and Employment Programme, Christopher Kolade, yesterday disclosed that no fewer than 40 million Nigerians are unemployed.

Kolade stated this through the Technical Assistant to Community Services, Women and Youth Employment, SURE-P, Emeka Ekpunobi, at a one-day stakeholders sensitisation programme on Graduate Internship Scheme, organized by SURE-P and Kalends Consulting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital.

According to him, the SURE-P was a program through which the Federal Government created with the aim of reducing the rate of unemployment in the country.

He said, “Issue of job creation is a very critical one which over the years has posed great challenge to governments at different levels.

“It was in recognition of this that President Goodluck Jonathan mandated SURE-P to marshal out intervention programmes to address this challenge.

“Through the GIS, we have the mandate to create 50,000 jobs. This sensitisation workshop is very important to us because it is part of our commitment to ensure that the GIS achieves the objectives for which it was set up.

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Chairman, Subsidy Reinvestment and Employment Programme, Christopher Kolade, yesterday disclosed that no fewer than 40 million Nigerians are unemployed.

Kolade stated this through the Technical Assistant to Community Services, Women and Youth Employment, SURE-P, Emeka Ekpunobi, at a one-day stakeholders sensitisation programme on Graduate Internship Scheme, organized by SURE-P and Kalends Consulting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital.

According to him, the SURE-P was a program through which the Federal Government created with the aim of reducing the rate of unemployment in the country.

He said, “Issue of job creation is a very critical one which over the years has posed great challenge to governments at different levels.

“It was in recognition of this that President Goodluck Jonathan mandated SURE-P to marshal out intervention programmes to address this challenge.

“Through the GIS, we have the mandate to create 50,000 jobs. This sensitisation workshop is very important to us because it is part of our commitment to ensure that the GIS achieves the objectives for which it was set up.
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“One of the objectives is to make most Nigerians graduates employable through training and mentoring.”

He confirmed the view of the Project Director of GIS, Mr. Peter Parka, that 40million Nigerians required employment.

Parka had said, “National Bureau of Statistics in 2011 indicated that 23.9per cent of Nigerians were unemployed. This means that about 40million Nigerians need employment.

“Government is concerned about this high unemployment rate and is doing everything possible to reverse it. The challenge of graduate unemployment is the inability to absorb the nearly 300,000 graduates churned out by our tertiary institutions each year.”

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The Speaker of Taraba State House of Assembly, Haruna Tsokwa, has announced that the lawmakers have decided to ask Governor Danbaba Suntai to go back to the United States to continue his treatment.

The lawmakers asked the governor to return to the U.S. to continue his rehabilitation programme and only come back to run his office when he is fully fit.

Mr. Tsokwa, who addressed journalists in Jalingo on Thursday morning, said the decision of members followed their visit to Mr. Suntai on Wednesday night.

He said the lawmakers were convinced Mr. Suntai is not fit to return to office.

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President Goodluck Jonathan was listed among the first four speakers at the forth-coming UN General Assembly 68th session general debate scheduled for Sept. 24 to 28 in New York.

The UN Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Jonathan would speak along Presidents Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, Barack Obama of U.S. and Abdullah Gul of Turkey.

Brazil had always been the traditional first speaker during UN General Assembly debate sessions. This is the very first time in the history of the UN General Assembly session that Nigeria would be the fourth country to address the assembly.

In the past, Nigeria had addressed the UN session either in the afternoon or evening. In 2012, during the 67th session when the president addressed the assembly in the evening as the 29th speaker, the hall was virtually empty.

The president is also expected to have a lunch meeting with Nigerian professionals with `solid achievements’ in U.S. on Sept. 22 in New York. According to the Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora in America (NIDOA), Mr Ganiyu Dada, the lunch meeting is aimed at discussing the solutions to the national development of Nigeria.

Dada added that the professionals should be willing to participate in the national development of Nigeria. He noted that NIDOA had been asked to submit about 500 names of `super Nigerian professionals’ with solid achievements in U.S. from where about 250 Nigerian Professionals would be chosen.


“They are expected to have Lunch Meeting with President Jonathan on Sunday Sept. 22 in New York from 1p.m. to 4p.m. This list will be submitted next week to the Nigerian Embassy which has the final say on who is invited to have lunch with the president.

“NIDOA is only to compile the list from the 50 States of USA including the Nigerian Professionals that are not yet members of NIDOA.

“You can attend lunch with the President without being a member of NIDOA, but there are a lot of benefits to join NIDOA,’’ Dada said. (NAN)

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An Abuja Magistrates' court, yesterday, sentenced a teenager, Abdullahi Abba,18, to 30 days in prison for criminal conspiracy and theft.

The magistrate, Mr Zubairu Mohammed, who passed the sentence after Abba pleaded guiltyto the offences, however, gave him an option of paying N3,000 fine.
Mohammed said: "The court finds you guilty ascharged. By your admission, you did commit the crime.

You are hereby sentenced to 30 days in prison with an option to pay a fine of N3,000."
Abba, who resides at Third Gate, Works and Housing Estate, Gwarimpa, Abuja, stood trial on a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and theft.

The police prosecutor, Sgt. Salihu Mohammed,told the court that Abba conspired with two others, now at large, to steal a generator set on August 21.

Mohammed said the convict was caught in the act by Zakariya Ibrahim and Stephen Waziri, both of Gwarimpa, Abuja and taken to the Gwarimpa Police Station.

The prosecutor said the generator set, which belonged to Debby Onyemachi of the same address with the convict, was recovered from him during police investigation.

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Gunmen on Sunday morning shot dead a 50-year-old man, Ibrahim Tale. We gathered that Tale was until his death, a messenger with the National Steel Company.
The incident occurred on Umaru Muhammad road near the popular Tipper Garage in Malali around 10am.

A witness, who spoke to newsmen said, “we ate food together and when we finished, he mounted his motorcycle and went through Muhammad Inuwa road, that’s where the gunmen who were trailing him shot him twice on the back. We all ran for safety as the gunmen shot sporadically. I don’t know who the men are, but they were on a motorcycle”.

He added that after the shooting, Tale was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was confirmed dead.
The deceased’s nephew who did not want his name on print said the death was a huge loss to the family.

“He was my uncle and his death came to us as a big shock. But we have left everything in the hands of Allah. Those that killed him should wait for Allah’s vengeance on them,” he said.

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The chairman of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, has assured Nigerians that the challenges faced by Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, will soon be a thing of the past, as his commission had given licenses to companies that understand the major challenge facing Nigeria in the sector to generate power.
He also spoke of plans to increase power supply in the country to 9,000 megawatts, but he noted that the plans would still not beenough for a country as large as Nigeria.

Speaking during a joint workshop organised by Journalists for Democratic Rights (JODER) and the Nigerian Human Rights Community (NHCR) in Lagos at the weekend, Dr. Sam Amadi, the Chairman of NERC, said the support of Nigerians and civil society organisations was crucial to helping the sector .

While emphasising on other issues concerning the power sector, he urged the human rights society to getorganised and set up a civil society group that would be in a position to represent the communities for public hearing, which should either be funded by the government or organisations.

“This group should create a coalition that would be called ‘consumer advocate’ believing it would affect thelives of the people. Nigerians should come together and partner with NERC through the human right groups in the country to handle the situation and look for a way forward,” he added.

He said the plan was to have 6,000 megawatts in 2012 at N24 per unit cost, adding that everybody was not supposed to pay the same amount because of the state of the very poor people in the society who consume very little energy.

“No one will want to invest on Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) unless they know how they can get their money back…South Africa for instance, produces 40,000 megawattswith 40 workers while Nigeria produces 4,000 with 40 workers also, which is not rational and people are the ones loosing, South Africa has about 42,000 while India is about to add another 100,000,” he said.

Amadi stressed that the N24 cost was changed to N4 per unit and was madepossible through subsidy, explaining that low tension and maximum demand have no subsidy because theconnection is directly from the transformer.

Also reacting to the increased service charge by PHCN from N500 to N750, he stated that what should bother Nigerians is effectiveness of the service not the charges.

His words: “Although the service charge ordinarily looks much, it is nothing compared to the N180,000 compulsory service charge industrialists pay monthly. What I think we should bother ourselves withnow is how effective is the service going to be soon.”

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Read below the message President Goodluck Jonathan posted on Facebook:

”In 2011, I made a promise to the people of Nigeria that every zone of our great nation would have an international airport. A little over two years to the day I made that promise we are witnessing the inaugural international flight from the Akanu Ibiam International airport, Enugu. As I said during my inaugural address, “the time for lamentation is over; this is the era of transformation”. Our rail infrastructure is being brought back on track and expanded; our road networks are receiving attention even as we insist on getting them wider and better. As some of you may have noticed, theaviation sector is being overhauled so as to make flying accessible to the average Nigerian. Let me use this occasion to encourage all patriots to remain resolute in our collective pursuit of development and happiness. We must make progress together and no Citizen, no Community in our Country will be left behind. Our determination to ensure developmental justice in ALL the zones shall remain unshakable. GEJ”.

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Judgment Day seems to have come for a pastor, Emmanuel Onu as he has been arrested by the Imo State Police Command for allegedly conniving with others to sell his girlfriend’s baby for N100,000.

Pastor Onu had told the mother of the baby that her baby died at Ajiwe Street, Aba in Abia State.

The Imo state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mohammed Katsina said that the pastor who hails from Umunwada Onitcha in Ezinihitte Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State and who resided at Avutu Obowo impregnated his church member who was also his girlfriend, one Nkeiru Chukwuemeka.

Nkeiru was said to be in labour pains when Pastor Onu called another lady friend (Precious Adiele) who then introduced to them a hospital called Angel of Mercy Hospital at 19 Ajiwe Street Aba, Abia State.

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Governor Danbaba Sunatai of Taraba State will on Sunday (today) arrive Jalingo, approximately 10 months after he was flown abroad for treatment following an air crash involving his private jet in Yola.

Sources close to the governor told our correspondent that Suntai arrived London from New York on Saturday. He was scheduled to leave London for Jalingo on Saturday night or early hours of Sunday.
Suntai reportedly left New York for London on a chartered flight on Saturday due to the lackof seats on commercial flights.

Our source, however, declined to name the flight, airport and time of departure from London as well as the time of arrival in Jalingo, but said the governor’s wife, Hauwa, had left for home to prepare ahead for the arrival of her husband.

The governor’s wife had in a telephone interview on August 20, said that her husband was expected to depart the Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Centre and Home, New York, on August 25.

Suntai spent four months at the rehabilitationcentre after spending about six months in a German hospital.
Barely 48 hours after he was transferred to the National Hospital, Abuja, following injuries sustained in the plane crash, the Taraba governor was flown to Germany for medical treatment.

Suntai was the pilot of his jet Cessna 208, 5N-BMJ Jet that crashed in Yola, Adamawa State on October 25, 2012.
He was taken to an Abuja hospital around 10:57am on October 26, 2012, in a state ambulance. He was reported to have been in coma when he was flown out of the country. The governor, his aide-de-camp and chief security officer were all onboard the crashed plane.

Suntai, who graduated as a pilot from the Aviation College in Zaria last year, flew the crashed plane. That was the second time he survived a plane crash.

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These are pictures from the set of TV show, AY’s crib and D’banj was present but it remains to be seen if he just stopped by or if he will be acting.

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Burna Boy was spotted by the bloggarazzi serenading Funke Akindele at a gig of some sorts. We do not have the full details so these pictures will have to suffice. Burna Boy was half naked which seems to be his fashion preference of sorts.
She has the Jenifa look going on in the first photo and the ‘Cougar stare of death’ seems to be apt for the second photo.

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An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday remanded brothers, NurudeenDada, 38, and Wasiu Dada, 41, who allegedly stabbed their friend to death.

The Magistrate, Mrs A. Tobi, ordered that the brothers should be kept in the Ikoyi Prisons pending the advice of the state’s Director of Public Prosecutions.
The court, consequently, could not take the plea of the brothers, who reside at Isheri-Oke, Ijegun, Lagos.

The prosecutor, DSP Raymond Akhaine, told the court that the accused conspired to kill Mr Quadri Busari, 32, on Aug. 3, at Isheri-Oke.
He submitted that the brothers stabbed Busariduring a fight with him.

“The accused unlawfully killed Busari by hitting him on the head with a stick before stabbing him with a knife.”

Akhaine submitted that the offences contravened Sections 221 and 231 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The court adjourned the case to Sept. 23 for mention. (NAN)

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Two women,Ogechi Nmerenini, 23 and Bilikisu Akinyode, 22, have been remanded in prison on the orders of the Apapa Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, western Nigeria, for fighting in public over a man.

They were arrested by the police at Atebo Street, Ajegunle and charged with disturbing public peace.
Fighting broke out between them when they discovered that they were dating the same lover in Ajegunle area of Lagos.

A suggestion by one of them that they shouldcontinue their secret relationship with their lover was rebuffed by one of them who insisted on having the lover for herself alone.
The accused, it was gathered, injured each other during the fight.


Their lover was simply identified as Emma.
The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge when they arraigned and the presiding magistrate, Mr. M.K.O. Fadeyi, granted them bail in the sum of N20,000 with one surety in like sum.


They were remanded in prison on the orders of the magistrate when they could not immediately meet the conditions attached to the bail.
The matter was adjourned till 6 September for mention.

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Exclusive reports reaching our newsdesk have that,some okada riders in Ikorodu,lagos state have vandalised properties in the garage and along the road following the killing of one of the registered okada riders in the area by some policemen.

According to confirmed sources,policemen shot an okada rider this evening but a trader told metronaija that they killed two okada riders.

As at the time of filing this reports,Soldiers are at the scene and everything is under control.

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Tragedy struck in Otukpo, the ancestral kingdom of Idomaland on Wednesday as a ten-year-old boy allegedly shot a nine-year-old girl while playing with her father’s gun.

The incident as reported by Joy Fm, Otukpo has it that the girl’s father, Sgt. Emmanuel Ekele is a serving policeman who resides at No 18, Ekwo Omenka Street , Otukpo where the sad incident occurred.

It was learnt that the unidentified boy reportedly asked the girl to show him herfather’s gun, firing the said gun at the girl who fell and died instantly.

We gathered that the corpse of thedeceased has since been deposited at the mortuary of the General Hospital, Otukpo.

The Divisional Police Officer, DPO in Otukpo, Francis Obinwa, while confirmingthe incident said the killer is currently in police custody.

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The Maryland State Police Department, USA, yesterday confirmed the arrest of the Executive Chairman of Udim Local Government in Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Nse Ntuen, for smuggling $82, 000 into the United States without declaring it with the Customs officials both in Nigeria and the US.

Nse Ntuen, was arrested on Friday by operatives of the Maryland State Police Department at the BWI International Airport, Baltimore. According to the Police, he declared only $5,000 before the rest of the money was found in his bag.

He later admitted he truly smuggled the money into the country with the aim to use it as donations at the just-concluded Annual International Convention of the Akwa Ibom Indigenes in the United States and Canada which was held at the Marriot Hotel in Washington, DC on saturday.

He was later released after 5 hours in custody and the money seized.

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These are not the best of times for Mr. Martin Iheanacho, a native of Afugiri in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State. He was forlorn and downcast, as he cried blue murder over the gruesome killing of his son, David Nnabuihe Iheanacho, who was a rising star in the field of soccer, alongside three of his
colleagues. Iheanacho alleges that his son, the only son, and three of his friends, were murdered by people, who worked as their manager and coach.

The 19-year old young man, said to be a part-time student at the Lagos State University, and his friends met their untimely end on July 11, 2013. Mr. Iheanacho alleged that the team manager, one Emeka (surname withheld by us), had a hand in the unsavoury incident, allegeing that he and the coach must have negotiated and collected money from foriegn agents, who allegedly lured the footballers to Cotonou, Benin Republic.


Iheanacho, a construction site foreman, said he found it strange that the players had to go to Benin Republic to see the agents. He said Emeka earned a living by hunting for young football talents, developing them and selling them to foreign football clubs in Europe where they play professional football. He has a football club where he hones his players’ talents. But Emeka told Daily Sun that David and his friends drowned in a River in Cotonou when they went to see a friend.

David and his colleagues joined the club with high prospects of playing in big European clubs some day. But they never lived to actualise their dreams, as the man, who promised to make their dreams come through, allegedly cut short their lives because of money.

The young men, according to Mr. Ihenacho, had been playing around African clubs before their manager, Emeka, came up with the idea of moving them to Europe for greener pasture.

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Three local governments were affected by the rain.

Heavy rain being experienced since Sunday in Birnin Kebbi, Suru and Augie local governmentareas in Kebbi State has resulted in the death of three persons.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the downpour damaged 60 houses and rendered no fewer than 200 people homeless.
Yahaya Chindo, an Executive Director at the State Emergency Management Agency, stated this in Birnin Kebbi on Monday during an interaction with newsmen.

He said two people died in Mungadi and Maiyama local government areas while 50 houses collapsed in Augie local government area.
“Our findings in Jega indicate that five houses collapsed and five villages were displaced by erosion.

“In Augie local government area 50 houses collapsed while four villages have been displaced by erosion,” the executive director said.
He said a building also collapsed at Anguwar Sarakuna in Birnin Kebbi Local Government Area, where one person died and seven others were injured.

Mr. Chindo said the agency would assist the victims adding that efforts to sensitise the people to the need to vacate areas identified as prone to flood would be intensified.
(NAN)

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A 43-year old carpenter has been arrested and charged before a Lagos court for allegedly beating up a professor.

Solomon Babalola, the carpenter, allegedly assaulted Professor Adeniyi Adegoriola, who ishis co-tenant at their residence in Ikotun, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.

Adegoriola is a professor of Petroleum Engineering and the head of Geology Department at the Uuniversity of Jos, Plateau State, northcentral Nigeria.
He visited his family in Lagos when the incident happened.
He suffered the fate after he reportedly beat up the carpenter’s little child as a correctionalmeasure at their house at 7, Ayobami Atemogbola Street, off Abaranje Road, Ikotun.

Angered by the beating, the carpenter allegedly confronted the professor and assaulted him and broke his reading medicated glasses in the process.
Babalola said since he packed into the house,the professor has been intimidating his family.

He said he had detained his wife at a police station and it was after the intervention of their neighbours that he withdrew the matter.
Babalola said the residents had been living inconstant fear of the professor but he decided to confront him on the fateful day because hecould not bear his excesses any longer.

On the day the incident happened, the carpenter said he heard his child crying and when he came to find out why he was crying, he saw the professor still beating him.
He reportedly head-booted the professor who was wearing medicated glasses and inflicted severe injuries on his face and his glasses were damaged.

According to the professor, the man and his family constitute nuisance in the compound and he had repeatedly warned him to control his children and keep the environment clean, but to no avail.
The professor said on the day the incident happened, the man assaulted him and he has been receiving treatment in a hospital following the injuries he sustained..

The assault was reported to the police at Ikotun Division and Babalola was arrested and charged to court on a two-count charge of assault occasioning harm under the Criminal Code.

He pleaded not guilty and the presiding Magistrate, Mr P. E. Nwaka granted him bail in the sum of N20,000 with two sureties who must show evidence of payment of tax to the Lagos State Government.
The matter was adjourned till 4 September, 2013.

The defendant was remanded in prison custody pending when he will fulfill his bail conditions.

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The Deputy Speakerof the Rivers State House of Assembly Hon. Leyii Kwanee has hinted that the Leader of the State House of Assembly Chidi Lloyd may be flown abroad for medical attention due to his detenorating health after spending 2weeks in police detention.

Hon. Leyii Kwanee gave the hint in an interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt“the Leader was not only pschologically tormented, we intend to approach the same Judge who granted him bail to lookat the issue of his international passport,so that if he cannot be properly treated by the facilities we have here, he would be flown abroad so that he can be properly treated”.

It would be recalled that Chidi Lloyd spent over two weeks in police custody after he was arrested for assaulting a fellow lawmaker Michael Chinda during the July 9 fracas at the State House of Assembly.

Hon. Lloyd was released last week after he met his bail conditions which include depositing his international passport with the court.

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