oz4real83:
Abacha and the late Kim Jong-il of North Korea were two of the most protected leaders but when death came, even the retinue of security personnels couldn't protect them. Personal protection is important but we also need God's protection

When did the president of North Korea die? Am shocktalized

dre11:


https://www.independent.ng/appoint-tinubu-chief-of-staff-group-tells-buhari/

3https://aledeh.com/2020/05/12/just-in-buhari-appoints-prof-ibrahim-gambari-as-new-chief-of-staff/

AtikuNetwork:
I stand with my party reps on this. With the deaths and increasing cases, Buhari should swallow his pride and rescind the easing of lockdown directive. Buhari and APC should be held responsible for the deaths that occur as a result of COVID-19 after the lockdown is lifted.

when senator Abaribe was almost shouting his voice out that the lockdown shouldn't be extended because of the negative effect why then should this bunch from same party have a counter opinion in the house of rep?

Racoon:
Guess this was the little brat that was challenging & embarrassing Aisha Buhari? Yes-your late father was the defacto president of Nigeria hence manipulated the failed president to the detriment of the nation.

So Abba Kyari is one of the major problem of Nigeria.See as she is exposed because the religious hijab nonsense is only for the poor.MURIC over to you guys.

Abba kyari and mamman daura are not one and the same. Mamman daura daughter was the one that had issues with Aisha. She wears hijab

afemgbosey:
I met a prospective landlord and saw image of JESUS and Muhammed in his living room. I just smiled throughout and pray to escape on time. Layelaye I can never rent a room from him.

Muhammed has no picture

Audio discharge. Who are the patients? Just because on man around town there was complaints that how come no one has been discharged or turned negative that what is happening,that they need to borrow a leaf from Lagos by asking and laising with them on how they are going about it and alas patients are discharged?

majamajic:



I heard , vote APC and picture of John was boldly printed on the sanitizers bottles

if that's the case the medical director is in order to have rejected it

loswhite:
How do you make donations to doctor when there is a ministry of health or health commissioner... This is just politics

When people make donations of equipment to hospitals or even food stuff do they go through ministry of health and agriculture? When philanthropist go to hospitals to pay medical bills do they go through the ministry of finance? By your stand at ubth they should have refused and asked him to go through the federal ministry of health in Abuja. Let's call it what it is petty politics. That said I await a response from the government

Cherez:

Do you guys read at all?
US in itself is in shortage of these machines and someone is trying to export them from the US , will you agree if this was your own house?

Who is a philanthropist?

MelesZenawi:


I know faith tours but this your prize is not realistic...infact it is not true.

How benin to Asaba-onitsha go be that amount..?

Hard for a traveller to believe.

Ring road to oluku inside Benin is #150. A charterd cab same route is about #800 within benin metropolis. Waybill from warri and asaba range from #500 to #1000. Meanwhile somebody stated that from Asaba to beni is #200. I have nothing more to say

Irijosa777:
I totally agree with her!
our border with Edo should be 100% lockdown until the issue of Coronavirus is over!
Obaseki is one of the most stupe governor in Nigeria.
so far Edo had reportedly confirm 6 cases and is still increasing day by day and Edo State border is still open to all travelers like a LovePeddler who her legs is always open to customers.

9 as at yesterday. No more oshiomole to fight na hence he is confused on what to do. I was expecting him as a sharp man to have pit the state on lockdown knowing fully well that a lot of Edo idigines that reside in Europe visit home often especially last and first quarter of each year but no way the borders are still open. Even the recent cases were three people that came in from europe

Ivimilly:
Dude has watched one too many mission impossible

you are damn right. Haba mask is worn over face not over the eyes. How can mask have iris colour or he doesn't know basic biology that iris is behind the cornea giving the brown,blue or green colour of the eyes? Except he wants to say that they wear contact lenses. Bottomline writeup reminds me of tom cruise mission impossible

Eurobomber is my nairalander of the year. Though you are a staunch pdp supporter you have risen above partisan politics and have first identified yourself as a TRUE NIGERIAN. You have looked beyond selfish interest and sentiments. I doff my hat for you. God bless you real good. If only most Nigerians have your mindset this country would have been greater than it is now.

He gave six conditions that must be met “for peace to return to police in
Bendel.’’
‘They are to put a stop to the persecution of innocent armed robbers; a stop to police collusion with NURTW (Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers) and Ogboni cult members; non-harassment by the police of market women returning from village market; abolition of the collection of 5Ok - N5 (by Highway Patron); equal treatment for everybody; and fair treatment for all legitimate drivers by the police.’’
Of course, Anini had an eye on the public for sympathy and support and he thought that his ‘manifesto’ would win for him this, but his chief enemy was time and the police. The police had said they would do everything to get Anini into the cooler. The force quickly replaced Akagbozu, the hospitalized commissioner of police, with Parry Osayande who until then was the Benue State police commissioner. On arrival, the Governor, John Mark Inienger, gave a million naira to the police so that fund would not be the hindrance in the Anini project. And on Wednesday, 15 October 1986, Muhamadu Gambo was appointed the Inspector General of police. With this, the police seemed set to nail the most wanted criminal of the time.
But when the end of his bloody war on the police and people in Bendel State came, Lawrence Anini was a vulnerable man. His gang, the most notorious and feared in the gory history of violent crime in Nigeria was decimated. The frequency of his spine-chilling mayhem had become periodic violent assaults. He, too, must have known the end was near.
It eventually happened. It was a Wednesday, 3 December, 1986. Lawrence Nomayanukpon Anini, a.k.a. “The Law,” Ovbigbo, ended his bloody career in a style that showed graphically that all men are mortal. “I am Anini”, he told policemen in a voice which betrayed a pathological fear of death. “Please, take me to the hospital.” His legs had been perforated by police guns.
As blood gushed out of his shattered left ankle and the badly fractured right
leg, Anini was overcome by fear induced by the acute awareness that only an immediate intervention by man’s modem medical “magic” could save him. The man whose disdain for civilized society and all it represents, and who relied heavily on juju, was willing and ready to seek help from anywhere.
When the police came for him in the afternoon, Anini was, as usual, having a good time with six girls whom the Bendel police boss, Parry Osayande - the man who meticulously plotted his downfall- described as always behind the scenes of crimes’’. He was startled- a clear indication that his uncanny sense of timing and cunning had deserted him. He attempted to flee. But this time, the police were prepared. They rained bulltets on him, concentrating their shots on his left ankle to ensure he would have no chance of “vanishing”.
His disappearance or so-called miraculous escapes from so many scenes of bloody shoot-outs with the police had become legendary. Along with the myth of his callous exploits, the legend was finally and, like his left ankle, shattered.
The police assault, carried out by a 10-man team from the mobile unit and led by Chief Superintendent Kayode Uanreroro, was precise to the finest details. At about 1pm, an informant got wind of Anini’s presence at a house No. 26 Oyemwonsa Street, opposite Iguodala primary school on Murtala Muhammed Way, Benin City. He went to the police command to relate the news.
The pblice reaction was methodical. They wanted to be sure of the information. Misinformation about Anini had led them astray before, earning them public ridicule.
Osayande, who had been in charge of the state police command since October 1 when his predecessor, Casmir Akagboso, was fatally wounded by Anini’s hoodlums, dispatched the informant and sent a woman (disguised as a daughter of the soil) to confirm the information. Fate seemed to have played tricks on Anini; he was still there with his bevy of delectable girls.
As soon as the confirmation was in, the police swung into action. Uanreroro, whom Osayande described as “brave and energetic”, led his crack 10-man team to the area at 2pm and surrounded the house, a nondescript affair with a coat of faded yellow paint. Uanreroro knocked on the door of the room and Anini himself, who had only his underpants on, opened it. “where is Anini?’’ the police officer demanded.
Confronted by the real law, Anini “The Law” knew instantly that he was in serious trouble especially given his near utter state of UnCloth and the cut-off of the only route of escape by Uanreroro. His “vanishing” power must have failed him, but his brain was not “dead” yet.
Anini tried to outwit Uanreroro. He told him that Anini “is under the bed in the inner room,” and attempted at the same time to force his way past Uanreroro. He shoved and head-butted Uanréraro but the police offlcer, who knew his life was on the line, would not budge. Uanreroro reached for his gun, stepped hard on Anini’s right toes and shot at his left ankle. The Bendel king of the underworld staggered forward..
Assisted by some of his men who had moved into the room, Uanreroro grabbed him and placed him in a sitting position. And then, Anini was given a bitter, painful taste of his own medicine. Uanreroro pumped more bullets into the damaged ankle, almost severing it from the leg. This was done to ensure that he was completely incapacitated.
The shock and concentrated impact of the bullets burying themselves in the ankle triggered an involuntary movement in Anini’s body and he jerked forward and rolled on the floor, already red with his blood. He was asked if he was Anini. His anguished reply was: “My brother, I won’t tell you lie, I’m Anini,” He was then carried out, bundled into police landrover and driven to the state police command headquarters, off Sapele Road, where Osayande and his colleagues, Edward Irabor and Donald Ugbuaja (both police commissioners), were waiting.
But something happened during the melee to catch Anini. All the girls who were with him escaped as the police, anxious not to let such a fine opportunity slip away, concentrated on their major prey. The euphoria engendered by the successful operation overshadowed the only major mistake Uanreroro and his men committed.
As soon as. he arrived at the police headquarters, Anini was thoroughly questioned about his real identity by the three Commissioners led by Osayande. Irabor was the first to ask if he was Anini. His poor command of English, made worse by severe pains tearing through his body, made his reply incomprehensible. Irabar resorted to Bini dialect and asked him again. Anini said he was the one, and talked some more. He said that was Monday Osunbor, the deputy leader of his gang arrested four weeks earlier who shot Akagbosu.
Meanwhile, his blood was oozing out uncontrollably and he pleaded with the police chiefs to take him to the hospital. They later obliged him, and he wa taken to the Military Base hospital on Airport road at about 3:15 pm followed by an escort of heavily armed policemen. Before he was wheeled to the theatre for an emergency operation to stop the blood flow, he was presented to pressmen who had converged at the police headquarters immediately after the news of his arrest broke out.
Anini lay flat on his back on a stretcher, his trunk covered with a white hospital cloth soaked all through with blood. He was listless and his left leg with the shattered ankle dangled pitiably. His sorry condition aptly reflected the mighty fall he had taken from the hallow pedestal from which he directed his gang’s bloody assaults on the police and the public.
The operation was very vital as Anini was wanted alive to unravel his mysterious past. “I am doing everything possible to have the police get Anini alive because I think he has something to tell the public,” Governor once said. What the Governor meant was that the merciless criminal should be made to tell all he knew about the involvement of some policemen and their officers with the underworld men. Osayande reiterated Inienger’s concern when he said: “I wanted to find him alive.” He was a bit concerned that Anini might not survive his injuries.
In the same military hospital, 22years old Osunbor, Anini’s henchman, was still recuperating from the wounds he sustained from his clash with the policemen some four weeks before. Only two room separated his own from that of his former crime boss. 24hours after he was caught, Anini had virtually become a cripple strapped permanently to a hospital bird in unfamiliar surroundings. There he spoke publicly for the first time with Osayande, the police boss.
Osayande: have they given you food yet?
. Anini: Yes.
Osayande: when are we going to talk now, today?
Anini: okay, but I would want to get well before I talk. I will talk.
Osayande: what else do you need?
Anini: minerals (soft drinks) and cigarette.
Osayande: I have to find out from doctor whether you can smoke.
Anini: eh! He allowed it. I asked him here and he said I am free to smoke, but no money to buy it.
Osayande: do you know me?
Anini: yes. I do but without you, I don’t think i can make a statement to anybody
Osayande: Without me? Oh, you want me to be here. Okay, I will come. When do we come? Monday (Osunbor) is here, he was lying against you. You don’t know that.
Anini: Was he saying I am the one who killed the policemen?
Osayande: Yes.
Anini: He is the one who killed them. Has he not confessed to you that he is the one who killed them?
Osayénde: kills policemen?
Anini: Yes
Osayande: Did l say you are very humane, that you don’t kill policemen?
Anini: I have not killed a policeman before, I have not killed anybody. I only threaten people. If you like to give me, if you don’t like, okay. But once it is Monday or any other person, they are ready to shoot. But for me, I don’t shoot any person. Eh pa, tell them to buy cigarette for me now?
Osayande kept his promise to give him anything, and ordered Uanreroro, the man who reduced the former armed robbery king to whimpering helplessness, to go and arrange for two packets of Benson and Hedges and two bottles of soft drinks to be brought to Anini. Before then, he gave him eight sticks from his own packet.

Two rooms away, Osunbor. who had refused to talk since he was arrested began to squeal. He said that Anini led their gang because he was instrumental to the arrangement for the steady supply of arms for their operations. He castigated Anini for denying his involvement in the killing of policemen, and pointedly accused him of having masterminded the killing of A. 0. Emojeve, a medical doctor brutally shot at his residence located off Textile Mill Road, Benin city, one evening in October.

According to him, he met Anini less than four months ago
at a “smoke joint” somewhere on Lagos Street in Benin City. Osunbor, described by Osayande as “a sadist, one of the best shots (in the underworld) and very wild even in captivity dropped out of school class three. His luck ran out four weeks ago when he and two members of the gang were shot and arrested by the police. Following his arrest, Osayande told the press that Osunbor was mostly responsible for the killing of policemen.

Before Osayande left the heavily guarded hospital, he again called on Anini, accompanied this time by Abdullahi Shettima, new Bendel police Commisioner, and lrabor. They spoke with Anini for some minutes but no reporter was allowed into the room. It was there Anini dropped the bombshell: he implicated a very top officer of the state police special anti-crime squad who had recently been moved to the Force CID, Alagbon Close Lagos. He was reported to have said that large amount of money were regularly passed on to the officer for his “role as a godfather’ to the gang.

Jubilation in Benin was persuasive. Hundreds of market women sang and danced along some of the major roads. A huge crowd gathered at the
police headquarters trying to catch a glimpse of the man who had put so much fear in them and forced them into early “retirement” behind firmly closed doors in the evening. The joy of the women was particularly understandable because Anini had vowed that he would die in one of the markets in the city and take quite a sizeable number of people with him.

The police celebration of victory was equally unabashed. Lorry loads of armed mobile policemen went round the city in a visceral outpouring of feelings of achievement. The victory dance began at the police command officers’ mess where, for over 20 minutes, Policemen, and their officers “sang” with their guns, shooting incessantly into the air. Their gunshots were accompanied by wild shouts and battle songs. Governor Inienger was effusive in his praise of the police success. He said the police authorities made good their promise that Anini would be in their net before Christmas. He recalled that the mere mention of Anini’s name “drove fear down the spines of every Nigerian because of the myth built around him”

Police inspector- General Mohammadu Gambo was equally elated by the latest development in the battle against crime in Bendel State. When he assumed dirty November 1, he assured the nation that the Anini saga would soon be over.

Even people in Lagos who equally face the menace of armed robbery were overjoyed by the news of Anini’s end. Said Gani Tokun, a businessman: ‘I was about to eat when i heard the news. I could no longer eat because I was so happy”. Foluke Adewusi was not impressed by Anirü’s myth. She dismissed him as a common criminal and said he should be “tried and jailed for a very long time.”
Kola Bamidele, a pharmacist, did not share in the general euphoria over Anini’s end. “i don’t care if he had been arrested. It is nothing to jubilate about,” he said adding that the jubilations would turn sour if they allow him to talk. “I hope his life will be saved.
When the end came for Anini, his famed “magical” mirror which allegedly foretold any impending danger failed miserably to perform. Even his vanishing, powers were put in abeyance by his spiritual protectors who probably got angry with him for messing up their powers with too many women who were, indeed, one of Anini’s proven weaknesses. He used them indiscriminately for his nefarious acts and particularly for his pleasures.

The house in which he met his Waterloo belongs to Jackson Aideyan, deceased, and father of Florence, one of the girls with Anini. When the police pounced on him, he did not have a gun. All they recovered from the room were his gold ring, one wristwatch, a small woven white bag of charms, 16 pounds of 9mm bullets, police and army uniforms, including ceremonial ones.
On Friday 5 December, and to ensure Anini did not die of the wounds sustained when he was arrested, his left leg was chopped off by doctors at the Military Based Hospital, Benin. Before then, he had mentioned the name of one, George lyamu, a Deputy Superintended of Police (DSP) as their major backer in the police force of Bendel state, and when the trial began on 29 December 1986 at the second Bendel State Robbery and Firearms Tribunal, Anini and lyamu confronted each other. lyamu had been picked up since December 4, in Lagos.

Anini revealed how N50,000 was paid to lyamu for destruction of evidences and the rent of guns and ammunitions. He drew out laughter from spectators when he said he did not have any supernatural “disappearing power.”What had been happening was that lyamu informed them of all police moves, and all they did was circumspect or preempt such ambush. Of course, lyamu denied it all, but that did not save him from bagging a death sentence. On Saturday, 14 February 1987, he and eight others faced the music of death from staccato of gun shots. They never lived to tell the story.

But Anini and Monday were not killed on this day, for there was the second case involving them. This case was also quickly dispatched and on Sanitation Day, Saturday, 28 March 1987, at 11:05am, Crime kingpin, “ Lawrence Anini, alias Ovbigbo the Law” died, saying ‘Let me reap what have sown!”


Curled from The Nigerian National Memoirs