₦airaland Forum

Ttipsy:
FG should make other Port in the country fuctional

How can lagocians be suffering in traffic; it's terrible.

treesun:
Same story as Apapa, Naptu2, Nlpfmod!

dre11:
https://leadership.ng/buhari-to-attend-coronation-of-king-charles-in-london/

iwaeda:
The President is leaving behind 77trillion naira debt,133million poverty stricken people,25m people at the risk of hunger according to Unicef,10m out of school children,mass killings and kidnappings on a daily basis;yet he said he has delivered on the Change he promised.

https://twitter.com/ShehuSani/status/1653670058088886277

billyG:
Naijerian police force is a dog eat dog force.... imagine a police image maker lying that her dead colleague was a drunkard...if they know he was a drunk why sent him on special duty not rehab?is that how they employs drunks in d force?is someone was drunk & fell inside a gutter injured u take him to d hospital not detained him for 7days without informing his family.someone was constantly stooling but left to die in a cell...was only admitted in an hospital as a decease.
Imagine how he bribes through his way to have his posting reversed all to no avail.
To get his entitlement will be another tough nut to crack.he may be denied after tagging him "AWOL"

concho:
Please help me brothers
My Toyota Highlander 2003 goes off after a refill .

Each time I finish buying fuel and turn on my ignition, it goes off once I try driving out of the filling station .

It happens almost immediately I turn on my AC

What could be the problem brothers ??

The atmosphere was pensive as seated family members and friends of Inspector Taiye Atobiloye sobbed quietly.

The sombre air was punctured anytime a new visitor rushed in, asked if the news was true and burst into searing tears.

Curled up in a corner of the two-bedroom apartment was Taiye’s wife, Oluwabukola, a teacher in a public school in Kwara State. She looked dishevelled and shattered.

After four stillbirths, her hope of being a mother after 12 years of marriage had just ended.

The bereaved woman kept wondering how her police husband died after seven days of being held incommunicado in a police cell in Lokoja.

“How could the police do this to one of their own?” she asked rhetorically.

“I want the world to know what they did to my husband. They collected a lot of money from him and tortured him to death,” she wailed.


The deployment

Inspector Taiye, with force number 232980, was attached to the Oke Onigbin Police Division, Kwara State, after 22 years in the police force.

During a meeting at the division early April 2023, the Divisional Police Officer, Stephen Aigbogun, reportedly announced that a particular inspector would be deployed on special duty to Zone 8 Police Command, Lokoja, Kogi State.

The deceased’s wife alleged that the affected inspector, however, found a way to dodge the assignment and her husband was picked as a replacement.

According to her, the development created a sharp discord in the division, as 47-year-old Taiye rejected the deployment.

However, a senior officer reportedly prevailed on the Ikosi, Kwara State indigene, to go and wait at Ilorin while he pleaded on his behalf with the divisional officer.

She said, “My husband went to Ilorin on Tuesday, April 3, as the officer promised to call my husband the next day.


“But throughout that day, he did not. My husband called him on Wednesday night for an update and he said a signal had already been sent for my husband to report at Lokoja.

“My husband said he could not just go like that and that he would need to raise money for his transportation and accommodation. He promised to go the following Monday.

“But from Good Friday, the police started calling him from Lokoja and asking where he was.”

According to her, after getting enough money, Taiye travelled to Lokoja on Easter Monday with some medical papers indicating that he was not fit for the special assignment.

Saturday PUNCH gathered that in 2019, the inspector was involved in an accident while going for night duty.

His leg was said to have been crushed by a motorcycle.

At the time, he was hospitalised and underwent treatment after a series of X-rays at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital.


Oluwabukola said her husband went to Lokoja with copies of his medical reports to appeal for a reversal of the deployment.

An Assistant Area Commander was said to have expressed shock at the posting of the inspector and promised to send another signal for him to return to Kwara.

According to the wife, Taiye was made to part with some funds to make the signal quicker.

“The assistant area commander assured him that the new signal was already being typed. He (the assistant area commander) said he was going to eat and my husband should not yet report.

“Before the man would return, he and the DPO at Oke Onigbin had spoken and reached another agreement.

“Because my husband had spent a lot of money, some of which he borrowed from me, without getting the letter, he left Lokoja on Thursday, April 13.

“When he returned, I asked why he did not stay and he said his spirit was troubled and that was why he returned home. I told him to go back since he did not have any other job and his uniform was still there. He promised to return next Tuesday,” she added.


Oluwabukola said by Monday, the Oke Onigbin Divisional Traffic Officer called her and demanded her husband’s whereabouts and why he had yet to report for the special assignment.

She said Taiye took the phone from her and promised to return to Lokoja the following day.

The detention
“When my husband got to Lokoja the following morning, he called me and said he was asked to go to ‘D’ Police Division and that he would be detained there for absence from duty without permission.

“He also called me and said he was behind the counter with other policemen on duty. He said he would be put in a cell and I should not bother because it was normal police procedure, but by the following day, he would be released.

“By 8pm that night, I called him, but nobody picked up the call. Throughout that day, the phone rang out. The following morning, I called him more than 20 times but nobody picked up the phone.

“On the third day, I did the same thing and nobody picked. I became afraid and called his brother in Lagos to inform him,” she added.

Taiye’s brother was said to have spoken with the Oke Onigbin DPO, who also wondered why the inspector’s phone was collected from him.

Oluwabukola said on the fourth day when she tried her husband’s phone, it was switched off.

However, while she was in church on Sunday, one of her husband’s friends in Ilorin called her phone.

“I did not pick up the call because we were still in service. I saw the message he sent after the service that my husband was in critical condition.

“I called the man and he said I had to come to the hospital that my husband was sick and that he had messed up the cell where he was held.

“I told the man that he was only a family friend and why was he the one they called and not me or another family member?

“I asked the man to give me the phone number of the person who gave him the information.

“He said my husband’s phone was used to make the call and that the caller didn’t give his name,” she added.

She said she alerted family members of her husband to the development, adding that the deceased’s brother called the Oke Onigbin DPO on the phone, but he didn’t take his call.

Oluwabukola said when she called her husband’s phone number again, nobody picked up the call for two days.

The death
However, around 4pm on Monday, April 24, she said Taiye’s brother called to inform her that her husband had died in the cell.

“He said the DPO of Oke-Onigbin called him. I told him that there was no way my husband would be dead because I had been calling his phone and no one picked.

“Immediately, I called his number again and someone, who identified himself as Inspector Musa or Isa picked up the call. I asked him why he was with my husband’s phone for seven days and he should return the phone to him.

“He then switched off the phone. I called the DTO of Oke-Onigbin and requested to speak with the DPO. I asked the DPO where he sent my husband to and what he had done to my husband. He said I should not tell him that rubbish. He said my husband went on duty and cut off the call,” she added.

Saturday PUNCH gathered that the matter was reported to the office of the Kwara State Commissioner of Police, who promised to get to the root of the matter and ensure justice was served.

Oluwabukola, while demanding justice, lamented the manner in which her husband died despite being a policeman.

“Aside from the accident that he had that broke his leg, my husband was not sickly. Maybe he was poisoned or the cell was sprayed with chemicals.

“I want the world to know what they did to my husband. They collected a lot of money from him and tortured him to death,” she added.

The bereaved teacher described her husband as gentle and loving, saying she had advised him to quit the police work, but he asked for three more years.

“We were married for 12 years. By this time of the day (12 noon), he would have called me about six or eight times to ask after my welfare. He was a very cheerful man.

“Around the time he had the accident that affected his leg, I also had a minor one that affected my hand and that hindered my ability to wash clothes. Because of that, he only allowed me to cook while he washed the clothes; he spread and ironed them and cleaned the house.

“They took him from me just like that. We have had stillbirths more than four times. And now, they are asking me to come and pick his corpse as if he was an animal,” she stated.

Oluwabukola’s elder sister, Folashade Alase, who was among the visitors, wondered why the police would cut off communication between the inspector and his family.

“Now that he is dead, they are asking us to come and pick up his corpse,” she stated.

A source told Saturday PUNCH that the victim was soiling his body while in the cell and the police abandoned him till he died.

“The ‘D’ Division DPO, Lokoja, Adigun Salami, must explain what happened to him in the cell. I was told he defecated until he died without getting medical help. We want to know who gave the order that he should be left in the cell,” the source added.

The defence
The Kwara State Police Public Relations Officer, Okesanmi Ajayi, said the command was pained that the policeman died.

He said, “The inspector was serving in Kwara, but the incident happened when he was deployed in Lokoja, the zonal headquarters, for a special duty of one month. The moment he was posted and he reported there, he was responsible to them and they were responsible to him. We still don’t know the full details of what transpired. We are awaiting the details from the zonal command, where an investigation is ongoing.”

The Zone 8 Police Public Relations Officer, Ruth Awi, said the inspector was a drunk, adding that he was detained after he fell into the gutter.

She said the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of the zone had ordered that an autopsy be conducted to determine the cause of his death.

Awi said, “He died in a hospital, though when he was detained, he fell sick. He was confirmed dead in the hospital. His corpse has been deposited in a mortuary.”

Asked to respond to allegations of the officer being held incommunicado, she said, “Zone 8 is a zonal headquarters; officers come from Kogi and Kwara commands for quick intervention duties. This man, apparently a drunk, was picked up from the gutter where he fell on the day he was detained. So, whether it was in the process of falling that his phone fell, nobody knows.”

She insisted that detention was part of police punishment and nobody seized the officer’s phone.

The zonal police spokesperson described reports on the matter on social media as mere speculation.

On the allegation that money was collected from the cop, Awi wondered where he would get money as an inspector.

“This man, does he have money? Their coming to the zone is not usually for more than three weeks or one month before they return to their commands.

“He was detained in ‘D’ Division and when they noticed he was behaving funny, he was taken to the police clinic and from there, he was referred to the Federal Medical Centre, where he was confirmed dead. He could not have been left (in the cell); he was one of us,” she added.

TheRareGem1:
https://twitter.com/MobilePunch/status/1651544606348115968?t=BX6K2f5BtUfTg5lOe_ofDw&s=19[/quote][color=#990000]I will lead insurgency at all front. Lori iro!

neolboy:
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/04/suspected-herders-murder-labour-partys-ward-chairman-in-benue/

The former National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, has said that Nigeria’s President-elect, Ahmed Tinubu, has started serving Ndigbo “a piece of bread soaked in water”.

Back in January, Tinubu was at Michael Okpara Square for a presidential campaign rally.

During the rally, he urged the southeasterners to work for his victory and that of the party.

According to Tinubu, “… nobody will give you any credit, you are working hard, you’re sweating now.

“We want you to sweat well now for this party until you deliver victory.

“Until Bola Tinubu becomes the President of Nigeria, we will not give you but a soaked sliced bread.”
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Nwodo

Speaking on Monday in an exclusive interview with Vanguard, Nwodo said Tinubu was already serving the Igbo the promised “soaked bread”.

He said it in reaction to the perceived exclusion of Igbo in Tinubu’s 14-man inauguration committee.

Nwodo, an ex-governor of Enugu State, said that any President of Nigeria who is not making conscientious efforts to unite the ethnic groups in Nigeria will fail woefully.

He equally bemoaned the repeated attacks on Igbo in Lagos State, who he said were being allegedly punished for voting their conscience during the general elections.

… on Buhari’s apology
The elder statesman also said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s apology to Nigerians was belated and not enough to heal the trauma he caused Nigerians.

Nwodo, who gave an abysmal scorecard of 30% to the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government, said insecurity, ethnic bigotry and hunger festered across Nigeria during its reign.

The President had apologised to Nigerians, stating that he had done his best and cannot wait to head back home to Daura, in Katsina State.

dre11:
https://thenationonlineng.net/ahead-subsidy-removal-fed-govt-plans-six-month-petrol-stockpile/

Gunmen on Friday morning killed five policemen at the Okpala Junction in the Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State.

Also killed were a couple identified as Mr and Mrs Chinaka Nwagu who hailed from Amankwo Okpala community.

The incident has thrown the junction and the entire community into a state of panic as commercial activities had abruptly come to end.

A source who identified himself as Uche and a relative to the couple told our correspondent that the slain cops drove from neighbouring Abo Mbaise police division to eat at the junction.

He said that while the policemen were eating, some gunmen drove to the scene and opened fire on them.

He said that while three police were shot dead at the scene, two others ran to a nearby shot but their attackers raced to the shop and killed them and equally killed a couple who owned the shop they ran into.

The eyewitness disclosed that after killing the policemen, the gunmen carted away their five rifles.

The source said, “It is a black Friday in our community. Gunmen around 8am shot five policemen dead at Okpala junction. The policemen drove in a white coloured Hilux from Aboh Mbaise Police Division to eat at the junction.

“As they were eating, gunmen drove to the place and opened fire on them. Two out of the five policemen ran to a nearby shop where a couple sold meat pie and sachet water. After killing the three policemen, they came two the shop where the two other officers were hiding, and killed them. They also killed a husband and wife that owned the shop.

“They took away their rifles and drove off. This is so unfortunate. Our community is bleeding. Everybody is confused. The couple just relocated from Lagos about one year ago. We just deposited their bodies in a mortuary. The market is shut. People here ran away out of shock and fear. This is unbelievable.”

Another source, Dominic Okpor, told our correspondent that he saw the lifeless bodies of the cops on the road when he drove through the Owerri – Aba Road.

Okpor described it as horrible. “The bodies of the five policemen were lying on the road as we drove through. Their Hilux was also parked at the junction. The scene was horrible. It is terrible. God have mercy.”

When contacted, the spokesperson for the police in the state, Henry Okoye, said that he had yet to be briefed on murder incident.

He however promised to make enquiries and revert to our correspondent but he had yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.

Our correspondent recalls that on March 27 some fleeing gunmen ambushed and killed five personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in the same Ngor Okpala LGA.

The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has urged the Nigeria Police Force to fully investigate what transpired during the Adamawa State supplementary governorship [/b]election.

This is as he also called on all elected officials during the 2023 elections to brace themselves for the task ahead and prepare to serve the Nigerian people.

In a statement he personally signed on Wednesday, the President-elect urged the elected officials to rededicate themselves to selfless service.

He said, [b]“With the conclusion of the 2023 elections, I now welcome all of us who have been elected to brace up to serve our people with diligence and dedication and to join hands with me as your President-elect in the pursuit of our agenda to renew the hopes of our people in a better, stronger, more secure, economically vibrant and prosperous Nigeria.


“I congratulate the winners of the Supplementary Governorship elections held in Kebbi and Adamawa States on Saturday, April 15, 2023. I also rejoice with those elected into the Senate, House of Representatives and State Houses of Assembly during the last round of elections in states where such took place. These victorious men and women have earned the trust of their people and I call on them to rededicate themselves to the service of their respective constituents.

“The supplementary polls have now brought the 2023 elections to a final, fitting conclusion. I observed, with satisfaction, the largely peaceful atmosphere that pervaded the supplementary election on Saturday. It was a further testimony that our citizens have accepted democratic norms and have unalloyed faith in the electoral process.”

on Adamawa supplementary poll, Tinubu said, “I note the matter of Adamawa Supplementary Governorship Election and I urge police authorities to fully investigate all that transpired in the election given the attendant controversy.


“In every democratic contest there has to be one winner. I call on those aggrieved to pursue legitimate means of addressing their grievances.”

dre11:
Police Summon Lagos Residents For Not Accepting To Pay Over ‘300% Hike In Waste Disposal Bill’



https://saharareporters.com/2023/04/19/nigeria-police-summon-lagos-residents-not-accepting-pay-over-300-hike-waste-disposal

NIGERIANS were full of hope that the Professor Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, would conduct a general election in 2023 which would surpass the highly-applauded exercise handled by Prof. Attahiru Jega’s regime in 2015 in acceptability. But the fiasco of the presidential election on February 25, 2023 has continued to beget weird offspring in the subsequent subnational elections.

In the same manner that Prof. Yakubu abandoned the INEC guidelines in the collation of results and announced the winner, the Commission’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Adamawa State, Hudu Ari, usurped the role of the Returning Officer, RO, Professor Mohammed Mele, and announced the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Aishatu Dahiru (Binani) as the winner of the governorship election.

Adamawa was one of the states in which the March 11, 2023 governorship election was declared inconclusive by INEC, and bye-elections rescheduled for April 16, 2023. Ari made the announcement off-the-cuff while results from 10 local government areas were yet to be collated. His strange behaviour had manifested during the governorship election when he was overheard in a voice note ordering electoral officials to “rig” the election in Binani’s favour, an allegation Ari has never debunked.

Ari and his cohorts were responsible for the fake news and Twitter trend announcing Binani as the “first elected female governor” while elections were still ongoing on March 11, 2023. Immediately after Ari’s illegal announcement of Binani as the winner over the weekend, she gave an “acceptance” speech.

Beyond the sick comedy that these behavioural displays portrayed, Ari and a good number of INEC officials did not even bother to pretend about their partisanship. For instance, the Lagos State REC, Segun Agbaje, committed hate speech against an ethnic group resident in the state. Top INEC officials were not only accused of brazenly rigging elections but also violated the constitutional rights of fellow Nigerians with impunity. Calls on the INEC Chairman, Yakubu, to repost some of the openly biased officials fell on deaf ears.

We expect the services of Hudu Ari and any other INEC official who violated the electoral law to be terminated while they are brought to book where they contravened the law. Elections in this country will never be trusted again if these shameless lawbreakers are allowed to continue in their posts after slaps on the wrist.

INEC under Prof. Yakubu has really hit the rock bottom. We must resume the journey to redeem the image of our electoral umpire from scratch. Erring INEC officials, including RECs, must go. We must return to the Uwais Commission Report of 2009 and adopt its sterling recommendations that will truly guarantee INEC’s independence. No amount of innovations will yield results if the same set of rotten eggs continue to man our elections.

References1:
https://dailypost.ng/2023/04/19/ucl-lampard-sets-unwanted-record-as-chelsea-manager-after-real-madrid-defeat/