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Ten years ago, Philemon Ihediwa wrote, starred, directed
and produced his first movie in the United States. He was
one of few Nigerians in the Diaspora that ventured into
Hollywood. His movie, CONGO BOY IN THE CITY, featured
Nollywood movie stars like Kanayo. O. Kanayo and Madam
Gee. Through the years, Philemon struggled to release the
epic movie, but was constantly disturbed by the challenges
of his divorce and child support payments. He became
heartbroken, reclusive and rejected by his children. Ihed, as
he was widely known in the US, was chased by the agonies
and trauma of child support harassment, allegedly fuelled
by his ex- wife’s several court cases against him, in concert
with the North Carolina Child support enforcement.
He changed jobs occasionally, as he struggled to pay
whopping child support monthly bills. In 2013, Ihed lost
everything. He was near homeless, barely living in his
storage: he hid his pains and troubles from those close to
him until a family member mistakenly found out he was
hanging onto life where he stored his little possessions. The
family member offered him a place to start life anew.
Sometimes in the spring of 2015, Ihed moved to this small
road town, Smithfield. He wanted to be far from years of
sad memories from his marriage: he began recovery from
rejection by his children. He relocated to a small town of
Smithfield, North Carolina. On Saturday evening, police
found his bloated body in his apartment. He fell on the floor
in his bathroom, hitting his head against the bathtub.
Monday evening, Ihed, during a telephone conversation
with his female friend, Louise Gorsham, who lived “across
town”, hinted that he was not feeling well and would retire
to bed early. Ms. Gorsham pleaded with him to call her
when he woke up at sunrise. He agreed and they both
wished each other goodnight.
“The next day, I called several times throughout the day but
he did not respond to my call. I sent text messages. No
response. I waited till Wednesday to repeat calls and text
messages. I did not hear from him. I was also at work. By
Saturday afternoon, after I closed from work, I pleaded
with a coworker to drive me to Ihed’s apartment in
Smithfield, a thirty minutes ride from Raleigh. I was mad at
him. I thought he was ignoring my calls on purpose, might
be he had found another lady. But when I got to his
apartment, I noticed his car was in his parking space. I
began to smell stench coming from his door. I knew
something wasn’t right.
“Immediately, I called the Smithfield Police department and
requested a welfare check on my friend. The police arrived
few minutes later, broke into his apartment and found him
dead on the floor, bloated and oozing. My friend died lonely
from a broken heart and years of pains from being denied
relationships with his children. He loved those kids. Ihed
told me many times that his wife had, through the years,
barred his children from visiting him. She set them up
against their dad while she was busy collecting heavy child
support. That man was a very great man. All he wanted was
to be a good father to his children. But his ex wife was in
the way. Now he is gone.”
Smithfield medical examiner’s office determined that the
causes of death were seizure and possible heart attack. It
was recorded that “his body was bloated and near
decomposition when he was found in his bathroom. The
heat in the apartment accelerated decomposition process.”
The medical Examiner also concluded that Ihed might have
died five days earlier.
Unconfirmed sources say Smithfield police tried several
times to reach his ex-wife but she did not return calls
placed to her cell phone. His body was deposited in the
morgue pending notification of his next of kin, his children,
especially the first son.
The Nigerian community in RTP in association with Ngwa
Association, on Monday attempted to move his remains to a
funeral home to prepare him for burial. But the funeral
home indicated that it would only honour the wishes of the
family and not community members; to protect itself from
any legal fallout. The ex-wife and their first son refused to
participate in the burial of their father. On Wednesday
afternoon, after several pleas from members of the
community to the ex-wife to encourage his 19-year-old first
son, sign a release form allowing the community to be
responsible for Ihed’s funeral, the ex-wife and first son,
George Uche, met Jebose Boulevard at a funeral home to
relinquish their rights for the final disposition of their late
father.
Jebose Boulevard assumed the right to bury Mr. Ihediwa.
This refusal confirmed the conversations trending in this
small town that the children rejected and refused Mr.
Ihediwa as their father. Jebose Boulevard, Ngwa and the
Nigerian community moved his body to the funeral home.
Nigerians in the Research Triangle Park are infuriated about
the sad death and circumstances surrounding the tragedy.
Family and close members are theorising on what drove
him to early death. A member of his extended family, who
chose to be anonymous, stated angrily, “Ihed spent every
month of the last ten years being taken to family court in
Wake County by his ex-wife for child support payment and
arrears. He paid about $1,400 in monthly child support to
that lady. She dragged him through the system. Ihed
worked very hard and suffered to pay child support. The ex-
wife accused him of being a superstar, rich and wealthy.
This man had his talent and creativity that couldn’t fetch
him money because he was abused and stressed by the ex-
wife. She took him to the cleaners. He is dead now. What
else would she claim?”
What was a bedroom whisper, gossip and innuendo had
within few days of his death, become a trending
conversation in most Africa’s community melting pots here,
grocery stores, or social gatherings, reiterating the heavy
child support monthly payments to his wife.
Court documents obtained confirmed several court cases
filed by plaintiff (Stella Ihediwa) against defendant
(Philemon. N. Ihediwa) with regards to various child
support litigations (Case File: 06CV018338). The child
support case was still ongoing until his death. In a recent
court case filed on April 2014, the court upheld an earlier
ruling of $859.00 order against Ihed as child support.
Arrears as of April 16th 2014 was $5,664.11.
Between 2007 and 2014, Ihed child support ranged from
$1,300 to $859.00, depending on his employment. He also
filed few cases seeking child support adjustment, as his
employment status changed.
Ihediwa and Stella were married in 1996. The marriage was
blessed with three boys. Ten years after their marriage, the
couple separated on June 23, 2006. The state of North
Carolina granted them certificate of absolute divorce on
June 18, 2010. |
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Imagine, Any Trend Would Make FP on Nairaland nw... How Beg, How Much Is Pure Water... |
sammysammy111:Yes.. Its 300. naira from NECO office.. |
kingikey01:What the Jamb Cut off Mark, School Fee, Is first choice neccesary? |
How much is their school fee, do you need to choose them in your Jamb to apply? |
Lalasticlala , have you heard about this? Don't you think the Ogun State Governor Must See This? Abeg Ccome Move To FP make he see.. |
bollify:You are Gonna Buy a Scratch Card... |
This is to notify all student that participated in the 2015 Neco November/December that the Result Had Just Finally Released. https://www.mynecoexams.com/results/images/banner.png To. Check Your Result, Simple Go to http://www.mynecoexams.com/results/default.aspx. To check your result, Iam_Tsamson |
greatbrian:#NaijaPolice.. Immagine if you had no connection, what would have happen, that would have made headline, three arrmed robbers arrested in fronnt of skye Bank, and people would have also said a lot on Nairaland like "God catch them, Bunch of thieves" when on the other hand they may be innocent...... Am not trynna be sentimental about this, all am just tryna say is common sense.... Thank God for your Life Though... |
greatbrian:You're are definitely wise, I think we reason alike, Hope those guys are not 20naira victims or some guys in jail, brought out, kill them, and put some ammunition beside them... Police is your Partner in Crime! |
lalasticlala abeg come see chin chin |
1. You got in! YAY! https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/22/23/enhanced-buzz-1413-1382500286-2.jpg You have been accepted into nursing school! This is SO EXCITING! “I’ll be a hero,” you say to yourself. 2. You get your very own stethoscope! How cool is that?!? https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/24/11/enhanced-buzz-29564-1382629799-42.jpg Which color do you choose? What kind? Adult or pediatrics? You’ve always dreamed of pediatrics, so that justifies spending $200 more than the regular one. Totally. 3. AND your very own scrubs?! Life rocks. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/24/11/enhanced-buzz-30258-1382630158-24.jpg Of course, your school makes you wear a color that make you all stand out from the rest of the hospital, to clearly label yourself as students. But whatever, it’s cool. You’re still on top of the world. 4. Time for the first class! Fundamentals. Sounds easy, right? https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/22/21/enhanced-buzz-28409-1382491162-20.jpg I mean, all it can be is taking vital signs, right? 5. WRONGO! https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr03/22/21/enhanced-buzz-27890-1382491516-11.jpg You soon learn that all answers on tests are correct, but there is only one that is the MOST correct. 6. First day of clinical! CAN'T. CONTAIN. EXCITEMENT. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr06/22/21/enhanced-buzz-23557-1382492049-0.jpg Until you soon realize that students get a lot of grunt work, and your clinical peers will quickly become your best friends. 7. Then the REAL fun begins. Like the first time you smelled C-Diff. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/24/12/enhanced-buzz-8543-1382630586-6.jpg That smell will never, EVER leave your brain. You’ve almost thrown up on a patient from the odor….a couple times. Trash can near by is always smart. 8. And your first solo bed bath. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr01/22/21/enhanced-buzz-29781-1382493126-5.jpg It never fails you get a creepy guy who asks “aren’t you gonna wash me down there?” NOPE. You can handle that yourself when I leave the room. 9. Don't forget your first shot! https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr01/24/12/enhanced-buzz-21503-1382631084-0.jpg The patient is all like “is this your first time?” Oh no, ma’am. I’ve done PLENTY of these. On oranges. 10. Getting up early, now? Not even a problem. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr05/24/12/enhanced-buzz-29687-1382631336-23.jpg And by early, that means before the sun even rises. You are lucky if you see daylight before you enter the hospital. Non nursing friends be like “oh I have to get up at 8:30, so early!” PLEASE. 11. Finally, a long weekend! I can PARTY! https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/24/12/enhanced-buzz-9084-1382631466-5.jpg LOLOL JK you have to study all weekend for those 3 tests next week. You always heard there was a non-existent social life in nursing school, now you really see what they mean. 12. 1st Semester DONE! Now come the specialty clinicals. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/24/12/enhanced-buzz-8592-1382631563-8.jpg Psych, OB, Peds, Critical Care. NOW the fun can begin, right? 13. Psych clinical- this should be interesting! https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/24/12/enhanced-buzz-8591-1382632429-13.jpg Until the patient tells you the voices in his head are telling him to throw a fire extinguisher at your head. Um. Help? 14. On second thought, some of those psych meds sound good. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr01/24/12/enhanced-buzz-20151-1382632915-4.jpg Next thing you know, you’re hitting up the school therapist for anxiety and sleep medicine. 15. Pediatrics! YES! This is the moment we've all been waiting for. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr01/24/12/enhanced-buzz-20155-1382633197-33.jpg The childrens hospitals are all so colorful and there are toys everywhere! This is what you’ve wanted your whole life! And then you hear getting a job in peds is pretty much impossible. WOMP. 16. Wait, this is only a 4 credit hour class? https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr05/22/23/enhanced-buzz-29295-1382499010-18.jpg 3 hours of in class lecture, 3 hours of online lecture, 3 hours of homework, 8 hours of clinical….Makes sense. 17. Labor and delivery time....can't decide whether to be excited or grossed out. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr05/24/13/enhanced-buzz-12678-1382635784-0.jpg YAY this is so cool! Oh wait..what’s that smell? I love being there for mom and dad! OMG stop screaming it can’t hurt THAT bad. Wait, baby is coming, woohoo! Oh gosh….wow… that’s a big baby. First breath, it’s so precious! Miracle of life! 18. While clinicals have gotten better, lectures have gotten worse. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/24/13/enhanced-buzz-18780-1382635804-0.jpg WE ALL KNOW WHAT INFECTION IS. But the professors insist on going over it for the 46th time. Time to get some online shopping done. 19. ANOTHER conversion quiz? https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/22/22/enhanced-buzz-1256-1382497124-6.jpg We’re seniors now. Do we really need to practice our conversions more? Isn’t there something else more important we could be doing? 20. Wait, is that an A? YES, I GOT AN A!!!!! https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr05/22/23/enhanced-buzz-29283-1382497267-0.jpg You mean to tell me this only counts for 1.5% of my total grade? WHAT? Whatever. I guess I’ll take what I can get. 21. With every good grade comes the bad one. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/22/23/enhanced-buzz-32650-1382497386-3.jpg These stages = 100% true. 22. Just a few more nursing diagnoses....must push through.... https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/22/23/enhanced-buzz-1760-1382497618-0.jpg You could recite the nursing handbook. 23. "I can't, I have to study..." is what your friends expect you to say when asked to hang out. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/22/23/enhanced-buzz-32650-1382498416-13.jpg And by study, you mean spend 1 hour doing mindless things on the internet followed by 30 minutes of half-reading over the notes, followed by another hour spent watching Netflix followed by 15 minutes of reading the book, followed by a 3 hour nap. 24. It's October, which means 9 weeks until Christmas! PUSH THROUGH! https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr05/22/23/enhanced-buzz-29229-1382499239-12.jpg Until you realize that this will be your last Christmas break. Ever. After this, work work work. 25. You start getting a little sentimental about your time in nursing school. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/24/13/enhanced-buzz-19536-1382636439-0.jpg After all, you have spent all of your waking hours with these people. 26. But then you suddenly remember all the late nights spent in the library. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/24/13/enhanced-buzz-19391-1382636625-1.jpg Okay, so it’s a little bittersweet. 27. Just think, only 1 more semester after this!! https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/22/23/enhanced-buzz-32650-1382498060-11.jpg Graduation is SO close! 28. You start to freak out a little. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr05/22/23/enhanced-buzz-29375-1382499908-0.jpg In less than 8 months, you will be a real nurse. Responsible for real lives. 29. Then you realize, that pinning ceremony will mark the end of an era. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr06/24/14/enhanced-buzz-10844-1382640945-26.jpg Graduation is just a step away. Through all the joys, tears, the laughter, the late nights, and the frustration, you have almost made it. 30. Congratulations on making it this far, you're an all star! https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr02/22/23/enhanced-buzz-1413-1382500286-2.jpg Finish school strong and go make differences in people’s lives. YOU ROCK! |
nairayouthcom:That's easy, the If her Mom is the next of kin to her dad! Then who who's the next of kin to her mum! The next of Kin to Her Mum an Claim the GTBank Money. As per the land stuff... How old is She, Let Her Get A Lawyer... Or atleast report to your state Ministry of Justice, Public Complaint Commission, |
Here Are List Of 2016 Jamb University CUT-OFF Mark. Imo state University (IMSU) – 180 Anambara state University (ANSU) – 180 University of Ibadan (UI) – 200 Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) – 200 Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (ABU-Zaria) – 180 Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU/UNIZIK) – 180/200 Bayero University, Kano – 180 Lagos State University (LASU) – 200 Cross River University of Technology(CRUTECH) – 180 Enugu state University of research and expertise (ESUT)-180 Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso (LAUTECH) – 200 Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) -200 Federal University Ndufu- Alike Ikwo (FUNAI)-180 University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB) – 180 Federal University of Technology Minna(FUTMINNA) -190 University of Port-Harcourt (UNIPORT) -180/200 Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) -180 Kaduna State University (KASU) -180 (first choice only) Adekunle Ajasin University-200 Lagos State Polytechnic, LASPOTECH – 180 University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) – 180 or 200 depending on course Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) -180 (first choice only) University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) -200 Rivers State University of science and technology (RSUST) -180 (first choice only) University of Agriculture Abeokuta -180 Delta state University Abraka (DELSU) -180 Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU) – 180 Ebonyi state University Abakaliki (EBSU) -180 Abia state University Uturu -180 University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) -200 (240 for medicine) University of Lagos (UNILAG) -200 Abia State University, Uturu (ABSUU) – 180 Auchi Polytechnic (Auchipoly) – 160 Minimum Jamb Score University of Abuja -180 University of Benin (UNIBEN)-200 Niger Delta University -180 Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU) – 180 This list shall be updated soon. You can check back later if you institution’s cutoff mark is not on our list yet. Lalasticlala please move to FP to help Jambite make necessary action. |
https://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ese.jpg In August 2015, Ese Oruru was reportedly abducted by one. Yinusa, her mother’s customer in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. She was thereafter taken to Kano, where he allegedly converted her to Islam and married her. Below is an info graph, showing the distance between the Southern State of Bayelsa where Ese was abducted and the Northern State of Kano where she is being held in a forced marriage. https://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Free-Ese-Now-copy1.jpg #FreeEse |
Ese Oruru and her mother, Rose, have arrived finally at
Bayelsa State from where she was abducted eight months
ago. They had flown from Abuja to Port Harcourt from where they were driven in a police vehicle to Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. The 14-year-old and her parents are currently in the Police Officers Mess in Yenagoa, where journalists have been denied entry. https://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ESE-ORUSU1.jpg Buy why does she has to frown the face? Lalasticlala weytin you think? |
Kelklein:Yes.. Its simply means.. No more option... A, B, C, D, E, you will innput the correct answer |
This is serious... I think its encoraging it! Or what does lalasticlala think? |
Lalasticlala, abeg move to FP make TY bello see Bayo ooo.... |
Ade met his friend kola, 2 years after school and he was
driving a sleek Mercedes Benz. He went home weeping and
feeling awful for himself... What Ade didn't know was that
Kola had been sent to run an errand with the
car....hmmmm
Seyi nagged her husband always for not being romantic by
not getting down to open the car door for her as Ngozi's
husband did when he dropped her at work. Seyi didn't
know that Ngozi's husband's car was faulty and the door
could only be opened from outside...
Life does not have a universal measuring tool, so create
yours and use it...
Looking at people and comparing yourself with them will
never make you happy, you'd continue to have pains of
what's not even real...
Be contented with what you have and in everything, give
thanks! Happy weekend to you!!! |
Mr. President, Economics is all about lives and livelihoods; Please Respect us, and Stop Calling us criminals for taking a honest work, not all nigerians are criminals.. The Rate Our Naira is Falling Flat is Incredible,if your CBN Governor or Minister of Finance does not get it, say the word "You're Fired" period. Nigeria needs a CBN Governor who understands the concept of micro-economics and a Finance Minister who will look the President in the eye in this economy where people have no spending power and say "Mr. President, this economy needs liquidity, let' stop making excuses with the budget and inject 1 trillion naira into the economy." People need raw cash to make things happen not TSA. If the Governor and the Minister cannot brainstorm and come up with a bail out plan for Nigerian people, then they don't deserve a pay check. Please Focus on Improving our Naira, its affecting some self-emloyed people who are hosting webdesigner, buying a domain now cost atleast #5,000, and Hosting now atlease #15,000.. And Please Stop Travelling Round the world, that cost us over $1 million dollar, approximately #400million naira per trip, We already have ambasadors there, Travel round the Country to know what each states in nigeria needs! And Please Stop complaining about the pass administration, I see it as a way of distracting nigeria from seeing your failures.. That's why we Voted you to 'Change' the economy of Nigeria in a Positive way, but what we are seeing is the Other Way around.. Thank You, TSAMSON Lalasticlala, Myd44, what's your view |
Nurses overseas may earn up to $45 an hour = 45x325 naira = 14,645 naira an Hour... Come to think of it, would you work in nigeria if you could earn your one month salary in just eight hours abroad? |
lalasticlala please move to FP |
Who can solve this riddle, I've been cracking my head to get to a reasonable conclusion. You may also wish to give a reason to why you choose this..
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The naira on Friday finally strengthened against
the dollar after weeks of free fall at the parallel
market.
The currency gained N10 to exchange at N270 to
the dollar after it nosedived to N280 on Thursday.
At the official interbank window, it gained N0.03
to close at N196.97 to the dollar.
Traders at the market told the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) that currency speculators were
afraid that the naira could sell below their
expectations and this forced them to release
foreign exchange for sale.
Meanwhile, Dr Evans Osabouhien of the
Department of Economics and Development
Studies, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, has said
that during the Yuletide, Nigerians living abroad
would be coming home with a lot of foreign
currencies.
Osabouhien said that this would help to reduce
the pressure on the foreign exchange market and
strengthen the naira. Lalasticlala Seun |
bennifield11:You're mistaken, is it only anus a Cow have, Be Anatomy Wise, Okay? |
midehi2:Iyamu and the rest were killed by the firing squad on a Saturday and Valentine’s Day of 1987 but Anini and Osunbor’s deaths were postponed to the Sanitation Day of March, the 28th of the same year. The myth of Anini came to a fiery end on the 27th of March, 1986. It was a Saturday and thousands of citizens of the then-Bendel State joyfully trooped out to watch the unceremonious exit of Anini the Law from this earthly plane. Whether he would continue his armed robbery in the Great Beyond was no one’s business, they just wanted to see him dispatched from this planet as quickly and with maximum vengeance. Apart from Anini, Monday Osunbor (also the armourer for the group, he was reputed to have single-handedly gunned down six policemen), Solomon Ihebelua Osemwenkhai (Osemenvkhore, nicknamed Akpankon, aged 22), Bernard Obi and Friday Ukponmwan were other gang members found guilty of conspiracy and armed robbery by the Second Benin Armed Robbery & Firearm Tribunal on the 9th of January. They all faced the firing squad. Anini would be cut down in a final shower of bullets on the 27th of March, 1987, before thousands of the same Nigerians he had terrified. At 11.05 am, as the bullets hit his already frail body, Anini weakly muttered his final words: Let me die reaping what I have sown. |
Lawrence Anini Anyone Ever Heard of that name? This Man Created a Dreadful fear in EDO Peoples Heart Here is The Story: Lawrence Nomanyagbon Anini (c. 1960 – March 29, 1987) was a Nigerian bandit who terrorised Benin City in the 1980s along with his sidekick Monday Osunbor. He was captured and executed for his crimes. Life Anini was born in a village about 20 miles from Benin City in present-day Edo State. Anini, dreadfully called ‘The Law’ or ‘Ovbigbo’. He migrated to Benin at an early age, learned to drive and became a skilled taxi driver. He became known in Benin motor parks as a man who could control the varied competing interests among motor park touts and operators. He later dived into the criminal business in the city and soon became a driver and transporter for gangs, criminal godfathers and thieves. Later on, he decided to create his own gang which included, Monday Osunbor, Friday Ofege, Henry Ekponwan, Eweka and Alhaji zed zed or Zegezege who was never captured. They started out as car hijackers, bus robbers and bank thieves. Gradually, he extended his criminal acts to other towns and cities far north and east of Benin. The complicity of the police is believed to have triggered Anini’s reign of terror in 1986. In early 1986, two members of his gang were tried and prosecuted against an earlier under-the-table ‘agreement’ with the police to destroy evidence against the gang members. The incident, and Anini’s view of police betrayal, is believed to have spurred retaliatory actions by Anini. In August, 1986, a fatal bank robbery linked to Anini was reported in which a police officer (Nathaniel Egharevba)and others were killed. That same month, two officers on duty were shot at a barricade while trying to stop Anini’s car. During a span of three months, he was known to have killed nine police officers. Anini’s exploits In an operation in August of 1986, the Anini team struck at First Bank, Sabongida-Ora, where they carted away N2,000. But although the amount stolen was seen as chicken feed, many persons were killed. On September 6, same year, the Anini gang snatched a Peugeot 504 car from Albert Otoe, the driver of an Assistant Inspector General of Police, Christopher Omeben. In snatching the car, they killed the driver and went to hide his corpse somewhere. It was not until three months later that the skeleton of the driver was spotted 16 kilometers away from Benin City, along the Benin-Agbor highway. A day after this attack, Anini, operating in a Passat car believed to have been stolen, also effected the snatching of another Peugeot 504 car near the former FEDECO office, in Benin. Two days after, the Anini men killed two policemen in Orhiowon Local Government of the state. Still in that month, three different robbery attacks, all pointing to Anini’s involvement, took place. They include the murder of Frank Unoarumi, a former employee of the Nigerian Observer newspapers; the killing of Mrs. Remi Sobanjo, a chartered accountant, and the stealing of the Mercedes Benz car in Benin, of the Ughelli monarch, the Ovie. Before September 1986 drew to a close, Anini struck at a gas station along Wire Road, Benin, where he stole a substantial part of the day’s sales. He shot the station’s attendant and gleefully started spraying his booty along the road for people to pick. The height of Anini’s exploits, however, took place on October 1, 1986, the Independence Day when the state’s Commissioner of Police, Casmir Igbokwe was ambushed by the gang in Benin, and nearly yanked off his nose in a hail of bullets. The police boss survived the attacks with serious injuries. Earlier that day also, the Anini men had gunned down a police man within the city Also, on October 21 of same year, the Anini robbery gang terminated the life of a Benin-based medical doctor, A.O Emojeve when they gunned him down along Textile Mill Road, in Benin. Not done, Anini and gang went and robbed the Agbor branch of African Continental Bank and carted away about N46, 000. A day after the operation, Anini, The Law, turned to a ‘Father Christmas’ as he strew wads of naira notes on the ground for free pick by market men and women at a village near Benin. Anini’s image thus loomed larger than life, dwarfing those of Ishola Oyenusi, the king of robbers in the 1970s and Youpelle Dakuro, the army deserter who masterminded the most vicious daylight robbery in Lagos in 1978, in which two policemen were killed. Anini thus spearheaded a four-month reign of terror between August and December 1986. Anini also reportedly wrote numerous letters to media houses using political tones of Robin Hood-like words, to describe his criminal acts. Worried by the seeming elusiveness of Anini and his gang members, the military President, General Ibrahim Babangida then ordered a massive manhunt for the kingpin and his fellow robbers. The police thus went after them, combing every part of Bendel State where they were reportedly operating and living. The whole nation was gripped with fear of the robbers and their daredevil exploits. However, Police manhunt failed to stop their activities; the more they were hunted, the more intensified their activities became. Some of the locals in the area even began to tell stories of their invincibility and for a while, it felt like they were never going to be caught. However, at the conclusion of a meeting of the Armed Forces Ruling Council in October 1986, General Babangida turned to the Inspector- General of Police, Etim Inyang, and asked, ‘My friend, where is Anini?’. At about this time, Nigerian newspapers and journals were also publishing various reports and editorials on the ‘Anini Challenge’, the ‘Anini Saga’, the ‘Anini Factor’, ‘Lawrence Anini – the Man, the Myth’, ‘Anini, Jack the Ripper’, and ‘Lawrence Anini: A Robin Hood in Bendel’. The Guardian asked, emphatically, in one of its reports: ‘Will they ever find Anini, “The Law”?’. His arrest Finally, it took the courage of Superintendent of Police, Kayode Uanreroro to bring the Anini reign of terror to an end. On December 3, 1986, Uanreroro caught Anini at No 26, Oyemwosa Street, opposite Iguodala Primary School, Benin City, in company with six women. Acting on a tip-off from the locals, the policeman went straight to the house where Anini was hiding and apprehended him with very little resistance. Uanreroro led a crack 10-man team to the house, knocked on the door of the room, and Anini himself, clad in underpants, opened the door. “Where is Anini,” the police officer quickly enquired. Dazed as he was caught off guard and having no escape route, Anini all the same tried to be smart. “Oh, Anini is under the bed in the inner room”. As he said it, he made some moves to walk past Uanreroro and his team. In the process, he shoved and head-butted the police officer but it was an exercise in futility. Uanreroro promptly reached for his gun, stepped hard on Anini’s right toes and shot at his left ankle. Anini surged forward but the policemen took hold of him and put him in a sitting position. They then pumped more bullets into his shot leg and almost severed the ankle from his entire leg. Already, anguished by the excruciating pains, the policemen asked him, “Are you Anini?” And he replied, “My brother, I won’t deceive you; I won’t tell you lie, I’m Anini.” He was from there taken to the police command headquarters where the state’s Police Commissioner, Parry Osayande, was waiting. While in the police net, Anini who had poor command of English and could only communicate in pidgin, made a whole lot of revelations. He disclosed, for instance that Osunbor, who had been arrested earlier, was his deputy, saying that Osunbor actually shot and wounded the former police boss of the state, Akagbosu Anini was shot in the leg, transferred to a military hospital, and had one of his legs amputated. That was after Monday Osunbor was also captured.When Anini’s hideout was searched, police recovered assorted charms, including the one he usually wore around his waist during “operations”. It was instructive that after Anini was captured and dispossessed of his charms, the man who terrorised a whole state and who was supposed to be fearless suddenly became remorseful, making confessions. This was against public expectation of a daredevil hoodlum who would remain defiant to the very end. Revelations on Iyamu, others Shortly after the arrest of Anini and co, the dare-devil robbers began to squeal, revealing the roles played by key police officers and men, in the aid ing and abetting of criminals in Bendel State and the entire country. Anini particularly revealed that Iyamu, who was the most senior police officer shielding the robbers, would reveal police secrets to them and then, give them logistic supports such as arms, to carry out robbery operations. He further revealed that Iyamu, after each operation, would join them in sharing the loot. It was further exposed how Iyamu planned to kill Christopher Omeben, an Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Intelligence and Investigation. But Iyamu was later to be disappointed as the assailants dispatched to eliminate Omeben were only able to kill his driver, Otue, a sergeant. Iyamu, whom the robbers fondly referred to as ‘Baba’, reportedly had choice buildings in Benin City; being how he invested the loots he obtained from men of the underworld Trial and execution Due to amputation of his leg, Anini was confined to a wheelchair throughout his trial. Iyamu, on his part, denied ever knowing and collaborating with Anini, but Anini The Law furiously retorted, “You are a shameless liar!” Anini had accused him before Justice James Omo-Agege in the High Court of Justice, off Sapele Road in Benin City. Of the 10 police officers Anini implicated, five were convicted. The robbery suspects, including Iyamu, were sentenced to death. But in passing his judgement, Justice Omo-Agege remarked, “Anini will forever be remembered in the history of crime in this country, but it would be of unblessed memory. Few people if ever, would give the name to their children.” Their execution took place on March 29, 1987. Lalasticlala
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