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Nigeria’s military authorities have acknowledged that they goofed over their statement that all but eight of the 129 abducted school girls of a secondary school in Chibok, Borno state, have been freed from their Boko Haram captors.
The statement
was flatly denied by the principal of the school and the parents of the girls.
A statement
late on Thursday from Defence Headquarters spokesman Maj. General Chris
Olukolade concurred with this.
“In the light
of the denial by the principal of the school, the Defence Headquarters wishes
to defer to the school principal and governor’s statement on the number of
students still missing and retract (the) … earlier statement while the search
continues,” Olukolade said.
“So far, we
have seen 20 students, many of whom escaped from the abductors. The principal
of the school has so far received (them),” Borno state Education Commissioner
Inuwa Kubo said from the school.
“Many of the
parents are still waiting in pain.”
Kubo said the
girls who were free had escaped, rather than been rescued by Nigerian troops.
Olukolade did not comment on that claim in his statement.
An uncle of
two teenagers snatched by Boko Haram militants from the government secondary
school at Chibok in Borno state said the search was still going on.
“Two of my
nieces, Laraba and Hauwa, are still missing, … 20 other girls from our village
are missing,” Isaiah Rabo told Reuters by phone from Chibok. His daughter was
among those who escaped from the abductors.
The West
African Examinations Council (WAEC) has arrested a 20-year-old student for
swindling candidates participating in the ongoing 2014 May/June Senior School
Certificate Examinations.
Mr. Stephen
Taiwo, WAEC’s Director of Administration, said at a media briefing in Lagos
that the suspect confessed to having designed a Website where he claimed to
supply solutions to examination questions.
Taiwo said the
council got wind of the scam through one of its members of staff, who found a
poster advertising the site during a field work.
According to
the director, the poster indicated the amount to be paid by interested persons
and the account number to pay the money into.
“When we got
the alert, we decided to play along by subscribing to the Website in disguise.
What they normally do is, as soon as the money is paid by unsuspecting
candidates, they stay around the examination venue.
“And as soon
as the examination is about 30 minutes on, they quickly smuggle out the
question paper. On getting the paper, they try to get solutions to the
questions, most of which are incorrect, and then upload to the `Rogue Website’
for their subscribers, who might have smuggled in a handset.”
The official
said that the council contacted the bank which the Website designers advertised
and using another name, paid N4, 000 into the named account, in a bid to arrest
the perpetrators.
Taiwo said
that on getting an alert of the money, the suspect quickly went to the bank to
withdraw the money through the ATM.
According to
him, the suspect, on getting to the bank, slotted in his ATM card and it was
seized, which led him to complain to the bank officials.
Taiwo said
that the officials asked him to get another card and while he was trying to
process it, he was arrested.
He said that
the suspect would be handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) for prosecution.
The suspect,
who said he had just gained admission into the Osun State Polytechnic to study
Computer Science, confessed that he was working in collaboration with an
accomplice.
He said the
candidates normally paid between N2, 000 and N5, 000 into the account for the
solutions to the examination questions.
The suspect
said that he normally sent part of the largesse to his accomplice, by
converting them to recharge cards.
He said it was
his first time of getting involved in the crime and pleaded that WAEC should temper
justice with mercy.
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Determined to draw the attention of the whole nation to the multi-various positive transformation that has been the lot of Osun State in the last four years in the area of economic development, a large number of professionals based in the state will be coming together under the auspices of a non-governmental organization, the People’s Welfare League (PWL), to organize an economic summit where stakeholders from different parts of the state and nationwide will share ideas on how to safeguard the achievements so far recorded in the areas of economic development and youth empowerment with a view to setting agenda for future improvement.
Tagged “Orisun
Aje 2014”, the two-day summit which will hold in Osogbo, the state capital,
between 29 and 30 April is to have the theme “Crux of Osun’s Developmental
Masterplan: Analyzing a radical economic
Paradigm Shift” .
According to
Comrade Biodun Agboola, Coordinator of the Peoples Welfare League, which is the
convener of the summit, the programme is expected to capture and expose to the
whole world the new potentials and opportunities now opening up in the state as
a result of the developmental and transformational strides the state has taken
in the past 40 months of the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola administration.
In Agboola’s
words, “Osun has been transformed from a backwater, agrarian state into one of
Nigeria’s largest and most vibrant economies through a masterful plan that
combines prudence, strategic focus and mass talent mobilization. The latest
testament to this fact is the Rennaisance Capital’s recent description of Osun
as Nigeria’s 7th largest economy even though the state is 34th on the revenue
allocation table and there is need to discuss the merits and security of these
outstanding economic gains”.
He further
stated that “The National Bureau of Statistics has also rated Osun favourably
in key areas such as per capital income, employment generation and
infrastructure development, among others. The last 40 months have seen the
State of Osun transform into a land of increasing opportunities and investment
destination with attendant impacts on overall socio-economic vibrancy”.
Comrade Agboola
noted that as the state enters the phase of electing a new chief executive in
the approaching August 9 Gubernatorial election, the need to showcase the level
of transformation witnessed so far under the Aregbesola administration as
benchmark for future rating of whoever will mount the saddle next cannot be
over-emphasised.
“Since
the administration of Colonel Leo Ajiborisa, our organization has always been
on ground to critique the annual budgets and performances of each
administration with a view to establishing how people- driven and
development-centered the policies are. What Osun has witnessed in the last four
years marked a total paradigm shift and a new benchmark which must be properly
showcased to the whole world”, he explained.
Thursday 17 April 2014
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Ogun State
Police Command has arrested a middle aged man, for raping a woman and beheading
her two year old boy in Ofada town in Obafemi/Owode local government area of
the State.
The suspect, identified
as Mamodu Bashir Ibrahim, allegedly committed the crime after he had a carnal
knowledge of the mother of the boy, while she detoured to ease herself in a
bush in the town.
The suspect
reportedly trailed the woman into the bush, pounced on her, despite the baby
being tied to her back and dragged both into an uncompleted building.
Police
believed the man raped the woman, then stabbed her. He was also alleged to have
severed the boy’s head.
It was
gathered that someone who smelled a foul play, trailed the suspect and his
captives into the building.
The suspect
was said to have initially escaped. The woman was rescued. But the effort came
too late for the boy. He was dead and his severed head had been taken away.
When he was
arrested, the suspect led men from the Criminal Investigation Department, CID
of the State Police Command to the scene to locate the head, but it could not
be seen again.
Only the knife
with which the suspect perpetrated the act was discovered at the scene.
The Police
Public Relations Officer, DSP, Olumuyiwa Adejobi said the suspect was arrested
through the help of some community leaders, who monitored him after he fled the
area to Ibafo, a nearby community, immediately he committed the crime.
Adejobi added
that further interrogation of the suspect revealed that he had sold the head of
the boy to a woman in Ibadan, adding that the detectives from the State Police
Command are on the trail of the buyer.
Speaking with
journalists at the scene of the crime, which was filled with blood stains, the
suspect confirmed he raped the woman, killed her son and severe his head which
he claimed he threw away into the bush.
He also
informed the detectives that he has an accomplice, who resides in Ibadan.
A woman said
to be mentally-challenged escaped being lynched by an angry mob on Wednesday
after she was allegedly caught with N100,000, two BlackBerry phones and an
android phone.
Source
revealed that scenario happen around Onabanjo Street, Oworonshoki, Lagos State,
around 10am.
It was
gathered that two ATM cards were also found on the woman.
A resident,
James Ogunkoya, revealed that when some youths saw the woman with some money,
they trailed her into a compound.
It was learnt
that the youths, who suspected her of being a ritual killer, pounced on her and
beat her to a pulp.
Ogunkoya said,
“Around 10am, I saw a crowd around an unkempt woman. Some of the youths picked
up sticks and were beating the woman. When I asked what was wrong, they said
they found three phones and N100,000 with the her.
“They said the
woman was not mad, but was only pretending to be mad so that she could easily
perpetrate evil acts.”
Source says:
youths started suspecting her when she was overheard speaking like a normal
person with somebody two days ago.
“Some guys
were convinced that the woman was only pretending because they overheard her
talking with a man on Monday night. They also wondered where a mad woman could
have found the phones,” he added.
However, policemen
attached to the Oworonshoki Police Division were alerted by the noise of the
crowd gathered at the scene.
A police team
was said to have rescued the woman from the mob.
A policeman,
who spoke to newsmen on the condition of anonymity, said attempts to verify the
allegations were fruitless.
He said, “I
have been asking the woman questions all day, but she has just been incoherent.
She has even refused to tell us her name. At some point, she just started
crying, so I let her sleep. I don’t even know if she is a mad woman.
“Also, when
she was arrested and we searched her, we did not find any money, phone or ATM
cards on her. Nobody has come to write any statement here at the station.”
Wednesday 16 April 2014
A 32 year-old
woman, Rahman Raliat, has been arraigned before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court,
Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, for allegedly stabbing her co-tenant, Sulaimon
Jamiu with a broken bottle on his head, face and hand over a bathroom key.
Raliat, a
resident of Prince Abolaji Avenue, Imolete, Alaga, Baba Adisa Village, Ibeju
Lekki, Lagos, was arrested by the police at Elemoro Division, Ibeju Lekki,
Lagos and charged on a count charge of felony to wit, stabbing occasioning
grievous bodily harm.
According to
the police, trouble began between the two tenants when Raliat allegedly went to
collect the bathroom key from a co-tenant (a woman) inside Jamiu’s apartment.
It was
reported that Jamiu was not pleased that Raliat came to his apartment to ask
for the key and accused her of monitoring his visitor.
When Jamiu
challenged Raliat, an argument ensued between them which led to a fight during
which the accused allegedly went for a bottle, broke it and stabbed the victim
on his head, face and hand.
Raliat
allegedly fled after committing the alleged offence but after three days she
was arrested at a hideout and charged to court.
The offence,
the police prosecutor, Inspector I. Okeke said, contravened Section 243 of the
Criminal Code of Lagos State, 2011.
The accused,
however pleaded not guilty to the charge and the presiding magistrate Y. R.
Pinheiro admitted her on bail with the sum of N50, 000 with two sureties in
like sum.
The accused
was, however, taken to Kirikiri Prisons, Apapa, Lagos State, pending when she
will fulfill the bail condition.
The matter was
adjourned till 5 May, 2014 for mention.
Additional from PM
Rescue boats and helicopters scrambled to pluck passengers, most of them high school students, from a ferry as it slowly sank off the southwest coast of South Korea early Wednesday.
Out of the 459
people on board, 164 have been rescued, the security ministry said. Many jumped
from the listing ship to the freezing waters below.
At least two
people — a woman and a student — were confirmed dead. Another 293 remain
unaccounted for, the ministry said.
A South Korean
ship with over 400 people on board sank off the country's southwestern coast
Wednesday.
A South Korean
ship with over 400 people on board sank off the country’s southwestern coast
Wednesday.
By afternoon,
the ship was virtually submerged. At least two people are dead, with hundreds
rescued and many unaccounted for.
The rescue
operation was still underway Wednesday evening, hours after the ferry first
sent out distress signal.
Authorities
could not immediately say what caused the ship to sink. The weather at the time
of the incident in the area was clear.
The ferry,
Sewol, was carrying 325 students; 15 teachers; 30 crew members; and 89 other
passengers.
The school
group left from the port city of Incheon, just west of Seoul, for a four-day
trip to the resort island of Jeju.
Around 9 a.m.
local time, the ferry sent out its first distress call. It had begun to list.
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| As the ship listed badly, authorities ordered many passengers to jump into the water. (Photo: CNN |
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| South Korea’s president ordered all available vessels, along with special operations divers, to contribute to the rescue effort. (Photo: CNN) |
A rescued
student, Lim Hyung Min, told CNN affiliate YTN that he heard a loud bump. The
ferry began to sink after that. Everyone was ordered to don life jackets and
jump, he said. Lim said he jumped into the sea before swimming to a rescue
vessel.
“I had to swim
a bit to get to the boat to be rescued,” he said. “The water was so cold and I
wanted to live.”
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| Rescue boats scrambled to pluck passengers from the ferry as it sank into freezing water.(Photo: CNN) |
The rescue
operation includes the U.S. Navy ship USS Bonhomme Richard, which was
responding to the scene. It dispatched helicopters to the area, the Navy said.
Dive teams
have been going in and out of the submerged ship looking for bodies. But low
visibility has made their task difficult.
Passenger Kim
Seung Mok said that, despite his efforts and those of others, he couldn’t get
to several passengers on one of the decks.
“I
stayed till the last to rescue people at the hall,” Kim told YTN. “But the
water was coming in so fast (that) some didn’t make it out.”
The Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, April 14, 2014 arraigned
Sunkami Odewande, before Justice S. S Ogunsanya of Lagos State High Court,
sitting in Ikeja, on a 4- count charge bordering on obtaining money by false
pretences and possession of documents containing false information.
One of the
charges read,
"Sunkami
Odewande sometime on or about December 2012 at Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial
Division with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of 1,500 USD (One Thousand
Five Hundred United State of America Dollars) from Kate Melock by falsely
pretending that the said sum represented over payments due to you from the
purchase of a car from Kate Melock which representation you knew to be
false"
He pleaded not
guilty to the charges.
EFCC counsel,
Zainab Etu asked for a trial date and prayed that the defendant be remanded in
prison custody.
However
defence counsel, Sunday Ikeh told the court that he had filed an application
for bail for his client.
Justice
Ogunsanya granted him bail in the sum of One Million Naira and two sureties in
like sum.
The
case was adjourned to June 2, 2014 for commencement of trial.
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The
22-year-old father, surnamed Chung, has been arrested by the police officers of
the city of Daegu, southeast of Seoul after authorities found a garbage bag
containing the badly decomposed body of his son, according to Hindustan Times.
A CCTV footage
of the father casually fixing his hair while carrying the said garbage bag
inside an elevator has been revealed and aired in different TV stations in
South Korea, bringing shock and anger to citizens across the country.
The incident
was reported just as the debate of whether online games are as addictive as
smoking or drinking was at its peak in the Asian nation. Shortly before the
incident, the ruling conservative party was in the news for pushing the bill to
classify online gaming as being potentially addictive as other vices, such as
cigarette smoking and alcohol.
According to
reports, the infant son’s mother left the city February to work as a factory
worker, leaving the 22-year-old father alone in the city with their child.
However,
Chung, reportedly heavily addicted to video games, failed to provide proper
nourishment to their infant child, opting instead to spend his days inside
internet shops while leaving his infant son to suffer in the house without
food. Allegedly, the father only went home every two or three days to sparingly
feed his son.
According to
official police reports, the father discovered that his son has succumbed to
starvation on March 7 and left the body to rot inside his apartment for another
month until he decided to dispose the corpse of his infant son in a garden one
mile away.
He then
initially reported his baby missing, but soon confessed to disposing the body
of his own infant son.
Online video
games have been a problem in South Korea for years. The country boasts itself
as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world. According
to Statista, South Korea’s internet connection is the fastest in the world,
with speeds averaging at 13.3 mbps.
However, their
advancement in the field may have indirectly caused many cases of
gaming-related parental neglect that has been reported to happen in the country
for the past years.
In 2010, a
Korean couple was arrested for starving their real life child to death while
raising a virtual child online.
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A woman was
disgraced publicly after she was caught sleeping with a married man in his
home. See the video after the cut and leave a comment please…
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Tuesday 15 April 2014
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Two seminal
figures redefined juju music in Nigeria-Evangelist Ebenezer Obey and King Sunny
Ade (KSA). From generation to generation, they churned out great music that
wooed both the elite and plebeians, and have to their credits, evergreen songs
and albums.
Interestingly,
both icons are not getting younger but a dynamic Gospel Miliki act, Dele Agbeyo
a.k.a. Dele Gold, has acquired the expertise, creative energy and mastery of
these figures’ works to create a peculiar style that is a seamless fusion of
both Obey and KSA to carve his own identity.
Listening to
Dele Gold’s sophomore album, “Eekun Ewole,” one would encounter a perfect mix
of praise, wisdom, proverbs, confession, commentary, accolades, figure of
speech that carries deep spiritual and secular import.
His blend of
bass guitar and extensive use of keyboard compliment the drums and vocal
strength to bring out melodious tunes. For Dele Gold, his songs, he said, come
from his unique personal experience with the people he interacts with and what
he sees around him. From the title of the album, Every Knee “Gbogbo Eekun,” it
shows the central theme of the album is prayers and praise. Another track, “Asa
Yoruba L'ewa” reflects how much he values and gives premium to his Yoruba
heritage, especially now that most artistes of his generation desecrate and
destroy values and turn deaf ears to ethical issues. “Nigeria Adara,” on the
other hand, is a special message to all Nigerian leaders, men and women alike.
In all, it is
a uniquely crafted album that will overwhelm his audience as he takes to the
centrestage, come April 20th, 2014 at the 10 Degrees Events Centre, Plot A2
Billings Way, Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos, to launch the album, “Every Knee, Eekun
Eewole and Divine Warning.”
The launch,
which promises to witness a constellation of stars including gospel sensation,
Atorise; award-winning Juju act, Abel Dosumu, better known as Mega 99, will be
anchored by ace broadcaster, Ifankaleluya and star actor, Saidi Balogun. To add
jokes to the event are; irrepressible MC Murphy and promising Akin Olagbade.
Though a long list of personalities have been confirmed to attend the launch,
notable guests include Evangelist Ebenezer Obey and Tungba gospel king, Yinka
Ayefele amongst others.
This man is the
man behind the Nyanya Motor Park, Abuja bomb blast. What a life!!! Of what benefit
is it for a man to kill himself and so many others without any good reason? Heaven
or Hell?
May the soul
of the dead rest in perfect peace. Amen.
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Residents of
OMPADEC area in the Amarata suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, were yesterday,
gripped with fear, following the shooting to death of an 18-year- old youth by
armed men suspected to be cultists.
The incident,
which caused pandemonium in the neighbourhood, occurred in front of the house
of a chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC.
While many
residents of the area claimed that the killing of the youth was as a result of
violence between two notorious cult groups in the state, others feared that it
might have political undertone.
The deceased,
according to eyewitnesses, was pursued by his assailants, who caught up with
him in front of the residence of a chieftain of the APC and dealt him machete
cuts before he was shot dead.
It was learnt
that the gunmen, numbering four, had at 7p.m.,
Sunday, pursued their victim, whose name is yet to be ascertained, to
the OMPAEC area and caught up with him in front of the residence of the APC
chieftain, dealt machete cuts on him and shot him at close range.
The attack
caused residents and shop owners in the usually busy area to run for safety.
However,
the APC chieftain was not at home when the incident occurred.
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The Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Lagos has arrested a set of identical twins for robbing a factory belonging to Reckitt Benckiser, producers of Dettol.
Police
authorities told Newsmen that the duo, Taiye and Kehinde Balogun, were welders
and were hired by a robbery gang to break into the firm’s warehouse in May last
year.
The robbery
gang, it was learnt, robbed the company of soap noodles and chemicals worth
N17m.
It was learnt
that after the robbery, SARS detectives launched an investigation into the case
and the prime suspects were arrested in February.
The suspects
were said to have implicated the twins who were subsequently arrested.
The twins, who
are both 27-years-old, told Newsmen that they were not aware that they were
being hired for a robbery operation.
Kehinde said,
“Around May last year, we were called by one guy known as Yankee who lives near
our workshop in Agbara. He took us to meet one Deji.
“Deji claimed
to be a storekeeper at the factory, saying he had misplaced his key. He took us
to the warehouse and said we should break the locks open.
“After
breaking the locks, they told us to help them load the chemicals into some
trucks. They said they were under instructions to transfer the cartons to
another warehouse.
“After helping
them load the goods, we were given N10,000 each.”
Detectives,
however, told Newsmen that investigations revealed that the twins were aware
that they were engaged in a robbery operation.
Other suspects
arrested along with the twins said the twins had been informed of the operation
beforehand.
A policeman
said, “When we made initial arrest, the twins claimed they were pawns in the
operation and knew little, but when we interrogated the other suspects, they
said the twins were just as guilty.
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Wonders shall
never cease. A 43-year-old herbalist, Adeyemi Sakiru, has been arraigned before
the Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s court, for allegedly defrauding a banker,
Ayokunle Adebayo, of N2m.
Sakiru, who
allegedly claimed to be a licensed traditionalist in Lagos State, was also said
to have threatened to kill Adebayo’s aunt after the latter demanded the refund
of the money.
It was learnt
that Adebayo had been down with an unknown ailment that saw him suspended from
work several times.
He was said to
have gone from different religious houses to healing homes in search of
solution without result, until he visited Sakiru’s herbal house at Somolu area
of the state.
Sakiru was
said to have demanded N10, 000 to prepare a special concoction for the banker’s
ailment.
We gathered
that after taking the herbal preparation, Adebayo regained his health
temporarily.
From that
period, Adebayo was said to have been paying the defendant N10,000 per month
for the preparation of the concoction.
However, it
was learnt that the herbalist made a demand of N2m to buy more herbal
ingredients for a final solution to the ailment.
Trouble
started when the ailment persisted, and the banker was reportedly sacked from
his bank job.
The defendant
was said to have been approached for a refund of the money he collected, but he
refused to pay.
The police
said Sakiru sent a text message to the aunt of the complainant, Mrs. Oladunni
Afolabi, saying that he would kill her if she did not let go of the matter.
He was then
arrested and arraigned on eight counts of fraud, stealing, obtaining under
false pretences and threat to life.
The police
prosecutor, DSP Etim Nkankuk, said the offences were punishable under sections
409, 312, 285, 56, 378 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.
The defendant
pleaded not guilty to the charges and elected summary trial.
His defence
counsel asked for his bail in liberal terms, which was not opposed by Nkankuk.
The Chief
Magistrate, Mrs. A.A. Demi-Ajayi, admitted him to bail in the sum of N500, 000
with two sureties in like sum.
The
matter was adjourned till May 12, 2014.
Twenty-six-year-old
Babalola Kunle has been remanded in prison for allegedly killing his friend,
Olasunkanmi Monday, by pushing him into the river in a bid to recover his
missing phone.
The incident
happened at Idiroko Village, Ikorodu area of Lagos.
The police
said Kunle had suspected the deceased to have stolen his phone.
He then gave
him a chase on the fateful day, before pushing him into the Majidun River,
where he died.
The deceased
was said to have drowned after efforts to rescue him failed.
Kunle was
thereafter arraigned before an Ebute Meta Magistrate’s court on one count of
murder.
The charge
reads, “That you, Babalola Kunle, and others at large, on or about March 16,
2014, at Idiroko Village, Ikorodu, Lagos in the Lagos Magisterial District, did
conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit; murder and thereby committed
an offence punishable under Section 231 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State,
Nigeria, 2011.
“That you did
unlawfully kill one Olasunkanmi Monday, aged 24 years, by pushing him into the
Majidun River.”
The
defendant’s plea was not taken.
The police
prosecutor, Corporal Cyriacus Osuji filed application for the remand of the
defendant in prison. He said the remand would also help the police to obtain
legal advice from the state’s Directorate of Public Prosecution.
The defence
counsel, Spurgeon Ataene and O.C. Osordi, however, objected the remand
application.
Osordi said,
“Having listened to the application for remand, it is the same Section 264 (1)
of the Law that gives the court the power to enquire into the case to see if
there is probable cause for remand. And if the court is not satisfied, it may
consider subsection 5, which gives the go ahead to admit the defendant to
bail.”
The
magistrate, Mr. E.O. Ogunkanmi, called the Investigating Police Officer,
Sergeant Babatunde John for the outcome of his investigation.
John said the
deceased had been accused of stealing the defendant’s phone, which led to a
chase.
“He pushed him
into the Majidun River. He was brought out dead. His corpse was then taken to
the Ikorodu General Hospital,” he added.
The suspect
was said to have been arrested after the matter was reported at Owutu Police
station, Ikorodu.
Ogunkanmi
ruled that Kunle be remanded in the Ikoyi Prison pending DPP legal advice.
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Tragedy struck at Infinity Hotel few weeks back, April 1st to be precise. A student of the University of Benin has drowned in their hotel swimming pool in the Ipaja area of Lagos State.
Information reaching
us has it that the victim, Chukwudi Nwaobi, had gone to relax at hotel which is
located at Abesan Estate, on that fateful day when the tragic incident
occurred.
The family of
the 20-year-old student of Sociology, however, blamed the hotel for the
incident.
The elder
brother to the deceased, Chuks, told revealed that if the life guard had been
on duty at the time of the incident, his brother would not have died.
However,
source has it that Mr. Nwaobi was a good swimmer and wondered how he could have
drowned.
Chukwudi’s
brother explains: “In the morning of that day, my mother sent Chukwudi to give
someone some money. After delivering the money, he called my mum to say he
wanted to get to Iyana Ipaja to do some shopping as he was due to return to
school a few days later.
“After
sometime, my mother called him on the telephone, but he did not pick. After
trying for hours without success, my mother informed me and I also started
calling him but his phone just kept on ringing. Just before we were about to
report the matter to the police, someone finally picked up to say my brother
had been arrested and we should come to Ipaja Police Division.
“On getting to
the station, the police were acting funny. Later, we were allowed into the
DPO’s office where we met the manager of the hotel. They then explained to us
that my brother was dead and his corpse had been deposited at the Mainland
Hospital, Yaba.”
Chuks said the
information relayed to the family implied that the hotel was negligent.
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The Deputy Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Ikare branch, Ondo State, simply called Felix (31), has been allegedly stabbed to death by a woman suspected to be his girl friend, Fasilat.
Sources said
the late Felix took Fasilat to a guest house, where they had a disagreement.
It was learnt
that Felix phoned a friend and informed him that he was having problems with
Fasilat.
He was said to
have told his friend to meet him at a hospital close to the guest house.
When the
friend got to the hospital, he met Felix dead.
It was learnt
that the deceased was stabbed with a broken bottle and had bite marks on his
body.
Police
spokesman Wole Ogodo said he had not been properly briefed on the incident.
A source at
the Ikare Police Division said Fasilat had been arrested and appeared to have
been under the influence of drugs.
It was learnt
that Fasilat claimed the late Felix wanted to rape her.
Monday 14 April 2014
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A bomb exploded in a densely populated area in Nyaya, Abuja this morning. According to source, an improvised explosive device in a luxury bus belonging to federal capital territory exploded making a huge sound which makes people to run in all direction for safety.
Eyewitness revealed that most of the other vehicles around the premises was set ablaze as a result of the explosion. The men of the federal fire service are battling to contain the situation.
However, information reaching shybellmediaonline.blogspot.com has it that not less than 200 people have died from the blast. Picture after the cut:
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