On the 27th of March 2019, members of the Neo-Black Movement aka Black Axe confraternity led by their former leader by name Mr Okwudili Onuora (aka Bleeping Ayaya) attacked some innocent citizens in Enugu depot; killed one and maimed two other persons.
Suspects involved in the shooting have been apprehended and handed over to the police.
The alleged master minders are as follows: Orji ogbonna Orji, Okwudili Onuora (bleeping ayaya), Nonso ochi, Onyekwere Emmanuel (Ocha nupeng), Chikelue Okonkwo (Saint), Chidi Okoye (Alabi's Broda), Chielo Simeon, Okechukwu Chukwunwike (Mighty).
Confessional statements from the suspects fingered the Commissioner of Transport Mr Vitus Okechi as their pay master and on his orders carried out the ugly scenario at Enugu Depot on the said date.
IPMAN Enugu state, armed with available evidence, has insisted on transfer of the suspects to the State Criminal Investigation Department of the Nigeria Police Force in the state, only to discover on Monday to their amazement that 6 out of the 7 apprehended suspects have been freed by the police and are now threatening the lives of the officials of the Association and Mr Tagbo Nnamani.
IPMAN Enugu chapter through its social media handle (Enugu state Chapter) released a statement asking the Inspector General of the Police Force to intervene in the matter and ensure that justice is done.
The Orthopaedic Department of Babcock University Teaching Hospital just achieved a great feat, as it performed its first successful spinal surgery. Kelechukwu Onuoha, Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon with Babcock University Teaching Hospital, BUTH, who confirmed the successful spinal surgery, said it was carried out under general anaesthesia.
The patient was a middle-aged female with multi-level “spinal stenosis”.
Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spaces within the spine, which can put pressure on the nerves that travel through the spine. The condition occurs most often in the lower back and the neck. Some people with spinal stenosis may not have symptoms.
According to Dr. Kelechukwu, the procedure uwas a revision spinal surgery L2 – L5 lumber spinal decompression and instrumentation.
"The 59-years-old patient, who asked for protection of her identity, had undergone a spinal surgery five years earlier in another hospital,” he said.
As the race for the Speaker of the House of Reps in the 9th Assembly heats up, the Chairman of the House Committee on Maritime Safety and Education, Hon Mohammed Umaru Bago, a returning member of the House of Reps from Niger state has declared his intention to vie for the top office.
The leadership of the APC had earlier zoned the position to the South-West Zone and adopted the house leader Hon Femi Gbajabiamila as the choice of the party for the position.
However speaking at his Campaign Headquarters in Abuja, Hon Bago declared that
he was coming out to slug it out this time around to correct the “injustice” the North Central has continued to suffer in the country’s balance of power, lamenting that the Zone had never produced either the Speaker or the Deputy since advent of democracy in the country 20 years ago.
Hon Bago who had been in political camp of President Muhammad Buhari all along said the party had no basis for insisting on a zone that has serially dominated governance in the last 20 years, saying: “What’s the southwest’s contribution to the party’s victory in the last elections compared to that of the North Central? The North Central zone had over 500,000 votes higher, the records are there for verification.”
According to him, “as such, we deserve the position, not only as a state but also as a zone. So nobody can say he wants to expel us from this party. And no one will singlehandedly take over the structure of the legislature as well as the party.
“Apart from the zoning argument, if you say the South must get something, why insist on South West, why not South-South or the South East?
“But then, in terms of representation in the party and government, the South-South has the chairmanship of the party, and the Southwest has VP, what does North Central have? Nothing, so, in the interest of equity, justice and fair play, the party should allow the North Central to have the slot in the dispensation.”
“The South-South, North East, South East and South West have also produced 5 deputy speakers among themselves since 1999. What does the North Central has in the entire equation, and they want us to keep mute? Who’s speaking for the zone that has never been recognised for keeping faith with the party?
“Despite all the crisis and challenges bedevilling the zone under the APC administration, we stayed the course for the party and the president, delivering more than 70 per cent of votes cast.”
On how he would secure the support of the majority of members to secure the seat, Bago stated he intended to collaborate with his colleagues from Niger State and members from the Zone to reach out to the members who also have the belief that the North Central Zone had actually been marginalised for too long.
Also speaking, the Director General of Campaign Organisation and a former member of the House, Hon. Bimbo Daramola stressed the need for the APC to uphold equity in its power-sharing arrangements among the six geo-political zones in the country and be guided by the constitution.
According to him,”we are at this point today where a father who has six children with an equal number of meat in the plate decides to give four to three and asked the remaining three to share two. It’s only a wicked father who does that. Equity demands that when someone has worked very hard, he should be compensated for his hard work.
“Today, the difference between the votes from North Central and Southwest is about 500,000, and nobody seems to be speaking for the zone on the issue of who’s best suitable for the position of speaker, and I say without any equivocation that Hon. Bago is best suited for the post.
“Supporting Hon Bago is also like a Public Relations stunt for the President who has said he’s youth-friendly because Bago is an embodiment of everything youthful, his credentials are of no equal and as white as Sloane.
“He has also stayed with Buhari even when he was nobody working in the Buhari Campaign Organisation TBO – up to the formation of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), and the only one to win election from Niger state under CPC.”
Four Higher National Diploma (HND) graduates including two brothers, drowned in a well they were contracted to dig at Zango quarters in Kabba, Kogi state on Monday night, April 1st. The deceased persons whose names were given as David, Sunday, Ayo and Ogbekedo were well known for their specialty in digging wells in the area.
According to reports, a primary school teacher, Mrs Agnes Baiyere
had allegedly hired one of the deceased, David, to dig a well in front of her newly constructed building in the area. David then invited three other of his colleagues to execute the job. They were said to have dug the well up to about 25 feet for about a week and even plastered the outer part of the well when two of them went back last night to evacuate some broken blocks that fell into the well.
However, when one of them entered into the well, he was said to have complained of dizziness which led to the other person quickly coming to the aid of his friend, but the two were mysteriously trapped into the well and could not come out.
The remaining two men rushed to the scene and attempted to rescue their trapped colleagues. Sadly as they got into the well, they were trapped in the well and could not come out.
Members of staff of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, (AEDC), Kabba office, who were around the area when the incident happened, helped evacuate the remains of the four deceased persons.
Eyewitness account said as they were being rushed to the General Hospital, Kabba, one of the deceased opened his eyes after a pastor prayed for them but he died as they were stepping into the hospital.
One of the sympathisers said David, who attended the new month service in his church on the fateful day, just got married after completing his NYSC last year. The remains of the deceased were said to have been deposited in the mortuary of the Kabba General hospital.
Lagos Big Boy, Pretty Mike’s latest topic on instagram is –begging, according to Pretty Mike not only fans online are guilty of this, but even celebs are too. He then encouraged everyone to be creative with the way they beg.
''Begging.....This is now a lucrative form of business and Social media is the current Headquarters...EveryOne is guilty of this one way or the other,even the rich and famous are not exempted from this list.E.g..my friend Mr jollof who successfully took his begging silks online and begged for a Car,in which he has since gathered millions toward it🙌..IG big girls and slay queens,Some Hold PHDs in sliding into Dms Begging Sliks..Sending of Acct details is almost on the same Level with saying Hello🤣..Let’s not forget our Actors/Actresses,Infact to become successful in Nollywood,u must have a Masters in Begging.Tope Solaja,Regina Chukwu,Amarachi Igwe,just to mention a few,can testify to how begging has helped dem in their career.Bobo toh Risky is also a beggar,her marketing strategy is one of a kind and should be a case study,the more she goes viral,the more she is talked about,the more donations she gets...
Comedians🙌,their own form of begging is for u to attend their shows,E.g “UsheBeBe almost died at JowiZaza’ home when he came to beg..to show how serious he was,he entered the pool and almost drowned🤣,Note!! when mentioning Showbiz gurus, I think AY tops the list of Sophisticated beggars,are you aware he has a black book filled with the most generous chairmen in Nigeria and this list is updated quarterly,if you are an upcoming anything,just try and steal one page in that book,ur life will never be the same,we have plenty silent philanthropist in this country and that doesn’t mean Dey don’t have Someone Dey also Beg (chairmen Dey get Chairman),Dey just enjoy giving,Just throw the right format or use the right platform and its pay day 4 u..You all have heard this phrase “SmallGirl BigGod” it simples means Dey have Begged into the right Office🙏..That big boy you are eyeing on IG is also a beggar,its all packaging,Remember these line...Anything for me ?Make I send my details? boss bless me na !!,these are phases u hear almost daily and even our so called area boys have all joined in the online battle of Begging...Begging has become a major part of our culture,so my advice to some of u,pls get creative in ur begging game..#IamABeggar#Versace #Drip #CuttingTagsForFun''
Adeyinka Mafe, Majority Leader of the Ogun State House of Assembly, has defected from the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
APM is the party with which Ibikunle Amosun, Governor of Ogun State, attempted to actualise the governorship ambition of Adekunle Akinlade, who failed to secure the ticket of the ruling party.
Mafe, who represents Sagamu 1 State Constituency in the Assembly, resigned from the APC alongside three other lawmakers in November 2018 to join Amosun’s APM.
However, with Akinlade having lost the election and Amosun even facing expulsion threats from the APC, Mafe has now returned to his original party.
“I had earlier written a letter to leave APC. I write to officially withdraw the letter and I wish to notify you that I remain a member of APC Next Level,” he said in a letter of withdrawal read at plenary by the Speaker of the assembly, Suraj Adekunbi.
It is yet unclear if the three officers who joined APM with Mafe — Idowu Olowofuja, the Chief Whip (Abeokuta South II); Ganiyu Oyedeji (Ifo II) and Tunde Sanusi (Obafemi Owode) — will return to the APC as well.
Three young men have been arrested by the Police in Lagos for conspiring and inflicting injury on a young lady by pushing her out of a moving commercial bus over advances for s*x.
The sad incident reportedly happened on Saturday at Abule Egun bus stop in Ipaja area of Lagos where they accosted the lady and she failed to 'cooperate' with them.
The suspects are Ibrahim Opeoluwa, 20, Garuba Suleiman, 20 and Emmanuel Ololade, 20.
According to the victim, Joan Nwugha, she met the suspects in the commercial bus and they discussed about s*x which will involve the three of them. She refused and they became angry. Out of annoyance they forcefully pushed her out of the bus which was on motion and she was seriously injured.
She was rushed to an undisclosed hospital where she was treated as she suffered serious fracture on her leg. The matter was reported to the police and the victim informed the police that she knew the suspects and will be able to identify them.
Thus, the police moved into action; the suspects were trailed and eventually arrested. After interrogation, they were charged before the Ejigbo Magistrates Court for the alleged conspiracy and assault.
They pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor, Supol Kenneth Asibor, asked the Court to fix a date for hearing to enable the police to prove the matter.
Thus, the Presiding Magistrate, Mr. T.O. Shomade, granted the defendants bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum. They were remanded in prison custody pending when they will perfect their bail condition. The matter was adjourned till 8th May, 2019.
Three students of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, have died of suspected drug over dose. It was gathered that four students, including a female, had converged inside a room at Sunshine Hostel, Umuchima last night, where they mixed some drugs together and decided to get high on them. According to some of their hostel mates, the drugs could have been for s-x enhancement as all four of them were naked and one of the boys was found lying on the only girl in their midst.
The naked bodies have been taking away by the police, while the 4th person is still lying unconscious.
Justice Oathman Musa of an Abuja High Court sitting in Bwari Area Council of Abuja on Tuesday Nullified the nomination of Senator Ademola Adeleke as candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the September 2018 Governorship Election in Osun State.
Adeleke, who represents Osun West Senatorial District at the National Assembly was the PDP’s candidate in the 2018 governorship election in Osun state.
Two Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Wahab Raheem and Adam Habeeb, had in 2018 barely few days to the governorship election in Osun State had dragged Adeleke to court, accusing him of not possessing the requisite educational qualification (secondary school certificate) to contest for the office of governor.
They prayed the court for an order to disqualify Adeleke from participating in the Sept 22 governorship election in the state on the grounds that he does not possess the requisite educational qualification.
Delivering judgment in the suit Tuesday, Justice Musa annulled Adeleke’s nomination on the grounds that Adeleke offended section 177 of the 1999 constitution as amended. The section stipulated that candidates for the position of governor must be educated up to secondary school level.
According to Justice Musa, while the court’s findings showed that Adeleke entered secondary school in 1976, there was no record to show that he actually graduated as his name was no longer seen in the school’s register from 1980.
Justice Musa further stated that the result Adeleke attached to his form CF001 which he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was fake, as it was found to be different from the one presented to the court by the principal of Ede Muslim High School, Ede, Osun State.
Meanwhile, Adeleke’s lawyer Nathaniel Oke SAN has faulted the judgment of Justice Musa on the grounds that the judge erred in law by going out of hiy way to source for evidence to arrive at his “unjust conclusion”.
Nineteen people were injured during a stampede at a memorial service on Monday for slain rapper Nipsey Hussle in Los Angeles, the city's fire department said.
Hundreds had gathered in the southern part of the city outside Hussle's The Marathon Clothing store where the Grammy-nominated musician was gunned down on Sunday in a suspected gang-linked attack that wounded two other people.
A stampede started just past 8:00 pm (0300 GMT Tuesday) during the service, but it was not clear what triggered it.
"Reports of shots fired at the vigil do not appear to be accurate. We do have injured in the chaos and are attempting to restore order," the Los Angeles Police Department said on Twitter.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said in a statement that it transported 19 patients, two of them critical, and another two with serious injuries. The rest had "non-life threatening injuries."
It added that there was "no evidence of any gun shot wounds" and that most people sustained "trample injuries."
Four persons have lost their lives in Kabba, Kogi State when the wall of a well collapsed on them.
Spokesman for Kogi Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police William Aya, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the victims were labourers engaged by a woman to renovate the well.
Aya, who spoke to NAN on phone, gave the names of the victims as Kayode Ayeni, Niyi Jimoh, Olusanmi Sunday and Ayo Sunday.
According to him, the incident happened at 6:30 p.m. on Monday in Sango area of Kabba.
Gunmen attacked travellers along Abuja-Kaduna highway on Monday evening. According to reports, some motorists were allegedly kidnapped by the gunmen who brought the expressway to a standstill.
The daring attackers also robbed several travellers of their possessions after forcibly stopping vehicles at high speed, causing several crashes in the process.
The Nigerian Army later responded to emergency by dispatching about three truckloads of soldiers, according to Yakubu Mohammed, who witnessed the incident.
The kidnappers operated for about 30 minutes on the highway without intervention of security agents.
The Nigeria Police Force has published the names and photographs of the alleged killers of Kolade Johnson who was gunned down in Mangoro area of Lagos on Sunday.
The officers' photos were published online by the police. They identified the suspects as Inspector Olalekan Ogunyemi and Sergeant Godwin Orji both attached to the Anti-Cultism Squad.
The police said on Twitter, “The men suspected to have carried out the shooting of Kolade Johnson have been apprehended and subjected to internal disciplinary procedures. The CP has revealed their names as (1) Insp Ogunyemi Olalekan and (2) Sgt Godwin Orji attached to Anti Cultism Squad.”
A police team led by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Zubairu Muazu, also paid a condolence visit to the family of Johnson and assured his family that justice would prevail.
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has urged the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to ensure that private depot owners maintain the official ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) at N133.28 per litre.
The Chairman, IPMAN, Ore Depot, Mr Shina Amoo, who said this in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos on Monday, stated that independent marketers might soon start selling beyond N145 per litre if depot owners continued to sell between N136.50 and N137 per litre.
Amoo urged the NNPC to prevail on depot owners not to sell beyond the official ex-depot price in order to enable marketers to sell to consumers at N145 per litre.
He said, “Private depot owners have increased the ex-depot price of PMS beyond N133.28 per litre. We bought a litre of PMS between N136.50 and N137 per litre from private depot owners last weekend. This can affect the pump price at which independent marketers will sell the product, and it will certainly be beyond the N145, which is the official pump price.
The 59-year-old dad came home "stinking of alcohol" and crawled into his daughter's bed thinking she was his wife
A drunk father r-ped his own 15-year-old daughter after mistaking her for his wife - and the victim has forgiven him and hit out at a social worker, a court heard.
The 59-year-old dad came home "stinking of alcohol" on the night of the incident on March 22 last year and crawled into his daughter's bed.
The construction worker told police he thought he was getting into bed with his wife and he immediately stopped having s-x when he realised his mistake.
His teenage daughter told investigators that she sensed he had mistaken her for her mum, and she tried to tell him but was unable to stop him.
Hong Kong's High Court heard that the daughter later told a psychologist that she had forgiven her father, the South China Morning Post reported after the the dad was jailed for two-and-a-half years.
She instead had directed “anger and displeasure” against a social worker who reported the case without her consent, the court heard.
The teen said she felt guilty after her family was split up following the incident, and blamed the social worker in a victim impact statement read out in court.
Sentencing, Deputy High Court Judge Amanda Woodcock said: “This is an unusual case with peculiar facts.
The dad had been offered a plea deal in which he would admit a charge of incest and avoid being prosecuted for r-pe.
But the judge rejected the deal.
The father appeared in court on Monday and pleaded guilty to r-pe.
The court heard that he didn't want to put his daughter or wife through the ordeal of giving evidence at a trial.
The judge reduced the father's five-year sentence by almost half while taking into consideration his guilty plea and remorse, and the daughter's statement to police.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Muazu, on Tuesday, paid a condolence visit to the family of late Kolade Johnson, who was shot dead by operatives of the Anti-Cultism Squad at Mangoro area of the state.
