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Sunday, February 28, 2021
Breaking: Kidnapped Zamfara schoolgirls released
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/breaking-kidnapped-zamfara-schoolgirls.html
Ogun Deputy Speaker coordinated thugs who attacked politicians’ homes – Police
The Command said the arrest and detention has no political undertone as Kadiri is labouring to make the world see it from that prism, stressing also that the Secretary to the State Government, Tokunbo Talabi, has no hand in Kadiri’s arrest.
Speaking through its Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, it says the Deputy Speaker was arrested and detained for alleged criminal invasion of, and attacks on, some politicians homes in Ijebu, including that of the SSG’s father.
Abimbola, a Deputy Superintendent of Police(DSP), who chronicled how what looked like coordinated attacks were perpetrated as narrated by victims or witnesses, stated in a release that the law is not a respecter of anybody, asserting that the Command remains committed to securing life and property of all, regardless of status.
He states: “On the 20th of February 2021, the command received a complaint from one Mrs. Olabode Adegbesan of No. 6 Ayegbami street Awa ijebu who reported at Awa ijebu police station that, while she was at home at about 12noon, some people led by the Deputy speaker invaded their home, throwing stone into the house and calling out her husband Hon. Kunle Adegbesan to come out to be dealt with.
“In the process, the hoodlums vandalized the window glasses of the house before they left with threat to come back with more violence. Not quite an hour after the first report, one comrade Akeem Temitope Akilo also came to report that, he was at the house of the SSG’s father when the deputy speaker led some people to the house at about 12:55 pm, vandalized the window glasses and removed the APC flag hoisted therein and took it away.
“Also, at about 1:30pm of the same day, one Otunba Adetohun Oduwole reported that the same deputy speaker Kadiri led some thugs to her house and destroyed the front door of the house as well as window glasses before they left.
“While investigation into all the reports was going on, one Hon. Yinusa Adekunle reported that the register been used for the APC registration exercise has been forcefully seized by one Hon. Abagun Yinusa. This prompted the DPO Awa ijebu to visit the house of the said Hon.Abagun for the purpose of recovering the seized register. On getting there, the deputy speaker arrived the scene with about twenty men in two buses and descended heavily on the complainant, Hon Yinusa Adekunle, beat him mercilessly and almost killed him.
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/ogun-deputy-speaker-coordinated-thugs.html
Popular Nigerian music producer Dr Frabz is dead
The death of the prolific music producer was confirmed to The Punch by his colleague, Samklef.
However, according to a tweet by popular singer Nikki Laoye, the music producer was shot.
She wrote, ” “Oh my God persevering face… My dear brother, Dr Frabz @DoktaFrabz… This is such terrible news. Just heard that he was shot… Who did this? I am so pained right now. What kind of news is this ehn?”
Samklef also took to his social media account to eulogise Dr Frabz. He wrote, “Rip legend! Ayo ( dr Frabz) We spoke 2 weeks ago u asked how is Houston treating me? I came to Maryland yesterday only for me to hear that u are no more today. What a sad day! A brother is gone! another producer is gone! RIP!”
Ever since the announcement of his death, other Nigerian celebrities have taken to their social media to offer their condolence.
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/popular-nigerian-music-producer-dr.html
Electricity workers injured by Boko Haram landmine in Borno
It was gathered that the landmine set off a huge blast which badly damaged the four wheel drive and forcefully ejected some of the occupants of the vehicle.
PRNigeria reports that the workers, mostly engineers from the TCN and Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC) were on their way to some sites to work on damaged facilities and restore electricity in Maiduguri and environs when their vehicle ran over the landmine.
The injured workers were evacuated to Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) for medical attention.
Terrorists have disrupted power supply to Maiduguri and other parts of the Borno State in recent times with their incessant attacks on electricity facilities.
A security source attributed the attack to leaked pictures on the activities of the TCN officials on social media towards the restoration of electricity in the affected areas of the state.
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/electricity-workers-injured-by-boko.html
You can’t impose levies on Computer Village, Court stops Tinubu’s daughter
Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, who is the Iyaloja-General of Lagos had introduced levies on traders at the Computer Village a year ago.
The court also stopped Mrs. Bisola Azeez, Mr. Adeniyi Olasoji, Nofiu Akinsanya, Tony Ikani and the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State from going ahead with the levies on traders at the market.
A fundamental human rights suit number ID/9039MFHR/19 was instituted against the five respondents by the five major stakeholders at the Computer Village.
The stakeholders are The Registered Trustees of Computer and Allied Products Dealers Association of Nigeria; Registered Trustees of Phone and Allied Product Dealers Association of Nigeria; Registered Trustees of Phone Parts and Accessories Dealers Association of Nigeria; the Registered Trustees of Association of Caterers, Food and Drinks Vendors of Ogunbiyi Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos and Registered Trustees of Ikeja Books, Stationeries and Computer Association and Azeez Olunrin.
According to the judge, Justice Yetunde Pinheiro, the 2nd and 3rd respondents’ imposition of levies on the applicants was illegal, null and void and therefore amounted to a violation of their fundamental rights.
Pinheiro ordered the first to fifth respondents by themselves, agents, levy collectors howsoever called from imposing levies and/or fines on the members of the 1st to 5th applicants at the Ikeja Computer Village in the Ikeja Local Government Area of Lagos State.
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/you-cant-impose-levies-on-computer.html
Court orders police to vacate Eko Club’s premises
The judge gave the order while ruling on a motion ex-parte dated February 24 and filed on February 25. The suit was filed by the Incorporated Trustees of Eko Club which was the claimant.
Listed as first and second respondents in the suit are Chief Babatunde Rasheed Fanimokun and the State Commissioner of Police, Odumosu.
Justice Oyekan-Abdullai in the ruling held: “Upon this motion ex-parte dated 24th day of February 2021 and filed on the 25th day of February, 2021, praying for the following : An interim mandatory order directing the second respondent (Commissioner of Police) along with all his police officers stationed at the claimants premises at Eko Club Close, off Bode Thomas Road, Surulere, Lagos State to vacate the said premises forthwith pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed herewith.
“An interim mandatory order directing that the Claimant be at liberty to re-enter and take possession of his premises at Eko Club Close, off Bode Thomas Road, Surulere, Lagos State, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed herewith.
“An order directing that any interim order herein be serve on the respondents along with the originating process and motion on notice already filed.
“And for such further order as this honourable court may deem fit to make in the circumstances of this case. Upon reading the affidavit of Taju Jaiye Agoro, male, Muslim of No. 29, Araromi Street, Onike, Lagos.
“And after hearing G. M. O Oguntade SAN and T. J Odesola for claimant, I hereby granted all the prayers of claimant as prayed.”
The judge also ordered that there must be no re-occurrence of a social club being stormed by the police in Lagos State.
While the motion of notice has been adjourned till March 10, 2021 for hearing.
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/court-orders-police-to-vacate-eko-clubs.html
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Abducted students: Parents thank Governor Bello over release
Gunmen on 17 February abducted the students, three staff and 12 family members.
They were released today after spending 10 days with their captors.
The students arrived Minna amidst tight security at about 9.45 a.m.
They were received by the state government officials at the Niger state Development Company Suites.
A Team of medical personnel was deployed to the facility, to check the health status of the former captives.
Aliyu Isah, said his wife and five of his children were among the victims who regained freedom.
“I just want to thank God for the safe return of my wife and children. I went through sleepless nights because I didn’t know the condition they were in,” he said.
Isah lauded Gov Bello for his concern since the incident happened.
”I am very happy and pray such thing will never occur again in our state .
”I went through trauma. It is something you don’t wish for your enemy”, he added.
Another parent, Abubakar Musa said he and other family members had prayed for the safe return of their wards.
“Six of my children are among the victims. Even though I have not met with them, I am optimistic that I will meet them in good health.
“I want to thank God for the safe return of the children. I am happy and glad that they have been released,” he said.
A woman said her sister was among the released victims.
” I can not tell you what I went through just by thinking of what condition my sister was in, but I thank God for her safe return,” she said.
Mobile Police and civil defence personnel were seen at the hotel as journalists were barred.
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/abducted-students-parents-thank.html
Indian rooster kills owner with cockfight blade
The bird had a knife attached to its leg ready to take on an opponent when it inflicted serious injuries to the man’s groin as it tried to escape, officers said.
The victim died from loss of blood before he could reach a hospital in the Karimnagar district of Telangana state earlier this week, local police officer B. Jeevan told AFP.
The man was among 16 people organising the cockfight in the village of Lothunur when the freak accident took place, Jeevan said.
The rooster was briefly held at the local police station before it was sent to a poultry farm.
“We are searching for the other 15 people involved in organising the illegal fight,” Jeevan said.
They could face charges of manslaughter, illegal betting and hosting a cockfight.
Cockfights are banned but still common in rural areas of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Odisha states — particularly around the Hindu festival of Sankranti.
Specially-bred roosters have 7.5-centimetre (three-inch) knives or blades tethered to their legs and punters bet on who will win the gruesome fight.
Thousands of roosters die each year in the battles which, despite the efforts of animal rights groups, attract large crowds.
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/indian-rooster-kills-owner-with.html
#FreeDawisu: SERAP, others demand release of Ganduje’s ex- aide, Salihu Tanko Yakasai
“We condemn the unlawful arrest of journalist Salihu Tanko Yakasai simply for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression.
“Nigerian authorities should stop shutting up critics. Authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Mr Yakasai,” SERAP tweeted.
The group also criticized the Kano State government for sacking the journalist, saying the state authorities “are making a mockery of the Nigerian Constitution”.
Kano State authorities are making a mockery of the Nigerian Constitution 1999 [as amended] and international human rights obligations by sacking journalist Salihu Tanko Yakasai simply for allegedly criticising the government of President Buhari. Peaceful dissent is not a crime.
Yakasai, Special Adviser on Media to Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, was sacked on Saturday for criticising the All Progressives Congress and the regime of the President Muhammadu Buhari over the growing insecurity in the country.
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/freedawisu-serap-others-demand-release.html
Zamfara abduction: Kano shuts Tertiary Institutions in border areas
This was as a result of the abductions of about 317 female boarding students of Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe, Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State last Thursday night by bandits.
The State’s Commissioner of Higher Education, Dr Mariya Mahmoud Bunkure said the students of the affected four institutions are expected to vacate campuses as soon as possible.
Dr Bunkure said a new date for the reopening of the institutions will be communicated later.
The affected schools include Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso college of Advanced and Remedial Studies, Tudun Wada, School of Environmental Studies, Gwarzo, School of Rural Technology and Entrepreneurship Dev ( SORTED) Rano and ABCOAD, Dambatta.
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/zamfara-abduction-kano-shuts-tertiary.html
DSS arrests Ganduje’s aide hours after criticising Buhari
Yakasai had in a series of tweets on Friday in reaction to Friday abduction of about 317 female students of Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State, said the kidnappings had become too frequent.
The governor’s aide had also said if it was under another President’s watch that the abductions had happened, there would have been more outrage in the North.
He tweeted, “Clearly, we as APC government, at all levels, have failed Nigerians in the number one duty we were elected to do which is to secure lives and properties. Not a single day goes by without some sort of insecurity in this land. This is a shame! Deal with terrorists decisively or resign.
“Just last week it was #freekagaraboys, today we have a new hashtag #RescueJangebeGirls, who knows tomorrow what hashtag we will come up with? Perhaps one for ourselves when we get caught up in one of these daring attacks.
“This is sad and heartbreaking, I feel helpless and hopeless. “I completely agree. Hypocrisy is in our DNA. Imagine what’s happening in the North now under GEJ or OBJ, what you will hear is he’s the enemy of the North and Muslims, but here we are, being ravaged by all sorts of insecurity but no collective rage, sai useless lamentations. SMDH.”
However, barely hours after Yakasai’s viral tweets, it was learnt that he suddenly disappeared even as friends and relations began to panic.
Confirming his arrest, one of Ganduje’s aides on Twitter, @sadeqhenry tweeted, “Alhamdulillahi we just confirmed @dawisu is at DSS office.”
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/dss-arrests-gandujes-aide-hours-after.html
Seyi Edun celebrates her man, Niyi Johnson on his birthday
She penned sweet words to him, reminding him of her love to him.
She wrote;
''Dear Ademi, you are amazing, unique, incomparable, hard working, handsome, funny, strong, incredible, intelligent I could go on forever.
Through the good and bad times, you continue to be by my side. Loving you is always easy.
Life is so precious and should be treasured. I treasure every moment with you and I’m so grateful for another year to spend with you.
All I wish for today is to see you happy and loved, thanks for all you do oko mi🥰🥰
Happy birthday Aremu! Love u forever ❤️❤️❤️
#mrgrace #birthday #blackhandsomeman''
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/seyi-edun-celebrates-her-man-adeniyi.html
Lady Gaga’s dogs found, handed over by mystery woman
Reports said an unnamed woman on Friday brought the dogs, named Koji and Gustav, to a Los Angeles Police Department Station.
The return came moments after Lady Gaga promised a $500,000 rewards for finders.
Thirty four year-old Lady Gaga, real name, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, had called the dogs ‘beloved’ members of her family in a tweet on Friday.
“My beloved dogs Koji and Gustav were taken in Hollywood two nights ago. My heart is sick and I am praying my family will be whole again with an act of kindness. I will pay $500,000 for their safe return”, she wrote.
Detectives and a representative for the singer went to the Olympic Community Police Station – which is just over six miles from the scene of the robbery – and confirmed the identity of the unharmed dogs.
The dogs have been reunited with Lady Gaga’s representatives, as she is away in Rome, filming a movie.
According to the LAPD, the mystery woman who dropped off the dogs appeared to be “uninvolved and unassociated” with the Wednesday night attack on Gaga’s dog walker.
The SUN reported that it was unclear how the woman obtained the dogs or if she would be in line for the $500,000 reward offered by Gaga for their safe return.
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/lady-gagas-dogs-found-handed-over-by.html
How my fight with Barrister started –Kollington
The late Apala legend who died over 40 years ago at the peak of his career is considered to be one of the most original Yoruba singers of post-colonial Nigeria who gained notoriety in South-West Nigeria in the 70s.
In a biography about Omowura, titled ‘Ayinla Omowura Life and Times of an Apala legend’ written by media intellectual and lawyer, Festus Adedayo, Kollington succinctly reminisced on some of his musical escapades with his godfather and revealed that he was fortified with juju by the latter after a widely successful album that was a response to Fatai Olowonyo, arch-rival of Omowura.
Going down memory lane, the 67-year-old, further noted that this was the beginning of his quarrel with his friend, late Sikiru Ayinde Barrister.
Kollington claimed that Olowonyo, after the release of the album approached Barrister to do a reply to both him and Omowura.
He said, “I ran to him (Omowura) countless times to tell him that Olowonyo’s fans said they will kill me. He said they could not do me any harm, that I should forget that… He then took me inside his room and began administering all manner of fetish objects on me. He would ask me to steep some inside a cornmeal (eko) and some of them, he would bath me with them. He would call his younger brother, Dauda, and ask him to go and bring a razor and some of the fetish objects in his room, with which he would incise my body and rub fetish objects. That was how I sang the song and no reprisal came to me from the Olowonyo group and his gangs.”
“Olowonyo enlisted Sikiru’s help in attacking and replying to my diatribes in “Omo Iya onipako.” Sikuru too behaved like a child in that he ought to have thought about the fact that I was his friend and instead of acceding to Olowonyo’s request, the best thing for him to have done was to call me and seek to find an end to the feud. Rather than do this, he also went to the studio to sing against me. He sang “Ba o ba to ja la…” (If we are not up to stopping a feuding party…) That was how the fight against (sic) us began.”
Even though Kollington and his musical godfather eventually parted ways over some misgivings, the former noted that Omowura was a great and brave man.
He continued, “When we went to Mecca and the feud between him and Olowonyo was sorted out, upon returning home, he (Omowura) did a track singing the praises of Olowonyo. He ought to have mentioned me as one of the persons who fought on his side during the feud but he didn’t.I saw that jealousy was already entering the relationship… I later found out that was the nature of man, the nature of Yoruba people.
“He was a very great man. Death is very powerful. Ayinla Omowura was also a very brave man. I liked him beyond description. I loved his songs as well.”
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/how-my-fight-with-barrister-started.html
Woman undergo liver transplant after nose piercing leads to life-threatening condition
Queens resident Dana Smith, 37, got a nose piercing shortly after Thanksgiving, CBS New York reported Thursday.
About a month later, Smith started to have stomach pains but was hesitant to go to the hospital because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking to CBS New York, Smith described her symptoms as "stomach pain. I felt like I kind of lost appetite."
"I didn't want to go to the hospital with COVID going on," she explained to the outlet. But the pain got so bad that "it got to the point where I felt like I didn't have a choice."
"I was just drinking water, I couldn't hold the water down," Smith told ABC 7, revealing that her symptoms escalated so much that she "started to throw up blood."
Her sister took her to Long Island Jewish Medical Center on Jan. 12, where doctors quickly assessed that she needed a liver transplant and was suffering from fulminant Hepatitis B.
According to Merck Manual, fulminant Hepatitis is "a rare syndrome of rapid (usually within days or weeks), massive necrosis of liver parenchyma and a decrease in liver size" that "usually occurs after infection with certain hepatitis viruses, alcoholic hepatitis, or drug-induced liver injury (DILI)."
Smith was transferred to North Shore University Hospital and placed into a medically-induced coma while waiting for a match for the transplant. One was found within 48 hours, and she had surgery on Jan. 17.
Though doctors were quick to diagnose Smith, what caused the fulminant Hepatitis B was initially a mystery.
Through a process of elimination, medical professionals determined that the culprit was an infection from the nose piercing that had gone undetected.
"This was the one unique change that had taken place in her life, this nose ring," said Northwell's Transplant Services Director Dr. Lewis Teperman. "And it's the perfect time for the virus to incubate."
Smith, who returned home on Jan. 26, credits the decision to finally go to the hospital with saving her life — and is sharing her story so that she might help someone else who needs to go to the hospital receive treatment.
"It's very overwhelming. Emotionally, everything, mentally''.
Smith added, "Even with COVID going on, you should still go get checked out because you never know. That one decision saved my life."
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/woman-undergo-liver-transplant-after.html
ISIS bride, Shamima Begum cannot return to the UK, Supreme Court rules
The court said in a unanimous ruling that her rights were not breached when she was refused permission to return.
Ms Begum, 21, wants to come back to challenge the home secretary's decision to remove her British nationality.
She is currently in a camp controlled by armed guards in northern Syria.
Ms Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls left the UK in February 2015 and travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State group.
In 2019, the then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped Ms Begum of her citizenship on national security grounds.
Last July, the Court of Appeal ruled that the only fair way forward was to allow her into the UK because she could not effectively appeal against the decision from the camp in northern Syria.
The Home Office subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court to reconsider the Court of Appeal's judgement, arguing that allowing her to return to the UK "would create significant national security risks".
On Friday, Lord Reed, president of the Supreme Court, said the government had been entitled to prevent Ms Begum from returning to the UK.
Announcing the ruling, Lord Reed said: "The Supreme Court unanimously allows all of the home secretary's appeals and dismisses Ms Begum's cross-appeal."
He said the Court of Appeal's judgment "did not give the home secretary's assessment the respect which it should have received" given the role's "responsibility for making such assessments" and accountability to parliament.
Lord Reed added the Court of Appeal had "mistakenly believed that, when an individual's right to have a fair hearing... came into conflict with the requirements of national security, her right to a fair hearing must prevail."
He said the right to a fair hearing did "not trump all other considerations, such as the safety of the public".
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/isis-bride-shamima-begum-cannot-return.html
Don’t judge me based on social media, Tayo Sobola tells fans
The actress stated this during an Instagram Live chat with her fans that was monitored by Saturday Beats. She said, “Life is short. I am not one of those people that come on social media to abuse people. I don’t judge people. Let people write about others; the question is, who are you behind your keyboard? Who are you behind closed doors? Do not judge anybody.
There is always a reason for whatever is put out there about anybody. There are a lot of things I see on social media that I look at and smile, because it is not my business.
“I would not judge anyone based on what I read on social media. Even if it is something written about me, I just smile and look away. However, looking away sometimes does not mean I am stupid. Try not to be in a position to judge anybody.”
Sotayo also urged her fans not to inherit enemies from others without knowing the cause of the enmity. She said, “I would not judge anybody, so please do not judge me for any reason. But, if you feel you want to judge me for any reason, that is your problem. I don’t care.
“I would not fight with someone just because someone I know is fighting with that person. That can only happen if the person has done something bad to me.”
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/dont-judge-me-based-on-social-media.html
Breaking: Abducted Kagara students regain freedom
A top security source involved in the counter-kidnapping operation in the State told The Punch.
The boarding students were abducted by the bandits who were dressed in military uniforms on February 17, 2021.
A total of 27 students, three staff members, and 12 members of their family were abducted after the attack on the Kagara school in the early hours of Wednesday.
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/breaking-abducted-kagara-students.html
Tramadol concealed in ceramic tiles intercepted in Lagos
The Duty Paid Value (DPV) of the drugs, according to the Controller of the Command, Mr. Malanta Yusuf was N223.2 million.
He said the drugs were traced from Indian to Port of Lome in Togo before it was finally shipped to Apapa port where it was intercepted.
He said: ‘’Upon 100 percent physical examination to ascertain its true contents, he said it was found to contain 554 cartons of tramadol capsules (120 milligrams) concealed with 1000 cartons of ceramic tiles.
“Furthermore, with the support of my management team, we are able to make the following intervention, one 40ft container loaded with sacks of mosquito coil products but falsely declared as ground paper and packaging paper bag, seven containers loaded with bales of used clothing and shoes, and one container of unregistered pharmaceutical product (989) cartons of mixagrip tabs wrongfully declared as Winches and gaskets,” he said.
‘’The Command has launched a preliminary investigation with a view to identifying the consignee’s for arrest and possible prosecution in connection with this criminal and unlawful importation.’’
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/tramadol-concealed-in-ceramic-tiles.html
Armed robbers attack Oyo APC chairman’s residence, seize party’s vehicle
Daily Post gathered that the residence of the acting Chairman located at Oluyole area was attacked on Friday.
The armed robber stole a vehicle belonging to the political party.
Caretaker Publicity Secretary of the party, Dr. Abdulazeez Olatunde confirmed the attack to Daily Post on Saturday.
Olatunde urged anyone with useful information about the vehicle to report to the nearest police station or contact the APC Secretariat in the state.
Olatunde said, “This announcement is intended to notify members of the Public, the theft of the white hummer bus with the inscription of All Progressives Congress Oyo State on it; it was stolen, Friday 26th February 2021 at the Premises of the State Party Chairman.
“This is to alert scurity operatives within and outside Oyo State and members of the public that wherever the white hummer bus is found should be reported to the nearest police station or the nearest APC office or better still call 080-3463-1890.”
source https://www.ladunliadinews.com/2021/02/armed-robbers-attack-oyo-apc-chairmans.html
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