Friday, 13 January 2017
Lagos Court Convicts Fuel Subsidy Big Suspects
The defendants were found guilty on each of the eight counts.
The third defendant, Babafemi Fakuade, was, however, discharged and acquitted.
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Notorious criminals attack police, snatch deadly kidnapper
The fleeing suspected kidnapper had led a team of policemen attached to the anti-kidnapping squad of the command to the community in December to conduct a search on his apartment when some youths, suspected to be his boys, attacked the policemen openly.
The youth, according to Punch, removed a pair of handcuffs on the suspect’s hands, freed him and subsequently set ablaze a police patrol van that brought the suspect and the team to the area.
Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said three policemen were seriously injured in the attack.
He, however, said the command would not want to disclose the identities of the suspects in order not to thwart efforts at arresting other fleeing hoodlums.
Owoseni said, “Some criminal elements under the guise of community youths attacked the police team, cut the handcuffs used to chain the suspect and librated him. Three of the operatives were injured while the police vehicle used by the team was burnt. A policeman is still in a hospital.
“Three of those who perpetrated the act have been arrested, but we don’t want to reveal their identities now in order not to jeopardize our investigation.”
If we don’t tame religion, it’ll kill Nigeria – Wole Soyinka
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has warned that religion will kill Nigeria if it is not tamed.
Speaking in Abuja on Thursday at the presentation of a book, Religion and the Making of Nigeria, written by Prof. Olufemi Vaughan, the Nobel laureate imagined what the world would be if religion had never been invented and condemned killings in the name of religion saying he wondered how any rational being could attempt to justify homicide as an act of devotion.
Wole said:
If we do not tame religion in this nation, religion would kill us.
“I do not say kill religion, though, I wouldn’t mind a bit if that mission could be undertaken surgically, painlessly perhaps, under anaesthesia, effectively sprayed all over the nation or perhaps during an induced pouch of religious ecstasy.
“However, one has to be realistic. Only the religiously possessed or committed would deny the obvious.
The price that many have paid, not just within this society but by humanity in general, makes one wonder if the benefits have really been more than the losses.”
Can one think of any landscape without religious architecture?
Many Nigerians have paid the ultimate price because of religion and religion is now embedded in our society.
In this very nation, in Southern Kaduna, over 800 souls were brutally extinguished suddenly while the issue of grazing land versus farming is unquestionably part of the conflict. It is equally undeniable that religious differences have played crucial role in the conflict.
The innocent ones are the ones who often pay the ultimate price in religious crisis. Even religious leaders cannot denounce the murdering acts of religion.
Religion now induces trauma and anxiety instead of solace that it claims to give. Religion is the ironic product of human inadequacy.
There is a monster always waiting to pounce on innocent Nigerians under the name of religion,” he added.
Jealous lover to spend 12 years in jail, for attempting to kill his girlfriend (Photos)
Shuaibu, a diploma student in the Department of Tourism and Leisure Management, Adamawa State Polytechnic, jolted the public in October, 2016, when he attempted to slit the throat of his girlfriend, Sekina Ishaya.
Sekina, also a Tourism and leisure Management student, was attacked by her angry lover after seeing her allegedly with another man.
Shuaibu, Northern City News gathered, was sentenced last Wednesday to 12 years imprisonment without option of fine.
Shehu Ahmad, the Chief Magistrate of the Yola Magistrate Court, while passing his sentence, said the court found the accused guilty of an attempt to commit culpable homicide and causing grievous bodily hurt to his female lover.
The magistrate said the sentence was based on the witnesses, testimonies as well as admission of guilt by the convict, noting that the parties could file an appeal if not satisfied with his judgment.
According to Insp. Akamu, the police prosecutor, Shuaibu bagged seven years for committing grievous bodily hurt and another five years for attempted homicide, without any option of fine, bringing the sentence to 12 years.
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Thursday, 12 January 2017
‘What Sowore posted on social media today is completely false’ – Lagos Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni
Yesterday, news got out that Sahara Reporters Publisher Omoyele Sowore was arrested after a UK-based journalist, Lekan Fatodu, petitioned the state police over a report Sowore wrote alleging that he was used to launder money by former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode.Both Sowore and Fatodu were subsequently taken to SCID in Panti and released afterwards. This morning however, Sowore took to Facebook to say the Lagos state police plans to arraign him in court on phony charges (Read Here).
LIB had an exclusive chat with the State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni who narrated the events leading up to the arrest and described Sowore’s claims as ‘Completely False’.
In his words, ‘That fellow, Sowore was the one that made a distress call to the police yesterday that he was being attacked by armed robbers at Isaac John, Ikeja and Police in Lagos in its usual manner responded immediately to the distress call only for the officers to get there and find out that it was a false distress call which in the first instance shouldn’t have been made by someone who should know better. We found out that there was no armed robbery going on, rather it was a case of altercation between himself and Lekan Fatodu’.
‘The officers that went there who thought it was a genuine distress call brought the two of them to my office and the preliminary enquiry that was made after I had interrogated them was that Lekan Fatodu had earlier lodged a complaint of criminal defamation of character, blackmail and extortion against Sowore which had earlier been referred to the state criminal investigation department and thereafter asked both of them to taken to the investigating office at Panti where they would make their statement with regards to the pending case against Sowore’.
‘Upon their statement being recorded yesterday, none of them especially Sowore was detained by the police, the two parties were only asked to report back today.
‘We are doing our work in a responsible manner, allegations have been made and it is the work of the police to investigate criminal complaints. That Investigation is on-going and I want to assure you that the police in Lagos will be fair and just, and we’ll make sure that professionalism is exhibited in the course of investigating that case and ensure that justice is done and I want to appeal to you that in as much as you may want to sympathize with your colleague on social media, you should also try as much as possible to be in touch with us so that we can keep you abreast of developments in that case rather than speculating and writing insinuations in reporting that incident while we expect Sowore as well to ensure that whatever he posts on social media is done responsibly’.
‘He has made some assertions in what he’s posted on social media today which are completely false and that is why we always emphasize responsible reportage and dissemination of information’.
so we are using this medium to reach out to him that while he has the opportunity to use the social media, he should not use it irresponsibly to blackmail anyone and being a member of the media does not stop him from being called in to account for any criminal act he may have committed’.
Written By Adedayo Showemimo
Culled From Linda Ikeji
Pregnant Woman Makes Miraculous Delivery inside BRT Bus
A middle aged woman has given birth to a baby boy inside a BRT bus.
The woman was delivered of the baby around 9am on Wednesday January 11, 2017, along Mile 12/ Ketu, Lagos.
She had boarded the bus at Irawo bus stop going to the hospital believed to be at Iyana Ipaja. But the
baby could not wait much longer.
The woman became uncomfortable immediately after boarding as she was seen showing restlessness.
Women passengers on board joined hands in assisting her to cover the new born with clothe, before all other passengers were transloaded into another bus at Ketu bus stop.
The woman was then taken to the hospital.
She had boarded the bus at Irawo bus stop going to the hospital believed to be at Iyana Ipaja. But the
baby could not wait much longer.
The woman became uncomfortable immediately after boarding as she was seen showing restlessness.
Women passengers on board joined hands in assisting her to cover the new born with clothe, before all other passengers were transloaded into another bus at Ketu bus stop.
The woman was then taken to the hospital.
Landlady Allegedly Stole Tenant's N290k Foodstuff In Lagos
One Bature Anumiuyu, a landlady, was on Thursday granted N100,000 bail by an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing bags of foodstuff worth N297,000 from a tenant’s shop.
The Magistrate, Mr. J.A. Adegun, ordered the accused to provide a surety in like sum that must be gainfully employed.
He also ruled that the surety must provide evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government and adjourned the case to January 17 for hearing.
The 33-year-old woman is facing three counts of burglary, stealing and a breach of the peace.
The prosecutor, Sgt. Babaji Ishaku, told the court that she committed the offences at Aremu Lawal Street, New Oko-Oba in Abule-Egba area of Lagos, at about 2:30p.m. on December 5, 2016.
He alleged that the landlady broke into the shop of Mr. John Omeoha, one of her tenants.
“The accused made away with 15 bags of rice, four bags of beans and three bags of garri, all valued at N297,000.
“The complainant said that he locked up his shop for some time because his wife had just given birth.
“He said that his landlady had asked him to move out of the shop that she wanted to make use of it. The complainant pleaded with her to give him more time to secure an alternative place.
“But on the said date when the complainant passed by the shop, he found out that his shop had been burgled and some goods carted away,’’ he said.
Ishaku said the case was reported to the police and after a series of investigations by the police, the landlady was arrested.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty.
The Magistrate, Mr. J.A. Adegun, ordered the accused to provide a surety in like sum that must be gainfully employed.
He also ruled that the surety must provide evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government and adjourned the case to January 17 for hearing.
The 33-year-old woman is facing three counts of burglary, stealing and a breach of the peace.
The prosecutor, Sgt. Babaji Ishaku, told the court that she committed the offences at Aremu Lawal Street, New Oko-Oba in Abule-Egba area of Lagos, at about 2:30p.m. on December 5, 2016.
He alleged that the landlady broke into the shop of Mr. John Omeoha, one of her tenants.
“The accused made away with 15 bags of rice, four bags of beans and three bags of garri, all valued at N297,000.
“The complainant said that he locked up his shop for some time because his wife had just given birth.
“He said that his landlady had asked him to move out of the shop that she wanted to make use of it. The complainant pleaded with her to give him more time to secure an alternative place.
“But on the said date when the complainant passed by the shop, he found out that his shop had been burgled and some goods carted away,’’ he said.
Ishaku said the case was reported to the police and after a series of investigations by the police, the landlady was arrested.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty.
She'll remain in custody pending she's able to meet her bail conditions
Tonto Dikeh removes husband's name from Instagram (Photos)
Seems there is fire on the mountain in Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh's home, as she has removed her husband's name "Churchill" and "Mrs" which was on her Instagram page.
The "C" on her Instagram page now stands for her second name, Charity. The "Yummy wife/mummy" tag she put on her Instagram is also missing.
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