Noodles and egg seller kills bus driver over N30 debt

Olalekan Adeleke

A 37-year-old commercial bus driver was allegedly killed, Sunday night, by a Hausa food vendor in Igando area of Lagos during an argument over N30 debt.
The death of the commercial bus driver, identified as Olalekan Adeleke, popularly known as Star Boy, sparked off protests yesterday, as irate youths set fire to the suspect’s belongings.
Late Adeleke, 37, an only son, who plied Iyana-Ipaja/Iyana-Iba route, visited a canteen owned by the suspect, identified as Adamu, at College Bus Stop at about 11p.m.
He requested for noodles and two eggs to be prepared for him, after which he was given a bill of N230. But he was said to have paid N200, and Adamu started a fight.
Another customer, Kehinde Ayanduro, appealed to Adamu to allow Adeleke to go home to get the balance of N30, which Adeleke did.
But when he came back with the money, Adamu still continued the fight.

The disabled man that makes bullet-proof vests for criminals

A 35-year-old disabled man, Sylvanus Ukpan, has been arrested by the police in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State for allegedly supplying charms and locally-made bullet proof vests to criminals in the state and neighbouring Cross River State.
Parading the suspects, yesterday, at the Command Headquarters in Makurdi, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bashir Makama, said the suspect was nabbed by a special anti-crime squad, code-named Operation Zenda.
Represented by the Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent Mose Yamu, the Commissioner explained that the suspect, who was in company of another, was heading towards Wukari in Taraba State when they were arrested.He said: “He was caught yesterday night with charms and seven locally-made bullet proof vests, which was meant to be supplied to a yet to be disclosed gang.
“We have already established that they were coming from Otukwuunya in Obudu Local Government Area of Cross River State, when they were nabbed at Ayua, between Katsina-Ala and Wukari.

In calabar: Man kills twin daughters, says they’re witches

Operatives of the Cross River State Police Command have arrested a 40-year-old man, Anyanime Festus, who allegedly poisoned his twin daughters in Akampka Local Government Area of Cross River, because he felt they were responsible for his parents’ death.
The arrest was effected by the Divisional Police Station, Akampka, before the suspect was transferred to Police Headquarters in Calabar.
The suspect allegedly gave his 11-year-old daughters a black substance, believed to be poison to drink, which led to their death on January 10 and 11.
A source said: “The man told us that his daughters confessed to be witches and that he had no choice other than to kill them before they kill him. So he mixed acid with malt, took the twins to a bush path and gave them the substance to drink.”

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IN ABA: Woman changes products’ expiry dates; 5 burglars arrested, kidnapper killed

Operatives of the Abia State Police Command have reportedly shot dead a kidnapper and nabbed five suspected hoodlums, who allegedly burgled a building at Ogbor Hill as well as a betting outfit along Azikiwe Road in Aba.
Nnenna, repackaging Lady
Among the suspects paraded was a lady, Nnenna Sunday, who was arrested for allegedly repackaging expired products and selling them to members of the public.
Nnenna, who resides at Ukaegbu Road, Ogbor Hill, Aba, specialises in using chemicals to erase the production numbers and expiry dates of food products like snacks, beef sausage and repackage same.
Items recovered from her include cartons of expired snacks, especially biscuits and sausage rolls, as well as chemicals and repackaged cartons of snacks ready for sale.

FAAN dismisses staff over N70m furniture allowances fraud

A Level 6 officer of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN (names withheld), has been dismissed by the agency for allegedly diverting N70 million Naira furniture allowances over a period of three years.
The dismissal followed the recommendation of a committee set up by the Managing Director of FAAN, Mr. Saleh Dunoma.
The former staff, who allegedly diverted the said sum between 2013 and 2016, has been given her dismissal letter, though the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, is still investigating the matter.
A source, who does not want to be named, said EFCC was informed of the dismissal of the staff by FAAN.

Suspected car thief fingers popular Ladipo spare parts dealer

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Onyema and Chukwu

A 33-year-old barber, who was arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, while fleeing with vandalised vehicles parts from a company in Victoria Island, Lagos, has alleged that a spare parts dealer at the popular Ladipo International Market, Mushin, Lagos, was his boss.
The suspect, Olawasegun Oladimeji, who just finished serving a three-month jail term over a similar incident, alleged that he had been working for the auto parts dealer for eight years.
The suspect stormed an unnamed company’s premises, where he allegedly vandalised some vehicles. He was alleged to have also stolen some phones belonging to the guards, who were sleeping.
However, one of the guards woke up and sighted the intruder leaving the premises. He raised the alarm that attracted a team of RRS on patrol, who apprehended him and recovered several Toyota Corolla body parts and some phones from him.

5 domestic staff of Lamido, former Jigawa gov arrested over missing N100m

The Assistant Inspector-General, AIG, in charge of Police Zone 1, Kano, has detained a driver and four domestic staff of former Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, over alleged theft of N100 million.
Security sources in Kano confided said the five suspects were taken into custody last Thursday, following “personal complaint” to the police by Alhaji Sule Lamido.
The multiple sources further revealed that the money, which was allegedly kept under “ground bunker” in the wife’s wing of the multi-billion naira apartment at NNDC Quarters of Kano, was pilfered to “insignificant amount” before it was discovered.

Posing as a journalist gets me out of trouble, says fake TVC ‘staff’

For posing as a journalist working with TV Continental, TVC, a man, Soji Gboye, was arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Task Force, weekend. He told newsmen that he usually gets out of trouble by claiming to be a journalist.
Disclosing this to newsmen, Chairman of the task force, SP Olayinka Egbeyemi, said the suspect, who lives at 5, Adesoye Street, Mende, Maryland, Lagos, was arrested while obstructing the personnel of the agency from performing their legitimate duty around the area.
Soji was arrested alongside 67 miscreants during an enforcement exercise carried out in Maryland area of the state.

Four suspected land-grabbers arrested for alleged murder in Ogun

Ogun State Police Command has arrested four land-grabbers, who were allegedly involved in the murder of one Sidikatu Onasanya, 52, at Imoro.
The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement, said the suspected land-grabbers, Adewale Abimbola, Monday Benzon, Mukaila Azeez and Shodeinde Oluwafemi, were arrested Wednesday.
Oyeyemi explained that the arrest was made following a report from one of the children of the deceased, Wasiu Onasanya, who complained that he was in the village when the suspected land-grabbers came and attacked him with dangerous weapons.

US-bound woman dies in Lagos auto crash

A female passenger billed to board a flight to the United States of America, yesterday, died in a road crash involving a truck and a Toyota Camry car.
The incident occurred at about 2.03a.m. at Stadium Bus Stop, inward Alaka-Surulere area of Lagos State.
The truck, with number plates EKY 668 XL, fully loaded with granite, was said to have collided with the car, with number plates KUJ 412 AA (FCT).

4-yr-old girl sold for N350,000 in Enugu, recovered in Abia

A four-year-old girl (names withheld), pupil of Unity Nursery/Primary School, Inyi, Enugu State, allegedly stolen by her mother’s younger sister and the boyfriend, and sold to one Florence Nwokocha for N350,000, has been recovered by police operatives in Abia State.
This was disclosed by Enugu State Police Command in a statement in Enugu yesterday.
The Command’s spokesman, Ebere Amaraizu, said report of the missing girl was made to the police on December 15, 2016 by Inyi community.
According to him, “following the development, the incident was reported to the state command where it was referred to the Gender/Anti-Human Trafficking section of the state Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department.

SOKAPU, Miyetti Allah differ over 24-hr curfew in Zangon Kataf

As calm returned to Samaru Kataf in Atyap Chiefdom, Zangon Kataf council of Kaduna State, Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU and the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association, MABCA, yesterday, disagreed over the propriety of the 24-hour curfew slammed on the council.
Meanwhile, the five people, who had been hospitalised, following gunshot believed to have been carried out by herdsmen Tuesday evening, have been stabilised and are awaiting special surgeries.

Plateau returns 145 trafficked children to Bauchi

The 145 trafficked children being ferried in two trucks that were intercepted in Jos, Plateau State capital a week ago, have been returned to Bauchi State, where majority of them were picked from.
Representatives of the Plateau State Police Command, Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, and that of the state chapter of Jama’atul Nasril Islam, JNI, accompanied the children to Bauchi, where they will be handed over to the state government.
However, some parents of the children, who made efforts to get the children from police custody, were arrested and charged along with the three Mallams and two drivers, who were with the children in the trucks.

Air Force sets up board to probe Rann error bombing; IBB sends condolence message

As the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, constitutes a board of senior officers to investigate the accidental air strike of an internally displaced persons, IDPs’ camp at Rann, Kale-Balge Local Government Area, Borno State, Tuesday, the House of Representatives, yesterday, denied that it resolved to investigate the accidental bombing.
One of those who survived the attack, Mallam Abubakar Modu, said there was no need to blame the Air Force for the strike as it was not deliberate.
Also yesterday, it was revealed that two deaths were recorded and five discharged from hospitals from the over 80 injured victims of the attack.
This is just as former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd.) and Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State commiserated with the government and people of Borno State over the accidental bombing.

Don’t blame Southern Kaduna killings on us —Army

THE Nigerian Army, yesterday, said it must not be blamed for the killing of some residents of Southern Kaduna, since it was not its function to maintain peace in any society.
The Army, which spoke at a briefing in Abuja, through its Chief of Training and Operations, Major General David Ahmadu, explained that the Nigerian Police had the responsibility of restoring peace whenever crisis starts anywhere.
Major General Ahmadu, who was responding to reporters’ questions on alleged delay of the military to quickly respond to recent killings in Southern Kaduna, denied reports that the Army and other security agencies might have failed to bring peace during the crisis.

CAN, APC condemn UniMaid bomb attack, as Boko Haram claims responsibility

Shekau's days are numbered—STUDENTS

Condemnation, yesterday, continued to trail Monday’s bombing of worshippers in the University of Maiduguri mosque in Borno State, as the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, claimed responsibility for the act.
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and All Progressives Congress, APC, have joined other Nigerians to condemn the attack, in which a professor of Veterinary Medicine, Professor Aliyu Mani, and six others were killed.
Also yesterday, some students of the University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID, called for proactive security measures to contain the frequent attacks on their campus by Boko Haram terrorists.
A video featuring an audio recording, purporting to be that of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, was posted on social media late on Monday.
“The bomb that exploded on Monday morning; our brothers are responsible for it,” the recording said.
CAN, while condemning the bombing, commiserated with the families of the victims and expressed optimism that the terrorist menace will soon be history.

Yenagoa 7-yr-old Torture: They killed my son over a church’s revelation, mother cries out

Mrs. Erueke John, the biological mother of late Joshua Zikeme, the seven-year-old boy, who was allegedly tortured to death at Akaba community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State by his father and step-mother over allegation of witchcraft, yesterday, cried out that her son was a victim of a vicious father and not a wizard.
Mrs. John claimed that the allegation of wizardry by the suspects was based on a revelation from a church based in Yenagoa.
According to her, “the church is a one room place of worship. They claimed they took my son to the place and they were told he was a wizard.”
She said her son was tied to a stake and savagely brutalised to death.
The police had, Monday, arrested the deceased boy’s father, Idiesy Zikeme, and the step-mother, Eunice Zikeme, on suspicion of torturing the boy to death.
The suspects, it was gathered, are to be transferred to the homicide section of the state Police Command for further interrogation.

Lagos landlord dumps tenant's properties outside

Chidi Iwuoha, a tenant of 19 Kayode Alabi Street, Ogba, Lagos, who was ejected from his two bedroom flat over his inability to pay the balance of his rent, has accused his landlord, a retired Customs officer, of conniving with court bailiffs to carry out the action.
Iwuoha claimed that he was neither served quit notice nor court summons before he was forcefully thrown out with his wife and three children, aged eight, 10 and 12.
Yesterday, his properties were still outside the two-storey building, including a pot of stew, which the family intended to eat when the unexpected happened.
It was gathered that the father of three moved into the building in November 2014. But by 2015, he said his business was no longer flourishing, thereby finding it difficult to pay his rent.

4-month-old boy found dead In Calabar gutter

The dead body of a four-month-old baby boy was, in the early hours of yesterday, found in a gutter, wrapped in a polythene bag, at Beebobsco Bus Stop along Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar.
An eyewitness, Eme Douglas, who sells cement close to where the baby was discovered, said she saw the baby when she opened her shop in the early hours of yesterday, while sweeping the premises.
He said: “I saw the lifeless body of the baby boy this morning (yesterday), while sweeping our premises. Although I did not know when the baby was dropped there, I am certain it was in the early hours of today (yesterday).

PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER CRIES IN COURT: I took shots of my slain son for police

AT an Ikeja High Court yesteday, a professional photographer, Mr. Adekunle Ayodele, emotionally narrated how he helped police to take photographs of his slain son, Damilare Ayodele, at the scene of crime.
He also told the court that the suspects had confessed to police that they killed his son because he was too proud.
He said: “On getting to the scene of the crime, where my son lay lifeless, the police asked me where they could get a photographer to take pictures of the corpse as evidence.
“I told them I was a professional photographer; they requested that I should take the photographs. I brought out a camera and I took the pictures with tears in my eyes.”
Ayodele made this claim during the trial of three men, Emmanuel Eguku, 23; Qudus Adeyemi, 24; and Deji Odukoya, 23, for alleged murder of Damilare.

Pastor, 4 others arrested over robbery

A senior Pastor at the Ministry of the Holy Ghost, Joe Akan, and four other suspected members of his gang have been arrested in connection with a robbery operation in Agege area of Lagos State, where a Toyota Highlander SUV was snatched from its owner.
Two suspected members of the gang, Charles Lekan, 25, and Uche, who is on the run, worked at the same garage in Agege.
The alleged mastermind, Uche, was said to have sold the idea to Lekan and Pastor Akan last week and reportedly invited Obi Isaac, 33, and Wasiu Jamiu, 26, for the operation, which took place last Friday.
Trouble, however, started after they were unable to sell the car at an initial price of N800,000.

Police intercept two trucks with 145 under-age children in Plateau

Plateau State Police Command, yesterday, said it intercepted two trucks conveying 145 children, aged between four and eight, from Bauchi and Jigawa states.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Terna Tyopev, in a statement in Jos, said the children were to be sent to Plateau, Kaduna and Nasarawa states.
He said: “Our investigation has revealed that these children, who are all male, were to be taken to places that even co-ordinators of their movement did not even know. Police is liaising with the Plateau State chapter of Jama’atul Nasril Islam, JNI and other stakeholders to establish contact with the two states government for the return of the children to their parents.”
He added that those behind the action would soon be charged to court to serve as a deterrent to others because “this trend, if not checked, will cause embarrassment to Plateau State, north central and the nation.”

26-year-old man kills wife over sex in Ogun

Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 26-year-old man, Matthew Oguntade, for allegedly killing his 20-year-old wife, Mary, over her refusal to allow him make love to her.
The incident occurred at Owode-Ijako, Sango-Ota, Ado-Odo/Ota last Friday, when the suspect invited his wife to come and collect N1,000 to prepare food for the family.
A source said when the late wife arrived, the husband attempted to forcefully have sex with her and while they were struggling, she got strangled.

10 dead as C-River communities go to war over human head for chief's burial

An alleged beheading of a young man by a chief hunter, purportedly for the burial ceremony of a high chief, weekend, led to hostilities between two neighbouring communities in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State, which has left over 10 people dead and many houses razed.
The conflict between the people of Ogwurude and their Oyidah neighbours began when head hunters from Oyidah community allegedly harvested the head of a young man which they intended to use in the burial ceremony of a chief.

SENATE TO BUHARI: Don’t abandon projects, policies of Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan

THE Senate, yesterday, cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari against abandoning the projects and policies of former Presidents, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, late Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
According to the Senate, the warning became imperative because it was determined to cut down on wasteful spending by government.
Speaking in Abuja yester-day, during an investigative hearing on the abandonment of the N8 billion Code of Conduct Bureau Office headquarters organised by the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, Chairman of the Committee, Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West) stressed that the alarming increase in the number of abandoned projects has become of great concern to well meaning Nigerians.

LASSA FEVER: NCDC confirms 9 deaths, 20 cases in 7 states

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed nine deaths and 20 cases of Lassa Fever in seven states since the beginning of the dry season in December 2016; even as it commences implementation of its plan to strengthen nationwide response capacity to anticipated Lassa Fever cases.
However, the Nasarawa State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Daniel Iya, confirmed four deaths and 16 cases in the state, while 38 people are now under surveillance.
In a statement, the Technical Assistant, Communication, of the NCDC, Dr Lawal Bakare, alerted Nigerians on the increasing cases of Lassa Fever and the need for increased focus on prevention and preparedness.
Bakare noted that Plateau State recorded three deaths out of six confirmed cases, while Ogun State recorded two deaths and two confirmed cases.
He added: “In Taraba State, there was one death out of the six confirmed cases,while Nasarawa recorded three deaths. Other states that have recorded one case each, without confirmed deaths, in-clude Edo, Ondo and Rivers.”

The crowd that sent late Kure, former Niger State governor home

Late former Governor of Niger State, Abdulkadir Kure, was laid to rest yesterday in Minna amidst tears by family members, friends and political associates.
The first series of prayers were held in the deceased GRA residence with Chief Imam of Minna, Sheikh Ibrahim Abu Fari, officiating.
The prayer session was a follow up to series of prayers attended by the Etsu Lapai, Alhaji Umar Bago Tafida; Estu Agaie, Alhaji Yusuf Nuhu and Emir of Minna, Alhaji Farouq Bahago after the corpse arrived Minna, Tuesday night.
The body was later ferried to the Eid prayer ground for funeral prayers at about 11.30a.m. However, it took a while to get the body into an ambulance for the journey as hundreds of sympathisers struggled to have a glimpse and touch the body.

4 dead as herdsmen, farmers clash in Niger

Four people have been confirmed dead and several others injured when farmers and herdsmen clashed in Sabon Daga village in Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State.
The clash broke out yesterday morning and lasted for hours. Weapons such as Dane guns, bows and arrows, cutlasses, daggers among others, were said to be freely used by the warring parties.
Just few days ago, cattle rustlers attacked Angwa Umadi village in Shiroro Local Government Area of the state, killing a Senior Secondary School 2 student and injuring 15 others.
The state Police Command's Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, confirmed the attack, saying that four people have been confirmed dead from both sides.

Birth attendant allegedly steals newborn, gives dead one to nursing mother

Operatives of Lagos State Police Command have arrested a 65-year-old house painter, Jamiu Jimoh, and his hairdresser/birth attendant daughter, Yetunde Osin, for allegedly stealing a baby.
Jimoh, a divorcee, and Osin, a 35-year-old spinster, were arrested by policemen from Igbogbo Police Station, in Ikorodu area of Lagos.
A police source told Vanguard that Osin practises her trade at her 4, Kadara Street residence in Oyingbo.
It was gathered that Osin sometime, last year, assisted a 28-year-old woman, identified as Stella, to deliver a baby girl and afterwards, reportedly told the woman that the child died, and reportedly showed Stella a dead child.
She then took the new born baby to her father, Jamiu Jimoh, in Ikorodu.

Her story
Meanwhile, while being interrogated after her arrest, Osin stated that she found the baby under a bridge near her home at Oyingbo.
She said: “On November 9, I was walking along the road in Oyingbo and found a baby on the ground. It was a female child, so I took it. That was the mistake I made. I should have gone to report to the police, but because it was a female baby, I liked her.

How football helped Algeria's liberation movement

Mohamed Maouche

One day in late 1958, at the height of the Algerian war of independence, an Algerian couple in their early twenties hopped into a fast car, put on some music and set off on honeymoon from the French capital Paris.

Mohamed and Khadidja Maouche spent the next 48 hours on a whirlwind tour. In a MG convertible - painted British racing green - they drove west to Le Havre, then south to Rennes and Bordeaux, east to Nimes, before heading back up north to Troyes and Reims.
Mohamed was a footballer and had a letter from his club, Stade de Reims, stating that he was authorised to be on leave so that he could celebrate his marriage.
Mohamed and Khadidja were newlyweds - but their honeymoon was an elaborate disguise.

Khadidja Maouche

In fact, they were on a covert operation for the independence movement Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN), which four years earlier had started a fight against French rule in Algeria.

Their secret mission was to persuade Algerian-born footballers to secretly abandon their top-flight French clubs to play for a team set up by FLN.

Khadidja's role was pivotal. She worked with a collective of Paris-based Algerian lawyers who defended FLN activists and at 20 years old, was the FLN's youngest liaison officer in France.

"I was in charge of contacting the players, either before or during the games," Khadidja says.

The Algerian couple toured France in this MG convertible as they recruited players for the FLN

MAN KNOW THYSELF... The Cheater’s Saga: Prof. Quick (adult content)

I made it into her bedroom on the third date (wow, at last). She was divorced and I was not, both in our thirties. She was long and lean with small bre@.$ts and great legs. There was a cute, quirky look about her. We stripped quickly and I was eager to perform oral S3@.x:’. I was super horny and I wanted to make sure she had an org@.$m before we actually did it. I wasted no time getting down there. You see, I have a history of quick org@.$ms. Socrates said, know thyself. Or was it Plato?
But she caught a good look at my huge erection and said, “F**.Ck all that. Get up here.I want that big thing inside me.” She threw her long strong legs up over my shoulders and I planted my mouth on hers. Our tongues danced but I was very anxious. I was so F**.Cking horny that I felt my org@.$m building already. When she grabbed my C@.ck I almost came.It didn’t help when she said, “My God you’re huge!” She was dripping wet as she guided me into her.
I glided my long thick C@.ck into her slowly. I pushed it in all the way, all the way to the hilt, and came. One thrust and I was done. It was a wild, furious org@.$m. I moaned much too loudly. Unfortunate sputtering noises escaped from me. My C@.ck softened. I pulled out of her, rolled over onto my back, and sighed. I could feel her glaring at me. She said, “You’re kidding me, right?”

God go punish you if...

When over one million children are malnourished and many others see hunger as the norm, if in the name of decorum or some warped sense of social etiquette you wasted food like this, GOD GO PUNISH YOU! 

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