Fraudsters make N20m posing as Tinubu, NSA others

A notorious syndicate that specialises in impersonating prominent politicians and public office holders has been cracked by the Police Intelligence Response Team after surveillance and tracking, with four members arrested.
Speaking while parading the suspects at Force Headquarters, Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Jimoh Moshood, said the suspects impersonated the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari; Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the national leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu.
Other prominent Nigerians impersonated by the gang, according to the Police’s spokesman, include the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno; Minister of State, Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu; Finance and Transport Ministers.
CSP Moshood said: “On February 28, the IGP Intelligence Response Team, IRT, cracked the gang and arrested the members, who posed as prominent Nigerians.

Vice-principal arrested for impregnating student, affairs with 6 others

He normally gives me N200 for transport, says pregnant teen

Nemesis has caught up with a randy 51-year-old Vice Principal arrested by the Police for allegedly impregnating a 16-year-old JSS 3 student of his school.
The suspect has also been accused of sleeping with six other female students of the same school.
The Vice Principal had lured the teenage student to his office, where he had intercourse with her.
The Vice-Principal, it was gathered, had been having sex with the same female student in his office in the past before the last encounter exposed him.

AMBASSADOR NOMINEE REJECTED: Go and ask Mugabe, 82-yr-old Nsofor tells Senate for making reference to his age

The 82-year-old retired judicial officer, Justice Sylvanus Nsofor,  who told a Senate panel that Information Technology was not meant for people of his age and failed to recite the National Anthem, yesterday, had his nomination to be an ambassador rejected by the Senate.
Justice Nsofor, who retired from the judiciary in 2005 and came in frail and feeble for the Senate screening, had also dismissed questions about his capacity to work when he directed the senators to “go and ask Robert Mugabe who is still working.”
He was one of the two of the 47 nominees presented by President Muhammadu Buhari that were rejected.

Reps probe safety standards at Kaduna Airport

DISTURBED by reports on the safety of the Kaduna Airport, the House of Representatives, yesterday, mandated its Committee on Aviation to investigate activities at the airport to ensure that international safety standard is met.
The lawmakers, during plenary, also mandated the commit-tee to inspect the ongoing repair works at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja and report back in one week.

Reps suspend debate on sexual harassment bill

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, suspended further deliberations on a bill seeking to make provisions for the prohibition and punishment of sexual harassment of students in educational institutions.

Ortom berates Wike over call for emergency rule

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, yesterday, berated his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, over the latter’s call for the declaration of a state of emergency in Benue, describing the call as laughable and unfortunate.
Governor Ortom said Rivers, and not Benue, should come under emergency rule.
Ortom, who was reacting to a newspaper publication where the Rivers Governor called for emergency rule in Benue State, following the recent killings in parts of the state, noted that there were more killings in Rivers than Benue.

5 years after: 2 to die over Cynthia Osokogu's killing

Late Cynthia

The convicts (left and 2nd right)

A Lagos State high court in Igbosere, yesterday, sentenced Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike to death by hanging for killing Cynthia Osokogu, who they lured from Nasarawa State to Lagos before strangling her to death at a hotel in Festac Town, Lagos, in 2012.
Justice Olabisi Akinlade declared that after carefully analysing the evidence presented before the court, testimonies of prosecution witnesses and confessional statements the convicts made to the police, she was left with no doubt that the accused killed Ms. Osokogu.

Ekiti teacher's kidnappers want N20m ransom

The kidnapped teacher, Mr. Festus Oke, may return home afterwards, as his abductors have demanded a ransom of N20 million for his release.
A family source told newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, yesterday, that the family members were contacted on Wednesday, two days after Mr. Oke was abducted.
When contacted, the Secretary of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, in Ekiti State, Mr. Olugbenga Ajibade, confirmed that the family had been contacted, saying “we in the NUT are also in contact with the family.”

Bomb scare at US Embassy

There was pandemonium, yesterday, at the American Embassy on Walter Carrington Crescent, Victoria Island, Lagos, following news that a bomb had been planted in one of the cars on the premises.
Members of staff of the embassy, visa applicants and visitors, hurriedly left the premises for fear of being caught in any likely explosion.
In a swift response, a combined team of policemen from the Anti-Bomb Unit, Anti-Riot Police and Mobile Police Force cordoned off the area. Bomb experts, thereafter, detected the object of commotion— a bag which was kept in one of the vehicles at the Consul-General's office.

Medical doctor jumps into Lagos Lagoon, drowns

The doctor's car at the scene

A medical doctor, identified as Orji, jumped from the Third Mainland Bridge into the Lagoon yesterday and drowned. Time was 4:50p.m.
At the scene of the tragedy, it was gathered that the victim jumped into the lagoon at a point between Adekunle and Adeniji end of the Bridge.
Sources said the man instructed his driver to stop the vehicle, saying he wanted to discuss a confidential issue with a client on phone.

8 killed in Calabar cult war

Supremacy war between two rival cults in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, weekend, turned bloody at a popular Calabar hangout on Atekong/Marian Road, when gunmen stormed the place at about 7p.m.
After hours of shooting, two people were reportedly killed and many others left with gunshot wounds.
The weekend battle at Atekong was the latest in the battle for supremacy between the two rival cults, which, between Thursday and Saturday, had left over eight people dead and several others with various degrees of injuries.

King Solomon, kidnap kingpin, arrested in Lagos

King Solomon

Recovered weapons and charms

A notorious kidnap kingpin, popularly called King Solomon, alleged to have been responsible for the abduction of several residents of Festac Town in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos and environs, has been arrested by police in Lagos.
One of his victims, as gathered, included the female Customs Officer attached to Tin Can Command SDV, a bonded terminal of the Nigeria Customs Service, who was abducted in the presence of her two daughters at an eatery on 22 Road, Festac Town, last December.
Other victims include a pastor of a Pentecostal Church in Festac, identified simply as Pastor Nwachukwu, and two traders at Trade Fair.
The suspect, whose real name is Chukwudi Solomon, used his apartment on 46 Canal View Road as a den, where abducted victims were kept.

Gunmen kill Afegbua, former Edo LG boss; abduct 5 others

The immediate past Chairman of Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State, Mr. Suleiman Afegbua, was, yesterday, killed by gunmen along the Benin-Auchi Road, while five others sustained injuries.
An eyewitness said five persons were abducted by the robbers, who attacked their victims with sophisticated weapons.
The attack occurred at the Ogbemudia Farms axis of the road at about 10a.m. and eyewitnesses said that the attackers were dressed like herdsmen.

How touts made truck kill 18-yr-old girl in Aba

Tragedy struck at the Factory Road railway crossing in Aba, Abia State, yesterday, as an articulated truck crushed an 18-year-old girl to death while it was trying to escape from touts.
Eyewitnesses said the touts were trying to impound the truck conveying empty bottles when it rammed into the girl, who had just alighted from a commercial bus.

My father gives me N500 each time he sleeps with me, 15-yr-old reveals

A 15-year-year-old girl, yesterday, narrated in tears how her 42-year-old father had been sleeping with her and her elder sister since their mother left them two years ago. She said her father gives her N500 each time he wants to sleep with her.
Her father, I. D. Idowu, was arrested by policemen at Ketu Division after a concerned neighbour reported the act.
The suspect’s wife left her matrimonial home two years ago when she discovered that her husband was sleeping with their 17-year-old daughter. But her husband was said to have insisted that she left without either of their three children, all girls, who were aged 17, 13 and eight, respectively.
The eldest child, unable to bear the abuse, left their Ketu home, abandoning her siblings to their fate. Idowu, as alleged by his second child, usually gave her N500 whenever he wanted to sleep with her.

Herdsman kills farmer in Oyo

He had affair with herdman's wife—Fulani leader
He poisoned herdsman's cows—Police

THE fragile peace between herdsmen and farmers at Igbeti, Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State was ruptured, Wednesday, as one of the herdsmen hacked a farmer, Musiliu Aliu, to death in his farm.
However, the leader of the Fulani in the area said the deceased was befriending the wife of the herdsman.
The Chairman, Igbeti Community, Alhaji Alawode Jimoh Fasina, who disclosed that the incident happened Wednesday evening, said: “We had warned him not to allow the Fulani man in his farm because there is no way his cows would not destroy his crops.
“They were together until we heard yesterday (Wednesday) that the Fulani man had hacked our man and fled.”
He said the dead farmer had preserved some yam seedlings for planting at the appropriate time. But the herdsman’s cows ate some, leading to a quarrel.

She treated me like a one-night stand

A bosom friend gave me a number of a lady he met when he went to audit her company’s account in a nearby state. He thought we would be good together and to my  delight, there was an instant spark between us as we chatted.
After weeks of chatting on the phone, she agreed to visit and we eventually met. She stayed at my home for the weekend and the love-making was amazing. We made love four times before she went back to her tate.

Stop blaming China for substandard products in Nigeria —Importers

Goods Made in China Importers Association, GMIA, has advised  Nigerians to stop blaming China for substandard products in circulation but rather, saying some greedy and unpatriotic Nigerian importers  should be blamed, alongside those manning our borders.
According to a statement signed by Charles Udogaranya, Secretary of the association, this counsel has become necessary as the ever-increasing blame game is growing into a proportion that may affect the cordial economic relations between the Asian Tiger and the African giant.

Bauchi secondary school where students wed themselves

Bauchi State Government has ordered the closure of a secondary school in the state capital, Bauchi, where students allegedly conducted weddings among themselves, which the government considered to be sexual immorality.
It was alleged that in one instance, a boy, who claimed to be the groom, paid N500 as dowry to “wed” a female student, while their classmates contributed money for snacks needed at the ceremony.
“We learned that the groom brought large sums of money to the bride’s friends for settlement after marriage had taken place,” one student told newsmen.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Nuhu Gidado, who is also Deputy Governor, made the announcement in a statement, yesterday, by his Special Assistant on Communi-cation, Yakubu Adamu.
The statement said the closure became necessary following reports received that some of the students of Sa’adu Zungur Model Primary and Secondary School engaged in illegal marriages among themselves.
Mr. Gidado attributed the student’s behaviour to moral decadence in the society, adding “that is why he directed the immediate closure of the school on Friday, March 10, after being notified about the issue.”

Air Force personnel shoots female colleague dead over infidelity

A Nigerian Air Force personnel serving at the Makurdi Base, Aircraft Man ACM (names withheld), in the early hours of yesterday, allegedly shot dead a colleague and supposed girlfriend, an Aircraft Woman, ACW (names withheld), for allegedly having an affair with a man at the Base.
An eyewitness that the incident happened shortly after the accused closed from his routine duty around 6a.m. and went straight to the official residence of his supposed lover, only to find her in bed with a civilian male friend.

Lagos task force arrests 87 miscreants, 35 cultists

EIGHTY-SEVEN miscreants and 35 cult members arrested during an overnight operation carried out by operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Environment around Idi-Oro, Akala and Mushin areas of Lagos, have been prosecuted.
Chairman of the Task Force, SP Olayinka Egbeyemi, who disclosed this, said the suspects were arrested following public complaints over their criminal activities.
Egbeyemi disclosed that the 35 cult members were arrested along with their gang leader, Sanju Agbabiaka, alias 120, during initiation of new members, called Omije Boys, around Akala area.

How house fellowship leader gate-crashes seminars to steal laptops

Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of Lagos State Police Command, have arrested a suspect, who specialised in stealing laptops at conferences and seminars, while leading a house fellowship at his home.
The suspect, Ikemefuna Aje, 47, was arrested when he gate-crashed a seminar organised for internet brand managers at a popular hotel in Government Reserved Area, GRA, Ikeja, and stole six laptops.
He allegedly made away with five MacBooks, one HP computer and assorted personal effects of the workshop participants.
According to the Commander of RRS, Assistant Superintendent Olatunji Disu, Ikemufuna, as captured in the closed-circuit television, CCTV, drove into the venue and headed straight into the seminar hall, dressed in a corporate suit, precisely when the participants were having lunch in another room.
According to investigation, he took the items to the Computer Village, Ikeja, and sold them to one Saliu Ibraheem for N1,110,000.

At Tin Can Port: Driver shot for challenging policeman who urinated on truck

FOR challenging a police officer, who reportedly urinated on a truck, Alhaji Dan Jos, a truck owner, was shot dead, yesterday, at Tin Can Island Port, bringing operations to a halt as his colleagues began a protest.
According to an eyewitness, Kabiru Alaba, the yet-to-be identified police officer, attached to the RORO Division, shot Dan Jos for challenging his colleague who urinated on a truck parked in the premises.

Police arrest lady armourer, 21 other suspects in C-River

The armourer

Arms

Other suspects

The Cross River Police Command said it has arrested a female armourer, Ms. Hope Usang, 25, who leases arms to suspected robbers in Calabar, the state capital.
The state Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Inuwa, who briefed newsmen yesterday on the successes recorded by the command, said that Usang and 21 other suspects were arrested at different locations across the state.

‘I inserted 386 grammes of cocaine in my anus for N1m’

Otaka

Ike

A 53-year-old shoe merchant, Lekwauwa Mark Otaka, who was arrested at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, few hours to its closure, Wednesday, has disclosed that he inserted 386 grammes of cocaine into his anus over a promise of N1 million to traffic the drugs to Cambodia.
Arrested alongside the father of three was 57-year-old Odogwu Augustine Ike, an automobile dealer in Onitsha, Anambra State. Ike was arrested with 2.150kg of heroin from Tanzania.
The agency’s Commander at the Abuja Airport, Hamisu Lawan, explained that the duo tested positive for narcotic ingestion during routine screening.
According to him, “Odogwu Augustine Ike was caught with 110 wraps of heroin weighing 2.150kg from Tanzania on an Ethiopian Airline flight, while Otaka was found to have inserted seven wraps of cocaine weighing 386 grammes into his anus on an Egypt Airline flight to Cambodia. Both suspects are currently under investigation.”

BEGGARS' STRIKE

Beggars protesting, demanding the closure of Majidun-Owutu Rehabilitation Centre and the release of their colleagues by Lagos State Government, at Alausa, Lagos, yesterday.

Women hold key to Africa’s devt—TUC women

THE key to Africa’s development is in giving women and girls their rights and opportunity to actualise their aspirations and potentials.
These were the sentiments of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Women Commission, at the International Women’s Day celebration in Lagos, yesterday.
Chairperson of the Commission, Mrs Oyinkan Olasanoye, said Africa was poor because leaders had failed to carry women along, explaining that women were not in contests with their husbands, brothers, uncles and nep-hews, but just wanted to participate in management.

Unknown men kill 4 students, drain their blood in Niger

Four boys were reportedly killed and their blood taken away, yesterday, by suspected ritualists, who invaded an Islamic school in Tungan Magajiya village, Rijau Local Government Area of Niger State.

Man chops off 8-month-old baby's manhood during circumcision

A 74-year-old man (names withheld) from Ondewari community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has allegedly chopped off the manhood of an eight-month old baby boy during circumcision.
Meanwhile, the International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, Bayelsa State chapter, has called on security operatives in the state to arrest and prosecute the septuagenarian.

From Chisom Rogers (Facebook)

Not saying no,doesnt mean its a yes.
Silence is not consent.
There are no assumptions.
Even if shes flirtatious,even if she's scantily clad,even if she walks about butt nekkid,its not an invitation to grope,fondle,touch,smack or kiss.
Even when she says yes,and youre both getting down,she has a right to say stop,she doesnt want it anymore.It is your duty to comply.Anything outside that is not allowed.
If its not consensual sex,then it is a sexual violation.

Just saying.

INTERNATIONALWOMENSDAY: Women hold key to Africa's devt—TUC women

LAGOS—THE key to Africa's development is in according women and girls their rights, giving them the chance to actualise their aspirations and realise their full potentials. These were the sentiments of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Women Commission, at the International Women's Day Celebration in Lagos, yesterday.

According to the Chairperson of the Commission, Mrs Oyinkan Olasanoye, Africa is poor because leaders have failed to carry women along. She added that women are not in contests with their husbands, brothers, uncles and nephews, but just want to participate in management.

Middle-aged woman survives a frightening crash

A middle-aged woman (names withheld), yesterday, escaped death by the whiskers along Enugu-Onitsha Expressway in the heart of Awka, when her Volvo CX90 car with number plates AGL 848 EM, veered off the road and fell into a culvert.

Militants to FG: If you are serious about modular refineries, why destroy 80 illegal refineries

Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders, NRDC, yesterday, questioned the razing of 80 illegal refineries across Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states by soldiers, despite recent assurances by the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, that the Federal Government would establish modular refineries to engage Niger Delta youths involved in the business.
The militant group, in a statement by its spokesperson, W. O. I. Izon-Ebi, said that the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, JTF, codenamed Operation Restore Hope, was not helping the peace-building process in the region with its actions.

My boyfriend is so big down there it hurts

I’ve just met this wonderful man who is clever, funny and sexy. But the problem is he’s massive ‘down there.’
I’m on the small size so sex is always a bit painful, but this is agony.
I’m frightened to try again. Do you think we have a future?

To evade arrest smugglers abandon canoe-load of rice, jump into river

Suspected smugglers, who were bringing bags of rice from the Benin Republic into Nigeria through the Badagry waterways of Lagos, weekend, jumped into the river to evade arrest by naval personnel.
A wooden boat being used to ferry 80 bags of rice was abandoned by the suspects on sighting a Navy patrol vessel.
The Commanding Officer, Forward Operation Base, Badagry, Navy Captain Abdulhakeem Ojebode, addressed newsmen shortly before handing over the recovered bags of rice to personnel of the Nigeria Customs Services.
He said personnel from the base, who were on patrol around Iyana-Ipaahi waterways around the Badagry creeks, sighted the boat, but before the patrol vessel arrived the location of the boat to investigate, the occupants had jumped into the river.

The rise and fall of vampire, the kidnap lord

Vampire, when he was arrested earlier

Vampire killed, and his gang members

His surviving gang members

THERE was jubilation yesterday in Imo State, when  leader of the most dreaded kidnap gang in the country, Henry Chibueze, popularly called Vampire, was killed during a gun battle between his gang and opera-tives of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, in the early hours of yesterday, in Omu Awa Forest, Ikwerre Local Government Area in Rivers State.
A police Sergeant attached to the IRT, Abia State, sustained multiple bullet wounds.
Five suspected members of his gang, including his Second-in-Command, Obinna Elah, 26, a native of Orlu, Imo State, were arrested at the end of the gun battle.
Other suspects arrested were Arinze Abecheta, 24, from Ohafia in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area; Chukwu Ebuka Ikeazota, 23, from Ohohia village, Isiala Mbano area, both in Imo State; Samuel Ugochukwu, 24, from Ezisno village, Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State and Clifford Aheana of Omu Awa village.
Three of them, who sustained bullet wounds, are reportedly being treated at an undisclosed hospital, with the injured policeman.
Several AK-47 rifles and a cache of ammunition and expended shells of bullets were recovered in the forest used by the kidnappers as hideout.

Be enterprising, FUTA's VC urges freshers

THE Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, Professor Adebiyi Daramola, has admonished the 2016/2017 matriculating students of the institution to demonstrate industry, enterprise and thrift, as well as support and cooperate with the institution’s management to achieve its goals.

3m Nigerians lose N18bn to Mmm

The Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, has said about three million Nigerians lost N18 billion in the Ponzi scheme, popularly called Mavrodi Mundial Movement, MMM.
The Managing Director of the Corporation, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, stated this while speaking at the ongoing 38th Kaduna International Trade Fair, yesterday.

Security agents raid Peace Corps, arrest Commandant, 49 others

Peace Corps of Nigeria's National Commandant, Akor Dickson, and some of the 49 members arrested.

The Nigeria Police Force in joint operations with the personnel of the Military and Department of State Services, DSS, yesterday, raided the headquarters of the Nigerian Peace Corps and arrested the National Commandant, Mr. Akor Dickson, and 49 others.
The raid, Tuesday night, led to the closure of the Peace Corps of Nigeria secret training camps in Abuja, Kwara and Niger states.
Giving reasons for the raid yesterday, the Nigeria Police Force spokesman, CSP Jimoh Moshood, said intelligence reports indicated that the Peace Corps and other similar groups “were acquiring weapons and conducting covert military training in different locations across the country.

He drank my beer on credit, man owing landlord N120,000 tells court

A 38-year-old tenant, Genesis Genius, yesterday, told a Masaka chief magistrate’s court in Nasarawa State, that his landlord, Manzo Hassan, owes him for the beer he drank in his bar.
Genius, a resident of Masaka, was taken to court by Hassan for owing him N120,000 arrears in rent.
He agreed to pay the arrears, but insisted that his landlord should pay him his beer money first so he can add to it and pay his rent.
According to Genius, “my landlord always comes to my beer parlour to drink. Afterwards, he will not pay me. I am sure he is using it to replace the money I owe him.
“He has been doing it; the money he owes me amounts to a huge sum. He should pay me, so that I can pay him as well.”
The defendant told the court that his landlord has locked up the beer parlour, adding that he even chased his salesgirls and barmen away.
Hassan, in his response, told the court that he drank beer in his tenant’s beer parlour and deliberately refused to pay because of the rent arrears.
He said: “As I discovered that he was not making efforts to pay me my money, I started drinking beer on credit in his beer parlour to cover up the money he owes.

Older women could be amazing

I recently made love to a woman 11 years older than me and it was the best night of my life. She was really amazing. I’m used to being in control but she bossed me around in bed and told me exactly how to please her. As a result, I found myself doing stuff I’d never thought of with a woman and was shocked at how brazen and explicit she was. Are older women as dirty in bed as she was?