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  • Primary: APC faithful in Ojo, Badagry stage peaceful protests

    Some members of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ojo Local Government area of Lagos state, under the aegis of the ‘Concerned Leaders of APC’, yesterday braved the heavy downpour to stage a protest against alleged plan to impose a candidate on the party for the Ojo Federal Constituency. They appealed to APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and other leaders to save the partly from implosion by ensuring the aspirant that won the primary is announced the party’s flag-bearer.

    The group said they suspect attempts by certain elements within the party to subvert the people’s will by manipulating the primary election to favour an aspirant that emerged third during the exercise. The group said: “Hon. Durosinmi scored 3,798 votes followed by Hon. Taiwo Saheed with 2, 587 votes, while Hon. Lanre Ogunyemi who came distant third with1,753 votes appeared in the purported list.

    “We are seeking quick intervention to call on the people that are behind this illegal act. The people of Ojo Federal Constituency have expressed their choice by voting massively for Hon. Durosinmi. Our plea is in the spirit of justice and fairness as propagated by our party, the A PC.” The petition was signed by Chairman APC Ojo Local Government, Hon. Joel Tudonu and his counterpart at Iba LCDA, Hon. Babatunde Lawal, as well as Hon. Cornelius Ojelabi, a former House of Representatives member .

    Similarly, APC youths from Badagry West Local Council Development Area (LCDA), under the aegis of Badagry Youths Alliance for APC, on Saturday protested over alleged plan to impose a candidate for the Badagry Federal Constituency election in 2019. According to the youths who carried placards with various inscriptions, there was the need for justice and a level playing field for all aspirants in the just concluded primaries of the party.

    The protest was to express their grievances over the planned imposition and rejection of result. The protesters arrived at the State Secretariat in Acme, with placards, expressing their rejection of the alleged imposition plan. Zosu Solomon, the spokesman of the group, said it became expedient at this time to call on the Alhaji Tunde Balogun, the state chairman of the party to wade into the matter in order to save it from an imminent defeat in 2019 elections.

     

  • Tight security in Badagry as APC holds primaries

    Security was tight at voting centres in Badagry, Lagos State on Thursday as All Progressives Congress members turned out to select their candidates in the senatorial and House of Representatives primaries, ahead of the 2019 elections.

    The News Agency of Nigeria correspondent who monitored some of the centers reports that party members converged at various centers to take part in the exercise.

    Three aspirants are seeking to represent Badagry Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives.

    They are the incumbent representative Mr Joseph Bamgbose, Mr Babatunde Hunpe, the Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on Environment and Alhaji Rabiu Amusa, a retired customs officer.

    At the Topa Guest House, Ajara voting center, where Hunpe was expected to cast his vote, APC members were waiting for the party electoral officer to start the exercise when our reporter visited the place.

    An INEC official at the Topa voting centre who refused to disclose his name said that he was on ground to monitor and give the account of the exercise.

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    “I am not here to conduct the primary, this is exclusively party affair, but I’m on ground to watch the exercise and give vivid report back,” he said.

    Mr Thomas Adigun, an APC member at Topa voting center said the members would vote and monitor the exercise, adding that it was a Badagry affair.

    “Badagry indigenes will chose its representative, enough of picking people by APC chieftain,” he said.

    At Apa Town Hall voting center, security operatives were on ground while members were also seen waiting for party electoral officers.

    At Kankon voting center, where Mr Bamgbose and Amusa were expected to take part in the exercise, the Badagry Divisional Police Officer, Mr Samson Akhiromen, was on ground to maintain peace.

    APC members were seeing discussing among themselves as they awaited the arrival of electoral officers who would conduct the exercise.

  • ‘Ember’ months: FRSC commences monitoring of vehicles, drivers

    The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Badagry-Seme Command, on Sunday said that his oficers had commenced the monitoring of vehicles and drivers in different parks before they embark on any  journey during the ’ember’ months.

    The Unit Commander, Mr Fatai Bakare, told our reporters in Badagry that the programme was to ensure accident free ’ember’ months and beyond.

    According to the unit commander, “We will be going to parks with our paramedics to test drivers before they embark on any  journey.

    “We are going to be practical this time around; this is beyond talking to people, before embarking on a journey, we will do random checking.

    “We are going to check the blood pressure and eye sights of drivers because we believe most of the accidents occur made through human errors.

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    “Before you embark on a journey, you have already planned it. How do you describe somebody whose vision is 45 per cent in order and is about to drive a vehicle from Badagry to Kano.

    “How do you describe a situation whereby somebody whose blood pressure is 210 over 140 and is the driver to transport  passengers  on  a long journey?

    “So, we will check the tyres of the vehicle, what is in your brake fluid container? Is it water missed with surf or the recommended brake fluid?

    “We are going to check the whippers, because it is somehow, funny  that some drivers during the  rainy  season will be using their handkerchiefs instead of the whippers to clean their vehicles’ windscreens.

    “This is a form of distraction that is capable of distracting them from driving well on the road,” he said.

    Bakare said that after each exercise whatever information gathered would be sent out to various leaders in the various garages or parks.

    He said that the  unit was building on the already ongoing public enlightenment programme embarked on since the year began.

  • I may jump into river, divorce-seeking wife tells court

    A 28-year-old housewife and mother of one, Mautin Idowu, on Wednesday asked a Badagry Customary Court in Lagos State to dissolve her five-year-old marriage to her husband, Michael, to prevent her from committing suicide.

    The petitioner threatened to jump into a river in the coastal city if the court declined to grant her request due to the alleged wayward behaviour of her husband.

    Mautin, a teacher in a public school, said that she was tired of her husband’s disrespect for her family, his intolerable behaviour and lack of love.

    “I was in 300-level at the Lagos State University Distance Learning Programme when I met Michael Idowu in 2012.

    “He was a teacher and I was teaching with my National Certificate in Education (NCE) then; he proposed to me but I rejected because he was older than me.

    “Michael told me that his wife divorced him with two sons and out of pity, I fell in love with him.

    “Few months after, he took me to meet his family. When I got pregnant in 2013, we got married and he paid my dowry.

    “But when I was seven months pregnant, I discovered that my husband had two wives and six children which he hid from me during our courtship.

    “He lied to me, my world broke down but I survived the trauma.

    “ Michael kept me in a two-room apartment in a bushy area, but I still managed to have my baby, ” the petitioner said.

    She told the court that her husband abandoned her and her baby and disrespected her parents by shouting at his mother-in-law and hanging up the phone on her father.

    The respondent was, however, not in court.

    The court’s President, Mr Sakirudeen Adekola, adjourned the case till Oct. 18 to give room for an amicable settlement between the couple.

  • Man, 34, remanded in prison over rape of girl

    A Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a 34-year-old man, Musa Idris, in prison over alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl.

    Idris, whose residential address was not given, was arraigned on a four-count charge of rape, indecent assault, sexual assault and breach of peace.

    Earlier, the Prosecutor, SP Akpan Ikem, had told the court that the accused committed the offences at about 2 p.m. on Aug. 24, at Zongo area of Seme Border, Badagry, Lagos State.

    Ikem alleged that the accused had sexual intercourse with the 13-year-old girl in violation of Sections 168 and 261 of Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    “He did sexually touch the girl without her consent and violated Section 261 of Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

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    “Idris did indecently and unlawfully deal with the young girl without her consent and thereby violated Section 135 of Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

    “Idris also did conduct himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace by sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl by having sex with her.

    “This act violated Section 166 of Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011, ‘’ the prosecutor said.

    Ikem told the court that the offences committed were punishable under Section 259 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

    The Chief Magistrate, Mr Patrick Adekomaya, ordered that the accused be remanded in Badagry prison and adjourned the case until Oct. 3, for further hearing.

  • Obas to meet Ambode over Lagos-Badagry Expressway

    The Akran of Badagry, De Aholu Menu-Toyi I, on Tuesday said the Lagos Council of Obas would soon meet Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode over the deplorable state of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

    Menu-Toyi I  told the News Agency of Nigeria in Badagry that the deplorable state of the road had retarded the growth of the ancient city and movement of people.

    The monarch said that the council had decided to pay a visit to the governor in order to hasten work on the ongoing road construction between Mile 2 and Okokomaiko.

    “I am not happy with the state of the road. Lagos-Badagry Expressway is an international road, which is supposed to be the responsibility of Federal Government, but it has been abandoned.

    “The road is deterring investors from coming to the town, while tourists are no longer visiting Badagry.

    “Sons and daughters of the land now prefer to enjoy their holidays in Lagos instead of coming home.

    “Motorists and passengers spend up to five hours in the gridlock before getting to the city, a journey that is supposed to take an hour.

    “The road has now become a deathtrap to my citizens, this is sad,” the monarch said.

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    Also, Mr Oloyede Edun, the Vice-Chairman, National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), said that many lives had been lost to accidents due to deplorable condition of the road.

    Meanwhile, Babatunde Hunpe, the Special Adviser to Ambode on Environment, told NAN that the state government was awaiting Federal Government’s approval to reconstruct Okokomaiko/Seme Border Section of the expressway.

    Hunpe said that work on the road would start immediately the state government secured the approval.

  • Police arrest 13 for armed robbery in Lagos

    The police in Lagos have arrested 13 suspects for various armed robbery offences across the state.

    Among the suspects who were paraded yesterday was a father of four, Abiodun Oluwa, 34, said to have attached his victims at Atiporomeh in Badagry.

    According to Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal, Oluwa was arrested on August 10, at the roof of his mother’s house, where he went to hide after robbing a woman.

    Edgal said: “My policemen found one locally made pistol with one cartridge.”

    The suspect who admitted to the offence, said he had stolen four phones since he began last year.

    He said: “I bought the gun for N20,000. But it is not working. I discovered it was not working. So, I kept it in my house.

    “I robbed a lady but I never knew that she knew me. She went to my mother and reported. Police then came and searched the house, they found the gun and then I was arrested.”

    Edgal said Ezeja Oluchukwu, 29, Tochukwu Samson, 21, Ifeanyi Oshomi, 30, and Tochukwu Matthias, 27 were apprehended for vandalising parked vehicles at Abesan Estate.

    He said a Toyota Camry car (EKY361FC), 20 pieces of auto glass winding engine, three pieces of vehicle brain boxes, a car trampoline, two pieces of side mirrors, one black knife and a school bag.

    “Four armed robbers were arrested on August 26, around Olayinka/Cele axis, Itire. They are Toheeb Ogunjimi, 24, Matthew Olumosu, 19, Qudus Akala, 18 and Akintoya Faruq, 18.

    “They were found with one black toy gun, seven phones, a locally made double barrel pistol and one live cartridge.

    “On June 20, at about 6am while one Kingsley Ochoma was attending to customers, four armed men forced their way into his warehouse, at Graceland Estate, Isheri-Oshun and held them hostage. In the process, they carted away cartons of phones and accessories worth over N9,000,000.

    “Based on complaint received about the incident, I directed the Officer-In-Charge of FSARS to commence investigation. The detectives visited the warehouse and recovered some items left behind by the robbers.

    “These items or specimen were critically examined and the observations made were used to unravel the authors of the crime. The chain of events leading to the arrest of the suspects, started on August 14, when one Kareem Badmus and his mother Bola Badmus were arrested using two of the stolen phones.

    “During interrogation, they confessed that the phones were given to them by a relation named Yusuf Badmus and they led detectives to apprehend him. Search was immediately conducted in the house of Yusuf Badmus and seven of the robbed phones were recovered. Also recovered were two locally made cut to size double barrel guns with three live cartridges, which he hid inside his operational vehicle, a Nissan Quest (BDG339CA).

    “The said Yusuf Badmus later led detectives to arrest his gang members Chimere Njenobi, 26, Dominic Anawo, 36, and
    Abimbola Austine, 30. Investigation into the case is ongoing and suspects will definitely be charged to court.

  • Three men docked for assaulting policeman

    Three men were on Wednesday brought before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for allegedly beating a police sergeant while on duty.

    The accused — Gideon Nnanedu, 36; Kenneth Mba, 28; and Christian Ifegbu — all residents of Oko-Afo near Badagry, are being tried for assault, breach of peace and felony.

    The three men assaulted Sgt. Benard Achon attached to Morogbo Police Station, Badagry, by beating him while on official duty, according to Prosecutor Akpan Ikem.

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    He said the accused committed the offences on July 31 about 9.30 a.m. at Oko-Afo.

    The offences contravened Sections 172, 166 and 404 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015 (Revised).The accused pleaded not guilty.

    In his ruling, Chief Magistrate Patrick Adekomaiya granted them bail in the sum of N100, 000 each with two sureties each in like sum.

    He adjourned the  case until Sept. 5 for hearing.

  • 19 suspected cultists held in Badagry

    Nineteen persons have been arrested over cultism in Imeke, a Badagry suburb in Lagos.

    Badagry Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Samson Akhiromen made this known yesterday to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

    The suspects, he said, were arrested around 11pm last Friday when they were meeting to carry out their nefarious activities.

    According to him, a reliable source gave useful information that led to their arrest.

    The DPO, who led the team of policemen that arrested the suspects -18 men and one woman – said they were caught with two machetes, nine mobile phones and charms.

    “We got information from a reliable member of the public that some cult members were meeting in Imeke area.

    “I led a team of officers under my division to the place and 19 suspected cultists were arrested.

    “Although they denied being cult members, they said they were traditional worshippers known as `Ogun worshippers’. But their members who had renounced membership recently identified them and they were subsequently arrested immediately,” he said.

    Akhiromen said the case had been transferred to the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja.

  • Police arrest 19 suspected cultists in Badagry

    The police on Wednesday said they had arrested 19 suspected cultists in Imeke, a suburb of Badagry, Lagos State.

    SP Samson Akhiromen, the Divisional Police Officer, (DPO) in Badagry, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday.

    Akhiromen said that the suspects were arrested at about 11 p.m. on July 27 when the suspects were having a meeting to carry out their nefarious activities.

    According to him, a reliable source from the city gave useful information that led to the arrest of 18 males and one femalefemale suspects.

    The DPO, who led the team of policemen that arrested the suspects, said they were caught with two machetes, nine mobile phones and charms.

    “We got information from a reliable member of the public that some cult members were meeting in Imeke area.

    “I led a team of officers under my division to the place and 19 suspected cultists were arrested.

    “Although they denied being cult members, they said they were traditional worshippers known as `Ogun worshippers’.

    “But their members who had renounced membership recently identified them and they were subsequently arrested immediately,” he said.

    Akhiromen said that the case had been transferred to the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, for further investigation.

    He urged members of the public to always provide the police with useful information on the activities of criminal elements in the society.

    He added that with such information, communities would be free from criminals and cultists.