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  • Police officer feared dead as armed men attack check point

    Police officer feared dead as armed men attack check point

    Two armed men operating on a motorcycle on Wednesday reportedly killed a police officer and made away with his AK47 riffle in Onitsha, Anambra.

    The incident occurred barely three weeks after a police inspector was killed at a road block at Ugwunwasike round-about, Ogidi near Onitsha.

    An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, said Wednesday’s incident occurred at about 3.30pm at a check point near Nkpor junction.

    The source said the hoodlums shot the policeman at close range, collected his riffle and sped-off, adding that the incident made people around and other police officers scamper for safety.

    Efforts to get further details of the deceased and the mortuary where his body was deposited from the Ogidi Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Mr Mark Jafaru was not successful.

    Jafaru said the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs Nkeiru Nwode was in a better position to comment on the development.

    However, when Nwode was contacted on phone, she said “I have not been brief on that; when I am fully briefed, I will brief you people.”

    Wednesday’s incident makes it the third reported case of gun snatching around Onitsha this year by armed men with police officers being allegedly killed in the process. (NAN)

  • Lanre Gentry released from prison

    Lanre Gentry released from prison

    Mercy Aigbe’s estranged husband Lanre Gentry has been freed from prison.

    Gentry, was released late Tuesday evening after one week in prison custody and meeting the bail conditions.

    He was detained by the Police on two-count charge of Assault and Battery.

  • Police probe ‘threat ‘to man’s life

    The Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Idris has ordered investigation into the alleged threat to the life of a businessman, Daniel Nnadumaka.
    It was in response to a petition he wrote through his lawyer, Batholomew Ajagbo.
    The IGP ordered an immediate investigation of allegations of “conspiracy, criminal terrorism, threat to life with violence, unlawful invasion, and seizure of landed documents” by Nnadumaka.
    The petitioner said his life was being threatened over a family dispute.
    The petitioner said the suspects in February destroyed his gate, invaded his Lagos home and took away his title documents after his caretaker was brutalised and almost killed.
    Nnadumaka said he was being trailed and threatened through anonymous calls.
    He said he had to abandon his home for fear of being killed and has been staying in a hotel.
    According to him, there was a bid “to eliminate me at all cost having been trailing me through well organised assassination bid with a view to dispossessing me of my belongings including my various properties acquired with my hard-earned money.”
    The IGP, in an April 28 memo to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police signed by his Principal Staff Officer II, said: “I forward herewith a copy of letter dated 25th April 2017, received from Bartholomew Ajagbo & Co…and respectfully convey the directive of the IPG that you investigate and report.”

  • Police recover eight kids at ‘illegal’ orphanage

    Police recover eight kids at ‘illegal’ orphanage

    •They want my land, suspect alleges

    The police in Lagos have arrested a 53-year-old pastor, Helen Akpopori for allegedly running an illegal orphanage.

    Akpopori’s Ile Iwe, Meiran residence was raided on Monday after residents alleged that she had many malnourished children there.

    It was gathered that the residents complained they usually saw luxury cars parked in front of her house/church, raising suspicions that she might be selling children.

    She was taken to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic In Person (NAPTIP) yesterday with the recovered children.

    But Akpopori denied the allegation that she ran an orphanage, insisting she legally adopted the children from Delta State Ministry of Women Affairs, Asaba.

    According to her, the eldest of her adopted children was 17 and the youngest, a three-year-old.

    The woman, who has stayed in Meiran for over 25 years, said she was being accused by the traditional ruler of the community and others who wanted to dispossess her of her property.

    She said her accusers sold one of her seven plots of land and encroached on another.

    Akpopori said she adopted them because she loves children, adding that she took care of them from the money she generates as a pastor.

    According to her, those she prayed for, who got breakthroughs usually came to her church for thanksgiving with cash and other gifts.

    She said: “I usually pray for people who have one need or the other. When they see result, they come to me with their testimony and they also do donations. I do not ask them. They usually bring it on their own. It’s the money and gifts they bring that I used to take care of the children.

    “But things have not been really good recently, that was why they looked malnourished and people started accusing me of running a baby factory. I do not run an orphanage, and I do not do baby factory. All my kids were legally adopted from the Ministry of Women Affairs in Asaba. I have shown them all my documents. They are legal. I have told them to verify. They are just accusing me because some people are interested in my land. They want to take my land from me.”

    The Nation gathered that Akpopori was granted administrative bail at NAPTIP but was detained until she meets her bail condition.

    A source at NAPTIP said investigation was ongoing.

  • Abia Police Command parades seven suspected armed robbers

    Abia Police Command parades seven suspected armed robbers

    The Abia state Commissioner of Police (CP) Leye Oyebade says his command has upgraded its operational structure resulting in successes in the war against heinous crimes.
    Oyebade also said that the call for the people of the state to come out and give useful information that could help in fighting crimes has been yielding good results as the crime rates in the state has dropped drastically.
    Speaking in Umuahia while parading seven suspected armed robbers and five snatched vehicles which the command recovered, Oyebade said that his command will do everything possible to reed the state of criminal activities.
    Oyebade said that the operatives of SARS attached to Obehie acting on a tip off arrested Iheanacho Enyinna aged 28 years who hails from Ogwe Asa and recovered from him a Passat V/W car with a fake registration number AGL 687 AQ and some parts of Barreta pistol, “Which was used to snatch the car”.
    “The suspect has confessed snatching the vehicle which has KRD 289 AW as its original registration number which was snatched last February at Arochukwu, the suspects is helping us to arrest his colleagues”.
    The Abia police boss also said that his command at Isuochi division arrested Chijioke Okeke of Lokpanta, Umunneochi council area with bullet wounds inside the bush and he confessed to being shot by police patrol team when his gang blocked the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway.
     “His arrest and interrogation led to the arrest of one of his colleagues John Nwankwo of the same village while one locally made pistol was recovered from him including a live cartridge, we are working hard to get the rest of his gang”.
    Oyebade said that the patrol team attached to Aba central police station, “While on patrol along Ibere street Aba accosted the duo of Wisdom Benjamin 18 years and Okoro Isaac 23 years who were in possession of a 100 kg bag”.
    “When searched the bag was containing materials already cut for the sewing of boxer shorts and when questioned the suspects confessed to have burgled the tailoring factory of one Christopher Okeke who is their employer”.

     

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  • Husband, wife, four children killed in night attack

    Husband, wife, four children killed in night attack

    Suspected  assassins have killed a family of six – husband, wife and four children, in a pre – dawn attack on them in   their home at the Atiba area of Odogbolu, Ogun State.

    It is not yet clear what informed the murder the man identified as Sheik Yusuf Abdulsalam Tanimola in his 30s, his wife and four children.

    The Nation gathered two of the children are two years old twins.

    Residents of Atiba and sympathizers who thronged their residence family were shocked to see the remains of the victims,  a source told The Nation.

    The Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told The Nation that he is yet to get details of the victims’ name but added that they “were killed over night.”

    Abimbola said the Divisional Police Officers in Odogbolu and bordering towns have been mobilised to the victims’ residence along with the  Operatives of the Federal Special Anti – Robbery Squad (FSARS) and the Homicide section to unravel the motive behind the brutal murder.

    According to him, the Police are also “profiling the identity of the killer(s)” to enable them make arrest.

    He expressed the confidence that the Police would get the killer(s).

  • Lottery agent arrested for ‘sodomy’

    Lottery agent arrested for ‘sodomy’

    A soccer lottery agent has been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly sodomizing four pupils of a school in Surulere.

    Dipo Akagha, 39, a resident of 20, Mustapha Kosoko Street, Ijesha, was arrested by Rapid Response Squad (RRS) operatives after the school complained about him.

    It was gathered that the unnamed school had suspected his action, following his constant preying around males pupils of the secondary school.

    Our correspondent gathered that Akagba was trailed and eventually caught while sexually abusing one of his victims.

    The suspect, it was gathered, usually took his victims to eateries and treated them to the finest of meals.

    The state Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, said the suspect usually stalked his victims through Facebook and other social media platforms.

    Owoseni said Akagha lured his victims with promises of mobile phones and cash gifts, adding that in most cases he offered them N3,000 at the end of each encounter.

    The police commissioner said, “After having  his way with the victims, Akagha threatened them to not disclose what transpired and proceeded to block them from his social media accounts, without buying the phones or gift promised the teenagers.

    “One of the schools he targeted reported to the police and this led to his arrest. We are appealing to parents and guardians of children and secondary school students to take interest in what their kids do on the internet.”

  • Police to demolish kidnappers’ den

    Police to demolish kidnappers’ den

    Plans are underway to demolish the two bedroom apartment used by notorious kidnapper, Evans and his gang as hideout.

    The building, located at 19 Ataye Street, Lanre Bus Stop, Igando, was uncovered last Friday after an industrialist, Donatus Duru, who was kidnapped in February, escaped and ran to the police.

    Although the suspects were not found in the building, the police recovered four AK 47 rifles, six plate numbers, one lawn mower, two Berretta pistols with four fully loaded Magazines, one military camouflage cap, two locally made leg chains, a bullet proof vest, 59 AK 47 magazines, 1,272 live ammunition, a Toyota Hiace bus and a motorcycle.

    Displaying the recovered firearms on Tuesday, the state Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, said the command was in talks with the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice on the demolition of the building as stipulated by the recently passed Anti-kidnapping law.

    He said the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has promised N30 million reward to anyone with information that would lead to Evans’ arrest.

    Owoseni also disclosed that another kidnappers’ den was uncovered at Ijegemo Creek in FESTAC Town, Amuwo Odofin.

    He said: “The robust reward is for whoever that would whistle blow and reveal the whereabouts of Evans and aid us in apprehending him and his gang members.

    “We will take over the house and demolish it in accordance with the newly enacted Lagos State Law against kidnappers. We will work with the office of the Attorney General.

    “We arrested two suspects and during interrogation, it was discovered that they were working for Evans, who has been on the wanted list of police for four years.

    “We are working assiduously to ensure that we nab Evans by all means possible so that his reign of terror will end.”

  • Farmers/Herdsmen clashes: Former DIG wants FG to check proliferation of small arms

    A Former Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG), Mr Azubuko Udah, has called on the Federal Government to check the proliferation of small arms in order to check incessant Farmers/Herdsmen clashes in the country.

    Udah made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja.

    “The herdsmen we used to know carrying sticks are now armed with AK 47 rifles, like the problem in Benue, the farmers are also armed,”he said.

    He called on the Federal Government to strengthen the implementation of laws guiding proliferation of arms in the country.

    The former police officer said that the situation was escalating because of the easy access both groups have to arms.

    Udah also said that a situation where culprits arrested were set free would continue to fuel the crisis.

    He said that it was the responsibility of the government to control the proliferation of small arms by manning its borders.

    He said that it was only in the sub-region that herdsmen still go about with their cattle, adding that ranching was the modern practice globally.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Benue and Ekiti governments recently enacted laws to check activities of herdsmen in their respective states.