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  • Pregnant woman, others injured in petrol tanker accident

    Many people including a pregnant woman Wednesday sustained carrying injuries after a petrol tanker lost control while descending the popular Otedola Bridge at Berger, Lagos.

    The accident occurred at about 11am, bringing traffic flow to a halt on that part of the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, as well as the diversions into Jubilee Otedola and Omole Phase two estates.

    It was learnt that the tanker was fully laden with diesel, however remained intact while two commercial buses and several cars were wrecked.

    The Nation gathered that good spirited Nigerians used their vehicles while emergency workers used the Lagos State Ambulance to convey the injured to various hospitals.

    It was learnt that the tanker was trying to negotiate its way on a narrow road, left by motorists queuing at a nearby filling station to buy fuel, when it lost control.

    Firemen were immediately deployed to prevent an outbreak of fire, which would have made the situation worst.

    The Nation gathered that the pregnant woman, who was rushed to the State House Clinic in Alausa, was bleeding profusely.

    Although the number of injured persons could not be ascertained, it was gathered that blood stains were still on the ground as at press time.

    Some motorists who were trapped in the discomforting gridlock took to social media to express their frustration.

    One Ayotunde Balogun lamented about the incessant accidents on the bridge, wondering if that portion of the road was jinxed.

    “The latest accident on Otedola Bridge around Magodo area is frightening. One too many. Is that portion of the road jinxed or what?” He queried.

    Confirming the accident, the Lagos State Fire Service Director, Rasaq Fadipe said the pregnant woman was responding to treatment.

    He confirmed there was no fire outbreak,  adding that the tanker was intact but for its cab that got damaged.

    Fadipe however said he could not give the exact statistics of injured persons, adding that no one died in the accident.

  • Mob set tipper driver, conductor ablaze in Edo

    A tipper driver and his conductor have been burnt to death by a mob after they crushed three persons in an accident.

    Among the three victims was a pregnant woman.

    The incident happened at Osholo village in Estako East local government area.

    Eye witnesses said the tipper was heading towards Weppa community when it ran into a crowd, killed three persons and injured several others.

    The witnesses said the driver and his conductor attempted to take the injured to a nearby hospital and carry the dead when members of Osholo community descended on them.

    Both the driver and the conductor were killed and thrown into their tipper and set it ablaze.

    Peeved by the action of Osholo community, residents of Weppa community where the driver and conductor hail from invaded Osholo and set some houses ablaze.

    An intervention by security agencies prevented the crisis from degenerating to full communal clash.

    State Commissioner of Police, Chris Ejike, who confirmed the incident, said five persons died in the incident.

    Ejike noted that a combined police team was drafted to the area to stop further destruction of properties.

    He described the killing of the driver and conductor as barbaric and added that investigation has commenced into the matter.

  • Pregnant house wife raped to death in Kano

    Pregnant house wife raped to death in Kano

    A 22 year old pregnant house wife Aisha Abdullahi, was reportedly raped to death by unknown persons in Kano.

    The deceased, after the brutal rape by the unknown persons, was left in a pool of blood when the husband returned home and found her dead.

    The Police Spokesman in Kano, DSP Musa Magaji Majia, who confirmed this to reporters Thursday, said the police have already started investigation on the matter.

    Majia said the husband of the deceased, Abdullahi Mohammed immediately reported the incident to the Police where it was discovered that the wife was raped to death.

    According to the police spokesman, the incident occurred when the husband was not at home.

    It could be recalled also that two weeks ago, two persons, Nura and Haruna were in court facing charges of alleged gruesome murder of yet another house wife at Khadija Muhammad of Jain quarters.

     

  • Police arrest alleged killer of pregnant woman, 4 kids, others …on his way to abduct tribunal judges

    The police in Imo State have arrested a 28-year-old alleged serial killer Henry Onyekachi Chibueze, accused of killing a pregnant woman, Mrs Oluchukwu, and six others at Igando, a suburb of a Lagos.

    Henry, who hails from Nwangele Local Government Area of Imo State, was said to have killed Oluchukwu alongside her sister, Ngozi, one Sandra and four children, namely Happiness, Chidima, Chineye and Angela in cold blood at No. 43 Santa Maria Street, Igando, Lagos on February 16, 2013.

    The suspect was arrested with four other accomplices including one Hakeem Bello, an indigene of Kwara State who allegedly deserted the army when he was posted to the Northeast to participate in the military operation against Boko Haram insurgents, and Alexander Ohigide, who was the gang’s native doctor and a native of Mbieri in Mbaitolu Local Government Area, Imo State.

    Also arrested were the wife of Henry’s brother and her mother.

    According to the late Oluchukwu’s widower, Ekene Henry Ozor, “the suspects were paraded before Governor Rochas Okorocha on Wednesday evening after they were arrested by SSS operatives at an undisclosed hotel in Owerri, where they had lodged in preparation for the abduction of some tribunal judges.”

    Expatiating further, Ekene said: ”Henry confessed to have killed many people but lied that the reason why he killed my pregnant wife, her senior sister, Sandra Ijedinma and four children was because she used N45 million to open a supermarket for Sandra before they parted ways.”

    Ekene said that the late Sandra left Henry when he could not take him to his village to know his people and that she could not ascertain his means of livelihood, adding that their relationship lasted only three months.

    On how he feels about the arrest of the alleged serial killer, he said: “I felt a little relieved because it had not been easy due to the psychological trauma that my family has gone through in the last two years. I commend the efforts of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command which first handled the case, the SSS operatives for sustaining their efforts to apprehend the suspects since February 1, 2015.

    “I wish to commend Governor Rochas Okorocha for his efforts in the arrest of the deadly gang of killers. Things have not been easy for me and my little children. We are still battling with the psychological pain of the gruesome killing of my wife and others.

    “I have become indebted to the tune of N7.2 million, excluding properties sold, to meet up with the payment of hospital bill for my wife’s younger sister who underwent surgery as a result of gunshot injuries and the cost of keeping seven bodies in a mortuary before burial.

    “I am yet to come out of the shock and I am now hypertensive. I therefore urge well meaning Nigerians, including the governors of Imo, Lagos and Delta states, to come to my aid so that my children and I can live a better life.”