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  • Man ‘shoots’ into family’s home’

    A 40-year-old man, Nurudeen Adeyemi, was yesterday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court for allegedly shooting into a family’s home to intimidate occupants.

    Adeyemi was arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and threat to life before Chief Magistrate O.O. Oshin.

    Police counsel Idowu Osunbure alleged that the defendant and his accomplices, who are on the run, committed the offences on March 28 at Isheri Oshun in Lagos State.

    Osunbure said Adeyemi fired several shots into the premises of the complainant, Alhaji Taoridi Faronbi.

    “The action threatened the lives of the complainant and members of his household which made them to believe that their lives were in danger,” he told the court.

    Adeyemi pleaded not guilty.

    His counsel, Spurgeon Ataene, applied for his bail on liberal terms.

    Chief Magistrate Oshin granted Adeyemi N500,000 bail with two sureties in the like sum.

    The case continues on July 12.

  • Guard shoots bread hawker to death

    The police in Ondo State yesterday arrested a security guard in Akure, the state capital, for allegedly shooting to death  a bread seller, Ojomo Tunji, it was learnt.

    The guard worked at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) at Shagari Village junction in Akure.

    Police spokesman Femi Joseph said the guard, Jonah Sunday, committed the crime last Wednesday.

    “The information reached us about 9.30 pm on Wednesday that the suspect killed somebody beside the filling station. We got to know that the suspect was shooting into the air, we don’t know the reason for that, maybe he suspected something. But unfortunately, as he was shooting the bullets hit a bread seller beside the filling station.”

    Joseph said the victim was rushed to the hospital where he died.

    He said the victim’s family reported the case at the station.

     

  • Policeman ‘shoots’ 96-year-old woman

    Policeman ‘shoots’ 96-year-old woman

    A policeman has been accused of shooting a 96-year old woman, Alhaja Abidat Abdullah, at a check-point at Ito-Ikin along the Epe-Ikorodu Road.

    Alhaja Abdullah’s son, Alhaji Olayemi Abdullah, said the incident took place on Monday, September 4.

    He said it also led to an accident that crushed the legs of another co-traveller, Alhaji Fatiu Olalekan.

    Police Spokesperson, Mr Olarinde Famous-Cole, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, was yet to confirm the incident before press time.

    Abdullah said he could not immediately ascertain the policeman’s name.

    According to him, both victims were part of a three-vehicle convoy returning to Lagos Mainland from Epe, after the Sallah festivities.

    Abdullah said he drove his mother in a Nissan Infiniti Jeep with the registration number KRD 638 CV.

    She was in the back seat.

    Abdullah said: “She was critically injured by a gunshot released by one of the policemen, who stopped us at a check-point at Ito-Ikin. My friend, Alhaji Fatiu, was injured in the accident that later resulted from the commotion that followed the gunshot.

    “Our convoy encountered two closely positioned police check-points at Ito-Ikin. Having been cleared by the first team, we had to stop for yet another one within a close range, about 500 meters apart.”

    Olayemi said one of the officers, ‘Sergeant Festus’, in the second team also cleared them to move on.

    “But, as I tried to move the car, I suddenly heard a gunshot sound from my left, away from the spot of the officer that had just attended to me”.

    According to him, all three police officers immediately tried to jump into their pick-up vans to escape but “only one of them was able to get in and he sped off while two were apprehended by sympathisers”.

    Realising that his mother’s left leg had been hit by a bullet, Olayemi said he and some passers-by chased the fleeing car and caught up with it at Agbowa Junction close to Agbowa Police Station.

    “The gate of the station was closed and locked as soon as the fleeing officer, whose name I could not ascertain, drove speedily into the premises”.

    He said when a crowd gathered and refused to leave, two policemen came out to appease them, offering to accompany Olayemi to see his mother at the Agbowa General Hospital.

    When they got there, his mother was given a first-aid treatment and referred to the Gbagada General Hospital.

    “The trip to Gbagada became yet another sad story,” Olayemi said, “as my jeep and a Mercedes Benz E-Class, both of which were led by an ambulance, got involved in an accident.”

    He said he “narrowly escaped, but the Mercedes car driven by Alhaji Fatiu had a head-on collision with an oncoming commuter vehicle, at Imota. In the process, Alhaji Fatiu’s legs got seriously fractured.

    “With an additional victim whose life must also be rescued, we proceeded to the Gbagada General Hospital.

    “Alhaja Abdullah is currently receiving treatment while Alhaji Fatiu was referred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, Lagos State.

  • Policeman shoots undergraduate, three others over N200 bribe

    A policeman attached to Ejigbo Police Station, Lagos State, yesterday allegedly shot four passengers travelling in a commercial bus over the refusal of the driver to give him N200 bribe.

    The incident, which happened at Iyana Ejigbo area of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, caused pandemonium as people scampered to safety.

    It was gathered that the incident happened around 5.30 am after the driver of the bus gave the policeman N100 instead of the N200 he demanded from the driver.

    One of the victims is a final year student of Madonna University, Okija, Anambra State, Seun Awoyera, whose left leg was hit by bullets.

    An impeccable source, who spoke in confidence, recalled: “ Seun was to travel to Ibadan, Oyo State, to pick a computer system sent to him from overseas by one of his brothers. He had boarded a bus around 5 am at Cele-Egbe bus stop and the journey was smooth until they got to Iyana Ejigbo bus stop where a policeman attached to Ejigbo Police Station, identified simply as Samuel, flagged down the bus and demanded for N200.

    “The driver explained to the policeman that it was his first trip of the day and instead offered the errant policeman N100.The policeman then got angry and shot at the bus; four passengers, including Seun, were hit by bullets.

    “Seun was hit by bullets on his left leg, while another victim had his arm and thigh shattered by bullets. An unidentified lady, whose brother is a police officer attached to Ejigbo Police Station, is also one of the victims. We took Seun to Westcare Hospital, Iyana Ejigbo, from where he was transferred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH Ikeja.”

    It was gathered that other victims are now lying critically ill at LASUTH, while policemen from the Ejigbo Police Division, had visited some of the victims in hospital.”

    Although, the spokesman of Lagos Police Command, Mr Kenneth Nwosu, was contacted by our correspondent, he was, however, yet to comment on the matter as at press time in spite several calls to his ‘phone.

  • Civil Defence official ‘shoots’ woman dead 

    An official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) attached to Lagos State command has allegedly shot a woman, Mrs Angelina Dansu, dead in Lagos.

    The tragedy, The Nation gathered, followed a pandemonium that ensued when some NSCDC officials arrived Saponkoji village near Ogogoro village on an Island in Apapa, Lagos.

    Their mission was said to be undefined as they allegedly to have fired sporadically into the air.

    Residents were said to have scampered for safety during the drama that lasted several hours, but luck ran out on the victim when the officials stormed her shop where she was selling kerosene.

    An eyewitness, who identified herself simply as Bose, said the officials entered the woman’s shop on Wednesday and attempted to forcefully seize her petroleum product, which she vehemently resisted.

    The source said Mrs Dansu was nearly beaten to coma and stripped naked. When they threatened to shoot her, she fled from the scene even in her nakedness, adding that one of the officials opened fire on her and the bullet hit her lap.

    The source said residents ran into their homes and remained there for about an hour before coming out one after the other to find the victim dead.

    The deceased’s husband, Paul, who told The Nation that he was not at home when the incident occurred, said he returned to hear the news of the killing of his wife by the NSCDC officials.

    The man who had not recovered from the shock said his wife was not a petroleum pipeline vandal as being suspected by the officials.

    He said she bought kerosene with her money and was retailing the product when the officials came to seize it.

    Paul, who lamented that the officials had left him with the burden of caring for their four children, said he was told that the officials came with guns, arrow, and cutlasses, among other weapons with which they broke into people’s houses, destroying doors in search of petroleum products.

    All efforts to reach the spokesman of state command of the Corps, Kehinde Bada, on telephone, failed.

  • Boko Haram shoots dead 19 in highway mayhem

    Boko Haram shoots dead 19 in highway mayhem

    Suspected Boko Haram gunmen dressed in military uniform yesterday killed 19 people near Nigeria’s border with Cameroon in Borno State.

    A resident and a survivor, who confirmed the attack, said the motorcycle-riding gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs, blocked the highway near the town of Logumani, 30 kilometres from the border around 5:00 am.

    Besides shooting and hacking to death the 19 motorists, they also burnt three trucks, the witnesses said.

    “We have recovered 19 dead bodies from the scene of the attack by Boko Haram gunmen,” Musa Abur, leader of a civilian vigilante group in the area told French News Agency (AFP).

    “Five of the victims, who included two truck drivers and their assistants, were shot dead while the rest were slaughtered,” he said.

    He said the gunmen had attacked the border town of Gamboru Ngala near Logumani late on Friday but were repelled by soldiers and local vigilantes.

    A passenger who survived the attack gave a similar account.

    “We were asked to get out of our vehicles and lie face down by nine men dressed as soldiers who blocked the road around 5:00am,” the man who gave his name as Buba told AFP.

    “They shot dead five people and went about slaughtering 14 others before someone called them on the phone that soldiers were heading their way,” he said.

    “They abandoned the rest of us and sped into the bush on their motorcycles,” added Buba who was shot in the leg.

    The military authorities last night confirmed the attack.

    The Director of Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, confirmed the attack last night.

    The Army spokesman, however, gave the casualty figure as four. According to him, the insurgents mounted a roadblock at a border town and intercepted a truck conveying foodstuff. “They killed four people on the spot. Our men went after them and killed a couple of them. Our men are still going after some of them that are on the run. Apprehending them is just a matter of time,” Gen. Attahiru.

  • Riot policeman shoots bus conductor dead in Lagos

    A riot policeman yesterday at Ketu/Alapere on the outskirt of Lagos, reportedly killed a bus conductor, sparking off a protest by residents.

    The policeman is attached to the Police Mobile Force (PMF) 50, Abuja.

    The suspect, Corporal Oluwakeyesi Gboyegba, was arrested by his colleagues. He was taken to the Alapere police station where he was detained

    It was gathered that the incident occurred around 7pm after which protesters barricaded major roads in the area, chanting war songs and demanding that the policeman be released to them.

    Eyewitnesses said there was a disagreement between the suspect who was a passenger in the bus in which the deceased was the conductor and others. There were no details of the row.

    It was learnt that the police corporal allegedly pulled out his pistol and shot the conductor in the head. He died instantly.

    Sources said when the suspect realised that he had killed the conductor, he attempted to escape but was arrested by other policemen on patrol who disarmed him and handed him over to the Divisional Police Officer at Alapere Police station where he was detained.

    Lagos police spokesperson Ngozi Braide would neither confirm nor deny the story when contacted.