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  • How NURTW chief, MC Oluomo, was stabbed, by K1 Publicist

    The Publicist of Fuji maestro, Wasiu Ayinde Anifowoshe, Kunle Rasheed has narrated the events that led to the stabbing of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Lagos State Treasurer Musiliu Akinsanya (a.k.a MC Oluomo) during the rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Skypower Grounds, Ikeja Government Reservation Area (GRA) last Tuesday.

    According to him, the crisis, which was purely union matter, started between NURTW State Auditor Adekunle Mustapha (Sego) and Idumota Chairman Azeez Lawal (a.k.a Kunle Poly) on K1’s stage.

    He said: “Both of them (Mustapha and Lawal) had issues on K1’s stage and K1 waded into the matter. At a point, Mustapha left the stage. Not quite long. MC Oluomo came on stage and exchanged greetings with K1, NURTW State Chairman, Tajudeen Agbede. As at that time, the boys of Sego and Kunle Poly had started fighting on the ground. So, it was not safe for MC Oluomo to leave the stage until one of Kunle Poly’s boys came on stage and threatening to kill MC Oluomo with a dagger. Agbede slapped him three times and chased him away. K1 also joined him to chase him away from the stage. He later returned to the stage and stabbed MC Oluomo and one Abija. That was how it happened.”

    According to him, if not for K1, the crisis would have been bigger than that as he repeatedly talking to both warring parties to douse the tension.

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    “I was on the stage with them. I was there all through. K1 tried his best to resolve the crisis between the NURTW leaders over the State Chairmanship tussle even before that rally. People should stop accusing K1 of not doing enough to resolve their crisis,” he said.

    Rasheed denied that the musician abuse Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, which some said led the supporters of the governor to start the crisis.

    According to him, the track people were referring to has nothing to do with Ambode.

    “If you check the new album he made for (Babajide) Sanwo-Owu, that track is there. He has even sang the track long before the crisis started. The track is all about APC and the party’s governorship candidate,” he said.

    On why K1 continue singing while Ambode was making his speech, Rasheed described it as normal practice.

    “If you are at the APC Convention in Abuja, the instruction was that as soon as someone is introduced, K1 will sing. Same thing happened at the Skypower Grounds, K1 started singing when Governor Ambode handed the party’s flag to Sanwo-Olu and that has nothing to do with the crisis. He didn’t abuse or insulted Governor Ambode as some are peddling,” he said.

  • Cook: I stabbed my boss twice in the chest

    A Togolese cook, Sunday Adefonou Anani, arrested for allegedly killing his boss, Chief Opeyemi Bademosi, has confessed how he committed the murder.

    Police quoted him as saying that he stabbed the late Bademosi, 67, the chief executive officer of Credit Switch Ltd,   twice in the chest.

    A statement yesterday by police spokesman Chike Oti said the 22-year-old suspect allegedly killed his master at their 3B, Onikoyi Lane, Parkview Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos home.

    Recalling the incident that led to the death of the Ondo-born chief, the spokesman said the late business mogul on October 28 brought the suspect to Lagos to work as his cook.

    Oti said: “Three days later, precisely on October 31, the suspect with the intention to rob the deceased, went to his room through the kitchen, to the lobby and then to the room, which was the scene of crime, when he observed that the deceased’s wife,  Ebunola, had left home for a transaction in a commercial bank in their neighbourhood.

    “According to the suspect, when he got to the deceased’s room and met him on the bed, he said ‘Chief I am not here to kill you’. The deceased asked him, ‘what do you want?’ He replied, ‘money.’ The deceased said he had no money in the house. At that juncture, the suspect said he tied him up with a cloth and put him on the floor. He said while the deceased was on the floor, he kicked him, making the knife he tucked inside his pants to fall off. He said the deceased crawled to pick the knife, but he (suspect) was faster. He struggled with him and the knife accidentally pierced the deceased. He said when he was leaving the room, the deceased took the knife to stab him, so he kicked him and he fell. He (the suspect) then took the knife and stabbed him twice in the chest.

    “He said after killing his boss, he entered his bathroom and threw away his apron already stained with blood and the kitchen knife he used to kill him. He later heard a knock on the kitchen door, sensing it must be the deceased’s wife; he ran out of the room and exited from the sitting room.

    “The suspect said he was confronted by the guard, Nura Mamudu, who asked him where he was hurrying to and he replied that ‘madam sent me on an errand.’

    “Finding himself in the street, he saw men loading cement into a truck. He assisted them and they rewarded him with a lift to Ondo. The truck driver gave him N500 as an appreciation.”

    The police said Anani allegedly killed his boss around 8:10am.

    “The deceased’s wife, Ebunola, came to the crime scene through the sitting room after knocking several times on the kitchen door without a response from the suspect. She found her husband in a pool of blood and reported the incident to the police. The deceased, a few minutes before his death, called his wife on the phone, complaining that Anani barged in on him in his bedroom. He stabbed the deceased several times in the thoracic region (chest).

    “The scene of the crime, which is the deceased’s bedroom, was scattered and stained with blood. The suspect stole his Samsung phone and fled to Ondo State where he was arrested on November 2. The phone was recovered from the suspect. The kitchen knife used in killing the deceased was found inside the deceased’s toilet and the suspect’s apron was found soaked with blood at the scene of the crime,” Oti said.

    He said the suspect cried and confessed to the murder after he was confronted with evidence from the Close Circuit Television (CCTV) footage.

    The suspect, Oti said, led the investigation team to the crime scene and demonstrated how he carried out the crime.

    “Samples recovered from the scene have been handed over to the Forensic and DNA Department of the Ministry of Justice for examination and analysis. The autopsy report attributed the cause of the death to Bilateral Haemothorax, laceration of the lung and intercostal vessels and multiple sharp force traumas to the chest,” he said.

    Other suspects, Kofi Friday, Agbeko Ayenahin, Salisu Hussein and Nura Mamudu, who are not linked to the crime, Oti said, will be released to reliable sureties.

    The police, he said, have established a prima facie case of robbery/murder against Anani.

    Oti said: “It is evident that the suspect single-handedly committed the crime by stabbing Bademosi to death with a kitchen knife with intent to steal from him. The suspect will be arraigned.

    “Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal has directed that the casefile be duplicated and forwarded to the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) for vetting and legal advice. He said criminal investigation has gone beyond the era of rule of thumb to an era of scientific and research based investigation in the command.”

    According to Oti, Anani was given a French speaking lawyer from the Office of the Public Defender (OPD), who was with him throughout the investigation.

  • Why I stabbed my husband, by sergeant

    A Police Sergeant, Mrs. Folake Ogunbodede, who was accused of stabbing her husband, has said she did it in self defence.

    The Nation learnt yesterday the woman and her husband, Inspector Taiwo, fought on Saturday.

    The husband was said to have stabbed his wife close to her eye and beside the neck.

    Sources alleged it was not the first time Inspector Taiwo, an officer attached to the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority  (LASTMA), would assault his wife.

    It was gathered he allegedly threatens her with a knife or broken bottle each time he was drunk.

    A source close to the family said the mother of three had been told by her family to leave the marriage but she refused because of her children.

    She said: “That report online was so unfair to the policewoman. It was a one-sided story. The truth is that her husband is also a policeman. He’s an Inspector, and attached to LASTMA.

    “They have been married for long and they have three children. The man always beats her whenever he’s drunk. He doesn’t just beat her but uses any object closeby to hit her.

    “There was a time he stabbed her on her breast and mouth. His drinking habit is one of the issues that usually caused problems between them.”

    The source, who claimed not to know what caused Saturday’s fight, said the Inspector stabbed his wife by her eye and the back of her neck.

    “He was the one who broke a glass and stabbed her. He stabbed her near her eye and by the neck. He pinned her to the ground, and in order to safe herself, she picked a splinter of the broken glass and stabbed him.

    “That was how she fled the house to the police to report herself. That is actually what happened,” she said.

    However, the report online insinuated the woman’s attack on her husband was premeditated.

    According to the report, the couple had a misunderstanding and the man left the house to allow things cool off.

    It noted that that Mrs. Ogunbodede warned him not to return home but he did because he had nowhere else to sleep.

    “He returned home late last night (Saturday), thinking that his wife would have calmed down, only for Folake to start stabbing him.

    “But for the timely intervention of neighbours, she would have killed him, as he was lying motionless at the time of his rescue. Folake has since fled while Taiwo is battling for survival at the hospital he was rushed to,” the report stated.

    Spokesman for the command Chike Oti said the case was under investigation, declining further comments.

  • APC Congresses: Chairmanship aspirant stabbed to death

    A chairmanship aspirant in yesterday’s ward congresses of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State was stabbed to death moment before the exercise got under way.

    Pockets of violence were also recorded in Imo State, Oyo State, Ajegunle and Isolo both in Lagos.

    The Ajegunle violence claimed one life.

    Killed in Delta was Jeremiah Oghoveta ,who had declared his interest to lead the party in Jeremi 3, Ughelli South ward 10.

    He was knifed to death allegedly by one Tete in the heat of an argument over the hijack of electoral materials by a side involved in the process.

    The Nation gathered that Oghoveta had protested over the alleged hijack of the materials.

    But as he made to leave the scene after making his point, his assailant pounced on him, stabbing him on the neck

    Oghoveta died on the spot while the Tete fled.

    The Police Public Relations Officer of the Delta State Police Command, Andrew Aniamaka (DSP), confirmed the incident.

    He said investigation into the matter was in progress and the police were on the trail of the suspect.

    The APC leader in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor,said the exercise was generally peaceful in other parts of the state.

    He said APC was poised to entrench the principle of internal democracy in order to have a stronger party that could take over the state in 2019.

    Leader of the party in Ovu ward, Ethiope East local government area, Chief Frank Kokori said the process went well.

    Kokori who said the party is waxing stronger in the state, explained that the congresses being held across the country is a preparation awaiting the main election coming up next year 2019.

    The process was also generally peaceful in Aniocha South Local Government Area was peaceful, although there were few wards where parallel congresses were held.

    Former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly and chieftain of the APC, Mr. Victor Ochei said the congress was conducted without rancour, and praised the adoption of the option A4 adopted for the exercise.

    Controversy trails APC congress in Imo

    The ward congress in Imo State yesterday was marred by violence and other skirmishes.

    Party faithful waited endlessly in their respective wards for the congress to commence.

    Supporters of the different stakeholders, especially governorship aspirants clashed.

    The state secretariat of the party where the Congress Committee was billed to address the party stakeholders before the commencement of the exercise   was vandalized by thugs who invaded the premises with dangerous weapons.

    Some of the party officials who were waiting at the secretariat, were beaten up by the rampaging hoodlums.

    The attack was preceded by the redeployment of the Congress Committee for the state to Anambra State.

    The APC National Organizing Secretary, Osita Izunaso, said the development was at the instance of the national secretariat of the party.

    He said: “There is no problem whatsoever, the only thing is that the national secretariat has directed the Imo Committee to go to Anambra and Anambra Committee to go to Imo and it is an internal matter of the party.

    “We are brothers and we don’t have any problem. The party can decide to do anything at any point in time so long as it is in the interest of the party.”

    The Secretary of the APC Convention Committee and Senator representing Imo North, Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu, alleged that Governor Rochas Okorocha had wanted to stop the congress from taking place

    “There is every attempt by the governor to stop the congress for fear of what will happen but we are going ahead to hold the primary,” Uwajumogu claimed.

    A fresh round of confusion broke out when it was discovered that sensitive materials meant for the congress were missing.

    Some of the party stakeholders loyal to the governor insisted that the congress would not continue without the sensitive materials.

    Angry party members stormed the house of the National Organizing secretary in search of the sensitive materials.

    Prior to that, the  Convention Committee members were whisked to the State Police Headquarters from the Government House on the directive of the state Commissioner of Police, Mr.  Chris Ezike.

    The congress eventually kicked off in the Wards across the state at about 3pm, while the Committee members and some of the major the stakeholders remained in the office of the Commissioner of Police up to press time.

    Hoodlums kill APC member in Ajegunle congress

    A man was yesterday killed during the ward congress of the APC at Ajegunle in Ifelodun Local Council Development Area.

    The victim, who was injured on the head, died on the way to the hospital.

    An eyewitness said he was attacked by thugs sponsored by a politician in the area.

    A video recording of the incident showed the victim lying on ground in a pool of blood.

    A man beckoned on the people around to take him to the hospital.

    Another man brought his Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) to assist the victim.

    The victim was carried into the vehicle, and he drove away.

    Violence at Isolo

    Similar confusion erupted at the ward in Isolo Local Council Development Area (LCDA).

    Some party members alleged that ballot materials were in circulation.

    Hoodlums, wielding guns, knives, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons, soon hijacked the exercise and descended on delegates many of whom were left injured.

    The party secretariat situated at Onawale Street, Isolo was vandalized by the hoodlums and congress officials chased out of the building.

     

  • Final year UNIPORT student stabbed to death

    A final year Mechanical Engineering student of the University of Port Harcourt, Chidera Opara, has been stabbed to death.

    Dera, as the indigene of Akabo in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State was fondly called, was reportedly stabbed to death near his parent’s house with a knife by a young man identified as Chimezie.

    Family sources told our correspondent the suspect handed himself over to the police after killing Dera, who would have written his final exams by November.

    An eyewitness, who pleaded not to be mentioned, told our correspondent the deceased was pronounced dead at the Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH) along Ayaba-Umueze road after several hospitals declined to treat the deceased.

    “He (Chidera) was taken to about two hospitals but they refused to take him apparently because of his condition.

    “He had lost a lot of blood and when he was taken to ABSUTH, one of the doctors told the family that the undergraduate had died about one hour ago.”

    The source feared his death could worsen the parents’ health conditions.

    It was learnt the suspect had been transferred to the State CID for interrogation.

    Efforts to get Abia State Police Public Relations Officer, Geoffrey Ogbonna (DSP), proved abortive as at the time of filing this report.

     

  • Student stabbed, loses eye during fight

    Student stabbed, loses eye during fight

    THERE was pandemonium penultimate Wednesday when an unnamed student of Ojodu Grammar School, Ikeja, Lagos, allegedly stabbed another student called Benjamen Edet.

    It was learnt that the duo had a heated argument during school hours following which they both engaged in a scuffle shortly after school hours.

    Edet, according to a source, was stabbed on his left eye during the fight.

    The culprit was said to have fled the scene immediately.

    It was learnt that bystanders made fruitless effort to apprehend the culprit during a hot chase.

    The unidentified pupil was said to have used the knife to scare those who tried to arrest him and bolted into thin air.

    A source said: ” It was a misunderstanding that broke out between the students during school hours and it snowballed into a scuffle shortly after they left the school’s premises. In the heat of the fight, the other student brought out a kitchen knife and inflicted a deep cut on Edet’s left eye.

    ”The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors confirmed that he can no longer see with the left eye. The incident was reported to the police but I don’t know if the boy has been arrested.”

    Confirming the incident, the spokesman of Lagos State Police Command, Mr Chike Oti said the culprit had been apprehended and charged to court.

    He said: ”The incident was reported to Ojodu Police Division. The culprit was arrested and has been arraigned before a Family Court sitting in Ikeja.”

  • How comedian Ogbeni Adan got stabbed

    How comedian Ogbeni Adan got stabbed

    It has been revealed that popular online comedian Agun Oluwaseun, aka Ogbeni Adan was stabbed last Saturday, in Iwo, Osun State, by hoodlums.

    In a chat with The Nation, the comedian’s manager, said that he and Ogbeni Adan were in Iwo for the shooting of a new movie project when the unfortunate incident occurred.

    “Ogbeni Adan was only trying to stop a fight between two persons; a guy by the name Wale, who was in a fight with another guy and was trying to stab him with a broken bottle,” he said.

    Speaking further, he said that the comedian and some other persons tried to intervene when the aggressor diverted his anger and stabbed him on the head. He narrated that he would have done more damage when he pushed Adan against the wall, if not for the intervention of other people on ground.

    “The irony of the whole scenario was the guy, when he came in, greeted the comedian. It was not like there was any issue between them that would have resulted to such violent act,” he added.

    It has also been revealed that Adan’s team might not be dropping skits for the next few days.

    A post from the artiste’s Instagram page read; “around this time yesterday @ogbeni_adan1 was stabbed by some hoodlums. Thank God for life as he’s getting better. Please bear with us as we might not drop skits for the next few days.”

  • Man arraigned for stabbing

    A man, Ramoni Kareem, who allegedly stabbed a man on the head with a broken bottle, is facing trial at an Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun.

    The 38-year-old, who lives at No. 42, Debola St., Iyana-Ilogbo, Ota, has pleaded not guilty to a two-count charge of conspiracy and assault.

    The Prosecutor, Sgt. Chudu Gbesi, told the court that the accused and others still at large committed the offences on March 30 at about 2.00 p.m. at Ijako in Ota.

    He said the accused and his accomplices assaulted a man, Emmanuel Ojo, by stabbing him with a broken bottle on the head.The offences contravened Sections 355 and 416 of the Criminal Code,  Laws of Ogun, 2006.

    In his ruling, the Senior Magistrate, Mr S. O. Banwo, granted the accused bail in the sum of N75,000 with two sureties in like sum.

    Banwo said the sureties must be resident within the court’s jurisdiction and should be gainfully employed with an evidence of tax payment to Ogun Government.

    The case was adjourned until May 3 for hearing.

  • Student arraigned for stabbing man

    A 20-year-old student, Idris Isah,who allegedly stabbed one Abbas Salihu with a knife and stole his cell phone, appeared before a Jos Chief Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.

    The accused, a resident of Tudun Wada, Jos, is facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, causing hurt and stealing.

    The prosecutor, Mr Joshua Kasuwa, told the court that Salihu, a resident of Yan-Doya, Gadan Bako, Jos, reported the matter at the Nasarawa Gwom police station, on March 24.

    Kasuwa said that the accused, and some others still at large, accosted the complainant on the road, and started beating him “without any reason”.

    “The accused used a knife and stabbed the complainant on his forehead; while he was on the floor writhing in pains, they stole his phone valued at N70,000,’’ he said.

    Kasuwa said that the accused was arrested in his house after a tip-off to the police, by a member of the public.

    “ During investigation, Isah confessed that it was one Kabiru, who is still at large, that stabbed the complainant,’’ he said

    The offence contravened Sections 97, 288 and 323 of the Penal Code.

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

    The Magistrate, Mr Jovita Binjin, granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum.

    Binjin said that the sureties must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and should submit two recent passport-sized photographs and their national ID cards to the court.

    The case was adjourned to April 19, for mention.

  • Wailing as man allegedly stabbed to death by lawyer-wife is laid to rest

    Relations, friends and associates of Adebayo Oyelowo Oyediran Ajanaku allegedly stabbed to death by his lawyer-wife, Yewande, in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Friday wept uncontrollably as his remains were interred in his hometown, Gbongan, in Ayedade Local Government Area of Osun State.

    Lowo, as he was popularly called was allegedly killed on February 2, 2016 by his wife after a dispute at their residence in Akobo area of Ibadan.

    On sighting the hearse bearing the white casket of the deceased at St. Paul’s Cathedral Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Oke Osun Diocese, Gbongan, many in attendance at the funeral service burst into tears.

    Many of the deceased”s family members, relations and friends, who were wearing black customised T-Shirts with the pictures of Lowo and inscription tagged “Justice4Lowo,” launched into emotions asking the deceased to avenge his gruesome death.

    At the end of the funeral service, his body was lowered into the grave at St Paul’s Cathedral cemetery along Gbongan-Osogbo road.

    Among those in attendance at the church service were the deceased’s business partner simply called Mr. Mikkel; wife of the Olufi of Gbongan, Dr. (Mrs) Magret Ronke Oyeniyi; Professor Tunde Makanju; Justice Bolarinwa Babalakin, who was represented by his personal assistant, members of Gbongan Progressive Union, among others.

    In a sermon entitled “The Greatest Question of Life”, by the Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Oke Osun Diocese, Gbongan,  Venerable Paul. O. Farotimi, the deceased’s family members were advised to take solace in God.

    The cleric said: “Life is a cycle. Life is a stage, we all play our part and leave the stage. Lowo left the stage when the ovation was the loudest. He left as a hero. There are many questions in this life that remained unanswered. Since this unfortunate incident, we have asked the question why his wife killed him. Why did he go back and sleep in the house after the quarrel had been settled.”

    The cleric went further to ask the Ajanaku family to immortalise the name of Oyelowo so that generations yet unborn would know him and his far- reaching impacts.

    The cleric added: “The death of Lowo tells us that we can die at anytime, anywhere and anyhow. We have to prepare to meet our saviour. Situations like this should make us think about our life.”