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Leader of Bariga cult group The police on Monday paraded eight suspected cultists who have been terrorizing the residents of Bariga and its environs in Lagos State, western Nigeria.  The suspects were paraded by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Mr Fatai Owoseni.  The group allegedly burnt a house and set a 65-year old woman ablaze in Bariga last Saturday. Among those arrested and paraded was the suspected leader of the gang, Tanimola Ogbere, also known as ‘Who Knows Tomorrow’. Others paraded are Richard Abayomi, 30, Richard Ewa,31, Kayode Dada, 25 and Afex Olajide Fagunwa, 32. Others include Nurudeen Lateef, 22, Mohammed Musa, 28, and Adamson Adelani.  The suspects were arrested after they allegedly invaded Bariga and burnt a house along with a woman. Fracas broke out after a rival cult led by Ibrahim now at large reportedly killed two persons identified as Benmo and Abiye. The incident in Bariga was a reprisal attack allegedly ...

The immediate past Minister of State, Foreign Affairs and a former Nigerian Ambassador to Ghana, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has challenged controversial online platform, Sahara Reporters and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to sincerely publish the names of the Directors and signatories to the alleged Silva McNamara Limited account to the public as at when the said money was paid instead of demonising and deceiving Nigerians with vague, contrived and distorted information. Obanikoro is appalled by the public political persecution embarked upon by these agencies noting that there is nowhere in the world where investigations are being conducted using the pages of the newspapers.  In a statement signed on Saturday by one of his Media Aide, Mr. Jonathan Eze, it queried the wisdom and logic of bandying figures and associating same with his sons who are thorough bred professionals in their own rights reminding them that the court of law is and remains t...

Four friends, Femi Olatunji, 17; Oyekanmi Rasheed, 18; Oladele Habib, 18 and John Alade, 16, are currently chilling at the police net in Lagos, for allegedly raping 14-year-old Habibat Adeolu (not real names). Speaking to  Saturday PUNCH  when the men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Lagos State Command paraded some suspected criminals recently, Habibat said the friends threatened to kill her if she told anybody about the incident. Narrating her ordeal, the young girl who said she had known Femi as her tailor, said she went to him to have her dress mended when he and his friends pounced on her. “Femi had once told me he would want to marry me and I told him I wasn’t interested. That particular day, I had gone to his shop to give him a dress to fix for me.  He said Brother Abidoye (I used to run errands for him) was calling me. I got to Brother Abidoye’s room and I didn’t see him. “At that point, Femi and his friends entered the ro...

This is a pathetic, yet compelling story of true love and commitment, shared by an anonymous reader. We have changed the characters, out of respect for the grieved and dead person. This is a tear jerker, but you decide: “Jebose, in life’s drama, there are no rehearsals. The realities of living, loving and existing just hit me.  I am navigating through a hectic and wicked Lagos traffic, laced with confusion, arrogance, stubbornness of road users and abusers.  “I am on my way to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, to take delivery of the corpse of my dead “lover and future husband”. His body is arriving unaccompanied from Atlanta Georgia. He promised to marry me: It was the only promise I believed from the sea of hunters of my love and marriage proposals which came these few years.  “I am in my early forties. After this heartbreak, I may not know how to find my life again. I am afraid of this thing called love. My heart is shatter...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has uncovered about N4.745 billion curious transfers made into the account of two sons of a former Minister of Defence, Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro. The sons are Babajide and Gbolahan, who are both directors of the company used in siphoning the funds. The suspicious funds were said to have been paid into the account of the ex-minister’s children by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA). There were strong indications that the funds were used to prosecute the governorship polls for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti and Osun states.  Reliable sources in the anti-graft agency, who spoke in confidence, said the N4.8 billion was paid in tranches.  One of the sources said: “Two sons of former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, Babajide and Gbolahan, are currently on the radar of the EFCC. About N4,745,000,000.00 was traced to a company, Sylvan McNamara Limited, in which they ...

The Delta Police Command on Friday confirmed the kidnap of King Umukoro Josiah, Aghaza 1 of Olomoro in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta.  The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, DSP Celestina Kalu confirmed the abduction of the monarch in text messages sent to newsmen in Warri.  “The Olomoro King, Aghaza 1 was kidnapped in his office in Olomoro community. “The kidnappers are heading to unknown destination with a Dark Green Rav 4 Jeep’’.  Kalu said that the police were on the trail of the abductors assuring that they would soon catch up with them.  Investigations by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) revealed that the monarch was abducted at about 7:30 am on Friday in his palace at Ekiagbodo.  Josiah ascended the ancestral stool of the Olomoro in January 2014 and he is said to be the eleventh monarch in the kingdom.  NAN reports that the abduction was barely a week the decomposed body of another monarch i...

There was tension in Ikole Ekiti, Friday as suspected armed robbers attacked a police station Wednesday night killing a clergyman and injuring a policeman and a medical doctor.  The attack which affected both the Ikole Area Command and the adjoining Divisional Headquarters along Ijesa Isu Road took place at about 8.00 pm.  The robbers was said to have stormed the station with the intent of breaking into the armory to steal weapons but they did not succeed in their bid to enter the armory.  Their frustration to break into the armory led to firing several gunshots into the police station which destroyed many facilities in the building.  A source told our reporter on Friday that residents of the town were still gripped with fear over the attack carried out by the hoodlums whose were said to be communicating in a language of one of the ethnic groups in the Niger Delta area.  Another source claimed that the slain Reverend mistook the robbers f...

A Gudu Upper Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday ordered the remand of a State Security Services personnel, Yusuf John, for allegedly assaulting a police officer. Mr. John, 35, was docked on a two-count charge bordering on criminal force and assault, offences he denied committing. The judge, Umar Kagarko, ordered that the defendant be remanded in police custody till January 29, to ascertain the true condition of the victim, allegedly beaten-up by the SSS operative. The prosecutor, Augustine Urom, had told the court that Irieme Aigberadion, a police sergeant, attached to Lugbe Division, FCT Command, reported the matter at Garki Police Station on Jan.27. He said the complainant, at about 6 p.m. on the same day, together with his team, went to Lagos Street, Garki, to wash their patrol vehicle. “In the process, he saw the defendant beating one Gift Utti, of Garki 2, a commercial sex worker. “He went to separate him and stop the beating of the sex worker,’’ Mr. Uro...

Police have arraigned a professor and two other persons in Kano, in connection to alleged sexual abuse of several students at a boys’ college in the state. The attacks at Hassan Gwarzo Secondary Scollege, sparked outrage in Kano, leading to the closure of the institution. On Thursday, police arraigned the proprietor of Hassan Gwarzo Secondary School, Ibrahim Ayagi; the school principal, Muhammad Jimo, and two others before Justice Aminu Kabara of Kano High Court 5 on eight-count charges. The charges border on criminal conspiracy, abetment, negligence, failure to give information, among others. Mr. Ayagi, a professor of Economics, is standing trial on a one-count charge of “gross indecency”. The presiding judge, Aminu Kabara, adjourned the case to 29 February for further hearing. On Wednesday, Kano State government announced the reopening of the college after three months of closure, following reported assault on students by some unidentified pers...

Dr. John Danfulani, a lecturer at ​the Kaduna State University, KASU, accused of verbally abusing the state government has turned himself to the police for questioning.  A source close to the lecturer told DAILY POST Friday evening that Danfulani was immediately detained. It was learnt that the lecturer was grilled for the comments attributed to him for several hours. Our correspondent also gathered that the lecturer may be charged to court next week.  It would be recalled that the Kaduna State Police Commissioner, Umar Kofar-Naisa, had ordered the Vice Chancellor of KASU, Professor Willaims Quirix, to produce Dr. Danfulani.  However, the University authorities since January 8, 2016, suspended the Political Science lecturer after issuing him a query earlier.

The police have disrupted the execution of a court order on the management and control of the luxurious 1004 Estates on Victoria Island, Lagos.  A company, 1004 Estates Limited, which was chased out of the estate on December 5, last year, by executives of the Home Owners and Residents Association (HORA), obtained an ex parte order last Friday from the Lagos High Court to resume the management of the estate, the biggest in the country. Justice Candid Johnson, who ruled on the matter, said: “An order is granted that all parties herein are to maintain the status quo in respect to management and control by 1004 Estates Limited of the parcel of land known as 1004 Estates.”  He added: “An order is granted that the defendants, their men, agents and/or appointees howsoever, including (the police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps or their members or other security agencies) are restrained from further presence or activity from the disputed property known as 1...

Abdulrahman Biu, an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has been arrested for allegedly extorting $150,000 from some military officers.  According to Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesman, Biu collected the money under the pretext of assisting the suspects who are currently being grilled by the anti-graft agency.  “The officer was arrested on Monday January 25, 2016 following intelligence report alleging that he extorted a whopping sum of $150,000 from some military officers on the pretext that he would help give them a soft landing in the ongoing investigation into the arms deal scandal,” Uwujaren said.  “Upon his arrest, a search was executed on his residence in Abuja where the following items were recovered: $20,000 cash, N500,000 cash, two police uniforms bearing his name with the ranks of deputy superintendent and assistant superintendent, police warrant card No: 27/2014 with the rank of DSP allegedly obtained from Kano cons...

The Super Eagles to the CHAN 2016 in Rwanda returned to Nigeria last night but without the team’s helmsman Sunday Oliseh who returned to his base in Belgium.  His decision not to return home according to the Nigeria Football Federation, (NFF) is to enable him continue with treatment for the flu he has been battling with since last year.  However Oliseh’s decision not to return with the team is beginning to raise questions on why he is afraid of home. Very dependable sources informed Daily Sunsport that the former Super Eagles defender and captain confessed that he is afraid for his life.  Our source hinted that Oliseh had confided in a close associate that some people are after his life in Nigeria and is beginning to think twice about his health.  “Oliseh no longer feels safe being in Nigeria. Recall that all through the team’s camping for CHAN 2016 in Abuja, he refused to show up but was the first to hit South Africa for the second phase of c...

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, on Friday was denied bail by a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, presided over by Justice John Tosho.  Tsoho denied Kanu’s application on the grounds that he was a threat to national security and there was a high possibility of Kanu committing the same offence and also jumping bail, owing to his dual citizenship. He ordered that Kanu be remanded in prison custody but ordered an accelerated hearing of his case.  Meanwhile, there was drama in court earlier as Kanu, who is being accused of treason, asked his lead counsel, M. Udechukwu, to step down for another lawyer, Chucks Muoma. Kanu wrote to the court, asking for a change in his representation. Justice Tsoho read the letter which said that the former lead counsel had represented him in previous sittings against his instruction.  Udechukwu announced to the court that he had been informed of the letter, while declaring his intention to ...

The entire GTbank Group has been thrown into mourning, this is because the news they have all been dreading eventually hit home like a huge hammer yesterday when it was discovered that bubbly Managing Director of GTbank Liberia, Mr. Dan Orogun is dead. We gathered that Orogun an indigene of Delta State, Nigeria was involved in an unfortunate boat accident over the weekend and immediately a search and rescue operation was put in motion  but all attempts to locate him proved abortive  until yesterday when his lifeless body was  recovered from the sea. What makes his death so devastating was the fact that the boat ride was part of his 17th Wedding Anniversary celebrations. He had  planned the ride for weeks, and had with him his wife and three children when the incident occurred. Our source stated that the amiable gentleman was enjoying the cruise when he got a call, it was in the process of picking the call that he slipped from the edge of...

The House of Representatives, on Thursday mandated its Committee on Ethics and Privileges to investigate the alleged sharing of N50 million and 150 motorcycles to members by the House leadership.  This followed a point of privilege raised by Rep. Yakubu Barde (Kaduna-PDP), the Deputy Minority Whip.  The lawmaker alleged that a member, Rep. Mohammed Abubakar (Kaduna-APC) had granted an interview on a local radio station, saying that money and motorcycles were given to members.  Barde said that the issue needed to be investigated because he did not collect such money or motorcycle. According to him, he has been under pressure by his constituents who are demanding for their share of the money and motorcycles. “This is an allegation, considering the present economic situation of Nigeria. As lawmakers, we have to be very careful to ensure our image is not tarnished. “Nigerians need to know what really happened,’’ Barde said.  In his ruling, ...

Rivers State government has asked the Minister for Transport, Rotimi Amaechi to account for funds received in his eight years tenure as the governor of the State.  The Commissioner for Information in the State, Dr Tam George yesterday told newsmen in Port Harcourt that the State was still reeling from “the catastrophic legacy of the former governor” despite receiving over three trillion naira in revenue in 8 years.  “Amaechi left the most abandoned projects in the history of Rivers State since 1997,” he said.  “Thousands of workers were without their salaries for four months and thousands of teachers were not paid for nearly 12 months.  “We have so many abandoned projects which huge sums have been paid but projects are yet to be completed.  “We have the Mono-rail project that gulped over N60bn and it was abandoned. We have the Woji road project awarded at N3bn. “There was a variation of the project to the upward of N14bn but it was abando...

No fewer than five firefighters with the Lagos State Fire Service were injured in the Ajegunle and Surulere areas of Lagos State. While an unnamed senior official had his ear cut with a broken bottle, another had a bottle smashed on his head, while three others were reportedly manhandled... A fire truck was said to have also been damaged in the melee. It was learnt that some hoodlums, who wanted to loot property in some buildings gutted by fire in the areas, resorted to attacking the firefighters to eliminate oppositions on their way. A statement on Thursday by the Lagos State Fire Service said the officials ran for dear life to forestall a confrontation that could lead to total breakdown of law and order. The Director of the Lagos State Fire Service, Rasak Fadipe, said such was the lot of firefighters in the state while striving to save lives and property. He said the five injured officers were responding to emergencies when they were attacked, adding...

A group of suspected cultists have been apprehended by the police in Ebonyi State.  The state Commissioner of Police, CP Peace Abdallah, made this disclosure on Wednesday while parading the suspects... According to the CP, the incident occurred at Igboeze Onicha in Onicha area of the state. “Six of the cult boys - Ugochukwu Onueze, Michael Innocent, Ogbonnaya Okike, Ogbonnaya Ogbu, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya and Emmanuel James - abducted two girls, dragged them into the bush, initiated them into their cult group and forcibly had carnal knowledge of them.  “The suspected cultists are said to be members of a terror cult group popularly known as German Arror,” CP Abdallah noted, adding that they will be charged to court.