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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Woman, 25, docked over impersonating army officer, car theft |
on: 30-10-2012 02:30 AM
| Woman, 25, docked over impersonating army officer, car theft
LAGOS — A 25-year-old woman, Cynthia Okonkwo, was yesterday in Lagos charged with impersonating an army officer at an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court.
Okonkwo, whose address was unknown, was also charged with the theft of a Toyota Camry saloon car with registration no. KU 200 AAA, valued at N800, 000, property of Mr. Babatunde Onibire.
She, however, pleaded not guilty to the four-count charge of impersonation, unlawful possession, stealing and conspiracy.
According to Cpl. Kemi Adeniran, the prosecutor, Okonkwo falsely and unlawfully represented herself as an army officer by putting on an army cap and a jacket.
She said the accused committed the offences on Oct.16 at 2.00 p.m. at Ojota motor park, Lagos.
“The accused approached Onibire at Ojota Motor Park to take her to Adeniji Adele on Lagos Island, to buy some drugs.
“On the way she asked the driver to take her to a hotel to lodge, but complained that she could not afford to pay N7, 000 per night and convinced the driver to allow her to pass the night inside his car.
“By 4.00 a.m. the next day, Okonkwo had disappeared with the car,”Adeniran told the court.
Magistrate I.O. Afunwa granted the accused bail in the sum of N50, 000 and two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case to Nov.26. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/woman-25-docked-over-impersonating-army-officer-car-theft/ | | | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Gunmen kill car dealer, kidnap another in Onitsha |
on: 30-10-2012 02:28 AM
| Gunmen kill car dealer, kidnap another in Onitsha.
On October 30, 2012 · In News
12:48 am
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By ENYIM ENYIM
ONITSHA—There was pandemonium, yesterday, in Onitsha as suspected armed robbers and kidnappers shot dead a car dealer, identified as Chief Emeka Ekwerendu and kidnapped an unidentified person.
The incident, according to an eye witness, occurred at about 7.30 am at Modebe Avenue junction by St. John’s street.
Speaking to Vanguard, the witness said the four-man gang, who operated in a light green Toyota Siena car that had no registered plate number, trailed their victim from a Catholic Church at Odo-Akpu after he had dropped off his children at a Primary School in Onitsha before he was shot dead.
Ekwerendu was said to have been driving in his black Sports Utility Vehicle with registration number, ABC 202AJ when the dare devil robbers shot at his tyres, causing the car to lose control and hit a stationary vehicle which gave them opportunity to shoot him from the back windscreen.
The robbers who were said to have been armed with four Ak 47 rifles, shot sporadically into the air to scare people away to enable them actualise their mission. They escaped through Anionwu Street, Onitsha.
In a related development, another set of gunmen suspected to be kidnappers, abducted a businessman at Fegge, within the commercial city of Onitsha.
Though the identity of the victim was not known at the time of this report, eyewitnesses said he was kidnapped on his way back from a church.
Contacted the Divisional Police Officer, Central Police Station, CPS, Onitsha, Mr. Tomitope Fahugbe, and Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Anambra State, Mr. Ralph Uzoigwe, confirmed the incident, but stated that they were yet to get details of the incidenthttp://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/gunmen-kill-car-dealer-kidnap-another-in-onitsha/ | | | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Kidnappers abduct Enugwu Ukwu traditional prime minister in Anambra |
on: 30-10-2012 02:24 AM
| Kidnappers abduct Enugwu Ukwu traditional prime minister in Anambra.
By VINCENT UJUMADU
AWKA—THE traditional prime minister of Enugwu Ukwu in Njikoka local government area of Anambra State, Chief Dennis Anaekwe, was, yesterday, kidnapped at the boundary between the community and Abagana, close to the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, studios.
Vanguard gathered that the chief, who is second in command in Enugwu Ukwu traditional hierarchy, returned from Lagos weekend and was said to be visiting somebody at about 9.00 am when some unknown persons used their vehicle to block his own and dragged him out of his car to their own vehicle.
No official statement has been issued on the incident as the traditional ruler of Enugwu Ukwu, Igwe Ralph Ekpe, was said to be out of the country.
The kidnappers have also not reached any member of the family as his telephone was said to have been immediately switched off shortly after he was abducted.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/kidnappers-abduct-enugwu-ukwu-traditional-prime-minister/ | | | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Deported Nigerian Molests Two Women In Hotel Room |
on: 29-10-2012 05:23 AM
| | Deported Nigerian Molests Two Women In Hotel Room
A Nigerian deported from Republic of
China has been remanded in Kirikiri
Prisons, Apapa, Lagos State,
southwest Nigeria, for allegedly
Molesting two women in a hotel room
in Lagos.
P.M.NEWS gathered that Ifionu
Anthony from Dunukofia in
Anambra State, southeast Nigeria,
who was deported for an
undisclosed offence, had lodged at
Golden Apple And Suites off Airport
road, Ajao Estate, Oshodi Isolo,
Lagos.
The victims, Blessing Williams, 22
and Mona Adijat, 20, who are staff of
the hotel, alleged that after they
closed for the day and retired to their
staff room to sleep, Anthony entered
their room without their consent and
forced them to perform Lesbianism
by threatening them with arms.
The victims alleged that they were
compelled to romance themselves,
lick their private parts and
self-service while he was watching
and thereafter forcefully Were Intimate with
them in turns.
When asked how the suspect
managed to get into their room, the
victims said that after they retired to
their room, they noticed a man
climbing the fence that separated the
hotel and their staff room.
The victims said they immediately
raised an alarm but he told them that
he only came to discuss with them.
But when they refused to open the
door, he threatened to force the door
open and kill them.
Terrified by his threat, they opened
the door and saw weapons on him
suspected to be guns and knife.
One of the victims said: “He ordered
us to strip Unclad and romance each
other. He said we should touch each
other’s private parts and self-service,
while he was watching us do so.
After that he Molested us.
“We were shouting but nobody
heard us because there was heavy
rainfall that night. It was when he
was satisfied that he opened the
door and left.”
The victims said when he left, they
ran to Ajao Estate Police station that
night to report the case.
The police thereafter went to his
lodge and arrested him and later
arraigned him in Isolo Magistrate’s
Court Lagos, where he was charged
with assault and Molestation under sections
305, 168 and 258 of the Criminal
Code Law of Lagos State of Nigeria
2011.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges
and the prosecutor, Mr Onime
Idowu, prayed to the court to note
the seriousness of the allegations
made against the suspect while
considering his bail because he may
jump bail and escape justice.
But the presiding Magistrate, Mrs. A.
K. Kumbeje, granted Anthony bail in
the sum of N200,000 with two
sureties in like sum.
The matter was adjourned till 11
October 2012, while the suspect was
remanded in prison custody pending
when he would meet his bail
conditions. | | | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Igbo Started Tribal Politics In The South; Fani Kayode |
on: 29-10-2012 04:48 AM
| | Femi Fani-Kayode
THE GREAT DEBATE- WHO INTRODUCED TRIBALISM INTO THE POLITICS OF THE SOUTH, THE IGBO OR THE YORUBA?
''Igbo domination of Nigeria is only a matter of time''- Charles Onyeama, a prominent igbo lawyer and member of the Central Legislative Council, 1945. (Pg. 204 ''Ethnic Politics In Kenya and Nigeria'' by Godfrey Mwakikagile).
''It would appear that the God of Africa has created the Igbo nation to lead the children of Africa from the bondage of ages ....'' - Dr Azikiwe, President of the Pan-Igbo Federal Union. (The West African Pilot of July 8, 1949).
The first statement from Charles Onyeama, which was made in 1945, was the first overtly tribal and divisive comment that was made and recorded in the politics of southern Nigeria in our history. That is where and when tribalism in the south actually started. After that comment and as a direct reaction to it, the yoruba established the ''Egbe Omo Oduduwa'' to further and protect yoruba interests and after that came the formation of the Action Group in 1948.
The second statement from Zik, which was made in 1949 (and which clearly shows that the great Zik of Africa had forgotten that the NCNC was not an igbo party at the beginning and that it had in fact been established by an upper class and very well educated yoruba man by the name of Sir Herbert Macauly, one of the famous ''Black Victorians'' from the Lagos Colony, and who, at his death bed, was gracious enough to hand over the leadership of the party to him even though he was igbo) confirmed that tribalism was here to stay in the south and that ever since that time the igbo had an agenda to dominate others. This sentiment and this unfortunate igbocentric attitude is what cost Zik the Premiership of the Western Region in 1953 when the NCNC narrowly lost to the Action Group.
It is clear from this that if you want to know who started tribalism in southern politics and the politics of the southern protectorate of Nigeria it was not the yoruba or the southern minorities but the igbo. The excesses of the Igbo State Union and their treatment of the southern minorities and the yoruba from 1943 till 1967 was completely unacceptable. The rest of the south were prepared to accept the igbo as equals with open arms but they were not prepared to be politically dominated or conquered by them.
Worst still the first coup in the history of Nigeria, which was the Jan 15th 1966 coup d'etat led by Major Ifejuana and Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, was essentially an igbo coup and an igbo grab for power. I say this because 95 per cent of those that took part in it were igbo and 99 per cent of the political and military leaders that were brutally murdered during it's execution were non-igbo. It was this coup and it's sheer brutality that led to the even more brutal northern officers counter-coup of July 1966 (in which 300 igbo officers were killed in one night including the igbo Head of State, Gen. Aguiyi-Ironsi, and his yoruba host, the Military Governor of the Western Region, Gen. Adekunle Fajuyi who sought to protect him), the pogrom of igbos in the north (in which over 100,000 igbo civilians were killed in a few weeks) and the Nigerian civil war (in which 2 million Nigerians and Biafrans died).
These are the facts of our history. Live and learn. If you want to know who introduced tribalism into southern politics, it was the igbo. If you want to know who carried out the first coup in our country it was the igbo. Having done the painstaking research over a numberof years these are my findings and this is my conclusion.
I will open my wall for a robust discussion and debate on this issue and I will accomodate contributions from even those that are not my fb friends just for this debate. I will accomodate all shades of opinion and contributions from anyone that cares to join in the fray and I want to encourage those that disagree with my findings to state their case. We are all still learning but please take not that any rude or insulting comments will be deleted. This is a historical debate and I would encourage all those that seek to qoute anyone or make any assertions to mention their sources so that we can cross check the facts. Thanks. | | | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Jailbreak In Port-Harcourt, 2 killed 4 Escaped |
on: 29-10-2012 03:28 AM
| Jailbreak In Port-Harcourt, 2 killed 4 Escaped
Two inmates of the Federal Prisons, Ahoada, Rivers State, were on Saturday feared dead while a prison staff was hurt during a foiled jailbreak.
Details of the incident were sketchy as of the time of filing this report.
But a source at the Rivers State Prisons command said the attempted jail break was contained, but was unaware of the death of the inmates.
“I know that a member of staff was injured in the process but I don’t know about about the death of any inmate. Actually, the inmates are those from the Bayelsa State command who are being kept in Ahoada prison. They were embarking on a riot,” the source said.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the Rivers State police command, Ben Ugwuegbulam (DSP), said the two inmates were “fatally injured,” adding that the attempted jailbreak was effectively contained by a combination of various security agencies, including the police.
He explained that the attempted jailbreak failed as there was no escape route, adding that the two “fatally injured” inmates actually tried to escape through the ceiling but were shot at to prevent their escape.
“Today, 27.10 .12 at about 1700hrs, inmates of Federal Prisons, Ahoada, attempted tounlawfully break out from custody. Ahoada police area command swiftly mobilised to the scene and together with other security agencies, cordoned off the entire perimeters of the prisons.
“Consequently, the escaping inmates retreated to the confines of the prison, but two of the inmates that tried escaping through the ceiling were shot at to prevent their escape and were fatally wounded in the process. The situation has been brought under control. No escape recorded please,” Ugwuegbulam said.
http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/49952-jailbreak-in-port-harcourt-2-killed | | | | |
