CRIME: 'MY BIGGEST OPERATIONS WAS N100 MILLION BANK OPERATION'...ALABA TRADER

The suspect, John Nnamdi, a music instruments trader at the Alaba International Market, Lagos State is part of an eight-man- international -gang of robbers, having robbed in other West Africa countries.

Other members of the gang are; Samuel Igbi, Anthony Umeh, Chineye David, Uchenna Eze, Victor Anamalechi, Ifeanacho Igwe, and Desmond Obinna.

 Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kayode Aderanti, explained that on November 15, 2014, he received information of a trans-border gang that was putting finishing touches to a grand plan to unleash terror on Lagos residents.

He said: “It was based on this information, that I immediately directed the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), led by Mr. Abba Kyari (SP) to go after the robbers. The team tracked and located the gang’s hideout around Iba, Festac and Igando areas of the state. We succeeded in arresting two members of the gang, Samuel Igbi and Anthony Umeh.

Aderanti said that the gang had once terrorised Port Novo, Benin Republic and UBA bank in Shagamu road, Ikorodu.

He said: “The gang members also confessed to several robbery operations which had taken place in big cities in Nigeria. According to them, the biggest of all their operations was the N100 million bank operation.”

Speaking with journalists, Nnamdi , revealed how he organised a bank robbery that netted his gang N100 million.

The father of four said: “The operation in Alakija was in 2011. We made about N100m. I got a share of N28m. I was a trader at the Alaba International Market, Ojo area before I organised the gang. We have gone for about five operations.

“We went to Port Novo, Benin Republic to rob a microfinance bank. We broke into the bank through the back. We made used two guns for that operation. The security men were asleep. We woke and tied them.  One of our members opened the safe, and we began to pack money. I was given N7m and the other four also got N7m each.                                                                                    

 “I bought a car with my own share of the money. Yes, I bought a Toyota Corolla. We used the vehicle to further our operations. We keep our guns in a compartment under the car. We’ve escaped being caught on several occasions.”

“A search was conducted on the suspects and their hide out. The police recovered two AK47 rifles, 11 Ak47 loaded with magazines and one Toyota Sienna bus.”

OBITUARY: KING ABDULLAH BIN ABDULAZIZ IS DEAD

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz is dead. The Saudi King died early hours of this morning at the hospital he has been receiving treatment for the past few weeks for lung infections.

King Abdullah was 90 and his 79-year old half-brother, Salman has taken over his throne to become king.

A MAN WHO MOCKS PAST HEROES IS BASTARD....OBJ TELLS FAYOSE

 Read what Chief Olusegun Obasanjo tweets about Ayo Fayose after the cut......

DONT TRY WHAT YOU DID IN PORT HARCOURT HERE...APC WARNS MBU

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Lagos, today issued a statement warning the new Lagos AIG, Mr. Joseph Mbu to desist from supporting any party in the forthcoming elections, in the just released statement signed by the party’s Lagos State Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe....EXCERPT......

“We want to warn Mbu that he is coming to Lagos, the hotbed of progressivism and the state that harbours the preponderance of Nigerian intelligentsia and as such will be advised to do away with such untoward tendencies that have made him susceptible to manipulation by the hierarchy of the PDP,” Igbokwe said. “We want to let him know  that naturally Lagos is not tolerant of negative behaviours from cultural savages and people without scruples so he needs to adjust to the civilized template of Lagos or get his hands burnt should he delve into enforcing PDP’s odious interests in Lagos.”

“We therefore advise him to be objective and fair in dealing with all political interests en route February 2015. We want him to drop his well-known excesses as he moves into Lagos for Lagos will ultimately prove his albatross should he come here for the purpose of enforcing the notorious interests of the PDP.”

MEET SAFURAT & IDIAT- ONE OF THEM WILL BE THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE IN MAY...

Alhaja Safurat Olayinka Abdulkarim

 One of these women will be the Deputy Governor of Lagos State comes May, 2015. PDP’s Alhaja Safurat Olayinka Abdulkarim, is Jimi Agbaje’s running mate, while Dr Idiat Oluranti Adebule is APC’s Ambode Akuniwunmi’s running mate, are at the fore-front deputies for now except another party becomes more relevant than PDP or APC in Lagos.

Now read their profiles after the cut.....

Alhaja Safurat Olayinka Abdulkarim was born 23rd June 1961 to the Muslim family of Mr. Abdulmananu Mofolorunsho Layode and Mrs. Risikat Ayinke Layode, Safurat has her roots in the indigenous Egun and Awori extractions of Lagos.

Her father hailed from Layode compound in Awhonjigoh Quarters, Badagry, while her mother came from the famous Akibon family, a lineage of warriors from Akogun Compound in Iba Town, in present day Ojo Local Government.

With a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Ado-Ekiti in 2007, Safurat began her educational life in Ansar-ud-Deen Primary School, Badagry, Lagos, between 1966 and 1972.

From 1975 to 1980, she attended Government Teachers’ College, Badagry, where she obtained a Teacher’s Grade II Certificate.

She thereafter proceeded to the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, from 1985 to 1987 for an Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in Accounting, followed by a Higher National Diploma (HND) from the Kano State Polytechnic (1990).

In 2006, she completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Management from the University of Ado-Ekiti.

Starting out in her career as an Accounting Officer with Bintu Binta Trading Company, Kano, in 1987, Mrs. Abdulkarim later returned to the South-West, where she rose to become the General Manager of the Ikeja, Lagos-based Disk Engineering Limited (1990 to 1996), and thereafter Managing Director of Transmit Network (1996 to 1999).

Between 1998 and 1999, this staunch member of the Nasrul-Lahi-l-Fatih Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) was appointed Vice Chairman and Supervisory Councillor in the Caretaker Committee of Badagry Local Government.

Safurat is married to Wing-Commander Bala Abdulkarim (Rtd), with whom she has children.

APC’s Dr Idiat Oluranti Adebule:

Dr Idiat Oluranti Adebule was born in Lagos State to the family of Idowu-Esho of Ojo Alaworo in Ojo Local Government Area of the state.

The Secretary to the State Government began her early education at Awori College, Ojo. Thereafter, she proceeded on admission to the Lagos State University, Ojo, bagging a Bachelor of Art in Education degree in Islamic Studies in 1992.

Adebule was back at the same institution for a Master's degree (M.Ed) in Curriculum Studies graduating in 1997.

She then bagged a certificate in Early Childhood Development Curriculum and School Administration and Assessment from the Nigeria Institute of International Education Association in 2006.

She enrolled and completed her Doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Curriculum Studies in 2012 also at the Lagos State University.

Dr Adebule began her working career as an academic at Lagos State College of Primary Education (LACOPED), Noforija, Epe, as a lecturer in the department of Religious Studies and later transferred her service to the Lagos State University as a lecturer in the department of Curriculum Studies and later Language Arts and Social

Studies in the Faculty of Education.

While at the university, she served as

member on various university committees including Committee on Establishment of LASU InternationalSecondary School; LASU Staff School Monitoring Committee; Member, Association of Learners, and Co-ordinator, LASU Sandwich Degree Programme, Osun State College ofEducation, Ilesha Campus.

Her political career began when she was appointed as a Commissioner 1 in the Lagos State Post Primary Teaching Service Commission (PP-TESCOM), now Teachers' Establishment and Pensions Office, by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in October 2000 to February 2005 and later as board member of the Lagos State Scholarship Board from February 2005 to November 2005.

Adebule was appointed and sworn in as the Secretary to the State Government by the administration of Governor Raji Fashola in July, 2011.

A consummate writer, Adebule, has several local, national and international publications to her credit. These included 'Reading The Objective Of Universal Basic Education in Nigeria', 'The Imperative of Religion and Peace in the Quest for Sustainable Development in Nigeria:

The Plateau State Experience', 'TheEffective Use of Educational Technology for Religious Teaching: Learning amongst Secondary Schools in Lagos State, Nigeria' to mention a few.

A wife, a mother, a mentor, a believer in the development of future leaders and a politician of repute, Dr Adebule's interests include reading, travelling and community service.

 Dr Idiat Oluranti Adebule

NOBODY CAN FORCE ME TO MARRY...PASUMA

Fuji artiste Wasiu Alabi Ajibola Odetola aka Pasuma is still single at 48, that is no longer news.Though he has children out of wedlock;Pasuma recently says he will only marry whenever he wishes to do so and nobody can force him against his decision about marriage. 

 According to TheNet, an online magazine, Pasuma said, "I am comfortable. I think anything you do in this life; you just have to believe in yourself first. At the same time, if I am not ready to do anything, nobody can force me to do it. By now, I believe people should allow me live my life, they should just wait; it is my life. People should just leave me alone on that because I have the right to live whichever life pleases me. I am comfortable living without a wife, but I can’t shy away from the fact that I need someone to call my own under my roof. I know quite well that it’s better for me to have a wife which I will still do. So people should just wait, keep their fingers crossed and let me choose for myself

AMERICAN GUN MADNESS: 2-YEAR OLD SHOT HIMSELF DEAD WITH HIS FATHER'S GUN

2yr old Kaleb Ahles shot himself dead with his father's gun which he found in the glove compartment of their family car. The sad incident happened yesterday January 21ST 2015.

 A Florida police officer said: "Kaleb had entered the vehicle at some point as the family was loading the vehicle to move out of the house. In a situation like this, where it looks like the gun was secured, they took reasonable steps, and you can lawfully keep a gun in a vehicle in a glove box. It was secured, it looks like in the glove box itself, and sometimes just bad things happen."
The police said the parents would not face charges.

"I don't think anybody can punish these parents any more than what they've been punished. This is something they will carry with them and live with the rest of their lives."