ANOTHER 'LUNATIC' ARRESTED WITH ATM CARDS IN AKURE

Barely 24 hours after a similar incident happened in Lagos (read here ) , a suspected mad man was on Monday arrested in Akure, the Ondo State capital by men of the State Police command.

The middle aged man, who many people thought to be insane, was arrested around Alagbaka area of the state capital with no fewer than 18 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards of different banks in his possession.

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MONICA: HOW SHE WAS KILLED BY HIT AND RUN CAR IN ABIJA WHILE SOME CARS DRIVING OVER BODY !!!

A Facebook user, Jaafar Jaafar shared this touching post written by Hafiz Bobby Usman:

"That was also how Monica was hit by a car on the road to Gwarinpa just after the Life Camp roundabout here in Abuja, and her body left in the middle of the road with roadside traders going about their businesses and some cars actually driving over her body. When I drove up and saw the situation, I parked my car, stepped onto the road to halt the traffic and asked some of the people there to help me get the body off the road.

"That was when everyone started rushing to help. We managed to get in touch with her family who live just across the road but had no clue what was happening a few metres away, and the Life Camp police station who sent two of their officers to accompany us to the hospital. "We took the body in my car to the Wuse General Hospital and that was where another drama ensued.

 "The mortuary attendant demanded we pay N25,000 to, according to him, buy chemicals to embalm the body, etc before he would accept the body. I told him and the doctor in charge point blank that we would not pay a kobo since the government had already provided for that in the hospital's budget! I raised so much hell in the hospital that night that they eventually had to cave in and accept the body just so peace could return! After that, we went back to the police station where I wrote a statement.

 "I was so disturbed that night that I couldn't sleep so I got the day's Sunday Trust newspaper to read. That was when I saw that my Oga, Tope Fasua's Global Connections column that day was on the menace of pedestrians being knocked down by motorists on Abuja roads. I sent him a text message narrating that night's incident. The next morning, I received a phone call from one of her brothers to inform me that they had retrieved the body from the morgue and were already on the way to their hometown of Zangon Kataf in Kaduna State for the funeral.

 "The following week, I stopped in Zaria on my way back to Abuja from Birnin Kebbi. As soon as I switched on my phone, text messages asking God to bless me, etc started coming in in torrents from numbers I didn't know. Not knowing what was happening, I bought a copy of the day's Sunday Trust only to discover that my Oga above had published my text message to him the previous week in his column of that week! "The point is when you see something wrong being done, try as much as possible to change it. Don't wait for someone else when you can do it yourself, because everyone else is waiting for someone else. And in the end, nothing gets done while everyone keeps complaining about how bad things are"

MUST READ :NIGERIAN TOP LAWYERS AND JOURNALISTS HINDERS WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION -EFCC BOOS

 Ibrahim Magu, the acting Chairman of EFCC,  says senior lawyers and journalists are frustrating the war against corruption in Nigeria.  Magu said this while speaking at a meeting with a coalition of Civil Society Groups who visited him at EFCC Headquarters in Abuja today February 16th;


"One of the big challenges we have in the effective prosecution of the war on corruption, is that of very senior lawyers who Nigeria has been very kind to: They who went to good schools when Nigeria was good, many of them, on government scholarship; they who Nigeria has given so much opportunity. When we have corruption cases, cases of people who have stolen food from the mouths of our children; when we have cases of people who have stolen money meant to build hospitals and buy drugs; when we have cases of people who have stolen all the money meant to buy guns for our soldiers to fight Boko Haram, when we have all these cases of wicked people who have stolen Nigeria's money, they run to these same senior lawyers, give them part of the stolen money and mobilise them to fight us, to delay us in court and to deny Nigerians of justice.

These are the people who do not want justice for the common man. The other day, 34 Senior Advocates of Nigeria fought against only one small EFCC lawyer in court and he defeated all of them! What we are doing today is not by our power, it is the power of the Nigerian people and the power of God behind us! Corrupt people hire journalists to abuse us every day, they say we are not doing the work according to the law. But, that is not true.

 There is no agency that follows the law more than EFCC. None. Before we arrest you, or seize your property or do anything to you, we check the law, we go to court and get court order. That is why we are winning; that is why we are defeating them everyday. We want the Nigerian people to continue to support us, continue to support Mr. President's war on corruption. We have many corruption cases in court.

We are getting them every day from everywhere and we are recovering stolen money and taking corrupt people to court. The money we have recovered and the money we are going to get back from them -billions and billions of Naira- is being paid back to government and will be used to do what it was originally meant for -to build hospitals, send our children to school, build roads and railways, create employment and defend our country.

 We have no other country than Nigeria. This war is the war of the people. Apart from the fear of God, we have no other fear. Apart from the interest of Nigeria, we have no other interest. And apart from the Rule of Law, we have no other rule guiding the work we are doing today. The days of impunity are over. Victory is certain for the common man! Aluta continua!"he said

COP CHIEF DIES WHILE CELEBRATING VALENTINE IN A HOTEL IN LAGOS

Since the death of Mr. Usong Ekpo, an Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Area K command in Morogbo, Lagos State, in a hotel located at Ajah, different stories had trailed his death. Before his death, Ekpo had been battling High Blood Pressure (BP).

One version of the story said that he slept and didn’t wake up; another version alleged that he fell into a swimming pool and died. The third version insisted that he suddenly collapsed and died. 

Maintaining the swimming pool angle of the story, policemen said he was rescued from the pool and taken to the hospital, but died few minutes later. 

A policeman said: “Ekpo, accompanied by his friends went to celebrate St Valentine Day when he decided to swim. He drowned.”

Ekpo was among policemen recently honored by the Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria (CRAN) for his war against criminals in Lagos State.

The late Ekpo gave the ‘one Million boys’ gang, terrorizing residents of Ojo and Badagry hot chase.

 A veteran journalist, Folorusho Atta, described the death of the police officer as painful.

 He said: “My encountered with the deceased was in 2005 during the Nigeria Labour Congress protest over fuel increase by former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration. I trekked with him from Oduduwa Police in Ikeja to Sango Tollgate, chasing hoodlums and miscreants who wanted to hijack the peaceful protest from the NLC; he was an operational officer of great distinction.”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Badmus Dolapo, didn’t pick her phone when contacted.

SAD NEWS ; ONE OF THE MISSING ABU-ZARIA STUDENTS FOUND DEAD

These two friends, Hauwanat Yusuf, and Nasirat Oyeyemi went missing on Feb. 5th.... Babangida Ruma, the founder of AREWA Youth Awareness Initiative, who has been following the case claims one of the girls has been found dead with parts missing....update soon..

PASTOR E.A.ADEBOYE VISTS STATE HOUSE TODAY

 President Mohammadu  Buhari received the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, at the state house today February 16th. He also met with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who is a pastor in his church. See more photos after the cut...

OONI VISITS BUHARI AT THE STATE HOUSE

 The Ooni of Ife,Alayeluwa Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, visited President Muhammadu  Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at the state house today February 16th. See more photos after the cut...