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quote:Gunmen kill policeman, driver in Port Harcourt By Ibanga Isine and Femi Makinde Published: Tuesday, 8 Apr 2008 Gunmen on Sunday killed a policeman, a driver and abducted an 11- year-old boy, Master Chidi Nzerim, on Airport Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The incident occurred barely a few hours after Mrs. Patricia Asita, the wife of a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Honourable Asita, was abducted while going to church.
Nzerim is the son of Mr. Chidi Nzerim, the Managing Director of an oil and gas firm, DMS Limited, located in Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone.
A top security official told our correspondent that the boy’s mother had gone with the slain driver and the police aide to drop off Chidi at the Brookstone International School, Igrwuta-Ali, when the hoodlums attacked them.
The source said that the hoodlums might have trailed the Nzerims for a long time until the opportunity came and they opened fire on the armed policeman who sat on the passenger’s seat.
The bandits, the source said, also shot the driver of the car, while he struggled to flee with his boss’ wife and child.
He said, “Apparently, to stop the mother from struggling with them, the gunmen shot her on the arm just as the car screeched to a stop. The gunmen rushed at the vehicle, opened the door and dragged the little boy away.
“At that time, the policeman had died and the driver was gasping for breath. The mother was still shouting for help when they took the boy to their waiting vehicle and fled the scene.”
When contacted on the telephone, the spokeswoman for the Rivers State Police command, Mrs. Ireju Barasua, confirmed the incident.
Barasua said the police had begun a search for the two persons, who were abducted in the two separate attacks.
She confirmed that both the policeman and the driver that travelled with the wife and son of the oil and gas magnate were dead.
The spokesman for the Joint Task Force on the Niger Delta, Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, also confirmed the incident. He noted that the vehicle might have been tailed to the point of the attack.
Musa, however, maintained that the mother of the boy was immediately rushed to an undisclosed private hospital for treatment. He added that the woman was responding to treatment.
Meanwhile, a 73-year-old industrialist, who is also a philanthropist based in Akure, the Ondo State capital, Chief Joshua Fagbola, has died following injuries he sustained in an attack by some gunmen at his residence.
The gunmen, it was gathered, hit the old man with heavy objects thereby inflicting deep cuts on his head.
The deceased, who was the owner of a popular sachet water factory in Akure, was in coma until he died on Friday.
Our correspondent, who visited the residence of the deceased on FUTA Road on Monday, learnt that a relative of the man, known as Wale, also died after the attack.
Another relative of the late Fagbola, Kayode Fagbola, 48, told journalists that the gunmen, numbering about seven, stormed the residence at the early hours of Monday, March 31.
He said that while Wale died on Tuesday at the University Teaching Hospital, Ibadan, Fagbola, who had been in coma since the attack, died on Friday at the same hospital.
According to him, the gunmen scaled the fence and entered into the house through the back door.
He alleged that some ladies who were on duty at the sachet water factory in the same compound, were raped by the suspected assassins.
The operation, according to him, lasted from about 1am to 5am.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Adeniran Aremu, confirmed to our correspondent on the telephone that the incident had been reported to the police.
He said that the case was still under investigation but no arrest had been made
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Robbery: Police warn night crawlers By Agency Reporter Published: Tuesday, 8 Apr 2008 Following an outcry that greeted the upsurge in the rate of armed robberies in Osun State, the police command in Osogbo, has mapped out strategies to curb the rising trend.
Addressing a news conference on Monday at the command, Oke-Fia, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. John Omoronike, said people found by the police on the streets between 12am – 5 am would be subjected to intense scrutiny.
He said the recent wave of robberies across the state notwithstanding, Osun remained one of the most peaceful states in the federation.
Omoronike said some robberies in the state were not sufficient reason for people to pass a vote of no confidence on the force, adding that the robberies that occurred in Osun was child’s play when compared to many other states in the country.
Meanwhile, the Action Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party have traded words over the violence and robberies in the state.
The Director, Research and Strategy, Osun AC, Mr Sunday Akere, on Monday, called on the police to probe violence in Okuku, the hometown of Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola.
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Robbers take over Lagos, Oyo From Olalekan Olabulo and Rotimi Omole - 08.04.2008
MEN of the underworld have now taken over Lagos and Oyo states to unleash terror on residents of these states. From Ibadan to the creeks of Lagos, the incidence of armed robbery and other criminal activities has continued to rise.
Robbers in Lagos have cashed in on the non-appointment of new police commisioner for the states to unleash mayhem on residents of the states, killing and making the states unsafe for the people
The police authorities have delayed the appointment of a new commisioner of police for Lagos and Oyo states since Muhammed Abubakar of Lagos and Udom Ekpoudom were promoted.
At least 12 people have in the last few days been killed and several others, including a lady preparing for her marriage who was severely injured as armed robbers terrorised several parts of Lagos.
The police also received it portion of the rising armed attacks as an Assistant Commisioner of Police was in Lagos was killed by gunmen suspected to be assasins.
The Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Frank Mba, said the police were making efforts to ensure that the activities of armed men in the state were put under check.
In Oyo State, spate of armed robbery attack on residents of the state has continued unabated with major restaurants, hotels and rendezvous becoming targets.
Residents who spoke on condition of anonymity with the Nigerian Tribune on the upsurge of robbery attack attributed the incident to absence of a substantive commissioner of police in Oyo State.
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Crack security operatives have launched a massive manhunt for the kidnappers who took a married woman and an 11-year old boy hostage in separate operations. The wife of a lawmaker, Hon. Asita was Friday, seized by hoodlums who waited patiently within the vicinity of the lawmaker’s home to make their move. She has not been seen ever since her captors took her away. Another toddler was taken in a dare-devil raid in another part of the city at about 3.30pm. He was being chauffer driven to Brookstone Secondary School, a high brow school some say which is within the vicinity of the International Airport at Omagwa The driver of the vehicle in which the toddler was and a policeman were not so lucky. They were killed by the merchants of death, desperate to earn a living through extortion. Inside sources say the mother of the boy whose name was given as Master Chidi Nzerim may have been shot. Our information is that the family resides at Herbert Macaulay Street within the low density area called Amadi Flat. From what we gather, security operatives piqued by the resurgence of kidnapping went to work, gathering intelligence that might give them much need clues to crack the cases before them. Members of the public say so far none of the kidnappers have been made to pay for their crimes.
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S’African policeman shoots another Nigerian By Agency Reporter Published: Friday, 11 Apr 2008 A Nigerian shop keeper, Ekele Mbakwe, has become the latest victim of South Africa‘s police brutality after he was shot and wounded by a police officer in Johannesburg on Monday.
The shooting came barely five days after the police apologised to the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg over the incessant shooting incidence involving Nigerians.
Narrating his ordeal to the Southern Africa correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria from his hospital bed, Mbakwe said he was inside his shop on Monday afternoon in Hillbrow area of Johannesburg when he noticed a police car stopped.
“I saw two policemen seated inside the car but I ignored them as I went on attending to a customer when suddenly I heard voices of people running but as I turned to see what was happening, I saw one of the policemen inside the car aimed at me,” he said.
“I do not know what my crime is except that I had earlier at a meeting between the police and officials of the Nigerian consulate last week challenged the police director to produce the policeman who shot a Nigerian brother last week,” he said.
He said that he was yet to report the case as he was still in pains but added that he had seen and could identify the policeman who shot at him.
“But see what this South Africans have done to my eye without committing any crime,” he said.
Meanwhile the proprietor of a private South Africa-based security company, FBI, Mr. Frank Time, told NAN that he attempted to report the case at the Hillbrow police station soon after the incident but was not allowed to do so by the police.
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Police rescue three kids from ritual killers By Fidelis Soriwei, Owerri Published: Friday, 11 Apr 2008 POLICE in Imo State have arrested two people for kidnapping one Ifeoma Mmerichukwu, an eight-year old girl, at Alaonyi Ogwa in Mbaitoli Local Government Area on Wednesday.
It was learnt that the younger sister of the victim, who was with her when the kidnappers lured her away, called the attention of the grandmother to the development. The latter subsequently alerted the villagers and the police.
The kidnappers whose names were given as Mathew of Umuzeduru and Iwuji (surnames withheld) became unlucky when police detectives trailed Mathew to Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of the state where he was arrested.
It was further gathered that Mathew, who allegedly kidnapped the little girl, confessed during police interrogation that he was contracted by Iwuji to supply children irrespective of their sex for money-making rituals.
Further investigation by detectives culimnated in the discovery of two other children in the compound of Iwuji.
The kids were found not to be members of the compound situated at Okwerre in Onuimo Local Government Area of the state.
Speaking on the issue on the telephone on Thursday, the Police Public Relations Officer in charge of the Imo State Command, Mr. Linus Nwaiwu, confirmed the arrest of the suspected ritualists.
He said that the abducted children had been recovered by the police.
He urged the members of the public to take good care of their children and monitor their whearabouts. He advised them to be mindful of the presence of strangers with nefarious intent in their neighbourhood.
Nwaiwu called on the people of the state to volunteer neccessary information to the police to aid the arrest the hoodlums who went about perpetrating unlawful acts against the citizenry.
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IS THERE A THING CALLED LAW SUIT FOR DEPRIVATION OF LIFE, LIBERTY AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION AFTER SEVEN YEARS OR MENTAL CRUELTY INFLICTED BY THE NIGERIAN POLICE AGAINST A CITIZEN AND HIS FAMILY? READ THIS
Ugochukwu Nwaokporo, believed dead by his family, released from police custody on bail after seven years without charge.
Nigeria man, believed dead by his family, has been released from police custody on bail after seven years in detention without charge. Ugochukwu Nwaokporo, now 24, was arrested in 2001, just after he arrived in the capital, Abuja, his family say.
For the last six years, Mr Nwaokporo's family believed he was dead "They told me he was dead, and I thought there was nothing I could do, so I went home" Peter Nwaokporo, Ugochukwu's father
Ugochukwu Nwaokporo was helped from court as his leg is now withered
quote: While lying lifeless as her body was divided in the pelvic girdle, another sources told this reporter that some police personnel discovered over two hundred thousand naira from her and made away with.
Naija for you. Why publish this picture? No respect for the dead or even the leaving? Why not cover the coupse?
The remains of the woman killed Tuesday by a train in Port Harcourt It was a tragic end Tuesday for a woman trader in Port Harcourt who left her home early in the morning. She was crushed to death by a train which snaked its way through the city about 7.00am around the Abali Park area. But that was not all. She was cut in half by the train which simply ran through her on contact, and shocked traders and onlookers converged to see things for themselves. Trains are not usual sights in Nigeria, but they are terrible earth-moving equipment. And observers say their presence in the neighbourhood is often heralded by noise and some vibration. The name of the deceased was given as Miss Catherine Maclean Eneoty. We were told she hailed from Ilotombi town in Andoni Local Government of Rivers State. An eye witness who spoke to Port Harcourt Telegraph said the event occurred at about 7.15 am in the morning on Tuesday when traders as usual filed out for morning business. According tot eh witness, the accident happened immediately after some unidentified arm-robbers attacked traders, although unconfirmed reports said she might have been running from the attack when the train crushed her. While lying lifeless as her body was divided in the pelvic girdle, another sources told this reporter that some police personnel discovered over two hundred thousand naira from her and made away with. Confirming the accident, the Branch Train Control Manager, Mr. Abiodu Ohioma told newsmen that his station was informed as soon as the incident occurred and further stated that proper arrangement to evacuate the corpse had been put in place. Mr. Ohioma disclosed that the train departed from the station at 7.am, stating that the driver had not known that he was involved in an accident. Also reacting to the incident, the railway deputy police officer had sympathized with the family of the deceased and confirmed the police recovered two hundred thousand and some fractions from the victim. Speaking with journalists at the railway, the brother to the deceased, Mr. Jocob Maclean Eneotu, a final year law student in the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, said his sister left the house with the information that she was going to the market to buy crayfish at Ibaka town in Okrika. Mr. Eneotu wept, saying his sister was single and was the pillar of the family who is thirty four years old and traded on crayfish business.
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