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  • 9 knife wielding Nigerians who attacked police in India arrested, drugs seized

    Nine knife-wielding Nigerians allegedly peddling drugs in Mumbai have been arrested by India’s Anti-Narcotics Cell.

    During the arrest on Friday night, police recovered 104 grams of cocaine and nine grams of mephedrone, all worth Rs 5.38 lakh, from the accused who attacked the cops with knives while resisting search.

    According to Mumbai Mirror, the accused were identified as Charles Ifini Ijia, 27; Okoro Jems Aja, 38; Mascells John Dino, 32; Samuel Baju Okeni, 30; Ken Kon Ishmel, 37; Kofi Jems Romalik, 30; Chikku Fry, 43; Nanna Harisans Agvu, 28; and Joku Humai Vachuku Pais, 32.

    The names were mangled by the officers as the Nigerians did not carry their passports on them, another offence, according to Indian law.

    Investigators said three of the accused were also involved in an attack on officers of ANC’s Worli Unit during an operation to nab a Nigerian national allegedly selling cocaine in Byculla on July 19.

    Four police officers had sustained injuries in the attack.

    While the attackers managed to flee then, a case was registered at the JJ Marg Police Station and night patrolling was increased based on Deputy Commissioner of Police Shivdeep Lande’s order.

    “On Friday night, our officers, who patrolling the South Mumbai area, had neared the Eastern Freeway when they spotted some foreigners hanging around suspiciously under the bridge. The officers approached the group and was about to search them when two of them drew out knives and attacked them. While they attempted to flee, our officers, who had sustained minor injuries, managed to overpower them,” said an ANC officer.

    During interrogation, three of the accused confessed to their involvement in the earlier attack in Byculla and revealed the identities of five others who were involved in the same.

    “We are on their lookout,” said the officer.

    “The accused obstructed police from discharging their duties and intentionally injured four personnel.

  • Police arrest runaway bride who disappeared over groom’s inability to pay bridal price

    Police arrest runaway bride who disappeared over groom’s inability to pay bridal price

    The Police in Suleja, Niger, have confirmed the arrest of the parents and relation of a bride, who disappeared after her wedding, refusing to go to her husband’s home.

    The arrest of the trio followed a complaint to the police by their son-in-law, Shuaib Dauda, for the sudden disappearance of their daughter few hours after wedding.

    Dauda earns a living as an auto mechanic.

    Insp. Aliyu Lawal, Officer-in-charge of Kaduna-Road Police outpost in Suleja, gave the confirmation to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday.

    Lawal said the incident occurred on May 6 when the bridegroom complained to the police that the people he sent to the bride’s home to fetch her, in accordance with the tradition, did not see her.

    Lawal said the footdragging by the brides’ family to deliver the bride to the bridegroom led to the disruption of peace in the area, hence the arrest of the parents and the marriage guardian.

    “They were arrested on Sunday, May 6, and granted bail on Monday May 7,” he said.

    But Mr Abubakar Haruna, popularly known as Zakiru and a resident of Hayi along Kaduna Road, told NAN that he gave out two daughters same day, Fiddausi to Dauda and Saliha to one Muhammadu Murtala.

    He said before the marriage, Dauda and Murtala promised to comply with all the religious and traditional obligations for the marriage such as the dowry and buying of clothes and boxes for the brides.

    “After the wedding ceremony, Dauda said he could not afford to buy the clothes and boxes to the bride as promised earlier.

    “Fiddausi, realising that Murtala (the husband to Saliha) had redeemed his promise and presented the traditional gifts and Dauda did not, ran away to the neighbouring house until her bridegroom fulfilled his own promise,’’ he said.

    Haruna said already beddings, traditional kitchen wares, furniture and other domestic utensils had been taken to Dauda’s home, ahead of the conveyance of Fiddausi to her new home.

    He explained that while they were searching for Fiddausi, the team sent by the bridegroom to fetch Fiddausi to the matrimonial home hinted Dauda of the sudden disappearance of the bride.

    He claimed Dauda mobilised his friends who stormed his compound, insisting that Fiddausi must be produced. In the process they molested him and brutalised his wife, named Bayi.

    “Some other female guests from Kano were also brutalised, food items and other valuables they brought for the wedding ceremony were stolen by the hoodlums who attacked us for our alleged failure to produce the bride,’’ Haruna said.

    Haruna said while the hoodlums were molesting his family and his guests, the police officers from Kaduna Road outpost arrested him, his wife and his younger brother who is also the marriage guardian. The latter was identified as Umar Musa.

    Haruna dismissed the allegation by the police that he was arrested for disrupting public peace in the community. Rather, he explained that the police asked him to refund N260,000 to Dauda, being the amount he spent on the marriage.

    Haruna said when he failed to pay the money as demanded, he was detained together with his wife and his younger brother by the police.

    According to him, they were detained overnight at the police outpost and were granted bail following the intervention of his lawyer, Mr Aliyu Musa.

    He said the bail was obtained on the condition that they would bring the money the following day or risk prosecution.

    Meanwhile, Fiddausi has returned to her father’s house.

  • BREAKING: Police arrest Senator Ovie Omo-Agege over invasion of senate

    The police have arrested Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, who was accused of leading thugs to steal the mace at the Senate.

    According to reports reaching TheNewsguru, Omo-Agege was whisked away in a waiting police van.

    A source who spoke to TheNewsGuru.com on the incident said about 10 suspected thugs who came to the venue with the senator forced their entrance into the chamber.

    Seconds later, the hoodlums ran out of the chamber with the mace causing pandemonium in the Senate.

    They left the National Assembly with the mace in a black SUV.

    Details soon…

  • Trouble looms as Diamond Platnumz gets arrested

    Tanzanian singer, Diamond Platnumz has been nabbed by Tanzanian authorities for sharing raunchy videos on social media.

     

    The talented singer shared two videos on his Instagram page — one with the mother of his child, Hamisa Mobeto and another with an unidentified woman.

     

    The recording in question involves the 28-year-old superstar smooching and caressing the unidentified woman and the other is of him sitting on Hamisa Mobeto.

    Tanzanian Minister of communication Harrison Mwakyembe confirmed his arrest while speaking at the parliament on Tuesday.

     

    “There are some stars who keep posting uncouth content on social media and I’m proud to say yesterday we arrested Diamond Platnumz,” the minister said in Swahili.

     

    Social media speculations indicates that the award winning singer shares the raunchy videos with the aim of spiting his ex-girlfriend, Zari Hassan.

    Recall that the singer mocked his ex- wife, Zari Hassan in a new song. In the song titled ‘Kwangaru, Diamond Platnumz shared how unforgiving he gets when a woman he loves offends him.

     

    Tekno rejected me for being dark skinned- Quin Beee

  • Trey Songz in trouble, arrested over alleged assault

    Police confirm popular R&B singer Trey Songz has been arrested on suspicion of punching a woman at a Los Angeles party.

     

    Police officer Drake Madison says Songz, whose real name is Tremaine Neverson, turned himself in Monday at a Hollywood police station. He is accused of felony domestic violence.

     

    Jail reports show the entertainer was released about two hours later on $50,000 bail.

     

    A certain woman, Andrea Buera told reporters last week that she was the woman Songz had assaulted. Buera stated that he punched her repeatedly because he was upset she was talking to another man at a Feb. 18 party.

     

    Songz tweeted Monday that he was being falsely accused for someone else’s personal gain. In a followup tweet, he wrote: “I won’t be speaking too much more on this but would like to thank you for all the prayers and support.”

  • Daily Trust reporter, Musa Krishi forcefully arrested by policemen

    A Daily Trust reporter attached to the House of Representatives in the National Assembly, Musa Abdullahi Krishi, was abducted by policemen who claimed to have come from Zone One Command Police Headquarters in Kano.

    The revelation was made know in a statement signed by Daily Trust’s Editor-in-Chief, Mannir Dan-Ali and made available to TheNewsGuru.com via email.

    In the statement, Daily Trust claimed Krishi was hauled into a Hilux Van with Registration Number ABJ RSH 850 AH from the Divisional Police Office at the National Assembly by a team of six plain cloth policemen who claimed to be taking him to Kano for interrogation.

    Read the statement in full:

    At about 11.30am on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, reporter attached to the House of Representatives in the National Assembly, Musa Abdullahi Krishi, was abducted by policemen who claimed to have come from Zone One Command Police Headquarters in Kano. He was hauled into a Hilux Van with Registration Number ABJ RSH 850 AH from the Divisional Police Office at the National Assembly by a team of six plain cloth policemen who claimed to be taking him to Kano for interrogation.

    Though the full ramifications of the investigation they claimed to be carrying out has not been made known to the management of Daily Trust, the abduction of Krishi is the height of intimidation visited upon this company since January 26, 2018 following the publication of a paid advertisement which the governor of Jigawa State had taken exception to. Below is a sequence of intimidation Daily Trust has been subjected to over the last one and a half months.

    1. On January 26, 2018 Daily Trust published a paid advertisement placed by the Coalition of Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar Support Groups. The advertorial consisted of photographs showing Jigawa State Governor Badaru with former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
    2. On the same day lawyers of Governor Badaru wrote to disown the contents of the advertorial and sought an immediate retraction.
    3. On January 28, 2018, Daily Trust published the Jigawa State Government’s press release disowning the advertorial.
    4. On February 5, 2018, Daily Trust published an apology/retraction of the advertisement as demanded by the governor’s lawyers.
    5. In February Daily Trust received from the Police in Kano a letter claiming that they had commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the publication of the advertorial. Attached to the letter was a summon from a Chief Magistrate Court in Kano, which did not contain the names of parties to the suit, and even a suit number.
    6. We provided all the information requested for by the Police in Kano to enable them conduct their investigations. But not satisfied, the police summoned the management team of Daily Trust to Kano for further investigation.
    7. As this civil case took a frightening twist and turn, Daily Trust wrote an official petition to the Inspector General of Police dated February 15, 2018, seeking his intervention. The IGP subsequently set up a team of investigators in Abuja to work on this case.

    It was, therefore, a shock to the management of Daily Trust that the Police in Kano upstaged the IGP’s investigation by coming to Abuja to abduct one of our reporters. We believe the police in Kano can only do this because of undue pressures from Jigawa State Government.

    We consider this to be, not just an act of intimidation on Daily Trust journalists and newspaper, but an unwarranted assault on Journalism and the media profession. The advertorial in question had no criminal content; it was not in any way libellous against the governor of Jigawa State or any other political personality contained therein.

    If anything, this is a civil-cum-political issue, and, as a newspaper, we have bent over backward by carrying out the necessary retraction and publishing the disclaimers by the government of Jigawa State. The abduction of our journalist was unwarranted and an abuse on the rights of our reporter. This is clearly another mischievous effort to obstruct Daily Trust from performing of its constitutionally-supported role of making its platform available to all Nigerians who wish to air their views about the country’s democracy.

    We, therefore, call for the immediate release of our reporter, Musa Abdullahi Kirshi, and demand an unreserved apology from the Kano State Command of the Nigeria Police. We appeal to the Inspector-General of Police and President Muhammadu Buhari to call the Police in Kano to order and instruct them to return our reporter to his duty post at the National Assembly.

    (Signed)

    MANNIR DAN-ALI

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

    March 13, 2018

  • Amnesty International warns against extradition of Cameroon separatist leaders arrested in Nigeria

    Ten leaders of the independence movement in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon could be at risk of torture and an unfair trial if extradited from Nigeria, where they have been arrested and detained in secret for one week, Amnesty International said on Friday.

    On January 5, armed men in plain clothes stormed a hotel in the capital Abuja where the activists, all members of the pro-independence Southern Cameroon National Council (SCNC), were meeting, and arrested them without presenting a warrant or providing an explanation.

    They are being held incommunicado, without any access to a lawyer, in contravention of Nigerian law which demands they must be seen by a judge within 48 hours.

    Human rights lawyers in Nigeria have said that an extradition request has been made by the Cameroonian government, but no details of the request have been made public.

    “By holding these activists in secret, without charge, the Nigerian authorities are failing to respect both national and international law. If they are extradited to Cameroon, they risk an unfair trial before a military court and the deeply disturbing possibility of torture,” said Osai Ojigho, Director of Amnesty International Nigeria.

    “Efforts to tackle the Anglophone crisis should always respect the law, and avoid restrictions on freedom of expression. Authorities in Nigeria should immediately disclose the activists’ whereabouts, allow them access to a lawyer, and unless they have sufficient evidence to charge them with a recognisable crime, release them immediately,” said Mr. Ojigho.

    The SCNC members have said that they were meeting in Nigeria to discuss the influx of thousands of asylum seekers following protests in October, in which over 20 civilians were killed by security forces.

    In recent months, over 10 members of security forces have also been killed by more radical pro-independence groups. The SCNC has throughout claimed to pursue their aim of independence for the Anglophone regions through peaceful means.

    All those arrested were legally living in Nigeria, and some had been granted political asylum.

    Under Nigerian law, it would be illegal to extradite the activists for political crimes, or if they faced the risk of torture or an unfair trial.

    In Cameroon, those charged with crimes related to national security are prosecuted by military courts without respect for due process, and Amnesty International has documented a widespread pattern of torture by security forces and intelligence agencies.

    In July 2017 the organisation published a report documenting over 100 cases of torture of people accused without evidence of supporting Boko Haram.

  • Police arrest undergraduate who beheaded mother

    The Police Command in Osun on Monday said it had arrested one Joseph Mark, a 25-year-old undergraduate of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo, who beheaded his mother on Sunday.

    The Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Folashade Odoro, told newsmen in Osogbo that the incident happened at about 6:30 am, at No 25, Zone 5, Ajetomobi Street, Eko-Ende Road, Ikirun, Osun.

    According to Odoro, the father of the suspect, Mr Adewale Mark, reported the incident to Ikirun Divisional Police station.

    She said the father explained that he left his house around 5:30 a.m. to visit his friend at the next street and on returning home at about 6 a.m., he discovered that his son had cut off his wife’s head with a cutlass.

    Odoro said the culprit, who was suspected to be insane, was arrested when the team of police detectives visited the scene of crime.

    She said exhibits; medical examination of the suspect, weapon used and photographs of the scene and victim were taken by the police.

    She said the corpse of the victim, Mrs Christianah Mark, 62, had been deposited at mortuary and that further investigation on the matter had begun.

  • [Video] Two masquerades arrested for robbery in Lagos

    The police in Lagos State have arrested two masquerades in their costumes in Elere, in the Agege area of the state.

    The Acting Commissioner of Police in the state, Edgal Imohimi, in a video that trended on the Internet on Wednesday, accused the masqueraders and their handlers of harassing and robbing the residents of the area.

    He said the residents made distress calls to the police that some hoodlums were harassing and dispossessing some of them of their valuables, prompting him to call the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Elere division to effect the arrest of the masqueraders and others involved in the alleged crime.

    Edgal, in the video, said the masqueraders and others were arrested about 4pm on Tuesday.

    “He said, “When I received the complaint against the masqueraders, I called the DPO and some decoy teams were sent to the area and the masquerades and their handlers were all arrested.

    “They were only using the masqueraders as a trick to rob some residents of the area. The masqueraders don’t have the permission of any traditional ruler in the community to come out. There is no festival that they are celebrating. Traditionally, masqueraders don’t just come out without a purpose.

    “We have warned repeatedly that people without purpose parading themselves as masqueraders on the streets of Lagos will no longer be tolerated.”

    Edgal warned that any masquerader who came out without permission would be arrested.

    “These ones will be de-robed and charged to court,” he added.

     

    The state Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Olarinde Famous-Cole, while commenting on the video, said the masquerades were robbing motorists and causing breach of the peace.

    He said they would be charged to court after investigation.

    He said, “The CP got a distress call that some hoodlums were fighting and almost caused the breakdown of law and order. Operatives of the command were mobilised to the scene, where we saw the masquerades intimidating and robbing passersby and motorists.

    “They engaged the police in a fight and we had to call for reinforcement.

    “All of them were picked up. They are about seven in number, including their leader.”

  • Christabel Ekeh arrested over viral nude pictures

    Controversial Ghanaian-Nigerian actress Christabel Ekeh is purportedly in police custody over her naked photos which went viral online.

     

    Ghbase.com reports that the actress is being interrogated by the Ghanaian Police in a bid to tighten up indecent exposure laws in the country.

     

    “Christabel Ekeh is currently under interrogations for releasing her shoddy naked pictures on social media. We are following up on the matter and will communicate back to our patrons accordingly.” Ghbase.com reports

     

    The outspoken actress who posted her nude photos on Instagram has received a lot of disapprovals from fans and the pictures have been taken off her Instagram account.

     

     

    Ekeh in an interview had disclosed that exhibiting nude pictures of herself on social media was a way of introducing to the world the ‘new Christabel’.