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  • Police nab Imo bank robbery kingpin at father’s funeral

    Police nab Imo bank robbery kingpin at father’s funeral

    The Imo State Police command on Sunday confirmed the arrest of the leader and mastermind of a bank robbery which led to the killing of a bank customer in the state.

    Some gunmen trailed the bank customer to a Zenith bank branch on Wetheral Road, Owerri, the state capital.

    They reportedly carted away the money which the victim wanted to deposit in the bank and shot him dead.

    The assailants reportedly injured three policemen attached to the bank, shooting indiscriminately as they fled the area.

    However, one of the gunmen was shot dead by a plain-clothes cop in the bank.

    According to The Punch, after six weeks of investigation, two suspects– Justice Ogbenna, aka JJ, and Okechukwu Onwuamaegbu– were on Friday arrested in Aba, Abia State by operatives of the Imo State Police Command.

    The state Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Enwerem, told newsmen on Sunday that policemen attached to the Special Anti-robbery Squad of the command arrested the suspected robbers at the Saint Francis Mortuary in Osisioma Aba, Abia State.

    Enwerem disclosed that the suspects led the men and officers of the command to their hideout at Umuejea Nvosi in the Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia State where two AK 47 rifles, seven magazines, and 175 live ammunition were recovered.

    The police spokesperson said, “The two prime suspects who coordinated the Zenith Bank robbery in Owerri on February 23, have been arrested.

    “We trailed them to Aba, where they were nabbed. They immediately led our men to their hideout at Umuejea Nvosi in the Isiala Ngwa South LGA, where exhibits like two AK-47 rifles, seven magazines, and 127 live ammunition were recovered.”

    Enwerem confirmed that the suspects, who were cooling their heels at the state police command in Owerri, had made useful statements and were helping the police with information that could help in the arrest of other fleeing members of the gang.

    He disclosed that the police would charge them to court at the end of investigations.

    Also confirming the arrest, a top police source who prefer speaking on condition of anonymity said that the leader of the gang, Ogbenna, was arrested on the day he planned to bury his late father.

    He said, “We got information that he would bury his father on Friday and we trailed him to the mortuary. We laid siege to the morgue. Immediately he arrived with his family members and friends to carry the remains of his father home, we arrested him.”

    The police source, who described the suspect as a notorious armed robber, claimed that he had jumped bail in Anambra State in 2016 in a similar case of armed robbery.

  • BREAKING: Soyinka to hold private funeral on Trump’s inauguration day

    BREAKING: Soyinka to hold private funeral on Trump’s inauguration day

    Nobel laureate and revered playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka has said he will hold a private funeral on January 20 when United States President-elect, Donald Trump will be taking over from Barrack Obama as the country’s 45th President.

    Soyinka, who spoke in Lagos on Monday, explained that the funeral is not to mourn with the citizens of the US over their choice of president but to mourn the death of Nigeria’s common sense.

    “Our common sense is totally lost. I am embarrassed sometimes that I occupy the same nation space with some people,” he said.

    Recall that the respected laureate had promised to destroy his green card should the republican candidate, Donald Trump wins the US presidential election.

    However, Soyinka made true his intention on December 1 when he said he has destroyed his green card.

    He also said Nigerians did not have the right to query his personal decision to tear his US green card.

  • Cuba to continue cause of Fidel Castro, president says

    Cuba to continue cause of Fidel Castro, president says

    Cuban President Raul Castro has pledged on Tuesday that the Cuban people will continue the cause of the late revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, who passed away late Friday at the age of 90.

    Raul Castro, 85, made a speech at a massive rally and a state funeral to pay homage to Fidel Castro at the Revolution Plaza on Tuesday night, which was attended by thousands of Cubans and high-level delegations from 55 countries.

    The president recalled his brother’s life, saying Fidel had devoted his life to the solidarity of the country, and his socialist revolution was “of the humble, by the humble, and for the humble”.

    “Fidel led a revolution that became a symbol of the international struggle against colonialism, apartheid and the emancipation of people,” said Raul Castro.

    In the past two days since Fidel Castro’s passing away, thousands of Cubans, especially the younger generation, have signed the oath to continue Fidel’s concept of revolution, Raul Castro said.

    He also expressed gratitude for the condolence messages and words from foreign leaders, many of whom were attending the state funeral.

    Among the international participants are Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao as a special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Bolivian President Evo Morales and Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa.

    On Wednesday, Castro’s ashes will begin a three-day procession across 13 Cuban provinces, and be placed on Sunday at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, the country’s second-largest city, along with other heroes of Cuban history, such as the founding fathers of the independence against Spain Jose Marti and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes.