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  • Hoodlums attack radio,TV stations in Abuja, injure journalist

    Hoodlums attack radio,TV stations in Abuja, injure journalist

    Hoodlums in Abuja have reportedly bombarded the premises of privately owned Liberty Television and radio station located in jabi.

    It was gathered that a journalist Muhammad Sani Yusuf Nassarawa who plies his trade with the outfit was allegedly injured by the rampaging hoodlums.

    Findings show that the hoodlums after injuring the journalist, took to their heels, whilst the injured journalist was being rushed to the hospital

    He said, trouble started on Tuesday when the developer who owned a business plaza nearby, invited personnel of the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) to remove some kiosks there.

    “Thugs came back in the early hours of Thursday cutting off flower plants attached to our building, and also poured oil on any available space that one can stay around.

    “Then around 6pm, they returned when we were about to break our fast, harassing staff members on sight, which led to the injury to one of our colleagues on the head.”He said

    The Life Camp Police Division in Abuja, claim ignorance of the matter, the FCT police spokesperson, DSP Josephine Adeh mentioned that they have not been briefed on the incident.

     

     

  • Cult clash leaves one dead in Osogbo

    Cult clash leaves one dead in Osogbo

    There was chaos in Osogbo area of Osun State on Sunday, as residents scampered for safety following a cult clash between rival group, leaving one Lekan ( a.k.a Osondi) dead.

    It was gathered that the clash occurred at Oluode area, Osogbo between 1:30 to 2pm.

    Unknown hoodlums attacked four persons who were believed to be travelling.

    It was gathered that the deceased was hit by broken bottle and he later died in the hospital.

    Sources said one Quadri (a.ka. Poplo) and two others whose identities are not ascertained, are still in the hospital receiving treatment.

    According to sources, “those four guys were travelling around the area when some guys attacked them with broken bottles and other dangerous weapons.

    “They hit Lekan on his head with big stone. They took those guys to hospital and Lekan died thereafter,” sources said.

    The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Yemisi Opalola, confirmed the incident, saying efforts are on to arrest the fleeing culprits.

    Opalola said police has deployed its officers to the area, assuring that they would be apprehended.

    She said nomalcy has restored to the area and urged residents to go about their duties without fear.

  • Hoodlums on rampage in Enugu, shoot police, customs officers on duty

    Hoodlums on rampage in Enugu, shoot police, customs officers on duty

    Armed hoodlums, on Thursday, shot police and customs officers on duty at various locations within Enugu State, leaving some of the officers feared dead.

    The rampaging armed hoodlums attacked Ozalla community along the ever busy Enugu-Port Harcourt Road as well as Lomalida axis of Ugwuaji Road within Enugu metropolis.

    The armed hoodlums attacked customs’ checkpoint within Ozalla community, precisely close to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, at about 1:30pm on Thursday.

    The hoodlums opened fire on the unsuspecting customs officers, leaving one dead instantly as alleged by eye witnesses. Three other officers sustained serious bullet wounds.

    “I saw one of the customs officers motionless and three others in serious pain as they were helped by some Good Samaritan down to the UNTH hospital close-by,” an eyewitness said.

    In the incident at Lomalida axis of Ugwuaji Road, the hoodlums shot at policemen on stop-and-search duty, leaving two officers feared dead and about four others with deadly bullet wounds.

    It was gathered that the incident, which happened at about 2p.m. left the Ugwuaji Road deserted of vehicular traffic for up to two hours.

    Confirming the development, the Police Public Relations Officer in Enugu State, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, said that “information surrounding the incident is sketchy”.

    “Meanwhile, a manhunt for the hoodlums has been initiated. Further development will be communicated, please,” he said.

  • Fear grips Ojo community as hoodlums sell hard drugs, rob people at bus stops

    Fear grips Ojo community as hoodlums sell hard drugs, rob people at bus stops

    Some residents of Agric community in Ojo Local Government, Lagos state, are bemoaning the increase in armed robbery attacks at their major bus stops.

    The residents also alleged that the hoodlums sell and smoke hard drugs with reckless abandon and at night rob people of their valuables.

    The residents said the hoodlums lives in the shanties built at the bus stops.

    Agric Bus stop which consists of six Community Development Association (CDA), is located along Okokomaiko Road before Volkswagen bus stop in Ojo Local Government.

    The community leaders are pleading with the Lagos State Government to clear the shanties built by the hoodlums and station security personnel at the bus stops.

    The CDA leaders who spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said that their bus stops are not secured anymore.

    They said that the arm robbers do come out from the shanties to perpetrate evil acts by dispossessing people of their belongings and kill anyone who refuses to oblige.

    They disclosed that about 11 people have been killed and over 50 people injured and shot while returning to their various homes in both daytime and night.

    Mr Abiodun Gbamgboye, the CDA leader of Habib community, said the incessant robbery attacks at Agric bus stop have stricken fear in people.

    “Returning home or going out in this area is now a herculean task.

    “The whole community is scared as our bus stops now turn to arm robbers’ den and hard drugs zone, the shanties built by the hoodlums are their major hideouts,” he said.

    He noted that in the daytime, “we see them display hard drugs they sell on their tables and smoke, they even display mixture of drinks with hard drugs.

    “There are many people who have been killed while being robbed. For instance, one Stanley Mbosah was killed last week while returning home.

    “Most of us no longer take our cars out of the community for fear of being robbed by the hoodlums.

    “We want the State Government, the police and Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (NDLEA) to come to our aid,” he said.

    Another CDA leader, from Olowotabutabu community, Mr Emmanuel Chukwudi, said that there is the need for Government to arrest the hoodlums who live in the shanties built at the bus stops.

    “I want Government to help us station Police Patrol at the bus stops, remove shanties and arrest the hoodlums, their presence is causing agitation to inhabitants of this community,” he said.

    In his reaction, Mr Salau Rasheed, a CDA leader of Ayedoto community, also expressed concern on insecurities and sale of hard drugs at the bus stops.

    “Our bus stop is no longer safe for even our children who go to school, we are scared that the hoodlums may want to lure our children into taking hard drugs,” he said.

    Others who talked on the insecurity of the communities were the CDA leaders, Mr Celestine Igwilo of Otubu Community; Mr Albert Mere, Secretary, Olugbemi Community. They all said there was the need for Police to help them arrest those thieves.

    Mr Olawale Saliu, who is a renowned lawyer living in one of the communities, told NAN that residents are scared of the evil the hoodlums unleash as they might extend their act to houses if not curtailed.

    He, however, urged the security personnel in the area and Ojo Local Government Chairman to help them in clearing shanties where the hoodlums hide.

  • Just In: Hoodlums burn Ogun monarch, three others to death

    Just In: Hoodlums burn Ogun monarch, three others to death

    A traditional ruler in Ogun, Olu of Agodo, Oba Ayinde Odetola has been killed along with three other people by suspected hoodlums in the community, according to witnesses and news reports.

    Agodo is a town in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State.

    The monarch was burnt to death after the hoodlums invaded his palace in the community, news website Intel Region said. Other yet-unidentified targets were feared killed in the incident.

    Police spokesman in Ogun, Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the report, stating that the state’s police commissioner was at the scene of the incident,

    He also added that the residents have since fled the community.

    While the root cause of the killing is yet to be ascertained, a sister of the late monarch, Mrs Adenike Akintade, said a brother to the late monarch was recently killed.

    “I have just been discharged from hospital early this morning, only to start mourning the brutal assassination of my brother.

    “Kabiesi called me on Saturday, urging me to reduce my activities, saying stress could contribute to my illness.

    “He lost his younger brother to the imbroglio some months ago; the young man was butchered by the so-called hoodlums. Today, Kabiesi is no more, what a world”, Akintade lamented.

     

  • Hoodlums attack OAU Vice Chancellor, other top management officials while inspecting newly built hostel

    Hoodlums attack OAU Vice Chancellor, other top management officials while inspecting newly built hostel

    Hoodlums on Monday attacked some management staff of the Obafemi Awolowo University, including Vice-Chancellor, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede.

    The staff members had tried to visit a hostel built on land claimed by members of a community near the university premises.

    The hoodlums were reportedly hired by the land claimants.

    They shot sporadically for several minutes in an attempt to chase the management team away.

    Unable to access the hostel, Prof. Ogunbodede said the university management will continue to pursue peace with the community.

    He also stressed that the management will seek roundtable discussions to prevent future attacks.

    Although no life was lost, the hoodlums brandished cutlasses and other dangerous weapons.

  • #EndSARS report: They wanted us to present false narratives that criminals, cultists, hoodlums, unknown gunmen operated at Lekki Toll Gate – Adegboruwa

    #EndSARS report: They wanted us to present false narratives that criminals, cultists, hoodlums, unknown gunmen operated at Lekki Toll Gate – Adegboruwa

    A member of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, says there are documents to defend the report submitted by the panel to the government.

    He said this on Friday in a statement titled ‘EndSARS Panel: I Acted on The Mandate of The Governor’, in reaction to the remarks by one of the senior counsels to the state government at the panel.

    Although he did not name the lawyer, Adegboruwa noted that the legal practitioner asked Nigerians to reject the report of the panel because he (Adegboruwa) signed it and was not present at some of the sittings.

    “There are documents to back up and defend the report submitted to the governor by the panel, but I have chosen to defer to His Excellency and to await the White Paper as promised because I believe that the governor meant well in setting up the panel and giving us free hand to operate.

    “I appeal to His Excellency to continue in that note of sincerity,” said the Senior Advocate of Nigeria.

    “There is no minority report from the panel as the report submitted to the governor on November 15, 2021, was unanimously endorsed by all members of the panel, who worked tirelessly, day and night, to serve the government and the people, even at great risks to their health, personal safety, career and family obligations, and their general well-being.

    “I’m very sure that panel members would have been lionised to the highest heavens if we had bought into the narrative of the government before the panel that it was criminals, cultists, hoodlums, and unknown gunmen that operated at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020.”

    Adegboruwa explained that he served on the panel on the mandate of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who told him on the telephone that he was chosen to represent the civil society.

    He said he later requested an approval which was granted in writing, that his appointment was on a part-time basis.

    The governor, the lawyer narrated, told him that two members were chosen to represent the civil society on the panel to ensure one of them would always be present at the panel to excuse the absence of the other.

    “I accepted the appointment in good faith, to serve the people, to calm frayed nerves at the time, and also to restore normalcy to Lagos State,” he said. “So, at all times, I functioned in partnership with my colleague from civil society, and there was no major sitting of the panel in which both of us were absent.

    “I also served on the panel free of charge, from October 19, 2020, when the panel was inaugurated till November 15, 2021, when the panel submitted its report. The government was well aware of my identity, my perspectives, my philosophies and my general convictions, at least since my university days, before it nominated me into the Panel, that I will always say things the way they are.

    “All Panel members acted in good faith, independently and in the fear of God Almighty. My principled struggles in respect of toll fee collection started way back from 2011, almost nine years before the Panel was inaugurated.

    “Indeed, the governor said that these were the factors that favoured my selection as a member of the panel. Will I then deny myself, forfeit my reputation and discredit my constituency, my colleagues in the Nigerian Bar Association, and comrades in civil society, in order to please anybody or cover up the truth? NEVER!”

    According to Adegboruwa, it is improper to subject the report of the panel and the integrity of its members to media trials and attacks.

    He added that it would be uncharitable for the same government that urged the panel not to be held down by strict rules of technicalities of law in order to unravel the real truth about the Lekki tollgate incident, to now through its counsel and talk about alleged legal discrepancies to frustrate the good work of the panel that it set up.

    “I urge the government to focus on the findings and far-reaching recommendations contained in the report, in order to pursue the laudable objectives of setting up the panel to achieve true healing and reconciliation, instead of seeking to demonise panel members and their report or to evade responsibility,” the senior advocate said.

  • Police officer involved in supplying guns to hoodlums in Anambra arrested

    Police officer involved in supplying guns to hoodlums in Anambra arrested

    The Police Command in Anambra State on Monday said it had arrested a police sergeant involved in allegedly supplying arms and ammunition to cultists and hoodlums in the State.

    The command made this known in reaction to a trending social media (Facebook) post, alleging that the personnel was arming a cult group said to be responsible for most of the killings in the State.

    The post had alleged that the policeman was a member of a dreaded Viking cult group and was seen during a shoot-out.

    The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, said that the officer had been identified and arrested, while investigation had commenced.

    “The attention of the police command in Anambra has been drawn to a story trending on the social media, alleging the involvement of a police sergeant in the illegal supply of arms and ammunition to a criminal gang in Awka.

    “The alleged police sergeant has been identified and is already in custody for questioning.

    “The command assures that the outcome of investigations into the case will be made public and reiterates its commitment to being accountable to all personnel serving in the command,” it stated.

    There had been a surge in cult-related killings in some parts of Awka, the State capital.

  • Lagos taskforce impounds 204 motorcycles, arrests 50 hoodlums

    Lagos taskforce impounds 204 motorcycles, arrests 50 hoodlums

    The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit Taskforce has arrested 50 hoodlums and impounded 204 motorcycles.

    A statement in Lagos on Sunday by Mr Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, Head, Public Affairs Unit, said the hoodlums were arrested during raids on black spots.

    It also said that the taskforce unit had commenced tactical enforcement code named, “Operation Kogberegbe” to ensure a hitch-free festive season.

    The statement said, “Operation Kogberegbe” would clamp down on illegal ticketers on the state’s highways, street urchins popularly known as ‘area boys’ and motorcyclists plying restricted routes.

    “The unit commenced its tactical and strategic enforcement for compliance operations this week with code name, “Operation Kogberegbe”.

    “This is to instil discipline and entrench sanity in the state, with a view to achieving the state’s vision of zero tolerance for criminal elements, hideouts, okada operation on restricted routes, and other environmental law offenders in the state,” it said.

    The statement disclosed that over 204 motorcycles known as okada were impounded at Ojodu Berger, Ketu Alapere, Agric, Allen Avenue, Ikeja for plying restricted routes/roads and violating the state traffic laws.

    “Enforcement officers were attacked by hoodlums in collaboration with okada riders at the Ojodu Berger area but they were subdued due to the superior tactical and systemic strategies of his men,” it added.

    It noted that the restricted routes had been published several times to avoid unnecessary excuses of not being aware of the state laws on restriction by okada operators.

    “Some offenders turned deaf ears and all efforts put in place by the enforcement agency to sensitise, educate and enlighten them to see the dangers of plying on the highways proved abortive.

    “All the restricted routes will be closely monitored to rid the state of okada riders’ menace which could lead to needless loss of lives and serious security challenges.

    “This week’s activities are a signal to all recalcitrant environmental laws offenders who circumvent government rules and regulations as provided by regulatory provision of the law, that such offenders shall be made to face the full wrath of the law,” it stated.

    The statement noted that the unit raided some black spots at the Oshodi area, Mile 12 and other trouble spots in the state where hoodlums were arrested with charms, machetes and other harmful weapons.

    “All the suspects will be charged to court for various offences and for disturbing the public peace.

    “The agency will not rest on its oars until all recalcitrant okada operators tow the line of best practices and the state is free from hoodlums, streets urchins known as area boys,” it said.

  • Oyo PDP congress turns violent as hoodlums invade venue; injure delegates, destroy cars

    Oyo PDP congress turns violent as hoodlums invade venue; injure delegates, destroy cars

    Gunmen alleged to be members of the Oyo State Park Management System have attacked Jogor Centre, venue of the State Congress of a faction of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

    No fewer than five people were injured while about 50 vehicles parked outside the venue were damaged.

    The hoodlums, who stormed the venue from the back gate, were heard shooting sporadically into the air and hacking anyone seen insight.

    One of the cars damaged belongs to Murhi International Television (MiTV), which was used to convey reporters to the scene

    The hoodlums were also seen brandishing cutlass, axes, guns and other dangerous weapons.

    A yet-to-be-identified delegate sustained matchet wounds as he was struck on the head.

    The situation left many scampering for safety.