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  • Land dispute: Two killed as police clash with church members in Lagos [Photos]

    Land dispute: Two killed as police clash with church members in Lagos [Photos]

    There was pandemonium at Ori Oke community in Makoko, Lagos State, on Thursday as armed policemen and officials of the Lagos State Special Task Force on Land Grabbers Act of Apostle Church in Makoko, Ebute Metta Yaba over land dispute.

    The deceased – Kola Iwalokun and Emola Julius – were allegedly shot dead by the police, while many others reportedly sustained gunshot injuries in the incident.

    A church, The Acts of Apostle Church, which houses several buildings and about 15 makeshift shops, was said to have been set ablaze by the enforcement agents.

    In a reprisal, angry youths reportedly invaded a police post in the Adekunle area, a neighbouring community, and destroyed some valuables, including some vehicles parked in the station.

    It was gathered that the task force officials, accompanied by the policemen, had raided the community around 10am to evict the residents, whose buildings were constructed on a disputed parcel of land.

    The policemen allegedly shot indiscriminately to scare away the residents.

    One of the resident, who identifies self as Ajimuda Thompson on Facebook shared photos of the remains of the church after the invasion by security operatives.

     

     

    Speaking on the incident, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, said one person was killed in the clash, adding that the state Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, had ordered an investigation into the incident.

    He said, “The task force on land grabbers went to work in the community because they had a valid court order to execute in that location. Unfortunately, they were attacked by youths of that area, who mobilised in large number to fight the law enforcement officers. A call came to the police to rescue those task force men, but by the time the police got there, there was information that somebody was shot and rushed to a hospital, where he died.

    “The police intervened because they were called upon by the task force that the youths were firing at them. The prompt intervention of the police brought the situation under control.

    “However, the CP has directed the Area Commander, Area C, Surulere, to investigate the incident and report back for necessary action. As usual, the outcome will be communicated to members of the public.”

  • ‘Lagos lawyer, Udeme Odibi ready to travel abroad day before killing husband’

    ‘Lagos lawyer, Udeme Odibi ready to travel abroad day before killing husband’

    Udeme Odibi, the 47-year-old Lagos-based lawyer, who reportedly stabbed her husband to death, was supposed to travel abroad a day before the crime was allegedly committed.

    It was gathered that she had arranged her luggage, preparatory to the journey on Wednesday, but reportedly decided to shelve the plan.

    The incident happened in the early hours of Thursday at the couple’s residence on Diamond Estate, Sangotedo, in Ajah area of Lagos State.

    A source, who spoke with Punch on Friday, stated that the suspect had been abroad since December 2017 before returning to Nigeria in April 2018.

    “The woman is jealous and always making trouble with the man. She used to be a lawyer in her husband’s chambers. Any time she saw a female client with the man, he was in trouble. At a point, the man had to let her leave the chambers.

    “She was supposed to travel abroad a day before she killed the man. She had already packed her luggage before she decided not to embark on the journey again,” the source said.

    TheNewsGuru had earlier reported that Udeme stabbed her husband, Otike, with a knife, ripping out his intestines.

    She was also said to have severed the penis of the deceased, placed it on his hand, and attempted to take her own life too but to no avail.

    The Lagos State Police Command, which confirmed the incident, said the victim had called a neighbour, his younger sister and mother on the telephone on Wednesday night, informing them of his wife’s threat to kill him.

    It was gathered that the duo’s three-year-old marriage that had not produced a child, was fraught with domestic violence.

     

    The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, said the suspect was still in the hospital under police watch and that investigation into the matter was ongoing.

  • Police Kill 11 armed robbery suspects during gun battle in Delta

    Police detectives and Anti-Robbery Squad at the Delta Police Command, Asaba, had in the early hours of Wednesday shot dead eleven armed robbery suspects during a gun battle with the suspects.” The battle reportedly lasted for several hours on Ogwashi-Uku-Ubulu-Uku Highway.

    The Police Image Maker in the state, DSP Andrew Aniamaka who narrated the incident to journalists in Asaba, said: “Our officers and men of the Anti-Robbery Squad ran into the armed robbery suspects around 5:30am operating along Ogwashi-Uku-Ubulu-Uku highway, they engaged the robbery suspects in a gun battle that lasted several hours, and the police gained the superior hand, killing eleven out of sixteen armed men, while the remaining five escaped with serious bullets injuries,” adding that the police were on the trail of the suspects with injuries who escaped into the bush.

    It was gathered that Ubulu-Uku-Ogwashi-Uku-Obior highway had been flash point of frequent robbery menace, and in most cases, unsuspecting motorists including pedestrian have been victims to these gun totting robbers.

    Investigation revealed that armed hoodlums had over times ambushed road users, particularly traders who travel between Ubulu-Uku and Umunede community in Ika North-East Local Government Area of the state for their businesses, most often, they are dispossessed of their valuables including money. But DSP Aniamaka, Police Image Maker in the state in a swift reaction said: “We have deplored our policemen to be patrolling the road, and ensure the hoodlums are brought to book,” disclosing that the corpses of the robbery suspects had been dumped at the Ogwashi-Uku Central Hospital’s Mortuary.

    A resident of Ubulu-Uku, Festus Osakwe who confirmed the incident as an eye witness, told DAILY POST that the police detectives acted swiftly to the distress call, by engaging the armed robbers in a gun duel.

  • EXCLUSIVE: Victim’s sister details how Danish man killed his Nigerian wife, 4-yr-old daughter [Audio+Graphic photos]

    EXCLUSIVE: Victim’s sister details how Danish man killed his Nigerian wife, 4-yr-old daughter [Audio+Graphic photos]

    More facts have emerged on how Danish citizen, Peter Nielsen Allegedly killed his Nigerian wife, Zainab Ali-Nielsen, popularly known as Alizee and her 4-year-old daughter, Petra in Lagos yesterday.

    In an interview session, Madaki Gift who is the younger sister of the deceased, attested that she heard the victim screaming for help before she was killed.

    The audio of the interview which was exclusively obtained by TheNewsGuru.com reveals that, there was no obvious altercation between Alizee and her husband before the killing took place, as she reportedly served him dinner before they went to bed.

    She said, ‘My name is Madaki Gift I am Zainab’s sister, the late Zainab who died. It just happened over night when she finished preparing the food for her husband . The housemate went to her room and I was the last person to leave the kitchen. So after a while , there was a fight between both of them and she was just shouting “Help Help!!

    “I woke my junior sister up asking her if she heard any noise, later I saw the man hitting her head on the floor. I tried to help but he locked everywhere, there was no way for me to run and call people to come and help.

    “This was around 4am In the morning, by the time we got there later in the morning she was dead.”

    Recall TheNewsGuru.com reported yesterday that the Police have arrested the suspect and commenced an investigation to unravel the motive behind the murders.

    The bodies of Alizee and her daughter have been deposited at a mortuary.

    The Kogi-born singer was reportedly signed to an Asian record label, Petra Entertainment in 2017.

    It was learnt that the record deal package included a brand new Ford explorer, a house in Banana Island and international distribution with affiliates of her record company in Asia.

    Meanwhile, the late singer’s record label has issued a statement urging the Nigerian Immigration Service to be on the alert.

    The statement partly read, “Petra Entertainment Limited has received with shock news of the sudden demise of our artist Nielsen Zainab Joy (Aged 29) and her daughter Nielsen Petra (Aged 4) at their Banana Island, Lagos home on the 5th of April 2018. The late Nielsen Zainab Joy (also known as Alizee) was a Nigerian citizen married to Nielsen Peter Schau a Danish citizen resident in Nigeria.

    “While we exercise restraint in making public comments on the circumstances surrounding the demise of Alizee and her daughter, – in order not to prejudices on-going police investigations – it has become important to correct some misinformation presently circulating in the media space.

    “We call all law enforcement agencies to speedily unravel the circumstances surrounding the demise of these vibrant Nigerians and bring all complicit persons and/or entities to justice. In the light of reports suggesting that Alizee’s husband may be under police investigation in connection with these painful deaths, we particularly call on the Nigerian immigration Services to remain vigilant at this time and urge the cooperation of all foreign missions in the country. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the relatives of the late Zainab and Petra.”

    Before her death, the singer had been scheduled for the ‘Kingmaker Concert,’ a musical event to be headlined by Alterplate Music Company artiste, Harrysong.

    A native of Kogi State, Nigeria, she was set to promote her January 2018-released single, ‘Alhaji Musa’, before the alleged murder.

  • Lagos student, four others killed as police, hoodlums clash in Mushin

    Not less than five people including a student and a policeman were feared killed in cult-related violence in Mushin area of Lagos on Monday and yesterday.

    Two traders were killed inside Ladipo International Market on Monday evening by suspected cultists. A policeman, a hoodlum and a pupil died during a clash at Idi-Oro area in Mushin.

    The pandemonium was reportedly occurred after police team raided a shop on Elegba Street, where some hoodlums sold hemp. The hoodlums attacked the policemen with broken bottles and stones in retaliation.

    One of the affected victim

    The cops, who retreated, reportedly returned with reinforcements and engaged the hoodlums in a gun battle.

    TheNewsGuru.com learnt that the police shot tear gas canisters into Ansar-Ud-Deen Secondary School.

    A witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the police shot tear gas canisters into two private secondary schools –Ansarudeen Comprehensive College and Amazing Grace Secondary School – where some pupils were choked.

    A pupil of Amazing Grace, Samuel Okechukwu, who was asthmatic, reportedly died.

    The source said, “The police had been raiding Akala and Idi-Oro for some weeks now and carrying away bags of hemp. The hoodlums believe that the police resell them. They had been planning to fight back.

    “Last night (Monday), a man on Elegba Street took delivery of hemp worth N7m and the police got information about it. Around 11am, the policemen, led by the Area Commander, Area D Mushin, Akinbayo Olusoji, headed for the shop and seized the hemp.

    “The residents, who had been enraged by previous raids, mobilised and launched an attack. They threw stones, broken bottles and other items at the policemen.

    “The policemen returned with reinforcements. Three people were shot dead. They fired two tear gas canisters into Ansarudeen Comprehensive College on Alhaji Lasisi Street and another one entered into Amazing Grace Secondary School on Elegba Street. Many of the pupils were affected. A boy died in Amazing Grace.”

     

  • Four killed in Rivers communal clash

    Four persons were reportedly killed on Friday evening when two communities in the Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State clashed.

    The two communities; Gwara and Gwure, were said to have fought over the alleged abduction and rape of a girl from Gwara by youths from Gwure community.

    It was gathered that the girl was kidnapped and raped when she went to the neighbouring community to visit her grandmother.

    An indigene of one of the warring communities told newsmen that houses were razed in Gwure by the Gwara youth in a reprisal.

    He said, “We have called in security agents to stop further attacks in Gwure. This fight is unnecessary. Some youths attacked one another and I cannot say the exact reason for the clash, though someone said it has a link with the kidnapping of a girl.”

    The Gwure youth leader, Famous Kpakue, called on the local government council to call on more security operatives to quell the crisis.

    Reacting to the incident, the Chairman, Caretaker Committee of Khana LGA, Gbene Zini, said the communal clash led to the killing of four persons.

    Zini, who spoke shortly after meeting with leaders of the warring communities, said security had been beefed up in both communities.

  • How 15 Rivers residents returning from church were killed in New Year’s day attack

    New Year celebration turned tragic in Rivers State as gunmen opened fire indiscriminately at people returning from the church in the early hours of Monday where they had gone to usher in the New Year.

    The incident occurred at Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni (ONELGA) Local Government Area of the state.

    The police spokesperson in the state, Omoni Nnamdi, who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said it was difficult for the police to give the exact number of people killed in the shooting.

    The rampaging gunmen were suspected to be militants working for a man the military described as “a notorious kidnapper, militant, cultist, ardent illegal oil bunkerer”, Mr. Igwedibia Johnson, aka Don Waney, who is on the run, following the raid of his camp and shrines on November 20, last year, as part of 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt’s continued efforts to rid the Niger Delta of criminals.

    Crude oil and gas-rich Omoku hosts the Federal College of Education (FCE) Technical, many multinational oil firms, oil servicing companies and other establishments, but most of the commercial banks in the ancient town have been closed for months, in view of insecurity, without the hope of the bankers returning to the city.

    According to a report in The Nation, an indigene of Omoku, gave details of how the 15 worshippers were gunned down but would not want his name in print, to avoid his being trailed by the criminals, said as the Christians were leaving their various churches on January 1, the gunmen were spraying them with bullets at close range.

    The source said: “Since 2014, when the crisis started in Omoku and its environs, over 500, mostly innocent people, have been killed.

    “I am calling on President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Nyesom Wike to take immediate action to secure the lives and property of residents of Omoku and its environs, especially with the forthcoming primaries of political parties and general elections.

  • BREAKING: 15 killed as gunmen invade Rivers community

    Not less than 15 persons were killed in Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State by a group of gunmen.
    The assailants, who raided the town in the early hours of the New Year, are suspected to be working for a former militant leader, Don Nwanee.
    The State Police Command said it was aware of the development but details were still sketchy.
    Details soon…

  • Police parade man who raped, killed corper in Ogun State

    A driving instructor, Festus Udoh, has narrated how he raped, killed a 23-year-old National Youth Service Corps member, Miss Modupe Kawose, into a bush at Mawuko, in the Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State.

    He said he raped and strangled her in the bush.

    Kawose had registered in a driving school, Lizzy Driving School, while the suspect worked with the outfit.

    The suspect was paraded at the scene of the crime on Thursday by the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Iliyasu Ahmed.

    Udoh said the victim called her on Saturday, demanding her learner’s permit, and he told her to join him at Lafenwa in Abeokuta.

    The suspect said when the victim arrived, he told her that he had resigned from Lizzy Driving School, and that she should follow him to the place where the learner’s permit would be processed.

    He said, “We boarded a vehicle and later took a motorcycle to Iberokodo. We alighted at a junction near the bush.

    “She was surprised and she asked, ‘is this where you live?’

    “I said yes, and as we entered the bush, I told her that I wanted to have sex with her, she said no.

    “I dragged her into the bush and raped her. Afterwards, she told me that she would report me to her family. It was at this stage that I tore her clothes and used them to strangle her.”

    The state police boss said the command’s operatives commenced investigation when it received a ‘missing person’ letter from the state coordinator of the NYSC, Mr John Okoh.

    He said, “At the end, we nabbed Udoh.”

  • BREAKING: Fulani herdsmen kill three policemen in Adamawa

    At least three policemen are feared killed in Bolon in Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State, North East Nigeria.

    The incident occurred after a clash between suspected herdsmen and the security personnel sent to keep the peace in the area following recent clashes between the herdsmen and farmers.

    The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, had dispatched a team of policemen to the area after the initial violence.

    The suspected herdsmen were said to be planning a reprisal on the communities in Numan LGA before Friday’s clash with the security operatives.

    Details soon…