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  • 23-year-old UNILAG student shot dead by armed robbers

    23-year-old UNILAG student shot dead by armed robbers

    A 23-year-old student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) identified simply as Adekunle, was shot dead by armed robbers while trying to retrieve his friend’s stolen phone.

    The incident happened at Harvey Road, Moore Road Junction, in the Yaba area of the state on Saturday, June 3, 2023.

    According to Punch, Adekunle and his school mate identified simply as Opeyemi boarded a shuttle bus from Yaba to UNILAG, and while in the vehicle, a man, who was hanging at the back of the bus, dispossessed Opeyemi of her iPhone 7 plus.

    Opeyemi raised the alarm and Adekunle, in a desperate attempt to retrieve the phone from the robber who jumped down from the bus and fled, pursued him.

    Realising that Adekunle was closing in on the suspect, one of the hoodlums suspected to be working with the fleeing suspect appeared from nowhere and shot the student.

    Speaking with the publication on Monday, June 5, an eyewitness who does not want his name mentioned for security reasons, said the robber’s accomplice shot Adekunle in the head, adding that the undergraduate died on the spot.

    “The incident happened on June 3 around 9pm. What happened was that someone shot the deceased at a close range on the left side of his head and he died on the spot. An ATM card found on him bears the name Adekunle,” the witness explained.

    “Later on, we gathered from a girl that gave her name as Opeyemi, who claimed to be a student of Business Administration, UNILAG, that she and the deceased, whom she knew as a student of UNILAG, boarded a shuttle bus from Yaba and were heading to UNILAG when she got dispossessed of her iPhone 7 Plus by a thief hanging at the back of the bus,”

    She said the deceased attempted to help by pursuing the robber but in the process, another group of persons came out and one of them shot him at a close range on the left side of his head and he died on the spot.”

    It was gathered that policemen, who arrived at the scene later, evacuated Adekunle’s corpse and deposited it at the morgue of the Mainland Hospital.

    The spokesperson for the police in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident said the command had commenced an investigation to track down the suspects behind the attack.

    “The deceased was a UNILAG student. The suspects are being trailed for possible arrest and the command has contacted the victim’s relatives. The case has been transferred to the SCID, Panti, for discreet investigation,” he said.

  • Slain female BRT passenger, Bamise finally laid to rest in Lagos

    Slain female BRT passenger, Bamise finally laid to rest in Lagos

    The late Bamise Ayanwola, who died after boarding a blue Bus Rapid Transport  (BRT) scheme, in February has been finally laid to rest.

    Her remains was buried at the Atan Cemetery, Yaba, in Lagos on Friday.

    Recall that Bamise was declared missing and subsequently found dead after boarding the BRT bus from Lekki to Oshodi, her lifeless body was found days later.

    A BRT driver, Andrew Ominnikoron, has been fingered concerning Bamise’s death, he’s presently facing charges bothering on Rape and murder of the deceased.

    Ominnikoron was in charge of driving the BRT bus Bamise boarded on the fateful night.

    Bamise had done a video and sent through WhatsApp to her friend, relating how the  driver refused to pick other passengers on the road.

    It was gathered that she  contacted one of her colleagues at work, Felicia Omolara, to inform her about her suspicion and she was advised to disembark from the bus.

    Omolara, however, noted that when her friend no longer responded to her chats on WhatsApp, she called her phone number, adding that when she picked up the call, a man was heard arguing with Oluwabamise.

    However, the driver had claimed that himself and Bamise were held captive by some unknown persons on the blue BRT .
  • The death of Pentecostal Assembly, Yaba, Lagos – By Femi Aribisala

    The death of Pentecostal Assembly, Yaba, Lagos – By Femi Aribisala

    “You snakes! You brood of vipers!” (Matthew 23:33).

    As a young believer, I was appalled at the cutthroat politics of a church I joined, all revolving around the pastor. After some time, I found it necessary to confront him. I went to see him, as Nathan did with David. (2 Samuel 12).

    I told him my boss at work was a big problem. He knocked heads together and stoked up conflicts. He was the epicenter of every crisis. Would he suggest I resign and look for another job?

    The pastor advised me to resign. He said there was no point in my staying there. He was confident I would have no difficulty in getting another job.

    Then I said to him: “You are the man.” (2 Samuel 12:7). I told him I was not talking about my office but about our church. The church was acrimonious and dysfunctional, and he was principally responsible for this.

    The pastor was taken aback. He listened to me respectfully and promised to make amends. But soon, we were back to square one.

    Revelation knowledge

    Some weeks later, I embarked for personal reasons on a 100-day fast. I had a burden for the church and God revealed certain things to me. I shared this with the entire church.

    As God would have it, they asked me to minister during one of the monthly vigils, so I told the church everything. The Lord confirmed His word with signs. He asked me to minister to everybody individually, and He gave me a word of knowledge for everyone present.

    The very first person was an elderly man, and I knew instinctively he was covered in Juju. The Lord asked me to give him the microphone so he can tell the entire church what he had done.

    The man confessed that he had been to a Babalawo who covered him with “spiritual protection.” God told me to remove this false covering with my bare hands and warn him never to return to the juju man: “Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.” (Jonah 2:8).

    But by the following Sunday, there was an uproar in the church. Someone had fully briefed the pastor on the miracle service and the revelation God gave me that he was the principal troublemaker in the church.

    But rather than repent, he opted to save face. He informed the church that I must have been suffering from demonic possession. Some people were told to conduct deliverance on me in an upper room. But when they did, I confounded them by becoming drunk in the spirit.

    They then summoned me before church elders who wanted to know why God would choose to talk to a spiritual novice like me.

    One of my inquisitors was the same elderly man who the Holy Spirit had revealed was covered in witchcraft during the service. He now insisted that I must have been demonically inspired. “Why,” he asked, “would God talk to a nobody like Femi Aribisala?”

    I offered a simple solution: “Let us fast and pray for three days and God will confirm the same things by revelation to others.” The chairman of the group agreed. They resolved we should all fast for three days and see what the Lord would reveal. But someone quickly rushed to inform the pastor about the decision.

    Therefore, he crashed the meeting and declared that no one in the church could fast and pray without his permission. The meeting ended in disarray. Some wanted to fast, others insisted we must obey the pastor.

    Afterward, I was confronted in the hallway by a prominent businesswoman in the church; one of the celebrated “moneybags.” She was also an implacable ally of the pastor.

    Out of the blue, she started cursing me. I stood there watching as she cursed and cursed. Seeing I did not respond, she suddenly stopped cursing and started weeping uncontrollably. At that point, I became even more confused. I walked away and headed for my car in the parking lot.

    Lepers’ colony

    Thereafter, I was treated like a leper in the church. The pastor and his allies serially attacked me every so often from the pulpit. My first reaction was to leave the church, but the Holy Spirit prevented me from doing so. Instead, He directed I must attend every church activity without fail.

    This was most uncomfortable because the attacks did not let up. Someone taking Bible study would stop mid-stream and ask the church to pray for Femi Aribisala “so that demons would stop disturbing him.” The Holy Spirit would tell me to get up, go to the aisle, and kneel. Church members would then stretch out their hands towards me and cast imaginary demons out of me.

    This went on until the next monthly vigil. This time, the pastor took no chances; he ministered himself. But some thirty minutes into the prayer meeting, the Spirit of the Lord took control of the daughter of the woman who rained curses on me. She fell into a trance and prophesied.

    Seeing who it was, the pastor stopped the proceedings. He handed over the microphone to her and received the shock of his life. The Lord started speaking through the lady and He was rebuking the pastor for all his shenanigans in the church.

    Once I noticed what was happening, I jumped up from my seat. I started running up and down the aisle, shouting: “I told them, Lord. I told them, but they did not believe me. They said I was demon-possessed.”

    When the woman finished, another lady asked for the microphone. She reminded the pastor that she had been in his office that morning to tell him the same things. The Lord had told her that, if care was not taken, very few people in the church would inherit eternal life.

    The pastor retrieved the microphone practically in tears. He pleaded for forgiveness and promised to make amends. He said again and again: “You won’t go to heaven without me. You won’t go to heaven without me.”

    I thought that was strange. It sounded like he would not allow us to go without him. How, I wondered, was he going to prevent us?

    However, by the next Sunday service a day later, the pastor had changed his mind once again. He came to church this time in full regalia, which was unusual. He had on the cloak, the cap, the whole nine yards of the pastorate. “Nobody,” he declared, “is going to take this church away from me.”

    Le denouement

    A guest minister from Ibadan who came to minister at the church came to see me in my office. I do not know how he got my details. He told me I could now leave the church. I took it that the Lord sent him to me. At a convenient time, I took my leave and left.

    Within two years of my departure, the church scattered. Everybody ditched the pastor. Today, Pentecostal Assembly, Yaba, Lagos, a church of over 1,000 souls, no longer exists.

    Jesus says: “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?” (Matthew 23:33).

     

    (Excerpt from Kingdom Dynamics: Why Pastors Don’t Go To Heaven by Femi Aribisala.)

  • BREAKING: Lagos WAEC office gutted by fire [VIDEO]

    BREAKING: Lagos WAEC office gutted by fire [VIDEO]

    The building housing  the West Africa Examination Council, (WAEC) in Yaba area of Lagos State has been engulfed in an inferno.

    The fire outbreak happened in the wee hours of Wednesday.

    An eyewitness account in a radio programme in Lagos  said a staff of the council trapped in between some floors was observed attempting to jump through the windows of the 12-floor magnificent building to escape being suffocated.

    The cause of the inferno  which started at about 6.50 am, was yet to be ascertained as of 7.15 am. The fire had broken out at the middle of the high-rise building as those trapped in the building were seen frantically calling for help.

    Report says that  operatives of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service and other emergency responder are presently at the scene trying to put out the fire,

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  • LASG to prosecute developer of Onike building collapse

    LASG to prosecute developer of Onike building collapse

    The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it would press charges of negligence against Mr Gboyega Bello, the developer whose actions caused collapse of building under construction at Onike, Yaba in February.

    Mr Mukaila Sanusi, Spokesman for Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, said that the Commissioner, Dr Idris Salako, made this known during a review meeting in Alausa on Tuesday.

    Five people were killed in the incidence.

    Salako said the developer was “culpable for disregarding the due process in building construction in Lagos State”, because he began building without Planning Permit and Authorisation from the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA).

    He also blamed Bello, an engineer, for not taking insurance for the building as required by law as well as ignoring contravention, stop-work and seal up notices served by LASBCA.

    “The owner of the building obtained Planning Permit well after commencing construction while he also failed to submit the structure for stage-by-stage inspection and certification, being the statutory methodology to ensure that the developer builds right,” he said.

    Salako said the developer deceived the regulator by feigning compliance by leaving the construction site only to return secretly to break government seal on the property and continued building.

    Salako said LASBCA used its regulatory expertise to get the developer, already in police custody, to provide a letter in which he signed to guarantee quality or pay compensations for error, design fault or omission resulting in any structural failure.

    The commissioner said the state government would ensure the case is seen to a logical conclusion to serve as deterrence to all recalcitrant property owners and developers.

    He added that government was still looking for the owner of the building who had been identified as one Mr Sodeinde Olumuyiwa Soyode.

  • Death toll in Lagos collapse building rises to 4

    Death toll in Lagos collapse building rises to 4

    One more dead body was on Sunday morning recovered from the three-storey building that collapsed in Yaba area of Lagos, bringing the total casualty figure to four.

    Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Zonal Coordinator South-West, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), confirmed the development on Sunday.

    Farinloye said that out of the two survivors of the collapsed building, only one of them was actually trapped while the second person, a teenager, escaped by a sheer luck after he complained of hunger.

    He said that the building collapsed few minutes after the teenager left the structure to go and buy food.

    The NEMA Zonal Coordinator added that residents of the area mobilised resources to rescue the only survivor from the rubble.

    Farinloye said that the operation has been concluded.

    He said that rescue and recovery operation was carried out by NEMA, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, the fire service and the Police.

    The three storey building on Saturday collapsed at No. 16, Akanbi Crescent, off Adesina Street, Harvey, Sabo, Yaba area of Lagos, trapping five persons.

  • [UPDATED] Lagos building collapse: Death toll rises to 3, 2 rescued alive

    [UPDATED] Lagos building collapse: Death toll rises to 3, 2 rescued alive

    One more dead body has been recovered from the three-storey building that collapsed in Yaba area of Lagos on Saturday afternoon.

    This raised the death toll to three, while the number of rescued persons remained two, just as rescue efforts are still on.

    Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Zonal Coordinator, South-West, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), confirmed the development to newsmen on Saturday night.

    Farinloye said that the building was said to have given signs with rubles falling from it on Thursday.

    “It was gathered that when one of the neighbours called their attention to it, they told him off that it was as a result of work going on.

    “However, close observations revealed that the building had tilted forward,” Farinloye said.

    The Zonal Coordinator, however, said that proper investigation on the case of the collapse will be carried out by the state government.

    This, he noted, is to determine the cause of the collapse after the emergency phase at the site.

    The three-storey building collapsed at No. 16 Akanbi Crescent, off Adesina Street, Harvey, Yaba area of Lagos, trapping about five persons.

  • LASG divert traffic at Yaba axis for Red Line phase 1

    LASG divert traffic at Yaba axis for Red Line phase 1

    The Lagos State Government said it would be diverting traffic from Yaba as it continues the First Phase of the construction of the Red Line railways covering Oyingbo to Agbado from midnight Feb. 1, to Feb. 16, 2022.

    In a statement by the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, said the diversion was in line with the Lagos Rail Mass Transit project.

    Oladeinde averred that the two weeks long site activity would necessitate a diversion to protect road users during the installation of precast beams.

    According to the diversion plan, motorists heading to Muritala Mohammed way from Western Avenue will be diverted to Empire Road at Jibowu while traffic inbound Yaba will be diverted to Empire Road to access Western Avenue.

    He explained that in the same vein, motorist on Herbert Macaulay road would be able to connect Empire Road to access Western Avenue for their desired destinations.

    The commissioner assured that the site would be cordon off for the safety of the citizenry, adding that emergency vehicles would be on ground to tow mechanical faulty vehicles along the axis.

    He also stated that signage’s would be placed on the access roads with the State’s Traffic Management Authority to manage traffic flow and minimize inconveniences.

    The State Government reiterated its continuous commitment towards the development of transport infrastructure within the metropolis, maintaining that it is vital for the Multi-

    Modal Transportation System of the State Government which would in turn boost the economic prowess of the citizenry.

  • Usifo Ataga: Chidinma to face murder trial before high court

    Usifo Ataga: Chidinma to face murder trial before high court

    A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday ordered that Chidinma Ojukwu charged with murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super Television, Mr Usifo Ataga, should face trial for murder at the Lagos State High Court.

    The court also ordered that one Adedapo Quadri and Chidinma’s sister, Chioma Egbuchu, found in possession of Ataga’s iPhone 7, should face trial for possessing stolen items.

    The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Adeola Adedayo, gave the order following legal advice from the the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

    The advice is to the effect that there is a prima facie case of conspiracy to murder, murder, conspiracy to commit forgery, making of documents without authority and stealing, against Chidinma.

    In the advice dated Aug. 20, the DPP recommended that Chidinma’s sister, Chioma Egbuchu, who was found in possession of Ataga’s phone and had refused to release it, should be tried at the high court for being in possession of a suspected stolen item.

    The DPP said: “After careful consideration of facts available in the case file, this office is of the view that a prima facie case of conspiracy to murder, murder, forgery, making of documents without authority and stealing, contrary to Sections 222, 233, 363, 379 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos, 2015, has been established against Chidinma and two others.

    ” Facts available also established against Chidinma, the offence of having possession of things reasonably suspected to have been stolen, contrary to Section 329, of the Criminal Law of Lagos 2015.”

    The magistrate, however, discharged Chidinma’s father, Onoh Ojukwu as well as one Babalola Disu, one Abayomi Olutayo and one Ifeoluwa Olowu, based on the DPP’s advice.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the police had on Aug. 9, prayed the court to remand the suspects to enable the police to carry out further investigations into the case.

    The court had granted the request and ordered that Chidinma and Adedapo Quadri should be remanded for 30 days.

    The police had also docked Chidinma’s father, Onoh Ojukwu, and four others for obstruction of justice.

    Ojukwu, 57, and Babalola Disu, 42, were charged with obstructing the police from performing their duties and failing to report a crime to the police.

    The others – Chioma Egbochi, 28; Abayomi Olutayo, 23, and Ifeoluwa Olowu, 23 – were accused of dishonestly receiving stolen items.

  • Yaba, Costain bridges to give way for speed train

    Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Wednesday threw his weight behind the demolition of the Yaba and Costain bridges to pave way for the on-going construction of the bullet train (speed train) by the Federal Government.

    The governor confirmed that he inspected the two bridges with the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi on Monday and approved the demolition of the bridges to accommodate the standard gauge.

    Ambode spoke in his office while playing host to captains of industries who had come for the 11th town hall meeting and 10th year anniversary of the Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF).

    The governor said he had refused to approve the demolition before now, because the extent of the project and its impact on the bridges were not disclosed.

    He assured Lagosians that adequate measures would be put in place to manage the traffic that would come with the demolition, adding that the constructions may begin next month.

    He said: “You would have read the reports that I had agreed with the Minister of Transportation on the need to demolish two bridges and there’s need for clarification on what these meant. The affected bridges are – the steel bridge at Yaba, for which I have been assured a new one would be constructed and that would begin around the old Fela Shrine and fly over the old area to land at WAEC. This would have taken the traffic away from the level crossing and make the track safe for the speed train.”

    He said the other bridge at Costain is the small bridge that crossed from Iganmu, landing in front of the National Stadium.

    This, according to Ambode, would also pave way for the standard gauge as it moves into Apapa where it is expected to terminate.

    “The old bridge has become too low, almost like a road and there’s need to create more headroom for the kind of train they plan to bring to operate the tracks. Rather than going straight, the new bridge will curve a little, about 300 metres,” Ambode said.