Retired Police Boss Kills Self, Wife And Son In Ogun State

A retired assistant commissioner of police, sunday isokpehi, who at one time served at the lagos state police command anti-robbery squad, on saturday september 20th, killed himself, his wife gladys and their son at their sango ota, ogun state residence after a heated argument with his wife. According to reports, the former police boss and his wife began fighting when they returned home from a wedding on saturday after he accused her of disgracing him at the wedding by getting drunk. The woman reportedly denied being drunk and before anyone could stop the couple, they started fighting. Seeing that his wife was overpowering him, the retired police boss went for his pump action riffle and shot his wife and then shot their son who had been trying to separate them. Seeing the gravity of the crime he’d committed, isokpehi reportedly turned the gun on himself. After the unfortunate incident, neighbours told police that the couple fought regularly. Confirming the sad incident, the ogun state police spokesman, olumuyiwa adejobi, said the bodies of the all three have been deposited at the hospital for autopsy. He said the police will carry out a detailed investigation.

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US soldier beats his 2 year old Daughter to Death

20 year old Texas soldier, Dartarious Graham, (pictured centre) has been charged with capital murder after his 2 year old daughter Peyton was found unresponsive with ‘suspicious’ injuries in his home in Fort Bliss, Texas. According to police, the young father beat his 2-year-old daughter to death after he became upset that she had soiled her diaper. They also arrested Graham’s cousin Robert Franklin, 19 (pictured left), for witnessing the attack and not doing anything to help the little girl. The child’s mother Elizabeth Graham, 23 (pictured right) was charged with injury to a child by omission for no protecting the child and failing to report the abuse which had been constant before the fatal beating… According to reports, Graham, who is a US army specialist, became very angry after his daughter soiled her diaper. He then took her to his room where he beat her for several minutes with a belt. According to police, his cousin Franklin saw him take the child to his room, looked through the door and saw Graham beating the little girl but did nothing to stop him. He reportedly walked back to the sitting room to watch TV. Franklin later told police that Graham continued to attack the girl until she became limp. They called 911 in panic and Peyton was transported to El Paso Children’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead an hour later. The police learned the father had a history of beating the child and nobody ever did anything to protect her. All three are being held in El Paso County jail. Dartarious Graham could face the death penalty or life without parole if convicted.

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Boko Haram kills 9 In Borno

Members of the dreaded terrorists group, Boko Haram on Sunday killed nine people in a popular market in Monguno village, Borno State.

Vanguard reports that the attack which also left ten people injured with bullets wounds occurred at about 3p.m. it was reported that the insurgents who disguised as customers stormed the market in broad day and started shooting at the traders.

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According to a trader, who gave his name as Mallam Abubakar Ali Monguno, the terrorists were believed to be on a target mission as they shot at selected traders before eluding the scene of the attack.

“When they stormed the market, they shot at my neighbour, before proceeding to other shops as they were much selective in their operations” he said.

He said several petty traders who scampered for safety abandoned their goods during the shooting, and later returned to get them.

DSP Gidoen Jubrin, the state police Public Relations Officer could not be reached for confirmation but another senior security personnel, who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed the incidence.

“Yes, some suspected members of Boko Haram sect launched an attack on Monguno village market killing nine persons and injuring about 10 others currently receiving treatment in one of the treatment centres in the state. Already security operatives have been drafted to the scene and normalcy has since been restored in the area” the source said.

READ ALSO: Boko Haram Members In Konduga Surrender Weapons

Meanwhile, Monguno is about 100 kilometres away from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital that had witnessed relative peace for almost a year ago after failed attempt by the terrorists to destroy the military barracks in the area.

The blood thirsty group on Sunday, September 21, 2014, also attacked another market in Borno State, where the reportedly killed over 20 people.

It would be recalled that last year, 54 people including 24 vigilante youths (Civilian JTF), 14 Shuwa Arab herdsmen and 16 civilians were killed by suspected Boko Haram members in three different Local Government Areas of Monguno, Damboa and Nganzai in Borno state.

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Photo: Police hunt man who killed siblings, hacked two in Edo state

The Edo State police command has launched a manhunt for 50 year old Mike Okeze, for allegedly hacking two children to death and viciously attacking two others.

According to a report by Punch, Okeze stormed the home of his neighbour, Oliver Udeh, last Wednesday September 17th in Okha II community, off Old Sapele Road in the Ikpoba-Okha LGA of Edo State, and attacked his children with a machete. He killed Udeh's two children, Destiny (3years) and Samson (6years). He then attacked two other children, Goodness (4years - pictured left) and Gift (8years - pictured right). He severed Goodness' arm and tore the nose of Gift. Continue...



According to the Edo state Police spokesman, Noble Uwoh, Okeze, who is currently on the run, attacked the children inside their home after he had a disagreement with their mother, Chinyere Udeh. He said Okeze immediately fled the scene but a manhunt has been launched by the state Police command

“The suspect murdered the two children in his neighbour’s apartment, following a misunderstanding between him and the Udehs. The man actually had a misunderstanding with the wife and the man went to her house and murdered a six-year-old boy and another three-year-old boy. The same suspect went ahead to inflict injuries on two other children of that woman who are currently undergoing treatment, while two corpses have been deposited in the mortuary. The injured ones are Gift Oliver, eight years, and Goodness Oliver, four years. The suspected killer fled the scene, but investigation is ongoing and efforts are being made to locate and arrest the man. We have launched a manhunt for him.” he said

Speaking about the sad incident, Oliver Udeh, who hails from Enugu state, said Okeze was initially going to attack his wife, Chinyere, but when she ran to get help from Neighbors, he descended on their young children

“The man attacked four of my children with a cutlass. Two died, while the remaining two are at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital. I have six children. My other two boys and my wife escaped from the man. The corpses of the two who died are at the Stella Obasanjo Hospital, Benin. It was my wife that he wanted to kill. But she ran away to call our neighbors. When they arrived at my house, he ran away into the bush and we have yet to find him. I didn’t have any problem with him. But my wife told me that he hated my children. So, when I traveled, he attacked my family with a cutlass and killed two of my children.

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Boko Haram: Shekau impersonator killed by Nigerian troops?

The Nigerian military may have recorded a major victory in the war against Boko Haram as the man suspected to be mimicking late Abubakar Shekau in recent videos from the sect, may have been killed during the September 17th battle in Konduga, Borno state.

A senior military source said "it is getting more certain that the terrorists' commander who has been mimicking Shekau in those videos is the one killed in Konduga on September 17."

Sources at the image making company of the Nigerian government, PRNigeria, say the death of the man believed to be the leader of the group is responsible for the scattering of the sect members in different independent locations in neighboring countries.


Security sources did not deny the suspicion but cautioned that "the process of confirming that the dead body we have is the same as that character who has been posing as Shekau is ongoing. He is definitely a prominent terrorist commander. I don't want to say anything about this yet please."

Another high ranking military source said that the resemblance between the man killed and the one seen in recent videos posted by the sect group is quite striking, citing his facial marks, beards and teeth as some of the striking resemblance features.

Military officers say the Defence Headquarters will address the nation after a full investigation of their latest discovery has been done.

Meanwhile the Defense headquarters say five members of the sect group surrendered their arms to the Nigerian troops yesterday, pleading for mercy. They said some captured members of the sect group are helping with useful information regarding future planned attacks by the sect.

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Schoolboy, 15, may have accidentally hanged himself with school bag while swinging in trees

[caption id="attachment_2938" align="aligncenter" width="306"] James Jones may have accidentally hanged himself with his school bag while swinging from branches in woodland near his home in Salford, Greater Manchester[/caption]

James Jones may have got tangled in the cord of his bag, inquest hears Schoolboy, who had skipped class that day, enjoyed swinging in trees  He was found by a dog walker and pronounced dead at the scene on April 28 Model pupil had written a note saying he was ‘fed up’ and ‘don’t be sad’ Coroner says ‘something horrible went wrong’ in the tragic accident A boy of 15 may have accidentally hanged himself with his school bag while climbing trees. James Jones is feared to have become tangled in the cord of the bag as he clambered through branches in woodland near his home.
The teenager was playing truant from school and a note suggesting he was feeling depressed was found in his pocket, an inquest heard. But the coroner said his family were convinced James did not intend to take his life. He recorded a verdict of misadventure and blamed the tragedy on ‘youthful exuberance’. James, of Clifton, Salford, was said to be an ‘exemplary student’ at Harper Green High School in Farnworth, Bolton, excelling in art and also pursuing hobbies including chess, sailing and scuba-diving. He could read and write Japanese. His family said he had a ‘heart of gold’ and was a hard-working, polite, conscientious boy. But he was also a fearless tree climber and loved nothing better than to play, high up in the branches, his sister Ashleigh, 21, said. Tragedy struck on April 28, on James’s first day back at school after the Easter holiday. He left to go to school as normal only to slip away to Clifton Marina and Country Park. His mother, Wendy, 43, a care co-ordinator, had no idea James had skipped classes until he was not home by 6pm. Thinking James would be at his friend’s house, she and her husband Barry, 43, were preparing to go there to check when a policeman knocked on the door to say their son’s body had been found by a dog walker. Schoolbooks were strewn around the surrounding area and a note was found in James’s pocket which said he was ‘fed up’ and wanted to leave all of his possessions to his younger brother. But Mrs Jones told the hearing in Bolton: ‘I don’t think he tried to take his life. ‘James had also written “don’t be sad”, but he scribbled that out. ‘I think he was trying to swing up in the tree and got caught. He would never see any danger. ‘He used to jump into the river and say, “It’s not very deep”.’

[caption id="attachment_2940" align="aligncenter" width="634"] The schoolboy is thought to have accidentally hanged himself from a tree in Clifton Country Park, Salford[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2941" align="aligncenter" width="634"] The tragedy struck in the park on April 28, James’ first day back at school after the Easter holiday[/caption]

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Very Graphic: See Pics of Boko Haram Militants Killed by Nigerian Troops

Just got these exclusive but very graphic photos of Boko Haram members killed by the Nigerian troops at Konduga in Borno this week. The pic above is the new CS/VP3 MRAP that was recently purchased. It aided in the victory of the soldiers over the insurgents. Find the pics after the cut…but warning biko, it is very very graphic…

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SCOAN Collapse Is Just Human Sacrifice - Ghanaian Pastor

A Ghana-based pastor has claimed that the recent loss of lives in a guest house of the Synagogue Church that collapsed one week ago could be due to the TB Joshua’s quest for promotion in the spiritual realm.

The pastor, Isaac Owusu Bempah of Glorious Word Ministry International (GWMI) in Accra, Ghana, was talking during a recent interview with Ghanaian morning show, Okay Fm.

[caption id="attachment_2655" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Rev Owusu[/caption]

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Owusu said: “This is evil hands at work because I know people who have to make human sacrifices in order to be promoted in the spiritual realm… I know some people will vilify me for making this known.”

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He said this wasn’t the first time and recalled the killing of 4 persons who died when TB Johsua came to Ghana for a program.

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He continued: “Look at what is happening to him. You came for a programme in Ghana and that led to the death of four people. You also woke up one day and a whole building collapsed, killing over forty people.”

Meanwhile, investigations are still being carried out to know the root of the collapse that has claimed at least 80 innocent lives.

TB Joshua and the church had claimed that it was a terror attack, revealing the video of an airplane flying over the building four times in within one hour before the building collapsed.

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Man Hacks Two Siblings To Death In Edo

A middle-aged man identified simply as Mike reportedly attacked four of his neighbour’s children, hacking two to death in Okha II village, off Old Sapele Road in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.

According to PM News reports, before the incident, the man who lives in the same building with the Olivers, had a long-standing quarrel with his neighbours.

On Wednesday evening, 17 September, Mike unleashed terror on the family. He hacked two of the children, Favour Oliver, 3, and Destiny Oliver, nine months to death with a machete.

The assailant was said to have attacked two other children of the family, Gift, 7, and Goodness, 5, severing their nose and wrist, respectively before fleeing the scene of crime.

READ ALSO: Amaechi’s Cousin Was Cut To Death With Machete

The two children who sustained injuries were reportedly rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Ugbowo, and are said to be in a critical condition.

Medical doctors at the Accident and Emergency Ward of the UBTH described their condition as “stable but critical.”

The father of the children identified as Mr. Oliver, from Enugu State, was said to be away from home when the incident occurred, while the mother had fled for her life.

Confirming the incident, the spokesperson for the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police, DSP Noble Uwoh, told Punch correspondent on telephone that the suspect murdered the two children in his neighbour’s apartment, following a quarrel between him and the Olivers.

 

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High ranking Boko Haram member captured, 60 members killed by military

A high ranking member of terror group, Boko Haram, was yesterday September 17th captured by the military after a failed attempted attack on Konduga in Borno state. The sect members actually made a second attempt into Konduga after the military celebrated its victory against them yesterday afternoon. The captured terror leader is currently at a military facility where he is receiving treatment.

In a related development, one soldier was killed after an ambush was laid by the sect members in Benishek, Borno state. Four motorcycles were captured from the terror group after the attack. See the tweets after the cut...

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Lesbian Woman Executed for starving Girlfriend’s 9yr Old son to Death

Davontae Williams (right) who had been beaten and bound, and whose body bore more than 250 scars when officials discovered him on July 26, 2004. He had also been starved, weighing a mere 35 pounds at the time of his death.



Witnesses said Coleman appeared to be at peace with the execution on Wednesday telling her jailers: ‘I’m ready. I know where I’m going. I’m not bitter, just ready’. She then smiled and blew kisses at the supporters gathered at her execution and said ‘God bless you all’. Her last words were directed at her fellow inmate, Darlie Routier. ‘Tell them I finished strong.’ Coleman was given a lethal injection at 6pm and was pronounced dead at 6:23pm. No one showed up to represent the victim, Davontae.

She is the sixth woman to be executed in Texas since 1982. The last woman put to death was Suzanne Basso on February 5 of this year.

Davontae’s mother and Coleman’s former girlfriend, Marcella Williams (pictured left), is currently serving a life sentence for his death, after reaching a plea deal.

Williams, who was just 14-years-old when she gave birth to Davontae, had been investigated by Child Protective Services seven times between 1995 and 2002. In 2002, they lost track of  the family.

Prosecutors in Coleman’s case used the charge of kidnapping to justify asking for the death penalty.

According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, they argued that Coleman ‘did not allow Davontae to have visitors, kept him from visiting others by restraining him and told people he was not at the apartment when he was there.’

The young boy’s ultimate cause of death was malnutrition.

Paramedics who arrived on the scene after it was reported the child was having trouble breathing found him dressed in nothing but bandages and a diaper, and reported that the boy had clearly been dead for several hours.

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Ebola: Rivers, FG Clash On School Resumption Date

The Rivers State government and the Federal Government have clashed over the September 22, schools resumption date as the state government insisted that schools may not yet resume.

According to Vanguard, the state commissioner for Health, Dr Sampson Parker, who made this known on Wednesday, explained that schools in the state may not resume because of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD.

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The commissioner also revealed that currently, there were about 340 persons under surveillance in the state. He said they want to be certain that the situation had been completely brought under control before schools would be allowed to resume.

In a related development, Nicholas Brunet, the Deputy Managing Director, Total E&P, Port Harcourt district, who donated an ambulance and two pickup trucks to the government on behalf of the oil company, described the outbreak of EVD in some West Africa countries as a big challenge to the world.

Meanwhile, Daily Independent had earlier reported that the commissioner for Health, Sampson Parker, said the state government, in collaboration with Emergency Operations Committee (EOC) on Ebola in the state, has earmarked a whooping sum of N1 billion to combat the dreaded Ebola virus disease in the state.

READ ALSO: EBOLA: My Survival Story – Dr. Ada Igonoh Recounts Ordeal

The EOC comprise state Ministry of Health and international partners, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and Centre for Disease Control (CDC).

Meanwhile, Dan Nwomeh, the Special Assistant on Media and Communication to the Minister of Health in his tweets below confirmed that Ebola Virus has been brought under control in Nigeria.The deadly Ebola virus was brought into the country by the late American-Liberian Patrick Sawyer. It would be recalled that Federal Government had earlier announced that primary and secondary schools across the country should resume academic activities on 22 September, 2014. The disease has so far killed seven people across the country. The Nigerian Ministry of Health on September 2, 2014, announced the death of an elderly woman who contracted the deadly virus in Port Harcourt, while on admission in the same hospital wherelate Dr Enemoah died.

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Graphic Photos: Dead Bodies Of Babies Discovered In Benin City

Residents of 2nd East Circular Road, Benin City, Edo state capital on Wednesday morning, discovered the dead bodies of three babies abandoned along the road.

PMNews reports that two out of the three dead bodies which had already started decomposing, was wrapped and ‎put in a cardboard box under a palm tree along the busy road, while the third baby, a girl of about a year and two months old was found 30 meters from the others along Uwa street junction.



Residents and passersby were seen gathered ‎around one of the dead bodies, giving different accounts of the inhuman act.

In a reaction, one Victor Imonitie, who said he resides on East Circular road, suggested that it was time government set up a team to be monitoring young pregnant women across the country.

“I think the government should begin registering all pregnant women in the country and monitor them for at least two years after giving birth, because any of these young girls getting pregnant indiscriminately could do such things,” of the Nigerian police attached to Esigie Division later arrived the scene to evacuate the decomposing corpses.

Meanwhile, a 35-year-old woman named Esohe Ogbeiwi was allegedly roasted by her ex-lover, Peter Osayi to death in Edo state after a dispute.

It would be recalled that on June 17, 2014, a 29-year-old woman was on September 11, 2014, arrested by the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences for faking pregnancy which she used in deceiving people and soliciting for alms.

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Mum drowned toddler son before jumping with older child to their deaths

A suicidal 24 year old mum drowned her 2-year-old son in their family home before going to a rock in Dartmoor and plunging 100ft to her death - with her five year old son on her back. Read the full story from the Mirror below...

Katherine Hooper and five-year-old son Joshua Patterson were killed when they fell between 80-100 feet from Lowman Tor at Haytor Rock on Dartmoor last July.

When police later went to her family home in Paignton, Devon, they discovered her youngest son Sam dead in a double bed.

An inquest at Torquay, Devon, heard that a suicide note was found by police hidden within a book on a shelf at her home. It was not dated but detectives believe it was written a couple of weeks before the tragic triple deaths.

A coroner has ruled that Kat, as she was known, killed herself but unlawfully killed Joshua. He returned an open verdict on toddler Sam.

The hearing was told after a Dutch holidaymaker sent police a photo which showed Kat and Joshua on the rock in the moments before they fell to their deaths.

And other foreign and local people saw the death fall and had witnessed Kat moving closer to the edge of the drop from the granite rock with Joshua having a ‘piggy back’ ride on his 24 year old mum’s back.

Kat and Joshua both died from multiple injuries, suffering head and neck wounds which rendered them unconscious before they died.

But a pathologist was unable to ascertain what killed Sam.

The South Devon coroner Ian Arrow said: "I am not certain that I can record drowning as his medical cause of death.”
Mr Arrow said Sam ‘probably died well before’ the day his mum and older brother fell to their deaths and he said Kat and Joshua had left their home ‘in a hurry’ after he died.

A Home Office forensic pathologist Dr Russell Delaney said Sam’s death was ‘suggestive of drowning but not diagnostic’.

He said there was no evidence that Sam had been smothered but a bath half full of water was found by police.



Detective Sergeant Andy James, from the Major Crime Investigation Team, said on Friday, July 12th, police received reports from members of the public of two lifeless bodies being found at the bottom of Lowman Tor near Bovey Tracey, Devon.

He said people climbing on the famous Haytor Rock saw a woman with a young child which was not that unusual.

But he told the inquest: ”They seemed to be precariously close to the edge of the rock.”
He said one witness looked at them but felt they were intruding and although unnerved by the situation they ‘let them be’.

A German holidaymaker said Joshua was ‘on the back piggy back style walking slowly to the edge’ before sitting down.
They did not intervene because no one appreciated what was going to happen, he said.

The inquest heard from her father Peter Hooper, a Dartmoor builder, who said in his statement that his daughter was a ‘lovely, caring person’.

He said she met 52 year old Neil Patterson when she was 17 and had the two boys with him.
He said by Christmas 2012 ‘a little bit of the spark had gone’ from Kat and a week later she took an overdose of pills and went missing.

The two boys were taken into care and were returned to her two weeks later.

Mr Hooper said what happened in July was ‘a complete shock’ when she jumped off the rock killing Joshua and herself.
He said when he last spoke to her on the phone ‘she sounded alright’.

Police at the time said they know Kat and Joshua had left their home the day before their deaths and slept rough near a quarry overnight.

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Nigerian man dies after jumping off 3rd floor during drug raid in India

A 35 year old Nigerian man named Obyeka Anwanbukwa suspected to be involved in drugs peddling died on Saturday September 13th after jumping from the window of a third floor flat from a high rise (pictured above) during a drug raid in Akash Bhavan in th eBhaunagar area of Pimple Gurav in India

According to reports, a joint team of India's Narcotic Control Bureau, NCB, and some police officers, stormed the apartment where the deceased and his other Nigerian friends were staying around 8 on Saturday night and while being interrogated, Obyeka allegedly ran off and jumped from the 3rd floor of the building. He died of his injuries a few hours later. Continue...

"He tried to flee when asked about his involvement in drug peddling and jumped out of the window. He suffered injuries in the legs and other parts of the body and was immediately rushed to the Aundh District Hospital. After primary treatment, doctors declared him to be normal and the NCB team left for Mumbai with him. However, he complained of feeling unwell, following which he was brought back to the hospital, where he died during treatment around midnight," SPI Saifan Mujavar of the Sangvi Police station said.

His Nigerian friends are demanding for a thorough investigation into the cause of his death. A Nigerian, Bob Frany said "Police should submit his autopsy report to the Nigerian Embassy and also investigate the matter properly,"

Indian Police has however registered a case of accidental death under Section 174 (police to inquire and report on unnatural death) of the Criminal Procedure Code in India.

His body is presently at the Sassoon General Hospital and a post mortem is expected to be done on him today.

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Synagogue Church: We Issued No Approval For Additional Structure - LASG

 After Fridays sad collapse of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) building at Ikotun Lagos, officials of the Lagos State Government have said the building did not have approval for additional structures.

When the horrid collapse occurred on Friday, 17 people were reported to have lost their lives, but officials have confirmed the loss of 44 innocent souls in the collapse.

As rescue continues,it is said that many might still be underneath the rubble.

The church has officially declined to comment on the number of dead and insisting no one died in the collapse.

Lagos state governor, Babtunde Raji Fashola paid a visit to the scene yesterday and has demanded for a total inquiry into the mysterious collapse.

[caption id="attachment_1802" align="aligncenter" width="800"] 13 Fulani Herdsmen Killed In Taraba[/caption]

However, Government officials have said that they did not give the Synagogue Church of All Nations approval to add additional stuctures on top of the original plan.

Part of Fashola’s entourage to the scene, Commissioner for Physical Planning Olutoyin Ayinde demanded that the church’s engineers have been asked to present their permit to add additional structures on top of the collapsed building.

He said: “Our meeting with the prophet was a closed-door meeting but it surrounds the collapsed building. It is a sad situation; lives have been lost and many others have been rescued.
“We use this opportunity to express our sympathy to the affected people.

We have no proof that the church had permit to add to the existing structure. We have asked the engineering team to meet us and for about two hours now, no member of the team has come.

“We also have questions for them. Even if the building does not have approval, it ought to be built professionally. We have asked for their team and we hope in the course of the week, they would get to us.

“It is necessary to take the final inventory before we can say the number of people affected. Right now, we do not know how many people are involved. When a final inventory has been taken, the ministry of special duties will take a decision as regards relieve,” he said.

When asked if the Lagos State Government had already made plans to seal the surrounding premise, Ayinde said: “There are no plans for that yet until investigation as to the cause of the collapse has been concluded.

“I have said I have no proof of a permit. Maybe they have one and are yet to show us. We will give them the opportunity to defend themselves and action can only be taken after investigation has been concluded.”

Also Lagos State Building Control Agency, Mrs. Abimbola Animashaun revealed that the church had no approval.

She said: “We have investigated and found that they had no approval for the additional structures. Even the main church, which they have added about three floors on, was sealed two days ago, but it is now open.

”You cannot have an existing building and start putting up more buildings on it. Before you can do anything like that, you must confirm that the structure is still stable and can stand additional buildings.”

Accordin to the Nation, the collapsed building had only been approved to have only three storeys, but engineers had added an extra three storeys and due to this, the building has been vibrating for some time now.

It is said that over 200 people who were in the building most of these individuals eat in the basement while labor workers were on the sixth floor.

READ ALSO: TB Joshua Video: Details Moment Building Collapsed

National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Red Cross, medical personnel from the state and federal governments and Lagos State Building Inspection Agency are still at the site and working on the rescue mission.

Laborers on the sixth floor were said to be cutting rods, planning on making another floor.

The officials have rescued already about 130 people alive and 44 dead from the sixth floor and the basement, both floors are the only areas the workers have been able to access.

NEMA’s Southwest spokesman, Ibrahim Farinloye said: “We were able to work overnight and so, as at now (6pm), we have 130 rescued alive and 44 dead. Nobody can say what caused the collapse. But from the footage shown to me, where all the foundation of the building was shaking before it caved in, it could have been caused by the additional structure.
“Investigations will confirm what really happened. You can see that some of the beams and blocks are still intact. So, some of the permutations cannot be ruled out.
“We are working on worst case scenario that the foundation might have been weakened, which would have led to the collapse.”

A guest house belonging to the Synagogue Church in Ikotun, Lagos had collapsed last Friday, September 12, 2014.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed the death of 44 people after the building collapsed.

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BREAKING: Boko Haram Kidnap 50 Women In Adamawa

 Reports coming in states that Boko Haram fighter have reportedly kidnapped hundreds of people including women and children across Northern Adamawa State.

According to Daily Trust, Residents who got free and ran away said that the group kidnapped at least about 50 young women in Gulak town on saturday as the victims were assembled at a preaching ground.

READ ALSO: Boko Haram Attack Maiduguri Market, Kill Traders

Boko haram has been controling the areas of Madagali, Gulak and Michika, damaging lives and properties in the area.

One man known as Tija told reporters that he was trapped in a village near Gulak before his subsequent escape on Sunday.

READ ALSO: Nigeria Army Aircraft Used Against Boko Haram Lost

He said that the women were loaded on to several vans and then taken away.

He said: “Some women brought the news that Boko Haram forcefully took some of them away including a sister in law to a friend of mine. The situation is getting worse by the day, our hope is that this problem will end one day”.

READ ALSO: Obasanjo Pays Visit To Wounded Son In Jos

A resident of Husra village in Michika Local Government Area, Musa Uba said : “They conducted preaching sessions to attract converts to their sect but people only listened out of fear.

 

READ ALSO: Army Has More Sophisticated Weapons Than Boko Haram’

They next day they asked if anybody wanted to join them but there was no response, so they selected many healthy looking young men and asked them to go with them. One of the victims is my relative who did body building exercise regularly.

A politician in the area named Maina Ularamu said: “the information I have is that they selected some women and locked them in the local government Secretariat”.

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Insurgency: Nigerian Soldier Narrates Ordeal

A Nigerian soldier (name withheld) involved in the war against the dreaded terrorists group, Boko Haram in Maiduguri, Borno State capital on Friday revealed that the sect will continue to thrive because of the happenings in the Nigerian army.

Vanguard reports that the soldier in an email sent to them, said he is attached to the Multinational Joint Task Force located in KauKirie Section 3 Baga, insisted that the army lacks modern equipment to fight terrorists, and pointed out saboteurs among others as factors stalling the fight.

The soldier who said he joined the Nigerian army less than three years ago with the purpose of defending Nigerian territory and sovereignty against both external and internal aggression warned that more soldiers will continue to desert the army due to low morale.

Giving account of their battle with Boko Haram, the soldier said after six months training, troops were drafted to Maiduguri to engage insurgents. He said he was initially enthusiastic about fight the bloodsucking demons that have caused innocent Nigerians pains without a just course.  He said not quite long in Borno, himself and his colleagues realized that they were in a different army from the one they thought they had joined, because it was highly politicised, demoralised, lacks discipline and did not weapons to fight.

He therefore listed some of the major challenges hindering their operations to include lack of intelligence gathering and increasing cases of saboteurs in during assault. He recalled an incidence when their driver refused to take a particular route that we ordered to ply; he said they did not argue when he took the decision, which was what saved their lives as they found out the next day that terrorists had laid ambush waiting for them. He said the militants angrily killed every civilian that passed that route on that day after waiting for them.

The soldier further revealed that on July 31, 2014, Boko Haram attacked their camps, killed two of the colleagues, set the camp ablaze, while 19 soldiers were declared missing. He said all the soldiers ran away from the scene, before they were later rescued by Chadian soldiers.

According to him, seven soldiers came back to base while 12 were confirmed dead.

“As I write this, their corpses have not been recovered. In fact, they were left unburied and left to decompose like animals” he said.

He said the incidence killed the morale of soldiers, which had resulted to increased deserters every day. He said those of them yet to desert were surviving by the grace of Almighty God. He said bullets are rationed to soldiers to go and fight highly equipped terrorists with state of the art weapons. He said his gun and that of some other soldiers had locked severally in battlefield, and noted that political leaders and Military hierarchy were gambling with the lives of soldiers.

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“They are just sacrificing our lives for nothing. On several occasions, when we go for operations and come under heavy attacks, when we call for reinforcement, there will not be any, and if they decide to send, it takes several hours if not days.  We have been having problem with intelligence gathering since we came here.  It is absolutely difficult to use non-Northerner for intelligence gathering because of unwillingness of the indigenes to cooperate” he said.

The soldier said most of his colleagues from the area are sympathetic to Boko Haram, and stated that the terrorists may continue to have the upper hand in the war because of the operational problems he had earlier mentioned.

Meanwhile, the unknown soldier revelation is contrary to the statement issued by Col.Timothy Antigha of the Nigerian Army Public Relations Directorate, who claimed that the soldiers morale were very high.

It would be recalled that on August 20, 2014, BBC reported that Nigerian soldiers were nolonger willing to risk their lives in the fight against the dreaded Boko Haram sects until they are provided with better and more sophisticated equipments, while the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.- Gen. Kenneth Minimah had earlier revealed that some soldiers had abandoned the force over fear of  being killed by Boko Haram.

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Photos: Lagos-Ibadan expressway Accident Claims Innocent Lives

Nine innocent souls including a child lost their lives this morning at the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

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According to eyewitnesses on  the scene, they reported that two Mazda cars had collided with a Petrol Tanker which then exploded.



 

The Nigeria Fire Service, police and Federal Road Safety Commission have immediately reported to the scene of the crash and are said to be managing the horrid situation.

The fire service has put out the fire but traffic at the area is still at a standstill.

The Federal Road Safety Commission has reported on the situation through their facebook page.

They have reported that the run away driver of the Volvo trailer with registration No: XN350AGL belonging to BHN Logistics said to have been responsible for the crash has been apprehended.

The run away driver was caught about 10km from the scene of the crash, the truck has been impounded and the driver will be charged to court later today.

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Amaechi’s Cousin Was Cut To Death With Machete

A cousin of governor Chibuike Amaechi, Sabinus Ordu, has been murdered in his home town, Ubima, in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the State, according to the Rivers Police Command.

The State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Ibim Semenitari, who confirmed the incident to Premium Times in Port Harcourt on Friday, said Mr. Ordu was Amaechi’s uncle. However, he is a senior cousin because they share same grandfather.

According to Mrs. Semenitari, the mutilated body of Mr. Ordu, the vice principal of the Community Secondary School, ALUU, also in the local government, was found on Monday night.

On September 8, the deceased had gone to inspect his trap in the bush during which his assailant cut him with machete to death. It could not be ascertained immediately if the killing was politically motivated.

“Late Mr. Sabinus Ordu, who is an uncle (senior cousin) to Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, returned home in the afternoon from CSS, ALUU, where he is the vice principal and told the boy staying with him that he was going into the bush to check his traps.”

“He then mounted his motorcycle and left for the bush but did not return until it was night. At about 8.00p.m, the boy raised an alarm which attracted the villagers. A search party was sent to look for him,” Mrs. Semenitari said.

Mrs. Semenitari added that on the way into the bush the search party saw the victim’s motorcycle by the bush path, and went into the bush where they found his lifeless body, mutilated with several machete cuts.

The commissioner said the matter has been reported to the Elele Police Division and that Mr. Ordu remains have been deposited in a private mortuary.“The matter has been reported to the Police at Elele while the body has been deposited at the morgue.”

“It is worrisome because Ordu was a peace loving man, a school principal and the entire Amaechi’s family has been thrown into deep mourning,’’ she said.

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