17 year old girl, boyfriend fakes her kidnap

Identified as Seun Adekunle, a 17 year old girl has been arrested for faking her own kidnap with her boyfriend in Ogun State.

Seun was arrested alongside her boyfriend, Basit Olasunkanmi who is 25 years of age. Their arrest happened after her mother, Bukky Adekunle, filed a report at Enugada police division.

In the report which was made on the 4th of June 2020, she said that she sent her daughter to Lafenwa market since the 1st of June 2020 and she has not returned since then.

She stated further that she received a call from someone two days later who claimed to have kidnap the girl and demanding for the sum of N500,000 as ransom.

The woman said that the caller warned her not to make the mistake of reporting to the police if she still needs her daughter alive.

However, a technical and intelligence based investigation led the police to the hideout where the girl and her boyfriend were hiding and pretending to be with kidnappers.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the boyfriend, who is a butcher, was the one who brainwashed Seun and lured her into the plan because he needed money.

Man remanded for raping 7 month old daughter

A 38 year old man has been remanded in Makurdi Correctional Centre. The man who was identified as Simon Emeka was arraigned for allegedly raping his seven-month-old daughter, Prosper Emeka.

The ruling was made by a Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, on Friday.

When the case came up for mentioning, Police Prosecuting Officer, Friday Kanshio, informed the court that on June 1, one Josephine Habba of No 34 Modern Market Road, Makurdi, went to the Nigerian Police Force ‘D’ Division Makurdi and lodged a complaint.

She said that on the same date, she went to Jestic Hospital in Makurdi with her daughter for treatment and she heard one Favour Emeka crying and telling a nurse that her seven-month-old baby girl named Prosper Emeka was raped by her husband.

He said during Police investigation, the said Simon Emeka was arrested for committing the crime which is contrary to section 391 and 284 of the penal code law of Benue State.

No plea was taken for want of jurisdiction. However, the accused pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The Police Prosecuting Officer further told the court that further investigation into the matter was on and asked for another date to enable the prosecution to prove its case.

Magistrates Isaac Ajim agreed with the officer and ordered that the accused be remanded at the Nigerian Correctional Service.

He adjourned the case till August 31, 2020, for further mention.

Fire outbreak in Aso Rock

Aso Rock, which is the popular name for the Presidential Villa has experienced a fire outbreak. The incident which can be described as minor took place yesterday, Thursday, June 4, 2020.

The Presidency revealed that the fire broke out at a store close to the Aso Rock villa chapel.

President Muhammadu Buhari's senior special assistant on media and publicity, Garba Shehu said that the outbreak was triggered by an electrical spark, but was quickly contained. 

"The incident, linked to an electrical spark, was immediately brought under control by alert staff using available fire extinguishers well ahead of the arrival of the Federal Fire Service trucks stationed just outside the premises," Shehu said.

The president's aide noted that no injury or serious damage was caused by the fire.

Borno : Governor suspends entire hospital staff

We gathered that Ngala town liberated from insurgents in 2015 is the Headquarters of Ngala Local Government Area with an international land route into Cameroon, Chad, Sudan and Central Africa.

Zulum’s spokesman, Mallam Isa Gusau, in a statement said the development followed a surprise visit to hospital by the governor where he met only the NGO staff attaining to many patients mostly Internally Displaced Persons that besieged the hospital.

Gusau said those affected by the suspension included; doctors, nurses, pharmacists and laboratory technicians.

“The governor was disappointed to find out that inspite of the high turn-out of patients, not one of the many government paid staff, from doctors down to clerical staff, was at the hospital as at 11am,” Gusau said.

He explained that the governor was received at the hospital by the Field Coordinator of the fhi 360.

“This is a General Hospital belonging to Borno State Government, unfortunately there is no single state government staff here to attend to all these patients, and we promptly pay all of them salaries.

These humanitarian workers from the iNGO (fhi360) are supposed to complement the state government staff but not to completely take over the hospital.

I am directing the Borno State Hospitals Management Board, if there is any staff on the payroll of this Hospital, to immediately suspend all the workers on government payroll.

I will be back to this hospital, hoping to see the opposite of what I saw today,” Gusau quoted Zulum as saying.

While in Ngala, the governor also visited three schools and ordered the rehabilitation of classrooms destroyed by insurgents.

He also announced plans to resettle displaced persons in neighbouring communities of Logumani and Gajibo.

Kogi government not aware of third COVID-19 case

The Kogi government has denied knowledge of a third coronavirus case detected in the state. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced in its daily update that one new case was recorded in the state on Wednesday, June 3, 2020.

However, the state's Commissioner for Health, Saka Haruna, announced in a Facebook post on Thursday, June 4 that the patient is unknown to the state's authorities.

"We are not aware of who the patient is, where and when the test was conducted. No sample sent from KG (Kogi Government)," he said.

Kogi had similarly rejected the first two coronavirus cases which were announced as belonging to the state last week.

The cases were tested at the National Hospital in Abuja, after the patients were moved from Lokoja, Kogi's capital, after showing COVID-19 symptoms.

The state's Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, said during an interview on Channels Television on Thursday, May 28 that the declaration of the cases is fraudulent and fails a major credibility test.

"It's a backdoor declaration laden with a lot of fraud and falsehood.

As a state government, we completely reject such declarations because they do not even conform to the protocol set by the NCDC itself," he said.

Fanwo claimed the cases didn't show any coronavirus symptoms when admitted at the Federal Medical Centre in Lokoja.

He said all 13 contacts of the cases, a chief imam and his son, that had been located by the government all tested negative for the novel disease.

Despite the government's denial, Governor Yahaya Bello this week ordered 14-day total lockdown of Kabba-Bunu LGA where the cases were detected.

Nigeria has recorded 11,166 coronavirus cases in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

Kogi attack : Police on the search for bank robbers

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered a full-scale manhunt of an armed robbery gang that killed eight police officers and one woman in Kogi State.

The gang used a dynamite to bomb a police station in Isanlu community, Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi, on Thursday, June 4, 2020, killing the eight officers; and then proceeded to rob an old generation bank branch in the community.

During the attack on the bank, they killed a woman who had been there for business and then robbed the bank after gaining entrance with dynamite.

Many more civilians are reported to have been killed during the attack but an official death toll has not been announced yet.

In a statement released by the Police on Friday, June 5, IGP Adamu deployed a team of crack detectives from the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), the Special Tactical Squad (STS), and Federal-SARS to Kogi State to ensure that the criminals are apprehended and brought to book.

He also ordered the Assistant Inspector-General (AIG) of Police in charge of the Zone 8 Police Headquarters, Lokoja, Yunana Babas, to immediately assess and review the security arrangement in Kogi and surrounding areas so as to prevent any future occurrence of such an incident.

"The AIG is to personally oversee the ongoing investigations into the attack and coordinate intelligence that will lead to unearthing the whereabouts of the hoodlums and the circumstances surrounding the unfortunate incident," the statement read.

The IGP condoled the families of those who lost their lives in the attack, and called for calm in the community, and cooperation with authorities.

The vicious attack is similar to one that happened two years ago in Offa, Kwara when a gang of robbers attacked six banks and a police station on April 5, 2018.

Nine police officers and 24 others lost their lives during the attack that was partly masterminded by Michael Adikwu, a former SARS officer.

More than 20 suspects were arrested in connection to the attack. Adikwu died in detention before he could be charged to court with others.

Bolt Nigeria introduces Bolt protect

Bolt Nigeria has introduced a new ride-type in it’s platform dubbed “Bolt Protect”, meant to protect passengers and drivers against the spread of COVID-19 virus.

Vehicles under this new category will be fitted with protective plastic film of nylon installed between the passenger and driver seats acting as a precautionary barrier that limits the airflows between the driver and passengers thus reduces the possibility of the virus spreading through droplets expelled by sneezes or coughs from an infected person.

Bolt Protect is currently available to @Bolt_Nigeria customers in Lagos and Abuja, with plans to expand to more cities soon. Passengers are able to choose the new ride-type when they order a car in the Bolt app and will not pay an extra fare since the new category does not attract an additional base fare. The number of passengers in the new category is limited to 2 passengers per vehicle as mandated by government directives.

See why this man beat his 4 year old son into coma

A man who was identified as Tunde, has beaten his son, Ezekiel into coma. He has been arrested for beating his four year old son into a state of coma.

The body of the boy was reportedly filled with marks as at the time of the arrest. Tunde attributed the wickedness to the fact that the little boy passed excreta on himself.

According to reports from their neighbors, Ezekiel's mum and Tunde were married for a few years before she fled for her life due to being a regular victim of domestic violence in her own home.

We learnt from a neighbour that Ezekiel was always being maltreated by Tunde and his new wife. 

“Tunde married another wife and the woman always beats Ezekiel at every little provocation.

Nobody in the neighbourhood could stop Tunde from beating the boy because of his unruly behaviour,” the neighbor said.

Donald Trump defends his going to the White House bunker

President of the United States, Donald Trump has come out to defend his going to the White House bunker. 

There are reports making rounds that he he fled to the White House safe bunker during the protests over the death of George Floyd outside the White House.

Over the weekend, a lot of protesters gathered outside the White House to protest the killing of a black American, George Floyd by a police officer. 

We gathered that some parts of St John's Church which is situated beside the White House caught fire due to the protests.

According to reports, over 50 Secret Service agents were injured in clashes with protesters and Trump had to be rushed to the secret bunker for protection.

Trump has now said he went down to the White House bunker during the protests in Washington D.C. to inspect it and that he was not taken into secure shelter out of safety concerns.

Senator Nwaoboshi accuses Akpabio of getting N300m contract from NDDC

The chairman of senate committee on Niger Delta, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi has accused the minister of Niger Delta affairs, Godswill Akpabio of being awarded a N300 million fence construction contract from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

It was gathered that while Akpabio was still the senator representing Akwa Ibom north-west in 2017, he requested for a N500 million contract from the NDDC. 

Subsequently, Akpabio was reportedly awarded the contract of fencing Federal Polytechnic Ukana, Akwa Ibom (N200 million), and Federal Government College, Ikot Ekpene (N100 million).

We also gathered that Akpabio got N150 million for entrepreneurship training on the use of modern farming implements for youths and women of Akwa Ibom north-west senatorial district and N50 million for the renovation of a hostel at University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu state.

In an interview with journalists, Senator Nwaoboshi said that the contracts have been fully paid for but there was nothing to show for it. He said, 

“Findings show that while there was no physical evidence of implementation of these projects, checks show contracts were awarded and fully paid for. Such practices have turned the region to sites of abandoned projects.”