Author: oduduwanews

A three-member of a gang; armed with guns had stormed the station in the early hours of the day and dispossessed staffers of phones, laptops, ATM cards, and other electronic gadgets.

The Union in a statement by its Chairman, Demola Babalola condemned the invasion of the station and called for a probe of the attack.

Not only that, the NUJ called on the Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko to swing into action with a view to fishing out the gang to forestall a future recurrence on other media houses in particular and general public in general.

According to Babalola, “the attack on Fresh FM came to the NUJ as a rude shock. Here is a station that has been globally applauded for its rich content and pro-masses agenda.

“The rascals who carried out such an heinous crime against Fresh FM and inflicted hardship on the staffers of the station must be apprehended without much ado.

“I hereby call on the Commissioner of Police to set up a high powered investigative team of detectives to ensure long arm of the law catches up with those intruders.

“This is to also appeal to the management of Fresh FM under Evang. Yinka Ayefele and my colleagues not to allow this development affect their contributions to nation building and good work they are doing for a better Oyo State and Nigeria as a whole.

Leaders of a Christian fellowship, Chidi Samuel and Paul Zakari, are undergoing interrogation at the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Eleweran, Abeokuta, Ogun State after they were arrested by state police command in connection with the death of a member, 20-year-old Okumazor Favour, whom they also buried secretly without the knowledge or consent of her parents.

Before Favour’s death, she was said to have been very sick without her parents being informed.

Briefing journalists about the suspects’ arrest, the state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, said that Samuel and Zakari took seven youths away from their parents to an isolated area in Oyan Village via Imala for what they claimed to be Bible study and fellowship.

“While in the isolated area, one of the youths, whose parents have reported missing at Ibafo police station, fell sick and later died. The suspects, who refused to let the girl go when she fell sick secretly, buried her in a shallow grave within the village,” the police commissioner disclosed.

He added that it was one of the youths who escaped from the group that informed the deceased‘s parents, leading to the suspects’ arrest.

It was learnt that the person who accommodated the fellowship members was not informed of the lady’s death. She had reportedly returned home one day and asked about Favour, but was told that she had returned to her parents, unknown to her that she had been buried after she died.

Three of the group members were said to have engaged in the secret burial.

In an interview with Saturday Tribune, 32-year-old Samuel narrated his side of the story: “Im from Abia State but living at Alamo, Magboro. I am a pastor at Lifebuilders Network. It is a ministry not a church, and it’s about youth programme, evangelism and Bible study.

“In October 2021, we went for a programme at Oyan Village in Imala town to engage in Bible study and prayer. The journey was supposed to last for six months. We had done about four months when we got sick. We managed ourselves but one of the girls we came with got so bad. With the little money we had, we took her to hospital but she died.”

According to him, the nurse who treated her said that she had typhoid, malaria, and anemia.

On whether her parents were informed about the journey, Samuel replied in the affirmative, saying that the invited youths called their parents when they got there. However, he admitted not calling the deceased’s parents when she was sick.

“We tried our best. It was a spiritual attack, but our mistake was that we did not call her parents,” Chidi stated.

He also said that the second mistake made was in burying the deceased without her parents’ knowledge.”

The second suspect, 39-year/old Zakari, from Idoma in Benue State, and a member of the fellowship, said that he found the place they stayed in Oyan Village because the fellowship needed a quiet place to avoid distraction.

“I didn’t have any bad mind. We didn’t force any of the youths to follow us. They followed us willingly with the consent of their parents. We were there studying the Bible and praying. When Favour became sick, we took her to the hospital but were told she was dead as she was short of blood. We took her back home and started praying to God for her to come back to life, but nothing happened. Out of fear, we decided to bury her there. We didn’t tell the person in whose house we were staying because we didn’t want to put her in trouble. I know we didn’t do the right thing and I’m not proud of what we did. We are very sorry,” Zakari said with remorse.

ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that a suspected internet fraudster died shortly after he underwent money rituals in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State about three weeks ago.

Peter Albert’s death was a tragic turn of fate. The 20-year-old suspected internet fraudster had longed for the good things of life but lacked the means to acquire them.

To achieve his desires, he sought the counsel of one of his friends, an 18-year-old simply identified as David, who introduced him to a Muslim cleric, Alfa Araokanmi, for a money-making ritual that eventually terminated his life instead of transforming him into an overnight millionaire as assured by Araokanmi.

According to sources, Albert, who lived with his father in the Asore area of Atan, and his friend, David, who lives with his parents at Iju, both in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State have been friends for a long time and attend the same church.

Exasperated by his unsuccessful rounds in internet scams, Albert reportedly asked David to help him become successful at internet scams. He craved success as a Yahoo Boy.

In response, David allegedly attributed Albert’s poor outing in cybercrime to some spiritual problems, and he promised to link him with his spiritualist, Araokanmi, to whom he attributed his success as a cyber fraudster. David explained to Albert that there was more to his success than meets the eye and that Alfa Araokanmi was behind his fortune in an internet scam.

Thus David introduced Albert to Araokanmi aka Alfa Wa in the Iju area of Ado-Odo/Ota LGA. “David linked the boy (Peter Albert) to one Alfa Araokanmi, who promised to do some propitiation that would make the boy become a successful internet fraudster.

“They actually started chatting on Whatsapp until the boy later visited Alfa Araokanmi for some money rituals leading to his untimely death,” the source said.

Expatiating further, the source said that Araokanmi told the deceased that he would ingest concoctions and bath at midnight for some days after which he should expect a ghost that would give him a sum of N5 million every day.

ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that some yet-to-be identified armed robbers invaded and attacked Fresh FM Ibadan few minutes past 6am while Gospel Tunes program was still live on air on Sunday morning, April 10, 2021.

According to Abolade Salami during his programme, ‘Agbo Oselu’, the armed robbers came around 6am with fire arms and stole from members of the staff on duty.

According to report, valuable things like phones, laptops, ATM cards, others were carted away during the day time robbery.

The Fresh FM family came into existence, 6 years ago, and ever since then it has expanded its tentacles to Ogun state, Ekiti state, Lagos state, Osun state, Ilorin, Ondo while it recently added urban station Blast 98.3 FM in Ibadan.

Fresh FM Nigeria is owned by the ace tungba maestro and a media mogul in Nigeria, Dr. Yinka Ayefele MON.

It is another blackout in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Katsina and Jigawa States after the national grid collapsed on Friday evening.

At least three Distribution Companies (DISCOs) confirmed the development via their respective social media handles, informing their customers of the situation in their respective domains.

They include Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc (AEDC), and Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO).

The power outage is also experienced in some parts of Ibadan but as the time of filing this report the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company IBEDC yet to make official statement on it.

While their various updates, they blamed the outage being experienced by consumers in various states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on a general system collapse that occurred at about 6:30pm and 8:50pm

Ogun State government has debunked the video being circulated on some social media platforms that bandits have taken over Ogere-Remo forest in the state.

The video, claimed to have been recorded by drones, and which is 2 minutes 50 seconds, showed some men cooking on a fire in a bush.
But in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Ogun State governor, Kunle Somorin, described the video as fake and not recorded in any forest in the State.

Somorin said the video was nothing but another ploy by enemies of progress to create a wrong impression that the state is unsafe. A fact check on the said video, according to the statement, was that of the General Service Unit(GSU) drone which captured armed cattle rustlers hiding in thicket with stolen livestock on April 4 in Kenya, East Africa and the bandits who were seen making breakfast tried to shoot down the drone when they noticed it was recording them.

He, however, wondered how some persons whose stock-in-trade is spreading fake news and raise false alarm, imploring the people to see the video as another feeble attempt to smear the good records of Governor Abiodun-led administration while noting that Ogun, under the leadership of Governor Dapo Abiodun, has not only been adjudged as the safest state to live in, but most serene to conduct businesses without fear.