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ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that an Air Personality, Titus Badejo popularly known as Eja Nla has been reportedly shot dead by unknown gunmen in Ibadan.
Badejo, known for sports and other entertainment shows on radio was born on 13th June, 1987, and recently celebrated his 34th birthday seven days ago.
Eja Nla as fondly called, joined Naija FM from Space FM in November, 2020 was killed at a yet-to-be identified lounge in Oluyole.
Details later.
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, ex-Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode and other dignitaries attended 46th birthday celebration of Kogi State Governor, Gov Yahyah.
The pictures below are the snapshots taken at the event for photostory.
Earlier yesterday, there was an incident involving Dangote’s Truck crushing two people to death along Dangote-Ibeshe road in Yewa North Local Government area of Ogun which led to the convergence of youths in the area and subsequently set the truck on fire.
The Spokesperson, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident to the )) in Abeokuta on Saturday.
Mr Akinbiyi, quoting witnesses, said the truck driver drove recklessly, left his lane and faced the motorcycle, thereby hitting and killing both the rider and his passenger.
He said “An angry mob later set the Dangote truck on fire while the driver ran away.
“The case is being handled by the Dangote plant police post,” he said.
He noted that it took the intervention of the police and officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to calm frayed nerves and the situation.
The TRACE spokesperson added that the remains of one of the deceased had been deposited at Ilaro General Hospital morgue, while the other victim has been buried by the family members.
He commiserated with the family of the dead victims, while admonishing truck drivers to resist the temptation of reckless and dangerous driving and give consideration to other road users.
In January, another truck belonging to the company ran into some residents and students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, killing at least eight people.
ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that two members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti state have been reportedly suspended for allegedly having affiliations with the South West Agenda for 2023, a political group that is advocating for the presidential aspiration of a former governor of Lagos, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. According to the report, the affected members, Kayode Adetifa and Jide Oso, were APC members in Ward 9, Owaye Quarters, in Ayede Ekiti in the Oye Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.
The suspension was contained in two separate letters handed over to the party members. The letters accused them of working against the unity of the party in the state. The letters read in part: “We noted from your activities in the party in the recent past that you have been working against the unity of the party even to the extent of creating a parallel ward that you named “SWAGA” within the ward. “You sent in confirmation of your action through Mr Jide Oso, a former ward chairman on 16th May 2021 to the ward that you have created another venue for this purpose.”
The party’s spokesperson, Ade Ajayi, justified the suspension. He said disciplinary action was taken against the members because they were defying the party’s orders and dividing the party through their actions.
Meanwhile, a former Minister of Works, Dayo Adeyeye, has argued that the fact that the Southwest Zone has produced the president in the past won’t stop it from clinching the presidential ticket if the APC zoned the 2023 ticket to the south. It was reported that Adeyeye made the statement in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, June 15, during the official launching of the South West Agenda (SWAGA) 2023. The ex-minister argued that Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains the right man to succeed President Buhari.
The youth umbrella body of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State on Saturday, passed a vote of no confidence on the Youth leader of the party, Asiwaju Adekola Adeoye.
Adekola Adeoye according to his recent posts on social media, expressed his displeasure with Governor Seyi Makinde for not keeping to the promises he (Makinde) made to him before his victory at the poll in 2019. Reports from leaders and members of the party alleged Adekola of anti-party activities which they described as inimical to the PDP. He was said to have voted for Eddy Olafeso at the PDP zonal Congress held in Oshogbo, the capital of Osun State.
Meanwhile, Adekola Adeoye says he felt betrayed and disappointed after he had exercised patience for the needful to be done. Adeoye was present at the meeting of the aggrieved PDP members held at Jogor event.
However, the PDP youths are holding their expanded meeting at the party’s Secretariat, Molete, Ibadan. Their communiqué will be out after the meeting. According to a member of the party, the youth leader may be suspended.
Details later….
A former Ibadan North East/South East Federal Constituency Representative, Honourable Dapo Lam Adesina has called on the Makinde led administration to prosecute killers of Rahman Azeez, who was killed during a face-off between Phone sellers and members of Oyo State Park Management System (PMS) at Iwo Road, Ibadan.
Honourable Dapo Lam during his visit to the family of Rahman on Friday, 18th June 2021 expressed disappointment in how the Oyo State Government has been handling security issues which he pinpoints as the primary duty of a good government.
While he commiserated with the mother of the deceased, he urged her to be strong for other children especially the twins left behind by Rahman.
“Having heard from different people, Rahman lived a good life and I congratulate you this ma. I want to urge you to be strong for other children, especially the twins he left behind.
“I am not just a politician but a youth advocate. So on behalf of Ibadan youths, I want to use this medium to call on Governor Makinde to ensure that justice prevail. Killers of Rahman must be brought to book.
“More so, there has been a rumour that Rahman’s brother, Hammed was the target before the culprits could not get him. It is our duty now to speak up and let the world know this, nothing must happen to Hammed” he concluded.
Mother of the man allegedly killed by members of Park Management System (PMS) in Iwo-road, Ibadan on Wednesday, Alhaja Salimot Azeez and the entire family have called on the state government to hep them get justice.
Alhaja Salimot pleaded for justice on Friday while speaking with journalists in Ibadan.
She said the family has visual evidences where the leader of PMS in the state, Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi popularly called Auxiliary asked his members to attack traders in the complex.
It was reported that two people including Rahman Azeez were killed on Wednesday when members of the PMS attacked Iwo-road complex.
“They used to defecate and smoke Indian hemp in my complex when I newly bought it. They have been using that place for motor park for years.
“Former Commissioner of Police, Baba Adisa Bolanta intervened and resolved it that we should allow them to use a part of the entrance and I allowed them. Even our DPO at that time, Ilori took photographs of the way the commercial drivers were disturbing us to the Commissioner of Police and he resolved it amicably for us.
“Even with the fact that I gave them space, they were not satisfied. My child that was killed was a graduate. He graduated from Lead City University. My first born they attempted to kill graduated from a university in London. He said he could not do the kind of job people are doing in London and that was why he came back home.
“He has a shop where he is selling phones in the complex. He was never a cultist. He was a phone dealer. I don’t know what I did for Auxiliary that made him killed my son. He knows me and I usually give him something. I do give him whatever he ask from me. This is a great lost.
“A 37-years old boy was killed just like that. Government should help me to get those who killed my son. I want justice. I want to know the person that killed my son when he didn’t fight or drag anything with them,” Mother of the deceased said.
The elder brother to the victim who is also the manager of the said complex, Mr. Hammed Azeez while speaking on the incident said he was the main target of the members of PMS who killed his brother.
“I was the one they were after. If they were able to lay their hands on me that day, I wouldn’t have been here today. I don’t know why the man is still on the street now.
“By now, he should be in remand. That man is a dangerous beast. I don’t know why Oyo State Government should have made an ex- convict a leader of a group tormenting and killing people. What kind of system are we running?” he lamented.
The Lagos State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde has commisoned newly rehabilitated roads in Ikoyi, Lagos State.
The governor, while commissioning the roads yesterday said, his administration is cognizant of the fact that strategic investment in infrastructure is the foundation for long-term growth.
The governor in his statement further reads, “we equally understand that, provision of adequate road infrastructure will generate a strong economic base for improved productivity and standard of living, which will also attract investments and investors to our dear state.
“Bad road networks occasioned by incessant flooding plagued the ikoyi, Obalende parts of Lagos. This has caused untold hardship for residents and commuters in that axis.
“Earlier today, I commissioned the newly rehabilitated Thompson Avenue, Milverton, McDonald, and Lateef Jakande Road, all in Ikoyi.
The roads, which have a combined length of 3.75km, were in deplorable conditions, following failure of the aligning drainage channels.
“It is gratifying to note that, we have re-engineered and reconstructed these roads network for efficiency and improved traffic flow. We have also addressed perennial flooding in the area.
“To further improve traffic connectivity in Ikoyi, I approved immediate rehabilitation work on three other arterial roads in the area. They are Cooper Road, McPherson Road, and Queen’s Drive.
“It is worthy of note that similar regeneration projects are currently being carried out in other areas of the state, including Lekki-Epe, Victoria Island, Alimosho, Kosofe, Ojo, Lagos Island, Badagry, Ikorodu and Ikeja GRA”.
The Police command in Ekiti state has nabbed a 65-year-old man, Durodola Kayode Ogundele, of Ayetoro-Ekiti for reportedly having sexual intercourse through force with his 85yr old Step-Mother in her room.
A statement issued by the spokesman of the state police command, ASP Abutu Sunday, disclosed that the suspect, who is a son to the victim’s late husband, entered her room on June 15 to assist her in applying herbal medicine on her legs which he normally does due to her leg pain. ”The victim alleged that after applying the herbal medicine on her legs, the suspect forcefully had sexual intercourse with her twice.” the statement in part read Abutu added that the state commissioner of Police, CP Tunde Mobayo, has ordered the case be transferred to the State CID and be thoroughly investigated after which the suspect be charged to Court.
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has again reassured Lagosians that robbery in traffic will soon fizzle out and become a history in the state as the Lagos State Police Command has deployed its human and material resources to tackle the menace headlong.
The Commissioner of Police, while giving the assurance on Thursday 17th June, 2021, in his Ikeja office, confirmed the arrest of not less than One Hundred and Twenty Seven Suspected traffic robbers at various locations within Lagos State from March, 2021 till date; noting that the command has been fighting robbery in traffic relentlessly, even before the recent donation of crime fighting equipment and communication gadgets to the command by the Lagos State Government; and the fight against the menace will be intensified and more effective with the new equipment from the Lagos State Government.
CP Hakeem Odumosu asserted that robbery in traffic has drastically reduced based on the available empirical figure of the isolated cases of robbery in traffic which is not unconnected to the command’s renewed anti crime strategies being emplaced.
Similarly, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered that the combat training, musketry and range practice for Police personnel in the command should be continuous as the command also commenced the training of the police operatives attached to the newly formed Anti Traffic Robbery Squad to tackle the menace of robbery in traffic in Lagos State. CP Hakeem Odumosu strongly attributed successes recorded in the fight against crimes and criminality in the state to training and re-trainng of police officers and men and constructive collaboration with the public and other security agencies in the state.
In the same vein, operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, again nabbed two (2) notorious suspected robbers along Ikorodu Road, Lagos on 15th June, 2021. The two (2) suspects are Tunde Ramoni, m, 21 and Adepoju Samuel, m, 34.
Tunde Ramoni, who hails from Ibadan, Oyo State, was arrested at Ojota, while Adepoju Samuel who hails from Ogbomosho, Oyo State, was caught in the act while robbing a motorist with unregistered motorcycle (Okada) around Tipper area, Ketu, Lagos State.
During the course of investigation, it was revealed that Tunde Ramoni was once arrested with a gang of ‘Pick Pocketers’ in 2019 and was convicted to 6 months imprisonment.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has directed that the 2 suspects be transferred to the Command’s Special Squad, Ikeja, for proper investigation.
Similarly, police operatives attached to Apapa Division of the Lagos State Police Command, today Wednesday 16th June, 2021, arrested one Ibrahim Abidun, m, 26, at Agbomalu Apapa, Lagos State, with two (2) locally-made pistols.
Other items recovered from him include two (2) live cartridges, assorted charms and weeds suspected to be Indian hemp.
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, has ordered that the suspect be transferred to the Command’s Special Squad, Ikeja, for proper investigation and possible prosecution.
While reiterating the command’s zero tolerance for crimes and social vices in Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, ordered the Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and tactical Commanders to redouble their efforts in securing public space across the length and breadth of Lagos State.
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