ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that there was a report of armed robbery incident at exactly 2am on Saturday at a private hostel located in Cooperative Estate, Adaba, Apete Ibadan.
The private hostel housing many Polytechnic Ibadan students including both males and females was said to have been raided by two-man robbery gang who raided room to room and carted away several valuable items including phones, laptops and money.
According to our correspondent, the armed robbers gained entrance to the hostel through the backyard fence, broke several doors and made their way to several rooms. The robbers according to eyewitness who spoke under condition of anonymity to ODUDUWA NEWS said, one of the robbers was sighted with a gun which he used to overpower male students living in the hostel.
The robbery incident was said to have lasted for 2 hours before the robbers later scaled fence and ran away having suspected move by some residents to descend on them.
It was learnt that a female resident was raped by the armed robbers.
Meanwhile, some of the students had lamented poor management of the hostel by the owner who had turned deaf ear to their request to attach importance to their security by erecting iron doors in the hostel.
The wife of the hostel owner who manages its affairs on behalf of her UK-resident husband, said to have alerted Nigerian Police for further investigation.
The Lagos State government on Friday crushed motorcycles popularly known as Okada, that were seized after the ban on their operations went into force in the state.
The Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, had in May announced a ban on Okada operations in six local government areas of the state.
On Monday, Babatunde Lukmon was driving to work from Ibadan when a trailer coming from the Saki end of the road lost control and slammed into his car, killing him instantly.
Babatunde Lukmon Kunle, a lecturer at the Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki (TOPS), died on Monday as a result of injuries sustained in a head-on accident with a trailer on the Iseyin-Saki road.
Waterfield Luxury Hotel, Akobo, Ibadan.
On Monday, Lukmon was driving to work from Ibadan when a trailer coming from the Saki end of the road lost control and slammed into his car, killing him instantly.
Before his death, Babatunde was a senior lecturer at the Polytechnic’s Architectural department and was married with children.
The late educator, according to his high school classmates, was humble and approachable to his mates and friends while alive and will be sorely missed. The late Lukmon attended Iseyin District Grammar School and left the school in 1992.
Nollywood stars have been thrown into mourning following the demise of a Yoruba movie actor, Gbadebo Osmond.
Yoruba actress, Fausat Abeni, popularly known as Madam Saje, was among the first mourners late Monday.
The veteran actress shared an image of a burning candle on her Instagram page with the caption, “Goodnight Osmond,” accompanied with crying emojis.
Other Nollywood stars such as Yomi Fabiyi, Adeniyi Johnson, and others took to their Instagram pages to mourn the late actor.
Fabiyi wrote, “So so sad and a deep painful loss, Osmond Gbadebo. You are a fighter and safe to say you have gone to rest. Ever jovial, ever supportive and ever friendly. Rest in peace and power.”
Johnson wrote on his Instagram page, “This hits differently that I can’t even post your picture. Every soul around us knows I love you. How I wish…”
Ibironke Ojo-Anthony, popularly known as Ronke Oshodi Oke wrote, “It’s very hard for me to say goodnight, Gbadebo Osunmo, but God knows the best. RIP my darling friend.”
Afolake Abiola, a 47-year-old accountant, has committed suicide by drinking a pesticide.
On Friday, May 27, 2022, in her 1 Abayomi Kukomi Close apartment in Osapa London, Lekki, Lagos, the tragedy occurred.
Waterfield Luxury Hotel, Akobo, Ibadan.
According to reports, Afolake, who is single and childless, had been depressed for some time before committing suicide.
“She has been battling sadness for a while due to the lack of a spouse and child,” a family source said, requesting anonymity.
The event occurred on May 27, 2022, according to the spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin.
“When the cops arrived, her family members were there, and they officially requested that the body be released to them,” he added. Based on compassionate grounds her corpse was released to her family for burial.”
She will be buried her according to Islamic rites.
Wanted drug kingpin behind the 2000.6kg Cannabis Sativa seized in a concrete mixer truck in Adamawa State on 2nd December 2021, Henry Chukwuneku Okamaru (a.k.a. hiLawrence Ik Okamaru) has been arrested in Ondo state after five months of manhunt by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
Two suspects: Matthew Donuwe and Friday Nmborgwu were arrested in connection to the consignment last December. They had confessed that the concrete mixer truck with Lagos registration number SMK 890 XB was loaded with the illicit drug in Ogbese, Ondo state while they travelled for two months on the road before arriving Adamawa where they were eventually arrested by NDLEA operatives.
Investigations reveal that Okamaru is one of the leaders of a cannabis cultivation cartel that operates in the Ondo-Ekiti axis, while he shuttles between Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo and Delta State from where he coordinates supplies of illicit consignments to Northern parts of the country and Lagos State. The drug lord has also been identified as a member of an international drug trafficking ring, while he shuttles between Nigeria and South Africa where he settles his family.
Meanwhile, a 36-year-old Nigerian based in Italy, Nwakanma Michael Uche has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA Abuja for ingesting pellets of heroin.
Nwakanma who hails from, Arodizuogu Village, Ideato Local Government Area of Imo State was nabbed while trying to board Air France Airline enroute Abuja-Paris-Milan, Italy on Sunday 15th May 2022. He was thereafter kept under observation during which he excreted 95 pellets of the illicit drug.
He claimed he came to see his parents in Nigeria after 12 years in Italy and to complete his fathers traditional marriage rites. He added that he was to be paid N1.5million after a successful delivery of the drugs in Milan.
The victim’s father, Akinola Amidu, claimed that the 12-year-old JSS2 student was flogged by a teacher at school for not completing his assignment on Thursday, May 12, 2022
Emmanuel Amidu, a junior student of Simple Faith Schools, Agbara, Lagos State, has lost his life after he was allegedly flogged by his teacher.
Amidu died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Surulere.
The victim’s father, Akinola Amidu, claimed that the 12-year-old JSS2 student was flogged by a teacher at school for not completing his assignment on Thursday, May 12, 2022.
He said his son started vomiting shortly after the beating and was rushed to a hospital, where he gave up the ghost on Friday, May 13, 2022.
Waterfield Luxury Hotel, Akobo, Ibadan
The father alleged that the school management was covering up his son’s death and protecting the mathematics teacher, one Steven, who flogged Emmanuel and the rest of the class for failing to do their homework, Punch reports.
He said: “I was at home that Thursday because I was on leave. I recall that Emmanuel asked me for money to buy a new exercise book and I gave him N500 to buy the book and give the remaining change to his sister.
“Later that day, I was called by the management of the school that Emmanuel was vomiting. Meanwhile, this was a boy who left home without any health issue. I had to go to the school and we moved him to a hospital.
“I later learnt that the whole thing started after their class teacher, Mr Steven, beat the whole of his class for not completing their mathematics assignment.
“Emmanuel was actually using my phone torchlight to do his assignment a day before, but I had to collect the phone from him and his sister because I needed to be in contact with the office. We had issues with our electricity at home.
“It was at LUTH that I lost my son. Meanwhile, the management of the school quickly ran to the Morogbo Police Station at Agbara to report that my son died from vomiting.
“How can somebody just die from vomiting if nothing triggers it? The management of the school is trying to protect the teacher.”
Akinola, 45, demanded the arrest and prosecution of the teacher, as he urged the state government and the police to give the family justice.
Emmanuel’s 13-year-old sister, Rachael, told the publication that her brother vomited after he was beaten.
She said: “I was called by our English teacher that my brother was not feeling fine and he did not eat and had been sleeping.
“His friend told me that they were beaten for not doing their sums in mathematics and after that he was just sleeping and vomiting.”
The school Principal, Adetayo Akanji, told Punch: “I was there when Emmanuel died on Friday and it was unfortunate that it happened this way. Yes, Steven flogged the whole class for not doing their sums, but not with the intention to hurt them.
“Some hours after that, he (Emmanuel) placed his head on his desk and he started vomiting, after which water was poured on his head.
“When he started to vomit, the proprietor called me and we took the boy to the hospital. In fact, the father joined us when he was taken to LUTH where he and I were running around to get prescribed drugs for him. But before we came back, he had given up. Our school reported the matter at the Morogbo Police Station.”
The tomb of one Alhaji Kolawole Waheed, a 68-year-old man who was buried on Thursday, was exhumed on Friday midnight in Ibadan, and his head, wrist, and other body parts were hacked off by yet-to-be identified people.
The head, wrist, and intestines of the dead body had been cut and taken away from the repository, which was located between buildings in the compound. While trying to figure out what had happened, it was discovered that the repository had been scattered earlier on Friday morning with the part of the dead body uncovered.
Waterfield Luxury Hotel, Akobo, Ibadan
While speaking with journalists, one of the diseased’s family members described the awkward occasion as reawakening of pains they have suffered in the past for the loss of their loved one.
They however implored the police to fish out whoever had hands in it.
One person was confirmed dead while another was rescued, on Saturday, when a two-storey building collapsed on Lagos Island.
The incident occurred during the downpour.
The building under construction was located at Freeman Road, Lagos Island before the collapse was recorded in the afternoon.
Waterfield Luxury Hotel, Akobo, Ibadan
The Lagos State Territorial District Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye who confirmed the incident at about 4.50pm, said responders quickly rushed to the scene for rescue operation.
They were arrested on Friday, April 29, 2022 at Victoria Crest Estate III, Gate II, Augusta Amadi Street, Off Orchid Road, Lekki, Lagos, following intelligence reports received by the Commission about their alleged involvement in computer-related fraud.
Items recovered from the suspects include cars, laptop computers, mobile phones and charms.
