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A gang of armed robbers numbering about 20 on Sunday night invaded once peaceful Alaafia Estate in Orogun around 11 pm and operated till around 2 am on Monday dispossessing residents of valuables running into millions of naira.

The robbers who made first appearance at the Estate about two weeks ago when they robbed a Superintendent of Police and three flats were said to have mobilised more gang members in a more deadly robbery where they carted away money, laptops, mobile phones and ATM card after obtaining their Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) with the use of POS.

The robbers were said to have gained entry into the Estate through the recently dredged Carnal linking Barika, Agbowo, and Orogun.

Armed with machete, Guns and other dangerous weapons, the daredevil robbers divided themselves into the Estate and robbed concurrently in different houses.

According to sources, no fewer than twenty families were direct victims of the robbers with one person sustaining machete cuts on his left hand while his wife was said to have been beaten with a machete.

A resident said: “as they battle to break into the house, one of them was telling the new ones they recruited to join them this time around that somebody was peeping through the window from the house. They said we would see hell if they break into the house if we don’t willingly open the door”.

However, the Ojoo Police Division were alerted and mobilised to the Estate.

The robbers, on hearing the police sirens were said to have alerted one another saying, “big daddy (police) are here; won ti mbo, e ja ke lo” and they fled the scene.

The police were said to have recovered four machetes and a locally made pistol around the scene of the robbery.

ODUDUWA NEWS has just gathered that Omoyele Sowore has been shot by a female police officer at the Unity Fountain in Abuja. He was said to have been shot while leading a protest in Abuja and has been taken to the hospital for treatment.

The officer fired a teargas cannister directly at his right thigh and he has been taken to hospital for treatment.

Details later.

It has just been gathered that kidnappers have just released Dr. Oni Salawu Aderike, wife of the Oyo State Youth Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mogaji Isiak Aareokuta after being in captivity for eight days.

It was learnt she was released few hours ago on Monday.

Details later.

The news of the death of an APC chieftain and former Special Adviser on Political Matters in the last Administration, Ahmed Gulak, in Owerri, Imo State, this morning, is very shocking and disturbing. The details of the tragic incident remain sketchy. A press statement credited to the Imo State Police Command claimed that some bandits were responsible for the gruesome murder of a man who was a visitor to the State. This is unacceptable.

This is one murder too many. It is senseless and wicked. The perpetrators of this heinous act are enemies of this country. This contrivance is meant to mislead, confuse and destroy. It bears the unmistakable, despicable imprints of fifth columnists bent on setting the country on the path of conflagration. These criminals must not be allowed to succeed.

We want to use this medium to express our solidarity with our brother Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma. We admonish him and other Governors in the South Eastern States to brace up, and confront the current security challenge to put an end to the bloodbath in the land.The enemies of the people always employ the weapon of fear to create disaffection in the polity.

This cowardly act is calculated to instigate Nigerians against each other, particularly Northerners, against the Igbo living outside the South East. We must confront the enemies of the people with a view to neutralizing them. This is definitely not the time for political correctness. Banditry should not be allowed to subvert the legitimacy of the current Government at all levels.

We call on all security agencies to collaborate with a view to unveiling the criminal elements sponsoring and undertaking terrorist acts. they must be punished, severely.

May the soul of our departed brother, Ahmed Gulak rest in perfect peace.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has promised to build a secondary school for the Police in the State.

He made the promise on Saturday while receiving delegation of the Police Wives Association of Nigeria (POWA) led by its President and Wife of the Inspector General of Police, Hajia Hajara Alkali, during a courtesy visit at the Lagos House, Marina.

The Governor who received Hajia Alkali and her entourage in the company of the Lagos State First Lady, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, said government will continue to support Lagos Police Command and officers’ wives in the State.

He said: “We will give Lagos Police Command more support. We will continue to lend all the infrastructure they need to them. We will continue to work with them. There are so many things we are going to support the Lagos Police Command with. And once the men can have all what they require to work well, certainly it will also affect their wives at home positively.

“We are doing so much and we are willing to double what we are currently doing. We usually have a special place for Police Officers wives; for widows and even those who are not widows. We want to encourage them and support them so that they can be very valuable supporters to their husbands.

“Not only will we be supporting them with empowerment, we will also deliberately look for ways to improve them in skills acquisition and empower them through the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation; Ministry of Wealth Creation and Ministry of the Sustainable Developments Goals.

“In respect to your request for a Police Secondary School in Lagos, we will try and not just give you land, we will give the land and also support you with the building. We will try and look for where is most adequate. Lagos is a small State, so land is always a challenge. But, wherever we find it, we will try and take it up so that it can accommodate a lot more students.”

Also speaking, Lagos First Lady said the incumbent administration is ready to do more for Police officers and their wives in the State, adding that government will continue to lift women up in Lagos State.

“I am happy that our score card is reading pass mark. We are happy to do more. Lagos State is here to encourage all the women. We know that quite a lot happened last year and quite a lot of our officers are a bit demoralised. But to God be the glory, 2021 is a better year.

“We are going to continue to lift each other up, encourage ourselves as women because we know we are the gateway to our families,” Dr. Sanwo-Olu said.

Speaking earlier, Hajia Alkali, who was excited by the hospitality she enjoyed during her first official visit to Lagos, applauded Governor Sanwo-Olu for all the great achievements of the administration in two years.

She specifically thanked Mr. Governor for supporting the widows of police officers killed in the wake of the unfortunate EndSARS protests.

Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, today, attended the traditional and final burial rites for late Olufon of Ifon, Oba Almorouf Adekunle Magbagbeola, which held at the Olufon’s Palace.

Oyetola who described the death of late Oba Almorouf as a colossal loss to the State, said he was a symbol of history, culture and heritage, and will be remembered as a visionary leader who made important contributions to cultural identity, national unity, peace and progress of Osun and Nigeria as a whole.

He prayed Allah to grant him Aljana Firdaus and equally grant the family and people of Ifon the fortitude to bear the loss.

The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the parents of children convicted for cultism will also face punitive measures.

Sanwo-Olu stated this on Thursday during the Children’s Day celebration at the Police College, Ikeja, addressing pupils and students.

He stated that a new law had been signed to fight cultism, adding that parents must be alive to their responsibilities by paying attention to the moral upbringing of their children.

Sanwo-Olu, who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, said, “The new law against cultism prescribes punitive measures for parents of young people convicted of cultism. Parents should be vigilant and monitor their children.”

“We owe them a duty to ensure that their dreams and aspirations are realised through continuous training, guidance and mentoring.”

Earlier, the Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, said the state government, through its free education policy from primary to secondary school level, had continued to commit huge resources to the upbringing of the children.

“It is not by accident that the education sector got the highest budget in 2020 and 2021. This is because of the commitment and passion of our dear governor towards providing a conducive environment for teaching and learning for our students,” she said.

Ajasa-Command in Agbado Oko-Odo Local Council Development Area of Lagos State was on yesterday under tension as hoodlums went on rampage by attacking shop owners and residents with dangerous weapons, carting away phones, cash and other valuable items.

It was gathered that the development was as a result of alleged disagreement on sharing of proceeds of online transaction by some internet fraudsters, otherwise known as Yahoo Boys in the area.

According to an eye witness who called LMT, about three weeks ago, a faction of Yahoo Boys had stormed Ajasa community to attack a member of another faction who was said to have received the payment of an online transaction involving the two factions.

However, the said member of the Ajasa faction failed to give the other side their share of the proceeds, which subsequently made the later to storm the area.

After about few hours, normalcy was restored until the other faction decided to strike again today, this time taking advantage of it to attack shop owners and residents.

“They came to Ajasa community with dangerous weapons. A man operating a Paga shop was attacked. Another Bet Naija shop was attacked, while an innocent man who was returning from work was also attacked.They collected his phones and money on him,” the witness said.

Another witness said men of the Nigeria Police were already on ground patrolling the area to restore calm and normalcy.

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Oyo State Command, has on Thursday paraded no fewer than five suspected telecommunication cable syndicate.

Briefing journalists at the Command Headquarters, Agodi Ibadan, while parading the suspects, the State Commandant of Corps, Commandant Iskilu Akinsanya said the Corps are mandated to see that all the Federal Government properties are protected from the vandals adding that the patrol operatives team at about 2:15 hours arrested telecommunication cable vandals.

He said, the suspects were arrested with the vandalized telecommunication cables in Bodija around 2:15 am.

“The first three suspects were arrested with the vandalized cables along U.I Road at Bodija Market, they later led the patrol team to where they used to keep their looted vandalized products, where the two others were eventually arrested at the store.

” I’m appealing to the good citizens of the State to always call the attention of security operatives whenever they notice any strange movements or occurrence in their various environments, because failure to do so can be dangerous, for instance if our electricity cables are vandalized we are the one that will suffer for it, so I urged the members of the public to always say something whenever they see something.“>

The names of the suspects are Shittu Ope, aged 31, Olawuyi Timilehin, 22, Ajibade Segun 21, Lawal Toheeb, 20, Suraju Muraina 38.

Exhibits recovered from the suspects are rolls of telecommunication cables.

Some of the suspected criminals however denied their involvement in the crime.

A man named Makanjuola Ayedun from Isanlu community, Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State has reportedly crushed his wife, Mrs Nike Ayedun to death with a car. The incident occurred at Gwagwalada, Abuja on Friday, May 14, 2021 around 10pm.it

It was learnt that Ayedun knocked down his wife, Nike, a staff member of World Bank office at Asokoro, Abuja while reversing his car. It was learnt that due to the speed, the car crossed an untarred road and crashed into a building where some things were destroyed.

It was learnt that Ayedun wanted to flee when he realised that he had killed his wife, blaming the incident on brakes failure. A source, however, told SaharaReporters that it was not an accident.
According to the source who is close to the family, the man had always physically assaulted his wife. The latest was over a safe box she got for the purpose of saving money for her son who demanded a huge birthday party.

Makanjuola broke it and she confronted it and he retaliated by beating her. “After beating the hell out of her in the house, he collected her phone so that she could not call anyone. The man went outside and turned on his car’s engine while he came down to open gate.

Nike ran to the gate demanding her phone. The husband said he would crush and kill her, and before she knew what was happening, the man knocked her down with full force while reversing the car,” the source said.