Ondo Police Command said seven suspects have been arrested for stoning a 35-year-old driver to death on 10 April.
ODUDUWA NEWS recalls that the driver, Olorunfemi Tope, had in an accident killed one person and injured others along Ijoka road in Akure.
The driver, who was allegedly labelled a ‘Yahoo boy’ by an angry mob, was subsequently lynched to death and the video of the incident was shared on the internet.
Police spokesperson in the state, Olufunmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, told journalists on Monday in Akure that seven people were arrested in connection with the incident.
According to Mrs Odunlami-Omisanya, out of the seven, Amos Victor, Boboye Ismail, Olatunji Samuel and Farotimi Pelumi, are the principal suspects.
He said they were among those captured in the video attacking the deceased.
He said the suspects would be taken to court on charges of arson and murder, after the conclusion of the investigation.
“We have said it without number that jungle justice is illegal and against the law.
“When there is an accident our focus is how to rescue the victims by taking them to the nearest hospitals for first aid and never take laws into our hands.
“It’s wrong for anybody to sniff the life of anybody; we should allow the law to take its course because it’s not in anybody’s place to kill anyone,” the spokesperson said.
The remains of the Uber driver, Temitope Olorunfemi, who was beaten and stoned to death last week in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, have been buried.
His corpse was moved from a private morgue in Akure metropolis, the state capital, by his friends to Oda axis, where his body was interred.
While his body was lowered, his friends could not hide their feelings as they wailed all through the interment process.
Meanwhile, some commercial motorcyclists were attacked by the grieving friends while en route to the cemetery with his casket.
The deceased was beaten and stoned to death on Easter Monday after crushing some road users and injuring six others over alleged reckless driving.
His killers accused him of being an internet fraudster, commonly known as “Yahoo Boy.”
Earlier, some suspects who were alleged to be involved in the killing of the deceased, were paraded at the police headquarters in the state.
A 33-year-old woman, Olaide Adekunle, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State police command for allegedly selling off her 18-month-old baby to a yet-to-be-identified buyer at the rate of #600,000.
The suspect was arrested following a complain lodged at Sango divisional headquarters by the woman’s husband, Nureni Rasaq, who reported that his wife, Olaide Adekunle, left home to Lagos on the 15th of March 2023 with their baby girl by name Moridiat Rasaq, but returned home without the baby. He stated further that all efforts to know what happened to the baby proved abortive as the woman was unable to give any reasonable account of whereabout of the said baby.
Upon the report, the DPO Sango division, CSP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to go after the said woman, and she was promptly arrested. On interrogation, the suspect confessed that she has sold her baby to someone in Lagos at the rate of six hundred thousand naira (#600,000).
When asked the reason for her action, she stated that she borrowed money from a microfinance bank, and when she was unable to pay back the money, the bank agents started disturbing her and threatening to deal decisively with her. It was consequent upon this that she ran to Lagos and started hawking sachet water. She said it was while hawking that she met a man who introduced her to the woman that eventually bought the child in Lagos .
Confirming the arrest, the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the acting Commissioner of Police, DCP Babakura Muhammed, has directed that the suspect be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and possible recovery of the baby. 0
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it has arrested a pregnant woman, Rabetu Abdulrasak, 24, and a cripple, Shehu Adams in possession of illicit drugs in Edo.
According to NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, over 14 kilogrammes of assorted illicit drugs were recovered from the two on Saturday in Agbede, Etsako West Local Government Area of the state.
Babafemi said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that drugs recovered from them included cannabis, methamphetamine, tramadol and swinol.
He also announced the arrest of one Isoyo Iveren-Susan, a 22-year-old HND female student of Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro in Ogun.
The NDLEA spokesperson said Iveren-Susan was arrested on Saturday opposite 2nd Gate of the institution dealing in illicit drugs.
Babafemi said that 1,100ML of codeine-based cough syrup and 283grams of cannabis were recovered from her.
“This is just as operatives in Lagos arrested two suspects: Nonso Peter, 21, and Bright Chibike, 23, with 43.4 kilogrammes of cannabis at Ile-Epo, Abule Egba area of the state on Friday.
“Also, one Muhamadu Yusuf was equally arrested same day with 8,000 capsules of tramadol inside a commercial bus along Kano-Katsina road,” he said.
Babafemi added that NDLEA operatives in Kaduna State on Thursday raided a clandestine laboratory where mist potassium citrate was being produced in a residential apartment at 16, Sabon Gari, Zaria.
Babafemi said that the owner of the laboratory, Christopher Agodi was arrested and 102 cartons containing 2,448 bottles of the substance recovered.
He said that another suspect, Salisu Abdullahi, 25, was arrested along Abuja-Kaduna road with 11.7kg cannabis concealed in two jerrycans, which he was conveying from Port Harcourt to Kano.
“Similarly, anti-narcotic officers acting on a tip-off, arrested two suspects: Aminu Saudi, 45 and Abdullahi Sani, 35, at Ogbese, Ondo State, with 11 jumbo bags containing 211kg of cannabis concealed in rice chaffs.
“This was closely followed by the destruction of six hectares of cannabis farm in Uso forest in the state on Thursday, April 13,” he said.
The Ondo State High Court, sitting in Ondo town, has ordered the deposition of the Olu-Oke of Oke-Igbo in the Ile-Oluji/Oke-Igbo Local Government of the state, Oba Babajide Oluwole.
The court nullified the appointment of the traditional ruler, having admitted that Oba Oluwole, who was crowned as the monarch of the community in 2018, was not a member of the ruling house which turn was, to fill the then-vacant stool of the town.
Two princes from the Aare Kugbaigbe Ruling House, Rufus Adekanye and Temitope Adeoye, Head and Secretary of the House respectively, had approached the court to challenge the enthronement of Oba Oluwole by the state government.
The kingmakers were also joined in the suit.
According to the suit filed by their lawyer, Mr Sola Ebiseni, the claimants claimed that the defendant was not a member of the Aare Kugbaigbe Ruling House which turn it was to present a candidate to the throne, saying the stool is still vacant.
In a judgement delivered by Justice Ademola Enikuemehin, the court admitted that Oluwole was not a member of the ruling house which turn was to produce the king and also not qualified to be presented as the kingship candidate.
In the judgement, the judge ordered that “the Olu-Oke of Oke-Igbo Chieftaincy in the Ile-Oluji/Oke-Igbo Local Government Area of Ondo State is subject to the Declaration in Part two of Justice Adeloye Judicial Commission Of Inquiry On Chieftaincy Matters and the Chiefs Law CAP 27 Volume 1 Laws of Ondo State 2006.
Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde has assured the people of Ibarapaland that the Ido-Eruwa Road, linking the area to Ibadan, the state capital will be completed before the end of the year.
Makinde, who spoke at First Baptist Church, Anko, Eruwa, during the Thanksgiving Service in honour of the mother of the Speaker of the State’s House of Assembly, Hon Debo Ogundoyin , Mrs. Justina Ogundoyin, said that the road project would not experience any further delay.
He said: “I want to assure you that this project(Ido-Eruwa road) will also be like that of Ogbomoso-Iseyin Road. “I know some of you have used it in recent time and have seen how beautiful and quality it is. “From Ido, it should not take us more than 25 minutes to get to Eruwa. Under Omituntun 2.0, I want to assure you that people will be living in Eruwa and be working at Secretariat in Ibadan. “Within the next three weeks, work will begin on the road again.
“During the campaign period, I promised that the road will be commissioned before the end of this year and I want to confirm it will be so.” He thanked the people of Ibarapaland for voting massively for his re-election. He also eulogised the late Mrs. Ogundoyin for living an impactful life, adding that it is not how long one lives but how well.
“First, I want to thank God because today is a thanksgiving Sunday. It is generally believed that one needs to spend many years to live an impactful life. No, it is not how long but how well and impactful. “Our mother, Justina Ogundoyin, we can see that she led an impactful life, despite her short period. She raised respectful and godly children. So, we thank God for that, though I know it is tough,” Makinde said. While admonishing The Speaker and his siblings to have faith in God despite the demise of their mother, the governor said:
“Let me finally say to the Honourable Speaker and his siblings that it is time to have absolute faith in God. As a government , it is very easy to derail, especially when you are dealing with power. But I want to urge you to keep praying for us.”
The governor thereafter made a personal donation of N1million to the Church. Speaking on behalf of his siblings, the Speaker Oyo State House of Assembly, Rt.Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin, appreciated Governor Seyi Makinde and the entire people of the state for standing by them throughout the funeral programme of their later mother.
Earlier in his sermon, the presiding Pastor, First Baptist Church Anko, Eruwa, Reverend, Michael Ayoola, who read from Philippines Chapter 4 verse 20, said that only Almighty God is worthy of praise in any situation.
He described late Mrs. Ogundoyin as a highly dedicated personalty who really scarified to serve the lord in his vine yard during her life time.
Among the dignitaries who attended the event were the deputy governor of the state, Barrister Bayo-Lawal, state lawmakers, Commissioners, Political functionaries, and well wishers.
A Federal High Court in Lagos State has convicted and sentenced a 49-year-old businessman, Celestino Kingsley, aka Okafor Kingsley Ikenna, to six years imprisonment for illegally exporting 9.40kg of cocaine.
Justice Daniel Osiagor handed down the jail term this month after Kingsley admitted committing the offence and pleaded guilty to the charge.
The convict was arraigned by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on two counts of conspiracy and the unlawful export of the banned substance in a charge marked FHC/L/196c/2023.
The prosecutor, Augustine Nwagu, told the court that the convict, sometime in March, conspired with one Chibuzor Okoye, who is said to be on the run, to commit the offence.
The prosecutor told the court that the convict was arrested on March 4, 2023, during the outward clearance of passengers of a Qatar Airways flight to India via Doha, at the new terminal 11 of the Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
According to the prosecutor, the offence committed is contrary to and punishable under Sections 14(b) and 11(b) of the National Drug Law Enforcement A. Act Cap N30 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
The convict pleaded guilty to the charges, and following his guilty plea, the prosecutor urged the court to convict and sentence him according to the sections of the NDLEA Act he was charged with. But his lawyer pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy in sentencing his client.
The lawyer urged the court to take into account his client’s timely guilty plea as a first-time offender, and that since his client was arrested, he had turned a new leaf, with a promise not to engage in any illegal acts.
He, consequently, pleaded with the court to grant his client an option of a fine instead of a jail term.
In his reply, the prosecutor admitted that the convict was a first offender without any previous conviction record.
Justice Osiagor, in his judgment, sentenced Kingsley to three years each for the two counts, adding that the jail term should run concurrently.
The judge, however, gave the convict an option of N2.5m fine on each of the counts and also ordered that the monetary option should run consecutively.
Operatives of the Bayelsa State Volunteers have arrested a suspected thief for allegedly stealing an HP laptop at Agudama-Epie in Yenagoa, the State Capital.
The Suspect identified as Richard Olopele, 24, hails from Arogbo Community in Ondo State but resident in Agudama.
In a confessional statement made after his arrest on Thursday, April 13, 2023, the suspect admitted to have broken into Engr. Lambert Miebi’s living home at Agudama-Epie in the guise of looking for his friend who is a relative of Lambert.
Further interrogation revealed that he had sold the Laptop with the sum of twelve thousand naira (12,000.00) and the buyer has been reportedly arrested.
The Suspect has since been handed over to the Anti-Cultism Unit, Nigeria Police Force, Bayelsa State Command for further investigation and prosecution.
ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that a young kid has been diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anaemia and she is battling to save life, recent findings revealed that one of her parent’s genotype was wrongly diagnosed for (AA) before marriage, she’s carrying this burden and fate due to the negligence of the health practitioners.
The three-year-old young kid is in need of financial assistance to live healthy life and free from sickle cell. Out of 28,000 dollars needed for the surgery, $10,000 has been realized.
She will be flown abroad to seek medical help from Fortis Memorial Research Institute located in India.
Quoted from a report made available to ODUDUWA NEWS by the parents who live in Ilorin, “Husseinah Bello, diagnosed in Lagos as a child with sickle cell anemia. We are trying to raise money for Bone Marrow Surgery so she can live a healthy life. The medical report from National Sickle Cell Centre, Ishaga Road, Idi-Araba, Lagos attached below.
“Kindly help Husseinah in her journey to achieve a BMT, thank you all as you do. We are grateful”.
Her bank detail is attached to her picture and could be seen below:
Following the controversies that have trailed the movie, “Gangs of Lagos”, since it was released on Amazon Prime Video, the National Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB, has explained why they cannot ban it.
The Executive Director and CEO of the regulatory body, Alhaji Adedayo Thomas, said the board can’t take any action against the movie for now.
According to him, the NFVCB has no legal backing to regulate what is being exhibited on the online platform.
Alhaji Thomas made this known to newsmen yesterday.
He regretted that regulating online platform poses a lot of difficulties since it’s not part of the mandate of the Board.
“Have you seen the movie in any cinema house or being exhibited in any open space? Our job does not cover regulating online platforms.
“I don’t know why people are referring to the Censors Board to take action. We have a bill before the National Assembly seeking to empower the Board to regulate online platforms and any other platforms where movies are exhibited.
“Online platform is difficult to regulate and it’s not part of our mandate,” Alhaji Thomas explained.
His explanation became necessary as Lagos indigenes, on the platform of Isale Eko Descendants’ Union (IDU) recently petitioned the Censors Board over alleged defamation of their community and Eyo masquerade in the ‘Gangs of Lagos’ film.
Lagos State Government, on its part, described the movie as a cultural misrepresentation as well as portraying the culture of the state in a derogatory manner.
According to the Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs Uzamat Akinbile-Yussuf, the Ministry, being the regulatory body and custodian of the culture of Lagos State, viewed the film as a mockery of the heritage of Lagos.
Co-produced by Kemi Lala Akindoju and Jade Osiberu, ‘Gangs of Lagos’ was released on Amazon Prime Video, an online platform on April 7.
