The remains of a student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Timothy Adegoke, who died in controversial circumstances have been buried.
The remains of the 37-year-old Master of Business Administration student were brought to the Eruwa Town Hall in a white casket with hundreds of youths in procession.
The body of the accountant was buried beside the house he built for his parents in the New Eruwa part of Eruwa town. Eruwa is the headquarters of the Ibarapa East Local Government Area of Oyo State.
Family members, friends and beneficiaries of the deceased’s acts of kindness wept sore during the brief service conducted by Revd. Michael Hungbenu, the founder of Celestial Deliverance Church of Christ.
Service of tributes was first held at the Eruwa Town Hall where hundreds of youths, members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, and OAU students, among others had gathered.
Speaker after speaker paid glowing tributes to the deceased while his kinsmen recalled his good deeds in a tearful atmosphere.
His brother, Gbade urged those present to support them to ensure that justice is served in the case which is already in court.
The grieving widow of the deceased, Bolatito, wept uncontrollably and refused to leave the graveside despite pleas that she should step aside.
She shouted the name of her late husband and reminded the dead of the sweet times they had together while she hurled curses on the killers of her husband.
Balotito said the killers did not allow her husband to bury his parents and became inaudible at a time after she had screamed for long.
The Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin who is from the area reiterated his calls for those responsible for the death of Timothy Adegoke to be brought to justice.
He called for thorough investigation into the killing stressing that anyone found guilty no matter how highly placed must not be spared.
A real estate agent, 50-year-old Diran Elijah, has lost his life after having sex with his former wife identified simply as Idowu, at a hotel in the Agbado area of Ogun State.
Punch reports that Idowu, who has remarried with two children for her new husband, reportedly separated from Elijah about four years ago. The ex-couple reignited their love affair lately when Elijah contacted her on the phone and they agreed to meet at the hotel around 10pm last Sunday, January 23.
Elijah was reportedly taking some rest after a pleasant time in bed with Idowu when he suddenly became unconscious and gasped for breath. The woman was said to have raised the alarm but it was too late as he reportedly gave up the ghost at the hotel.
An eyewitness said
“The owner of the hotel initially wanted to lie that the man slumped outside and died. But the woman (Idowu) confessed that they had sex and afterwards, the man complained that he was tired and wanted to rest. After some minutes, he went unconscious. She called for help but the man couldn’t make it. I later learnt that they were once married to each other but lost contact after going their separate ways. They recently got talking again.”
A source close to the woman said she (Idowu) had obtained a loan from a microfinance bank and was having difficulty repaying it. She said Elijah invited her to the hotel and promised to help repay part of the loan.
“They were ex-lovers. They had two children together as a couple but the kids died. They later divorced and remarried respectively. She obtained a loan from a microfinance bank and could not repay it. The bank sealed a house where she resides with her current husband in Ifo and she was sleeping in a church.
Elijah contacted her and promised to give her money to repay part of the loan. He died after they had sex. The police arrested her but the man’s family said they were not interested in pursuing any case against her.”the source said.
Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the Ogun state police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident, noting the two families had resolved to settle the matter amicably.
The Ibadan Prime Youth Forum on Saturday Identified with the family of the Distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Teslim Kolawole Folarin on the demise of his wife, Barrister Angela Nwaka Folarin.
Describing the death of Mrs Angela Folarin, Dr Oluwatunmise Adeagbo the National Coordinator of the Forum said “On behalf of all Ibadan Youths, we commiserate with the Family of our distinguished Senator, Barrister Angela left at a time that we least expected and since hearing the news of her death on Friday, we have all been in mourning mood, the vaccum she left will be difficult to fill”
Speaking further, the National Coordinator described late Angela as a supporting husband one who till her last breath supported the aspirations of her husband, given her husband a ultimate peace of mind.
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The Forum also expends their condolences to the Political associates of Senator Teslim Folarin and pray that God should grant the deceased ultimate rest.
“Angela was a lover of youths, she supports everything that has to do with youth development, she will be deeply miss by all, including his Senator’s political associates”
At the sight of a bullion van on Nigerian roads, what readily comes to mind is; conveyance of a Lump sum of money to or from the bank.There is a distinction anyway. The deafening noise of siren and the stern-looking security escort is an attestation to the fact that the van is not a “vacum”. It is loaded ! Aside the two visible features, the manner with which the driver of the van navigates the road and manipulates his way through, aptly confirms the obvious.The content is tempting. And nobody knows who is tempted by the roadside and who is trailing. That is more the reason why no traffic warder dare not to stop the on-coming van. Such a van must not be held by traffic congestion. Rather, it breezes into traffic to avoid any form of heist. Otherwise, such traffic warder would cross his hands behind his back inside the witness box of a court of law as a suspect and accomplice. His action could be perceived as a connivance, conspiracy, aiding and abetting. I respect Nigerian Lawyers. Being educated is different from being learned. Their mastery of the subject matter of legal jagons and registered words in law is commendable. There is no rugged road for an aeroplane. And so, Bullion van enjoys an unhindered privilege to ply the road.
With the above introduction, no sane Nigerian needs any soothsayer to tell him that bullion van is not designed as private use. It is neither a car to oppress nor a bus to show affluence. Though, it looks like Hummer jeep but it is much more than that. A bullion van is sophisticatedly designed for a unique purpose and can resist heat, collision or firearms. Bullion van is technologically immuned against thunderous shot. That sounds like the famous ‘Thunder Balogun’ of blessed memory. A man credited with fanta-terific shots in football game.The little story carved to express his thunderous shot and eulogise his footballing prowess was exaggerated. That is a way of digression. (Pardon me ! ). So, when a van is parked at a garage or infront of a private home, instantaneously, it attracts public attention.
At the twilight of 2015 presidential election, attention was momentarily shifted to the palace in Ikoyi of a King-maker who is at present, desirous to be a king. The King-maker has not just been enjoying such attention. He is an enigmatic, charismatic, maverick and astute politician. His ability to discover talents, nurture them before dispatching them to various fields is unprecedented in the anal history of Nigerian politics. He is the cynosure of all eyes. Calculating, determined and dogged. The politician in question is the most vilified and quizzed politician for financial-related offences with a view to exhuming the facts behind the acquisition of his wealth. He is stinkingly rich …. and generous.
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Despite all the economic interrogations and financial inquiries by the eagle – eye EFCC, the professor and Doyen of Nigerian politics has never been found wanting. For this, he has always taunted his political foes.The 2015 attention soon became the ravaging headlines of both print, electronic and online media. Trust Nigerian critics, the papers were awashed with clamours for an investigation into the era of the potential king while at the helm of affairs at the commercial nerve of the nation. The uproar and criticism was targeted at knowing the mission of the van.
Like the rain that ceases to subdue and the siren that refuses to stop; Nigerians, especially opposition politicians have not relented in asking the question each time election approaches. What a recurring decimal ! Past is the key that unlocks the present but it is an irony that people do not learn from the past.
Does the law confer any right on an individual to request for the service of bullion van in his private home?
This is the major hypothesis of this piece.
I have taken time to study the extant law on the use of bullion van. The task is essential because the issue would continue to resonate and reverberate as long as the answer to the questions of who directed the van to a private house and for what purpose, remained unanswered. One should not be taken by surprise that an issue of about four years has again become a screaming headline. We should not forget that election is around the corner and Nigerian politicians can do anything to gather the ashes of a cremated dead on a flowing river to prove a point.
First and foremost, it may be argued that the van contained no content. Nobody witnessed the offloading of the content of the van parked at Bourdillon. It may and may not be your guess (laugh out loud!) Evidence to substantiate the allegation of “contraband” may be a product of imagination or illusion.
Secondly, my enquires have revealed that private individuals have the right to hire or request for the service of the van to ensure safety of money and valuables in transit. However, it cannot be bought by individuals except big churches and security allied companies.
Lump sum is a colossal sum of money and every individual is at liberty to spend his; the way he chooses. It is the principle of prerogative. I would not know whether there is a provision of the constitution that forbids use of money during elections. Even, if the content was cash, the politician in question did not err in as much as he had not taken the money to the poling booth. That would have amounted to vote-buying. But in this situation, the sum might be what was appropriated to the agents and other logistics. Logistics could be anything.
Let me cheap in this based on my experience as a full time official of the moribund National Electoral Commission, Lagos Island. Political agents could be bought over by the opposition. Did you hear me! Standing in as an agent at collation center is risky. At that point, the fate of a contestant is in the hands of the agent. If his master did not adequately fund him, opposition may triple his allowance under the contractual agreement of “overlooking”. By this, the agent is compromised. And once new, mints and captivating allowance exchange hands, his conscience and loyalty are swayed. He would sign any result at that moment. The issue of appending signature under duress cannot be proved convincingly at any tribunal. So, the assumed bundle in the bullion at Bourdillon could be the appropriated allowances of the agents.
On the suspicion of the van containing thumbed ballots, that may be unfounded because no further report came from that direction. People kept a serious vigil till dawn and no suspicious stuffing was noticed.
Nigerian politicians are master blackmailers. They are good at hanging bones at the neck of a dog to make life unbearable for the animal. As soon as election approaches, their ugly pasts resonate and they are always quick to and zealous to open the evil book of their opponents. Where there is no blemish, they seldom fathom one.
For instance, the death of my mentor- Cicero of Esa – Oke has been seen as a potent political weapon to discredit some politicians just like the assassination of the bearded former Commissioner in Lagos who was gruesomely murdered in his home at Osborne estate. In these cases, the nagging questions have always been: Who killed the Attorney? Who killed the Commissioner?
Ironically, as soon as the election was to their favour, the tone changes. Attorney died of pulmonary this while Commissioner died of cardiac that. Thus, the accused are exonerated. By this action, the blackmailers have abrogated and usurped the works of a medical practitioner who presents an autopsy and a judge who pronounces acquittal. Ironically, nobody has ever deemed it fit to sue the Bourdilon Landlord over this issue despite the murmuring.
Comrade Lekan Badmus is a columnist with Oduduwa News and a public opinion analyst.
ODUDUWA NEWS has just gathered people of Abeokuta, Ogun State were totally filled with grief and surprise when three teenagers arrested by the Police for allegedly killing their friend’s girlfriend and burning her head for money ritual were paraded.
The suspects, identified as Wariz Oladeinde, 17, Abdulgafar Lukman, 19, and Mustakeem Balogun, allegedly committed the hideous crime in Oke Aregba community.
It was gathered that in the early hours of Saturday, January 29, one Mr. Segun Adewusi, who is the community security guard, had observed that some four boys were burning something suspected to be the human head in a local pot on the road.
It was gathered that the security guard immediately alerted the police at Adatan station, who went to the scene to get three of the boys arrested as one had fled before police arrived.
A source, who confirmed the incident said the slain girl, identified as Rofiat, was a resident of Idi-Ape; she was a girlfriend to one Soliu, who is now in police net. He was said to have lured the girl to his room, where he held her down and asked one of his friends to sl#ughter her with a knife.
“Soliu was the boyfriend of the girl, he ran away, but was later arrested. They killed Rofiat, cut her head, packed the headless body in a sack and started burning the head in a pot. They told the police in the presence of a mammoth crowd that they wanted to use it for money ritual.”
The Executive Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that residents of the state will miss his government if he is denied second term as the governor in the forthcoming 2023 gubernatorial elections.
Sanwo-Olu stated this on Sunrise Daily, a programme of Channels Television, on Thursday.
The Governor also said his administration was making strides to meet the expectations of the citizens and will finish strong at the end of his first term.
“I think we are doing a very good job, I dare say so. I think the citizens know what it is they will be missing if they don’t let us continue to wrap up all the things we are doing” he said.
Responding to question concerning a possible second term bid, Sanwo-Olu said he is consulting the stakeholders on the future of the state.
“I will ask; I will consult. Citizens, how do you see it? These are some of the things; that’s how you get it down. Try and finish very strong. You will know when it is time for us to do all the politicking”
ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that Oloye Teslim Kolawole Folarin, A Senator currently representing Oyo Central senatorial district has just lost his WIFE, Barr (Chief) Angela Nwaka Folarin.
May her gentle soul rest in peace and may God console TKF and his entire family.
No fewer than 10 policemen were injured while attempting to arrest members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers at Diamond Hotel, Alakia Isebo, Ibadan, Oyo State.
It was gathered that Lamidi Mukaila popularly called ‘Auxiliary’, who is chairman of the NURTW in the state, is the owner of the hotel.
According to a source, Mukaila had ordered his men to shoot at any officer, who tries to make an arrest in his hotel.
The officers, who are currently admitted at a hospital, had visited the hotel to make an arrest but due to Mukaila’s orders, the men immediately attacked the officers, overpowered them and seized their guns.
Meanwhile, according to Sahara reporters, a source in the camp of the NURTW revealed that the AK-47 rifles the road workers seized from the police were currently with one of the auxiliary boys simply identified as Adebowale Abiodun at Akure Park, Ibadan.
The source said, “There is one beer parlour close to the auxiliary’s hotel. The police were informed that there were armed robbers were being harboured at the spot. So, the police were on the trail of the robbers when the auxiliary boys sighted the officers and opened fire on them. They stabbed the officers like bush meat.”
He added that Auxillary had been fingered in many killings and violence in the state in recent times.
SaharaReporters also gathered three soldiers of the Nigerian Army were mobilised to guard the hotel.
In 2014, Auxiliary was arrested for gun-running and some violent crimes in the Alakia Isebo area.
During his days as NURTW chairman, the suspect was alleged to have been involved in political crises and killings in Ibadan.
He was paraded at the Lagos Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, by the state Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko in 2014.
He was further sentenced to six years imprisonment along with Saidi Kareem, Abu Kareem and Kazeem Kayode by Justice Eni Esan of the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan.
His release was facilitated by the current governor of the state, Seyi Makinde, in the build up to the 2019 general elections.
A second prosecution witness, Peter Odewo-Oritse, an operations manager at KenBen Nig. Ltd., a company in Warri, Delta State owned by the father of late Sylvester Oromoni, has testified at the coroner’s inquest investigating the controversial death of the Dowen College student.
While answering questions from the lawyer to the Lagos State Government, Seun Akande, the witness testified that the deceased had an enlarged liver but was not immediately taken to a hospital, according to Channels Television.Magistrate Mikail Kadiri sitting at the Epe Magistrate Court, Lagos, also heard that upon arrival in Warri, Delta State, the Oromoni family doctor, Aghoho Owhojede, attended to the boy who was treated for malaria.
Based on the doctor’s instructions, a scan and an x-ray were later conducted on the boy, which results revealed among other things that the boy had a liver enlargement.The witness said the Oromoni parents initially arranged with Dr Owhojede to take their son to the Delta State Teaching Hospital, Oghara for treatment but added that he was eventually taken to one Vicar Hospital on Nov. 30th where he was said to have later died.
The witness also testified that the boy and his mother had first gone to church for prayers before the medical tests were carried out.At the last sitting of the court on Jan. 21st, the first witness, Clifford Tejire had told the coroner how he went to Dowen College on Nov. 23rd to pick the late Sylvester from school. He added that though the boy was in great pains, and his condition worsened, he was not instructed by the parents to take him to the hospital.Oromoni, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, was later taken by road to Warri in Delta State where he eventually died on Nov 30th.
Meanwhile, the Ijaw Youth Council, Lagos Chapter has filed an application seeking to be joined in the inquest. The coroner says the application will be considered at the next sitting of the court on Friday, Jan. the 28th.
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared support for the former Lagos Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his presidential ambition in 2023.
This was contained in a statement made available via the Governor’s Facebook account as read in part:
“I led my cabinet members and other political leaders in Lagos today to the launch of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Movement where I declared that the All Progressives Congress National Leader is the best man to lead Nigeria from 2023.
“Asiwaju Tinubu’s qualification rests on his demonstrated capacity in deploying a mix of genius and statecraft to nurture a city on the brink to a flourishing economy. It must be clearly said that the progress in Lagos remains a visible experiment initiated by the APC National Leader.
“Our country is the most populous black nation in the world and the responsibility that comes with that is enormous. If our country must be great, we have the responsibility to choose the leadership that will bring about true transformation across every facet of our national life.
“ABAT is a movement that is committed to mobilise grassroot support towards making Asiwaju Tinubu the next President of Nigeria.
“Our work is to tell the naysayers and those who are still in doubt that we are ready to work for the realisation of this ambition, because Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the Number One sellable candidate.
“We will preach this gospel with diligence, dedication and a high sense of commitment because Asiwaju is an unfolding success story our nation deserves at this time”.
