…As family petitions Jonathan, IGP, others
THE circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of three blood brothers at their family house in Ikot-Ekpene, has continued to generate tension in Akwa-Ibom State following allegations by the family of the victims that some security operatives were responsible for the death.

PERHAPS, if three of the hospitals, the 35-year-old bureau de change operator, Ali Sani, who was attacked and fatally wounded by a Lebanese national in an hotel in Apapa area of Lagos State, had offered him first aid treatment, he would have lived today to give account of the incident.

Esther Felix was a regular call girl at Pekas, a popular night club at the highbrow Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos, until recently when she ran into trouble for organizing the abduction of one of her customers, who happened to be a citizen of the United States of America and the son of a Lagos-based business man (names withheld).

The University town of Nsukka in Enugu State was thrown into fear last week following the kidnap of a prominent business man by unknown gunmen along St. Therese’s Road while his wife narrowly escaped from the abductors.

THE police in Enugu State are now trying the unravel the circumstances surrounding alleged stage-managed suicide of a 32-year-old house wife, Mrs Obioma Onuh on March 14, this year.

THE resounding gun shots from a four-man robbery gang on two commercial motorcycles popularly called okada, rattled residents of Apapa, last Thursday, with everyone taking to his heels. But at the centre of the scene of the gun shots was a woman who had gone to one of the new generation banks around Calcutta Crescent to withdraw an unspecified amount of money. The robbers who apparently laid ambush for her, opened fire to scare away intruders and dispossessed the helpless and fear-stricken woman of the withdrawn cash.

An Apapa Chief Magistrate Court in Lagos has granted bail to a 35-year old man, Prosper Oguchi, who was arraigned for allegedly forcefully having unnatural sexual assault on 11-year-old boy through his anus. Chief Magistrate Amos Adeyemi granted the accused bail in the sum of N100, 000 with one surety in like sum, directing that the surety should show evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government.

Anyone who comes across Ramoni Raji, on his grey-coloured Nigeria Customs Service uniform and the rank of Deputy Superintendent on his shoulders, would pass him for a real custom officer. Unfortunately, the reverse is the case for the 60-year-old man whose stock-in-trade is to swindle prospective buyers of auctioned goods from the customs.

What would have turned into a deadly confrontation between operatives of the Nigeria Custom Service at Idi-Iroko border in Ogun State and men of the Nigeria Police Force was averted by shear providence. The experience of a police officer, Inspector Frances Ononiwu, attached to the Border Patrol Unit of the force in the hands of Custom officers manning check points at Ilase axis of Idiroko Road, Ogun State, may have been the triggering force, after the Police officer was accosted at Ilase by Custom officers and it almost degenerated into a deadly war.

Ordinarily, his frail look will readily counter the offense for which he is being held. But he is stronger and even much younger in speech, albeit his age. Pa Mathew Agbe is 69 and a security guard with the National Museum Benin city, the Edo state capital. Sadly, he may be confined in prison custody for the remaining part of his life, for a first degree murder except the court says otherwise.

A middle aged woman, Afusat Ogunrinde, has told an Oshodi Grade ‘B’ Customary Court in Lagos that when she traveled, her husband, Ibrahim, woke up her first daughter, Sidikat, in the middle of the night and asked her to take off her pants and face the wall.

THe General Secretary of the NKST Synod, Rev. Peter Azuana was yesterday rescued from the jaws of death by officers of the Benue State Police Command after he was attacked by a four-man armed gang at Gboko, Benue State.

DESCRIBE it with whatever adjective; incest, abomination , absurdity etc, one thing is clear: for a father to conceive in whatever guise, strip her daughter naked and sleep with her, the same daughter who is a product of his semen is nothing short of insanity.

EXCEPT by legal abracadabra, Chinonye Lucky, a 26 -year- old mother of two who is also expecting her third child, may spend the rest of her life behind bars for a first degree murder. She is currently at the custody of the homicide department of the Edo state Police command, Benin city, where detectives are already putting finishing touches to her cases file. She is due for arraignment any moment from now for allegedly poisoning a 16- month-old baby boy with a killer chemical while the mother of the baby was away to fetch water.

A SURULERE Magistrate Court sitting in Lagos has remanded a 56-year old man (names withheld) in Kirikiri prison for allegedly inserting his fingers into the private part of a three-year old girl. Both the man said to be a grandfather and the little live in the same block in Masha area of Surulere.