Police man killed as a car fell off Bridge in Abuja

 

*AYA Flyovers In Abuja …Constructed By Dantata-Sawoe, Completed In March 2010* A black Honda saloon car with registration number CY 691 LND yesterday [Sept. 25] fell off a bridge near Wuse Market, Abuja, killing the driver - a police corporal. A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who visited the scene, reports that the car knocked off the concrete embankment on the bridge before crashing into the ravine. The car was torn into pieces with the engine separating from the body. The Divisional Traffic Officer at the Wuse Police Station, *Mr. Kassim Yusuf*, confirmed t... more »

Deaths,Injuries as suicide bomber attacks catholic church in Bauchi

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The ugly spectre of bombing of churches reared its head on Sunday as a suicide bomber attacked St. John’s Catholic Cathedral in Wunti, Bauchi, directly across from the Bauchi Township Stadium, killing an unspecified number of people and injuring others.
The spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, Yushau Shuaib, who confirmed the development in an SMS to PUNCH, said the dead and injured had been taken to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi.
Some accounts said a number of people died when the bomber hit the gate of the church around 9a.m.
However, Shuaib said, “This is to confirm that only the suspected suicide bomber died from the explosion in Bauchi while three injured victims were rushed to the hospital for medical attention.”
The spokesman for the state police command, Hassan Auyo, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the casualty figure was being compiled.
Bauchi has been hit by a number of bomb attacks and murders linked to the Boko Haram sect in the last few months.
More details later.

UPDATED: Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke's convoy crushes journalist to death in Abuja

                                  

Embattled Nigerian Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke has again been caught in the midst of public rage with allegations that her convoy crushed a journalist with an Abuja based Pilot Newspaper, James Momoh in Mabushi area of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. The minister has been in the middle of raging corruption allegations in the petroleum sector she heads especially in the management of fuel subsidy funds where more than N2 trillion of public funds have been callously looted by officials and oil marketers in just one year. iReports-ng.com gathered in Abuja today that James Momoh was knocked down by the over-speeding convoy of MrsAlison-Madueke late on Wednesday night along the Mabushi expressway .After knocking him down, the minister's aides were said to have taken their victim to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC staff clinic in Abuja where he was later certified dead and his body subsequently deposited at a government hospital mortuary in Maitama.

Masquerade arrested in Ado-Ekiti for armed robbery

 

 

Osalusi Sunday, 24-year-old man, was yesterday arrested while on a robbery operation in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
Osalusi, who was disguised as a family masquerade, Sinrinminyin, was apprehended with four other members of his gang by men of the Ekiti State Police Command who were called by a police woman to the scene of the robbery.
Reports say the leader of the robbery gang, Odunayo Kolawole, 24, was shot dead in the exchange of gunfire, while two other members of the gang escaped arrest.
The spokesman of the Ekiti State Police Command, ASP Olu Victor Babayemi narrated the incident saying:

“While the gang members were dispossessing their victims of their valuables, a police woman sent a distress call to the police and men from nearby stations and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad descended on them.

Kolawole, the leader of the gang, who was on the rooftop serving as a watch for the gang was gunned down in a shoot-out and others were arrested.”

Other members of the robbery gang arrested alongside Osalusi are Deji Owolabi, Ayodeji Obamoyegun, Peter Akinwale, and Oluwatosin Adefemi.
Osalusi confessed to the police that he put on the masquerade garment to disguise himself since it was his family tradition to celebrate on special occasions.
The members of the gang were said to have inflicted machete cuts on their victims and also attempted raping the ladies among them.
Items recovered from the gang members included two locally made single barrel gun, two locally made pistol. 10 live cartridges, five expended cartridges, three machetes, six handsets, masks, two wrist watches and assorted charms.