Policeman in Lagos who owns hummer jeep arrested for robbery

The tale of how of a new generation bank at Akowonjo, Lagos, was robbed last year won’t be complete without the mention of Eboma Onyeka, a Police Sergeant who was at the time of the incident attached to the Mobile Police Unit 20, at Ikeja.

Onyeka had allegedly conspired with four others, including an employee of the said bank and robbed the bank he was to secure of about N10m in April 2011. A security guard attached to the bank, Sunday Ogundipe, was strangled in the process.

Two months after, Onyeka was arrested, tried and dismissed from the force before he was arraigned with his accomplices on armed robbery and murder charges in July 2011.

Ibori’s $15m Bribe: Edwin Clark Threatens To Open A Can Of Worm

Prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, on Thursday, said he would appear before any court to testify in the alleged $15m bribe offered the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, by former Delta State Governor, James Ibori.

Clark, who spoke with journalists in Abuja, also called on President Goodluck Jonathan to remove the current EFCC chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde.

The former Federal Commissioner for Information described as disappointing the anti-graft agency’s handling of the alleged Ibori bribe.

Boko Haram Gives Condition For Cease Fire, Wants Ali Modu Sheriff arrested

THE leadership of the Boko Haram sect, has said that it is willing to cease fire and stop all atrocities being perpetrated by the group if the state and Federal Governments will truly heed to its demands.

The acclaimed spokesman of the sect, Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulazeez, who doubles as the second-in-command (Amir) to its leader, Imam Abubakar Shekau, in a tele-conference with journalists in Maiduguri on Thursday said that if the state and the federal government want the group to cease fire completely, former Borno State governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, must be arrested and prosecuted according to the law of the land.

Sale Of PHCN: Eko DISCO: How Sambo, others influenced bids

Fresh facts on the just concluded bid for the 11 PHCN Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) have exposed gross irregularities that characterised the exercise with Vice President Namadi Sambo and other members of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) showing their hands in who got what.

Akwa Ibom gets new deputy governor

Akwa Ibom state governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, yesterday swore in Lady Valerie Ebe as the new Deputy Governor four days after the resignation of the last occupant, Nsima Ekere.

Akpabio said the swearing into office of Ebe would fast track the development of the state.

The Governor spoke at the Government House in Uyo, the state capital.

Akpabio said: “The change of baton in the Office of the Deputy Governor was nothing more than a shift of gear.

Nigeria Police In Lagos State Brutalised an Okada Man and Stripped Naked

Some policemen yesterday beat up an unidentified okada rider and stripped him naked at the junction of University Road and St. Finbarr’s College Road in Akoka, Lagos on Wednesday.

 The policemen who were in mufti laid ambush in a van with registration number NPF9544B and pounced on the okada rider immediately they saw him, beat him mercilessly and later asked him to take all his clothes off.

An eyewitness told our correspondent  that he was dumbfounded at the inhumane behaviour of the policemen adding that the okada rider did not resist arrest.

This is dehumanizing. Is it right for the so called law enforcement agent to act in a barbaric manner ?  

Is this right? How long can we continue like this?

Five policemen To Spend 25 years in prison for robbery

Nemesis has finally caught up five policemen, Bestman Denner, Musa Mohammed, Peter Enidiok, Godwin Williams and Emmanuel Ajogbor, who were arrested ten years ago for robbing some businessmen of their truck loaded with clothing materials. The men of the police force who sabotaged their primary duty were sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by Justice Joseph Oyewole at an Ikeja High Court, Lagos.
While passing his judgment, the judge found the policemen guilty of the charges of conspiracy and robbery pressed against them.