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Christian Udogu, the Rivers State Police Command's Deputy Spokesman, has slumped and died in his residence.

Udogu’s immediate boss, Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed the sad news in a statement he released on Thursday.

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According to him, Udogu died on Wednesday before he could get medical attention.

The statement, titled, ‘Death while in service,’ reads, “The Rivers State Police Command regrets to announce the untimely death of DSP Christian Udogu, who slumped and died last night, August 4, at about 11.30 pm, before he could get medical attention.

“Late Christian Udogu, until his death, was the Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Command.

“His remains have been deposited in the mortuary. Further development will be communicated accordingly. May God grant his soul eternal rest.”

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Christian Udogu, the Rivers State Police Command's Deputy Spokesman, has slumped and died in his residence.

Udogu’s immediate boss, Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed the sad news in a statement he released on Thursday.

File photo used to illustrate story.

According to him, Udogu died on Wednesday before he could get medical attention.

The statement, titled, ‘Death while in service,’ reads, “The Rivers State Police Command regrets to announce the untimely death of DSP Christian Udogu, who slumped and died last night, August 4, at about 11.30 pm, before he could get medical attention.

“Late Christian Udogu, until his death, was the Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Command.

“His remains have been deposited in the mortuary. Further development will be communicated accordingly. May God grant his soul eternal rest.”

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The quota system in Nigeria was conceived to address an inequitable system, but the prevailing "unjust system" betrayed the purpose for which the quota system was ideated and actioned. The quota system, principally, is not an unjust system. And it does not confer advantage on the north against the south. Much of what has been said about the quota system is jaundiced.

 

Quotaism became a principle in Nigeria in 1958, essentially, as a response to fears of marginalisation and ethnic domination in education and government. Rightly so, the system was contrived to resolve the atavistic misgivings. The federal character principle as well was devised -- and it became a constitutional provision in 1979 -- to manage Nigeria’s diverse character; so that no section of the country will lord it over others or become overwhelmingly dominant in the public service. It was designed to ensure inclusive and equitable demographic/ethnic representation at all levels of government. It was for socio-political balancing. 

Fredrick Nwabufo

Nevertheless, I am of the view that the federal character principle and the quota system be reviewed when sufficiently practicable.

 

It is sheer ignorance to assume ‘’quotaism’’ is a Nigerian thing or as some have said a ‘’northern concept’’. Quotaism is country specific and it is to address peculiar disproportions and to build a more equitable system. In the US, there is the racial quota which was conceived to ensure equal opportunity for all classes of citizens. In France, there has been a series of racial quotas. And in about 21 EU countries, there is a form of gender quota. 

 

So, quotaism is not a northern contrivance, and it is by and large a gizmo of national cohesion, if effectively and efficiently deployed. What we have experienced in Nigeria over the years since 1966 is an abuse and disregard of the quota system. If the quota system, as conceived by Nigeria’s forbears, is righteously implemented it will solve some of the country’s immortal problems. 

 

The argument against quotaism is that it encourages ‘’mediocrity and indolence’’, and discourages industry, performance and excellence. This is not exactly accurate. An abuse of the quota system, and not the system itself, is what promotes laziness and kills merit. Quota system is designed to give opportunities to the best of under-represented segments of society while not shutting the door to others in the opportunity pool. 

 

In the UK, there is the Equality Act 2010 which protects people with ‘’certain characteristics’’ on job opportunities. "Section 159 of the Equality Act 2010 allows an employer to treat an applicant or employee with a protected characteristic (eg race, sex or age) more favourably in connection with recruitment or promotion than someone without that characteristic who is as qualified for the role. The employer must reasonably think that people with the protected characteristic suffer a disadvantage or are under-represented in that particular activity. Taking the positive action must be a proportionate means of enabling or encouraging people to overcome the disadvantage or to take part in the activity,’’ XpertHR, UK says in its article, ‘What positive action is permitted under discrimination legislation?’

 

In Canada, there is the Employment Equity Act. In the US, there have been several affirmative polices to protect blacks and minority groups. In Germany’s Basic Law, where a man and a woman have same qualifications, the woman should be preferred for the job. These are chief ingredients of quotaism. 

 

We cannot run a country without justice where only the fittest of the majority shall survive. Everyone; all classes of people; the weak and the strong must be accommodated. If we insist only the strong amongst us should stand, how have we done justice to the weak – people who are made vulnerable not by their own disability but by classist designs? 

 

The south-east is the loudest antagonist of the quota system. Being Igbo, I understand the concerns of my people. But even in our region, there are clamours and demands for quotaism at the state level and in every socio-demographic stratum. In Anambra state where I come from, some citizens in certain senatorial zones allege they are being excluded from holding political offices by the more dominant groups. Quotaism addresses the human problem of belonging and representation.

 

In the state, there is a debate and agitation on why the next governor should not come from a certain zone because that area has had its turn. At the local government and communal level, there is also the importunity of quotaism. So, if quota system is desired at the sub-national level, it is unacceptable at the national level? 

 

SOUTHERN PREJUDICE

 

‘’Quota system product’’ – this is a quotidian ethnic slur often hurled at northerners by southerners. But we are all ‘’quota system products’’. Our universities and high schools accord special consideration in admission to candidates from the region where they are located (catchment area). Even in some jobs in the private sector, some were employed to fill in a quota.  

 

Some of Nigeria’s finest minds come from the north. Intelligence is a gift of the divine which every group and class of people have proportionally. 

 

Let’s stop the prejudice. 

 

Fredrick ‘Mr OneNigeria’ Nwabufo

 

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The Vice Chairman, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State, Gideon ToChukwu, has been accused of hijacking 1,000 job slots of the Federal Government’s extended Special Public Works meant for the Igbo-Eze South Local Government in the state.

The slots are part of the 774,000 public works jobs initiated by the Federal Government and designed to mitigate lack of job opportunities in the rural areas through short-term engagement of 1000 persons per local government.

SaharaReporters learnt that shortly after the take-off of the pilot scheme of the programme in April 2020, over 200 candidates that enrolled for the exercise in the Igbo-Eze South LGA were not people or residents of the communities.

The programme was said to be fraught with fraud and irregularities with the names of shortlisted candidates who underwent biometric capturing infiltrated and manipulated with strange names from another local government.

Igbo-Eze South, who has 16 political wards, got the 1,000 job slots but Tochukwu, who is also cousin to Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi was said to have compromised the process as he cornered about 500 slots to his family members, friends and political associates at the expense of people of Igbo-Eze South.

SaharaReporters gathered that ToChukwu was an emperor in the area who had been using his relationship with the governor to oppress and intimidate people in the two local government areas.

The Chairman of Igbo-Eze South, Peter Andy Omeje, was also said to have connived with ToChukwu to replace the names of bonafide candidates from the local government with their loyalists from another local government.

Some of the beneficiaries confirmed to SaharaReporters that they hailed from Udenu and they secured the forms through ToChukwu.

Some of the candidates who completed and submitted their forms were shocked to see their names replaced with strange names.

The Chairman of Igbo-Eze South Selection Committee, Ubah Onah, also confirmed the infiltration of strange names into the list stating that he was surprised to see beneficiaries who hailed from Imilike, Orhum, Orba, Obolllo-Afor all from Udenu LGA.

Some of the aggrieved candidates lamented the injustice and described it as daylight robbery and insult on their sensibility for the leadership of Udenu LGA to encroach into the Igbo-Eze South with impersonators.

A source, who spoke to SaharaReporters, hinted that they would do everything within their power to compel ToChukwu to refund money to the candidates who were shortchanged.

He said, “I had a meeting with ToChukwu and he reiterated that my local government chairman has no capacity to even obtain one slot from that 1000 slots allotted to our local government Igbo-Eze South. He stated that he collected some slots from Abuja and even from the Minister of Labour and Employment and that it was from there he gave to our chairman.

“So now that the Chairman of Igbo-Eze has traded the resources of the common man to another local government as they arranged with the Vice Chairman of Udenu LGA to steal our jobs, they have to refund us.

“If they can trade and infiltrate the list in such manner then what is going to be happening to the treasury of IGBO-EZE SOUTH LGA local government Area of Enugu State?”

Effort by SaharaReporters to reach ToChukwu for reaction was unsuccessful as of the time of filing this report as his mobile phone could not reached.

Recall that Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, had threatened to resign from office if the recruitment of 774,000 people was hijacked by politicians.

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The Vice Chairman, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State, Gideon ToChukwu, has been accused of hijacking 1,000 job slots of the Federal Government’s extended Special Public Works meant for the Igbo-Eze South Local Government in the state.

The slots are part of the 774,000 public works jobs initiated by the Federal Government and designed to mitigate lack of job opportunities in the rural areas through short-term engagement of 1000 persons per local government.

SaharaReporters learnt that shortly after the take-off of the pilot scheme of the programme in April 2020, over 200 candidates that enrolled for the exercise in the Igbo-Eze South LGA were not people or residents of the communities.

The programme was said to be fraught with fraud and irregularities with the names of shortlisted candidates who underwent biometric capturing infiltrated and manipulated with strange names from another local government.

Igbo-Eze South, who has 16 political wards, got the 1,000 job slots but Tochukwu, who is also cousin to Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi was said to have compromised the process as he cornered about 500 slots to his family members, friends and political associates at the expense of people of Igbo-Eze South.

SaharaReporters gathered that ToChukwu was an emperor in the area who had been using his relationship with the governor to oppress and intimidate people in the two local government areas.

The Chairman of Igbo-Eze South, Peter Andy Omeje, was also said to have connived with ToChukwu to replace the names of bonafide candidates from the local government with their loyalists from another local government.

Some of the beneficiaries confirmed to SaharaReporters that they hailed from Udenu and they secured the forms through ToChukwu.

Some of the candidates who completed and submitted their forms were shocked to see their names replaced with strange names.

The Chairman of Igbo-Eze South Selection Committee, Ubah Onah, also confirmed the infiltration of strange names into the list stating that he was surprised to see beneficiaries who hailed from Imilike, Orhum, Orba, Obolllo-Afor all from Udenu LGA.

Some of the aggrieved candidates lamented the injustice and described it as daylight robbery and insult on their sensibility for the leadership of Udenu LGA to encroach into the Igbo-Eze South with impersonators.

A source, who spoke to SaharaReporters, hinted that they would do everything within their power to compel ToChukwu to refund money to the candidates who were shortchanged.

He said, “I had a meeting with ToChukwu and he reiterated that my local government chairman has no capacity to even obtain one slot from that 1000 slots allotted to our local government Igbo-Eze South. He stated that he collected some slots from Abuja and even from the Minister of Labour and Employment and that it was from there he gave to our chairman.

“So now that the Chairman of Igbo-Eze has traded the resources of the common man to another local government as they arranged with the Vice Chairman of Udenu LGA to steal our jobs, they have to refund us.

“If they can trade and infiltrate the list in such manner then what is going to be happening to the treasury of IGBO-EZE SOUTH LGA local government Area of Enugu State?”

Effort by SaharaReporters to reach ToChukwu for reaction was unsuccessful as of the time of filing this report as his mobile phone could not reached.

Recall that Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, had threatened to resign from office if the recruitment of 774,000 people was hijacked by politicians.

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Nigerians on social media have reacted to the military aircraft’s airlifting to their home towns of the remains of corps members who recently died in a road accident.

Many social media users described it as “hypocrisy” and “medicine after death” treatment. 

Corps members are Nigerian graduates partaking in a mandatory one-year service to the country under the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

On Wednesday, the bodies of the five prospective corps members who died in an auto crash arrived in Akwa Ibom for interment in a C-130 Nigerian Air Force jet marked NAF917 and landed at the Victor Attah International Airport, Uyo, around 12:19pm.

In photos shared online, caskets containing the remains of the corps members were draped in the Nigerian and NYSC flags and lowered from the jet.

The deceased, who were on their way to the NYSC camp in Katsina State, were involved in an accident along Abaji-Kwali Expressway, Abuja.

The corps members had travelled by road in the dead of night to beat the camp registration deadline in faraway Katsina.

The deceased are; Innocent Upere and Victor Akpan, both graduates of Mass Communication, Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic; Miracle Asuquo, graduate of Psychology; Stella Ekikoh, graduate of Sociology and Anthropology and Coleman Ezuruike, graduate of History and International Studies; the three were graduates of the University of Uyo.

This has sparked a fresh discussion online regarding the scrapping of the scheme as many condemned the after-treatment given to the corps members whose transportation was never arranged by the scheme when they were alive.

Some of the reactions on social media are;

A Facebook user, Assumpta Nonye Williams wrote: “Why didn’t NYSC provide aircraft for all corps members travelling far? Medicine after death. Now they have been conveyed in an aircraft because they are dead... Rubbish! RIP to them. So painful."

Another user, Emmanuel Ukah said, “Why didn't the government provide air transportation when they were alive? That's why I don't support this NYSC thing.”

John Chilaka Maduabuchi stated, “Wait now, next batch of corpers will still enter motor to travel as far as Katsina. Nobody will plan to avoid the reoccurrence of what we are seeing today. I don't know when things will change for good in this country.”

Madubuike Chukwuebuka wrote, “Medicine after death, why must graduates be posted that far from home? Just abolish NYSC.”

Mabby Emmanuel said, “Isn't that stupidity, who is fooling who? You couldn't provide aircraft for them while alive, it is now you remember there is aircraft in Akwa Ibom state...”

Ogbonna Chinelo Precious wrote: ”So Sad. If I may say, I would suggest this programme (NYSC) be scrapped and the one-year payment calculated and paid to any graduate as part of empowerment.

”I know death is inevitable, but then on the cause of travelling on the road to be part of this programme, it has brought tears and loss of lives to many Nigerian families.

“Imagine someone travelling on the road from Akwa Ibom to Kastina ( a stressful journey) and ending up not getting to camp to join the programme. At the end of the day the excited fellow who bid the family a heart-warming goodbye was brought back as a corpse with a jet, isn't that an improper way of mocking the deceased?”

Mba Sally Oluchi said, “Why wouldn't govt provide that aircraft for their traveling, and for the ones that will still go to camp, not when they died in a road accident, they will use aircraft to carry their corpse back home.”

Kenneth Christopher stated, “They have aircraft to convey them back for burial but no aircraft to take them to camp, Nigeria sorry."

Ozioko Ambrose wrote, “They travel by road and died via accident probably cause of bad roads and their dead bodies travelled by air for safety. There was a country."

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Nigerians on social media have reacted to the military aircraft’s airlifting to their home towns of the remains of corps members who recently died in a road accident.

Many social media users described it as “hypocrisy” and “medicine after death” treatment. 

Corps members are Nigerian graduates partaking in a mandatory one-year service to the country under the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

On Wednesday, the bodies of the five prospective corps members who died in an auto crash arrived in Akwa Ibom for interment in a C-130 Nigerian Air Force jet marked NAF917 and landed at the Victor Attah International Airport, Uyo, around 12:19pm.

In photos shared online, caskets containing the remains of the corps members were draped in the Nigerian and NYSC flags and lowered from the jet.

The deceased, who were on their way to the NYSC camp in Katsina State, were involved in an accident along Abaji-Kwali Expressway, Abuja.

The corps members had travelled by road in the dead of night to beat the camp registration deadline in faraway Katsina.

The deceased are; Innocent Upere and Victor Akpan, both graduates of Mass Communication, Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic; Miracle Asuquo, graduate of Psychology; Stella Ekikoh, graduate of Sociology and Anthropology and Coleman Ezuruike, graduate of History and International Studies; the three were graduates of the University of Uyo.

This has sparked a fresh discussion online regarding the scrapping of the scheme as many condemned the after-treatment given to the corps members whose transportation was never arranged by the scheme when they were alive.

Some of the reactions on social media are;

A Facebook user, Assumpta Nonye Williams wrote: “Why didn’t NYSC provide aircraft for all corps members travelling far? Medicine after death. Now they have been conveyed in an aircraft because they are dead... Rubbish! RIP to them. So painful."

Another user, Emmanuel Ukah said, “Why didn't the government provide air transportation when they were alive? That's why I don't support this NYSC thing.”

John Chilaka Maduabuchi stated, “Wait now, next batch of corpers will still enter motor to travel as far as Katsina. Nobody will plan to avoid the reoccurrence of what we are seeing today. I don't know when things will change for good in this country.”

Madubuike Chukwuebuka wrote, “Medicine after death, why must graduates be posted that far from home? Just abolish NYSC.”

Mabby Emmanuel said, “Isn't that stupidity, who is fooling who? You couldn't provide aircraft for them while alive, it is now you remember there is aircraft in Akwa Ibom state...”

Ogbonna Chinelo Precious wrote: ”So Sad. If I may say, I would suggest this programme (NYSC) be scrapped and the one-year payment calculated and paid to any graduate as part of empowerment.

”I know death is inevitable, but then on the cause of travelling on the road to be part of this programme, it has brought tears and loss of lives to many Nigerian families.

“Imagine someone travelling on the road from Akwa Ibom to Kastina ( a stressful journey) and ending up not getting to camp to join the programme. At the end of the day the excited fellow who bid the family a heart-warming goodbye was brought back as a corpse with a jet, isn't that an improper way of mocking the deceased?”

Mba Sally Oluchi said, “Why wouldn't govt provide that aircraft for their traveling, and for the ones that will still go to camp, not when they died in a road accident, they will use aircraft to carry their corpse back home.”

Kenneth Christopher stated, “They have aircraft to convey them back for burial but no aircraft to take them to camp, Nigeria sorry."

Ozioko Ambrose wrote, “They travel by road and died via accident probably cause of bad roads and their dead bodies travelled by air for safety. There was a country."

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American constitutional lawyer, Bruce Fein, has said that a suit has been filed in the United States of America on behalf of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) against the sales of six A-29 Tucano fighter jets to the Nigerian government.

The American IPOB lawyer said the lawsuit would seek to revoke the delivery of the six Tucano jets sold and also block the remaining six from being conveyed to the country.

The lawyer argued that former President Donald Trump approved the sales of selling 12 Tucano military aircraft to Nigeria at the sum of $600 million in 2017 without having a rethink of the human rights violations of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

Fein said the lawsuit was against the executive arm of the US Government which has the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, as sealing the deal of delivering the weapons to Nigeria.

He stressed that the weapons were meant to unleash genocidal attacks on the Biafra agitators and supporters who are mainly from the South East of Nigeria.

This revelation was contained in a zoom meeting Fein had with the presenter of Njenje Media TV, Maazi Ezeoke and another broadcaster known as Chidi.

“The issue dates back to 2017 that President Donald Trump approved the sale of 12 A-29 Tucano military aircraft to Nigeria for $600 million despite the fact that we have long standing amendment to making those demands to transfer those weapons to any foreign countries guilty of exigencies of human rights' violations.

“It’s quite obvious that President Buhari’s statement continues in conducting the second version of 1967 genocide of Biafrans, that these weapons will not be used against the nation’s terrorist but will be used for genocide against Biafrans in South East.

“And the case that we have brought is against those in the executive in the United States like the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken and Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin responsible for the delivery of the A-29 military aircraft. Six of them have been delivered, six have not been delivered.

“We believe that if we have a chance even by highlighting the weapons that President Biden administration which is professed in defending human rights than President Trump administration may well seek the return of the six A-29 Tucano military aircraft,” Fein said.

He added the entire Democrats in the US are being carried along on the matter, adding that Trump and Republicans did not challenge the sales of the military equipment to Nigeria.

“There is also kind of arrangement with the Democrats to stop selling weapons to Nigeria. These considerations were not available when the weapons sales were approved in 2017 because President Trump was faulted on human rights and Republicans were not going to challenge anything.

“So, the lawsuit of the delivery and sales of Tucano aircraft are in violation of the law. The lawsuit is not filed in isolation. There is a larger percentage number of Americans involved.

“(The people) reasonably fear that the A-29 Super Tucano aircraft will be used imminently to kill or maim them physically or to destroy their property. The sale is in flagrant violation of international law,” Fein said.

 The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on July 22 took delivery of the first batch of six A-29 Super Tucano aircraft from the United States.

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American constitutional lawyer, Bruce Fein, has said that a suit has been filed in the United States of America on behalf of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) against the sales of six A-29 Tucano fighter jets to the Nigerian government.

The American IPOB lawyer said the lawsuit would seek to revoke the delivery of the six Tucano jets sold and also block the remaining six from being conveyed to the country.

The lawyer argued that former President Donald Trump approved the sales of selling 12 Tucano military aircraft to Nigeria at the sum of $600 million in 2017 without having a rethink of the human rights violations of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

Fein said the lawsuit was against the executive arm of the US Government which has the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, as sealing the deal of delivering the weapons to Nigeria.

He stressed that the weapons were meant to unleash genocidal attacks on the Biafra agitators and supporters who are mainly from the South East of Nigeria.

This revelation was contained in a zoom meeting Fein had with the presenter of Njenje Media TV, Maazi Ezeoke and another broadcaster known as Chidi.

“The issue dates back to 2017 that President Donald Trump approved the sale of 12 A-29 Tucano military aircraft to Nigeria for $600 million despite the fact that we have long standing amendment to making those demands to transfer those weapons to any foreign countries guilty of exigencies of human rights' violations.

“It’s quite obvious that President Buhari’s statement continues in conducting the second version of 1967 genocide of Biafrans, that these weapons will not be used against the nation’s terrorist but will be used for genocide against Biafrans in South East.

“And the case that we have brought is against those in the executive in the United States like the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken and Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin responsible for the delivery of the A-29 military aircraft. Six of them have been delivered, six have not been delivered.

“We believe that if we have a chance even by highlighting the weapons that President Biden administration which is professed in defending human rights than President Trump administration may well seek the return of the six A-29 Tucano military aircraft,” Fein said.

He added the entire Democrats in the US are being carried along on the matter, adding that Trump and Republicans did not challenge the sales of the military equipment to Nigeria.

“There is also kind of arrangement with the Democrats to stop selling weapons to Nigeria. These considerations were not available when the weapons sales were approved in 2017 because President Trump was faulted on human rights and Republicans were not going to challenge anything.

“So, the lawsuit of the delivery and sales of Tucano aircraft are in violation of the law. The lawsuit is not filed in isolation. There is a larger percentage number of Americans involved.

“(The people) reasonably fear that the A-29 Super Tucano aircraft will be used imminently to kill or maim them physically or to destroy their property. The sale is in flagrant violation of international law,” Fein said.

 The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on July 22 took delivery of the first batch of six A-29 Super Tucano aircraft from the United States.

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Armed robbers have killed a yet-to-be-identified person as they attacked two commercial banks in Iree, Osun state.

According to reports, the robbers arrived at the banks some minutes to 4pm on Thursday and operated for about 15 minutes before they fled.

A student of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, simply identified as Olaide, told Punch that the attackers escaped through Ada/Iree road shooting into the air as they fled the area.

“One person was shot. He is a man and he died instantly,” Olaide said

The police spokesperson in the state, Yemisi Opalola, was also said to have confirmed the incident.

She revealed that members of the tactical teams had been deployed to the area.

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Armed robbers have killed a yet-to-be-identified person as they attacked two commercial banks in Iree, Osun state.

According to reports, the robbers arrived at the banks some minutes to 4pm on Thursday and operated for about 15 minutes before they fled.

A student of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, simply identified as Olaide, told Punch that the attackers escaped through Ada/Iree road shooting into the air as they fled the area.

“One person was shot. He is a man and he died instantly,” Olaide said

The police spokesperson in the state, Yemisi Opalola, was also said to have confirmed the incident.

She revealed that members of the tactical teams had been deployed to the area.

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A Magistrate Court sitting in Lagos State has granted N250,000 bail to a 71-year-old man, Adeyemi Abayomi, who was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for unleashing his dogs on a female police inspector, Atim Umoh, causing her bodily harm.

SaharaReporters had earlier reported in March 2021 that Abayomi allegedly ordered his dogs to attack Umoh, who had gone to invite him to the police station for questioning.

It was gathered that Umoh had visited Adeyemi's residence at 115, Itire Road, Surulere, Lagos to summon him to the station for illegally occupying the said property but the latter ordered his dogs to feed on her flesh.

The said dogs reportedly feasted on the officer by inflicting deep injuries after which she was rushed to an undisclosed hospital due to heavy bleeding and injuries sustained.

While she was taken to the hospital, the matter was reported to the police and Adeyemi was arrested.

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu, ordered that the man be arrested and taken to the State CIID for investigation, and prosecution, while his dogs were picked up by the police Dog Section (K-9) for further action.

He also ordered the police medical team of the command to monitor the treatment and health conditions of the woman inspector who was recuperating.

Abayomi, after interrogation and having been found culpable, he was subsequently charged before the Ebute Metta Magistrates Court over an attempt to kill the policewoman by ordering his dogs to bite her.

He, however, pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor, Inspector Donny Raphael, asked the court to give a short date for hearing following the plea of the suspect, to enable the police to prove he committed the alleged offence.

The Presiding Chief Magistrate, O. G. Oghre, granted Adeyemi bail in the sum of N250,000 with two sureties in like sum.

He has been remanded in Correctional Centre at Ikoyi, Lagos, pending when he will perfect his bail conditions while the matter was adjourned to September 21, 2021.

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A Magistrate Court sitting in Lagos State has granted N250,000 bail to a 71-year-old man, Adeyemi Abayomi, who was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for unleashing his dogs on a female police inspector, Atim Umoh, causing her bodily harm.

SaharaReporters had earlier reported in March 2021 that Abayomi allegedly ordered his dogs to attack Umoh, who had gone to invite him to the police station for questioning.

It was gathered that Umoh had visited Adeyemi's residence at 115, Itire Road, Surulere, Lagos to summon him to the station for illegally occupying the said property but the latter ordered his dogs to feed on her flesh.

The said dogs reportedly feasted on the officer by inflicting deep injuries after which she was rushed to an undisclosed hospital due to heavy bleeding and injuries sustained.

While she was taken to the hospital, the matter was reported to the police and Adeyemi was arrested.

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu, ordered that the man be arrested and taken to the State CIID for investigation, and prosecution, while his dogs were picked up by the police Dog Section (K-9) for further action.

He also ordered the police medical team of the command to monitor the treatment and health conditions of the woman inspector who was recuperating.

Abayomi, after interrogation and having been found culpable, he was subsequently charged before the Ebute Metta Magistrates Court over an attempt to kill the policewoman by ordering his dogs to bite her.

He, however, pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor, Inspector Donny Raphael, asked the court to give a short date for hearing following the plea of the suspect, to enable the police to prove he committed the alleged offence.

The Presiding Chief Magistrate, O. G. Oghre, granted Adeyemi bail in the sum of N250,000 with two sureties in like sum.

He has been remanded in Correctional Centre at Ikoyi, Lagos, pending when he will perfect his bail conditions while the matter was adjourned to September 21, 2021.

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One person was killed while five others were injured when the Joint Security Taskforce operating with the Borno State Geographical Information System (BOGIS) clashed with church members during the demolition of the Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria (EYN) building in Maiduguri, the state capital.

SaharaReporters learnt that the EYN church members clashed with the state officials which led to the death of one member, leaving five others critically injured.

The clash occurred when the BOGIS officials, alongside a joint security task force, went to the church over the regulation of land administration and urban development measures, some of which had affected worship centres.

Meanwhile, the Borno State governor, Prof Babagana Zulum, condemned the shooting and killing of the church member.

The governor ordered the Borno police command to investigate the violent clash/

“The governor condemns in strong terms, the firing of gunshots by a member of security task force as well as some persons who hurled stones at the task force during an encounter on Thursday,” Zulum’s spokesman, Isa Gusau, said, while commiserating with family of the deceased and injured church members.

The governor also called on the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN in Borno State, Bishop Mohammed Naga and spoke with him to commiserate with the Christian community and leadership and family of the EYN church in Borno.

Zulum invited the CAN leadership for meeting at the Government House in Maiduguri on Thursday.

 

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One person was killed while five others were injured when the Joint Security Taskforce operating with the Borno State Geographical Information System (BOGIS) clashed with church members during the demolition of the Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria (EYN) building in Maiduguri, the state capital.

SaharaReporters learnt that the EYN church members clashed with the state officials which led to the death of one member, leaving five others critically injured.

The clash occurred when the BOGIS officials, alongside a joint security task force, went to the church over the regulation of land administration and urban development measures, some of which had affected worship centres.

Meanwhile, the Borno State governor, Prof Babagana Zulum, condemned the shooting and killing of the church member.

The governor ordered the Borno police command to investigate the violent clash/

“The governor condemns in strong terms, the firing of gunshots by a member of security task force as well as some persons who hurled stones at the task force during an encounter on Thursday,” Zulum’s spokesman, Isa Gusau, said, while commiserating with family of the deceased and injured church members.

The governor also called on the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN in Borno State, Bishop Mohammed Naga and spoke with him to commiserate with the Christian community and leadership and family of the EYN church in Borno.

Zulum invited the CAN leadership for meeting at the Government House in Maiduguri on Thursday.

 

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Aminu Bello-Masari of Katsina State had said that 10 out of the 34 Local Government Areas in the state are under the control and severe attacks by bandits daily.

The governor disclosed this when he received the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya, on a courtesy visit on Thursday.

Governor Aminu Masari

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the governor told the COAS that 10 local government areas had been under repeated attacks from bandits who killed, raped, injured the people, burnt houses and rustled cattle.

According to Bello-Masari, the Katsina State Government is totally unhappy with the current security situation in the state and therefore must be brought to an end.

He restated that the issue of security in the country is a collective responsibility not only for the security agencies.

The governor described the insecurity level in Katsina as alarming, stressing that the insecurity issue in the state must be overcome and restore normalcy in the area.

“Here in Katsina, we have created three tiers of security success, from the community to the local, up to the state level, aimed at ensuring peace in our communities.

“We want peace restored as soon as possible and allow the military to go back to the barracks for the police to take over,” he said.

The governor further assured the COAS of the state government commitments in offering all the necessary support to enable the military discharge its duties effectively.

Earlier, the COAS told the governor that he was on an operational visit to the state to interact with the troops in order to know their challenges.

According to him, the visit was also to seek for the continued support of the state government and commended the governor for his logistic and equipment support.

Yahaya assured the governor that the military would continue to work with other security agencies in the state to ensure relative peace.

He further called on the public to support the army in the discharge of their duties, especially by providing them with necessary information on criminals.

The COAS had earlier paid a similar visit to the Emir of Katsina, Abdulmuminu Kabir-Usman, who also expressed serious concern over the issue of insecurity in the state.

The Emir, therefore, appealed to the COAS to take all the necessary measures for Katsina communities to regain their peace and assured him of all the necessary support from the emirate.

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Aminu Bello-Masari of Katsina State had said that 10 out of the 34 Local Government Areas in the state are under the control and severe attacks by bandits daily.

The governor disclosed this when he received the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya, on a courtesy visit on Thursday.

Governor Aminu Masari

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the governor told the COAS that 10 local government areas had been under repeated attacks from bandits who killed, raped, injured the people, burnt houses and rustled cattle.

According to Bello-Masari, the Katsina State Government is totally unhappy with the current security situation in the state and therefore must be brought to an end.

He restated that the issue of security in the country is a collective responsibility not only for the security agencies.

The governor described the insecurity level in Katsina as alarming, stressing that the insecurity issue in the state must be overcome and restore normalcy in the area.

“Here in Katsina, we have created three tiers of security success, from the community to the local, up to the state level, aimed at ensuring peace in our communities.

“We want peace restored as soon as possible and allow the military to go back to the barracks for the police to take over,” he said.

The governor further assured the COAS of the state government commitments in offering all the necessary support to enable the military discharge its duties effectively.

Earlier, the COAS told the governor that he was on an operational visit to the state to interact with the troops in order to know their challenges.

According to him, the visit was also to seek for the continued support of the state government and commended the governor for his logistic and equipment support.

Yahaya assured the governor that the military would continue to work with other security agencies in the state to ensure relative peace.

He further called on the public to support the army in the discharge of their duties, especially by providing them with necessary information on criminals.

The COAS had earlier paid a similar visit to the Emir of Katsina, Abdulmuminu Kabir-Usman, who also expressed serious concern over the issue of insecurity in the state.

The Emir, therefore, appealed to the COAS to take all the necessary measures for Katsina communities to regain their peace and assured him of all the necessary support from the emirate.

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The Nigerian Indigenous National Alliance for Self-determination has called on the Governments of the United States, Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and other top European and Western Countries to stop the sale of arms to the Nigerian government for undermining democracy and continuously abusing human rights.

The group also urged the American government and European countries to stop the sale, adding that previous arms sold to the Muhammadu Buhari-led regime with borrowed funds had found their way into the hands of herdsmen, Boko Haram and other criminals that are currently terrorising the country.

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This was contained in a statement by the Communications manager to NINAS, Maxwell Adeleye, and obtained by SaharaReporters on Thursday.

NINAS is the umbrella body of leading regional Self-determination Groups in the South and Middle Belt of Nigeria with Ilana Omo Oodua representing the Yoruba bloc, Lower Niger Congress representing the South-South and South East, and Middle Belt Forum representing the Middle Belt bloc.

The CFM signatories who wrote the petition to the US Government and European Countries, according to the statement included a renowned Historian, Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye, former President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo; respected Varsity Don, Prof. Yusuf Turaki, Secretary-General of NINAS, Barr. Tony Nnadi, Pioneer Commissioner for Education in Osun State and National Chairman of Ilana Omo Oodua, Professor Wale Adeniran, amongst others.

Part of the letter read, “We the people of the South and Middle Belt under the aegis of Nigerian Indigenous National Alliance for Self-determination call on you to sanction the government of Nigeria for undermining democratic ethics and abusing people’s rights to live; to own property; to liberty; to dignity; to peaceful assembly and to self-determination.

“The arms being sold to the Nigerian Government with funds borrowed from your territory are now being used to kill, oppress, harass, intimidate and strangulate harmless protesters and defenseless people of the South and Middle Belt of Nigeria who are exercising their rights to self-determination and peaceful assembly.

“Boko Haram terrorists, Fulani herdsmen, and bandits are now maiming, harassing, and killing our people on the roads and in their farmlands with same arms and ammunitions bought from your countries with impunity.

“Today, peaceful protest is an aberration in Nigeria. Opposition voices are now being arrested and caged behind the bar for demanding good governance and their inalienable right to self-determination.

“We appeal to you, in the interest of peace-loving people of the South and Middle Belt of Nigeria to halt further sale of arms to the Nigerian Government until the country surrenders the sovereignty of the people back to them.

“For the record, our cardinal demand as a group is for the Nigerian Government to function as the transitional government while a United Nations supervised referendum is organised so the people can exercise their self-determination right and end to unitary Nigeria which has been turned into an apartheid state.

“We demand unconditional abolition of 1999 Constitution of Nigeria which we have shown to be a fraud perpetrated against the people of the South and Middle Belt of Nigeria given that the people did NOT make it.”

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