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CCTV exposes Rivers police kill painter by roadside | DETAILS

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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">A painter, <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Mr. Ese Akpan">Mr. Ese Akpan</a>, had told his family on Tuesday that he was going out to get the money owed him by a construction company.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">He, however, did not get to his destination, as he was killed by a stray bullet from a police team escorting a bullion van to a bank.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">According to a Closed-Circuit Television camera, which captured the scene, Ese was shot at exactly 1.45pm on Old Aba Road, Rumuomasi, Port-Harcourt, <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Rivers State">Rivers State</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">PUNCH Metro, which obtained footage of the incident, observed that Camera 4 captured Ese as he<br style="zoom: 1;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"></a>walked along the road while the police van came behind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">The second side, captured by Camera 1, showed a woman with a baby standing at the bus stop as Ese approached.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">There was a sudden gunshot which hit the 60-year-old, while the frightened woman fled the sight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">About two minutes afterwards, some sympathisers, including workers of First Rivers Hospital Limited, a private facility in front of which the incident occurred, rushed to help the victim.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">An official at the hospital, who did not want to be identified, said a few minutes after the victim was taken to the hospital, a man came in to check on him.<br style="zoom: 1;" />He said,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“The man said the escort team was coming from an eatery at Rumukoro where the operatives had gone to pick some money. He said they were heading towards a bank in the area and he was driving behind the van when they fired the shot. He said they usually did that when they approached where they were taking money to. Unfortunately, the man was hit by the bullet. He told us to save his life.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">A senior official at the hospital, who spoke for the management, said efforts by the hospital to save Ese were abortive.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“Our doctors, nurses and matrons were all involved in the battle to save his life. He lost a lot of blood. The bullet destroyed his internal organs. We took him to the theatre, and our workers even donated three pints of blood to save him, but he died. He was able to give us his name and address before passing on,” she added.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">She noted that the hospital reported the matter to a police station in the area.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">The widow of the victim, Mrs. Christiana Akpan, said when she attempted to report the case at the Area Command, Moscow Road, she was chased out of the command.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">She added that when she went to the governor’s office, she was not given any audience.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">Christiana told PUNCH Metro that her husband had left the house with a plan to demand payment of a debt owed him by a construction company.<br style="zoom: 1;" />She said,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“He worked as a painter and had executed a project for a construction company last year. He used the money that we saved for our house rent to complete the project. The firm paid him part, but still owed him about N266,900.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“Since that time, he had been going to ask for the balance without any result. Our landlady recently served us a notice to quit and he became desperate to recover the money.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“On Tuesday, January 31, around 1pm, we both left the house and when we got to Mile 1, we parted ways. I went to see a friend, while he went to the company. It was not up to one hour that I was called that my husband had been shot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“I went to report at the area command, but immediately I said policemen shot my husband, I was chased out. I went to the governor’s office and I was sent away like a thief.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">PUNCH Metro learnt that the deceased, who was survived by four children, had been taken by the family to a mortuary in his hometown in the Essien Udium Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">The family’s first child, Kingsley, demanded that the government bring the culprits to book and pay the damages.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“Before my dad died, he told me that he was shot by the police. The police are silent about the case and  have refused to do anything. We want the government to bury him and pay damages,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">Another member of the family, Blessing, asked the authorities not to sweep the case under the carpet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Omoni Nnamdi, said he was not aware of the incident, promising to get back to PUNCH Metro.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">Punch reports he had, however, yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.</span></div>
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CCTV exposes Rivers police kill painter by roadside | DETAILS

A painter, Mr. Ese Akpan , had told his family on Tuesday that he was going out to get the money owed him by a construction company. ...

The Naira Crashes Woefully Against Dollar 16/02/2017 – See Latest Exchange Rate

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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">The <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Naira">Naira</a> has crashed woefully against the <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="dollar">dollar</a> in the parallel market leaving the local currency in shambles. The local currency lost N3 from N507 it traded on Tuesday to exchange at N510 against the U.S <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="dollar">dollar</a> on Wednesday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">At the Bureau De Change segment, the <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Naira">Naira</a> closed at N399 to a <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="dollar">dollar</a>, a CBN stipulated rate. While the Pound Sterling and the Euro-single currency traded at N626 and N537.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">On the interbank market, the <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Naira">Naira</a> traded at N305 to the <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="dollar">dollar</a>, the same rate it traded on Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu said on Tuesday that the nation lost about $100 billion to militant attacks last year, which according to him has reduced foreign exchange revenue by the most in recent time and hinder the Central Bank of Nigeria from consistently servicing the economy with adequate forex.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">In a separate but related news, Nigerian exports to India dropped by 54 percent in January, meaning Nigeria is losing about 60 percent of her oil’s monthly revenue going by current crude oil prices.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">Therefore, “until production level increased, the exchange rate will continue to suffer and so will the economy as both consumer prices and consumer spending will be affected,” analysts at Investors King Ltd., stated.</span></div>
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Lagos Bus Conductors To Start Wearing Uniforms With Badges In March

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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">The National President of Bus Conductors Association of Nigeria, Mr. Israel Adeshola, said that the <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Lagos">Lagos</a> State government has approved wearing of uniforms and badges.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">He said that the use of badges and wearing of uniforms by over 3,000 bonafide members got the approval of the government on Monday, February 13, 2017.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">He said, “We are in collaboration with <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Lagos">Lagos</a> state government on the issue of badges and uniforms for commercial conductors, which was finalised on Monday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">“This is because we don’t want to start without the government’s approval. So by the first week of March, we will roll them out.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Adeshola explained that the introduction of uniforms, name tags and badges had become necessary to enforce decorum and ensure the safety of duly registered members and members of the public.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">According to him, with the vital information on the badge, any conductor involved in a crime can easily be identified and apprehended.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">NAN quoted the national president as saying that the novel idea was being experimented in Lagos state before other states can take a cue.</span></span></div>
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It’s God’s will that I become an armed robber — Suspect Reveals

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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 26.18px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">A robbery suspect shocked newsmen and the police when he said he believes it’s God’s will that he become an armed robber after he was arrested for robbery barely two months after he left prison for the same crime. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">According to Hussein Mohammed, there is nothing that happens without God’s knowledge as he is the one that created good and evil.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">The trio of Salawu Nurudeen, Hussein Mohammed and Ogunbiyi Kola a.k.a. Timmy are ex-jailbirds.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">TheNation reports that while Nurudeen left prison in July 2016, the other two came out in August same year. But with their recent arrest along with two others by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in<br style="zoom: 1;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"></a>Oyo State Police Command, it is most likely that they have paved way for their return to the prison.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">According to the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mr Sam Adegbuyi, Nurudeen (25), Mohammed (35), Timmy (23), Oriowo Ayo (28) and Ahmadu Garuba (30) were arrested in November 2016 for armed robbery.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">They had gone to Arafat Area of Saki town and robbed a family of their valuables, including cash, a Toyota Corolla car, phones and laptops at gunpoint.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">The victim, Alhaji Badmus (surname withheld), who spoke with Metro said:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“The armed robbers entered my compound in Saki on November 21, 2016 at about 7.45p.m., and held my family members hostage. As I was returning home at about 9.50p.m., I called my wife and daughter, unknown to me that they had been held hostage, though they allowed them to use their phones so that I would not suspect anything.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“As I drove in, two of the armed robbers (pointed at them among the suspects) jumped out, put a gun at my chest and asked me to cooperate with them. As I looked at them, wondering what was happening, one of them said ‘continue looking at our faces; we have been told that you are very stubborn,’ warning me of the consequences of the action I might be thinking of taking as my wife and other children were taken hostage inside the house.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“I surrendered to them and as we entered into my residence, one of them gave me a slap on the neck. They demanded for gold, money, receipt to my plasma TV and wristwatches I bought from Makkah, Saudi Arabia, when I went on holy pilgrimage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“They asked me to lie down and started ransacking my house. When they were through, they locked me up in a room with my family members and left. They went with six phones, my daughter’s laptop, clothings, my wife’s gold jewellery and my car.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">After the escape of the armed robbers, a distress call was made to the police, which was followed up by a unit of SARS at Ogbomoso/Oyo axis, leading to the arrest of the suspects.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">Recovered from them were an English-made pistol, six live ammunition, a Toyota Corolla car belonging to the victim, a Microsoft cell phone and two wristwatches.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">One of the suspects, Nurudeen, confessed to being an armed robber.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“It is true we went to rob. I did not enter the victim’s house with other gang members; I stayed outside. His car was handed over to me after the operation. I met Timmy and Mohammed a.k.a Goodluck in Ilesa prison.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">When we got talking, I told them I needed a vehicle and they promised to work with me after leaving the prison to achieve my desire. I was a driver before I went to prison for fighting. I was arrested with the car we collected from our victim on the same day at Sabe on Saki-Iseyin Road.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">Another suspec</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">t, Mohammed from Gombe State, also confessed to being an armed robber.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">Metro learnt that he was arrested in 2005 for robbery and remanded in Agodi prison in Ibadan till his release in 2006. In 2012, he reportedly robbed in Ilesa and was in prison till July 2016 when he got his freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">But Mohammed said:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">I went to prison because the police were looking for my friends whom they suspected of committing armed robbery.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">When asked why he chose robbery after his experience as prison inmate, the suspect replied:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;"> “<b style="zoom: 1;">I believe it is God’s will that I graduated to being an armed robber in the prison</b>. There is nothing that happens without God’s knowledge. He is the one that created good and evil.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">Speaking further, he said:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“I knew Timmy in a hemp joint at Ojoo area of Ibadan. A man, an Alhaji who said he was a Tokunbo dealer at Ago Are told us he needed vehicles and gave us a gun to snatch vehicles for him. A guy we met in the prison linked us with Alhaji. I spent three years in prison and came out in July 2016. This is the first time I would be working for Alhaji.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“I will blame the police for charging me court over a fight in which I stabbed someone with a bottle. I knew it was not a good deed, but it was anger that pushed me into the act. It was when I went to prison that I became connected with armed robbers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">“In the prison, I connected with Nurudeen and one Ojo who linked us with Alhaji in Ago Are town. I came out of prison in August 2016. I was the one keeping the gun that was given to us by Alhaji.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">Metro learnt that Nurudeen, Mohammed and Timmy were charged to Saki Magistrates’ court on February 8 and were remanded in Oyo Prisons. The case was adjourned till April 22, pending an advice from the Director of Public Prosecution. (DPP).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">A 25-year old year man, Israel Bassey has been arrested and charged before a Lagos court for allegedly attacking a lady, Azeezat Adigun and inflicted an injury on her head with a <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com.ng/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="cutlass">cutlass</a> for <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com.ng/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="refusing">refusing</a> to befriend him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">The incident happened at Olabisi Street off Liasu Road in Idimu, Lagos where both the victim and the suspect reside.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Akwa Ibom State-born Bassey was arrested alongside 39-year old Mercy Edwin for her undisclosed role in the incident which left Azeezat badly injured.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">On 11 February, Police source said Bassey reportedly brought out <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com.ng/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="cutlass">cutlass</a> during a disagreement with Azeezat and inflicted a deep cut on her head. She fell down and was rushed to a hospital where she was operated for several hours.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">P.M.EXPRESS gathered that both Bassey and Azeezat live in the same area and Bassey had made a move to build a relationship with her. However, he was rebuffed as Azeezat said she would not want to have anything to do with men living in the same area with her and besides, they were not from the same background.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">But on the day the incident happened, it was learnt the two had a disagreement and Bassey who had nursed anger over the rejection did not waste time to vent his anger on her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">The matter was reported to the police at Ikotun division and the suspects were arrested and charged to court with assault under the Criminal Code.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Controversial <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com.ng/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Ghanaian counselor">Ghanaian counselor</a> <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com.ng/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="George Lutterodt">George Lutterodt</a> has asked pastors to distribute condoms to the youth in their churches on Valentine’s Day instead of organising evening programs in an attempt to prevent the congregation from celebrating the day in the manner they want.<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-style: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">It appears the aim of celebrating Valentine’s Day has been shifted from showing love to acts of promiscuity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">The development has led to churches holding programs in the evening to engage congregants series of activities including exchange of gifts, choreography and poetry recital.</span></span><div style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">But Counselor Lutterodt believes church activities can never prevent the current generation from<br style="zoom: 1;" />having sex on Valentine’s Day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Speaking to GhanaWeb, Counselor Lutterodt said the church should advise members on why to abstain from sex and distribute condoms to those who cannot abstain so they can have safe sex.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">“Valentine is meant for some category of people and not everybody. Some churches have got it wrong. They think organising a program on Val’s Day can keep these popcorn boys from doing whatever they want to so. It’s a shame. Because the boys will do whatever they are supposed to do after 10 o’clock. The best is to share condoms for them,” he noted.Asked if that is not a way of fueling fornication, the Reverend replied in the negative.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr Flynn’s departure less than one month into the Trump administration marks an extraordinarily early shakeup in the US President’s senior team of advisers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">In his resignation letter, Mr Flynn said he held numerous calls with the Russian ambassador during<br style="zoom: 1;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"></a>the transition and gave “incomplete information” about those discussions to Vice-President Mike Pence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“In the course of my duties as the incomingnational security adviser, I held numerous phone calls with foreign counterparts, ministers and ambassadors,” Mr Flynn said in his resignation letter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“These calls were to facilitate a smooth transition and begin to build the necessary relationships between the President, his advisers and foreign leaders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Such calls are standard practice in any transition of this magnitude.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Unfortunately, because of the fast pace of events, I inadvertently briefed the Vice-President elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador. I have sincerely apologised to the President and the Vice-President, and they have accepted my apology.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr Pence, apparently relying on information from Mr Flynn, initially said the national security adviser had not discussed sanctions with the Russian envoy, though Mr Flynn later conceded the issue may have come up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Donald Trump has named retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg as the actingnational security adviser.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; line-height: 26.18px;">Awww, shame on bad people. Lol, after </span>Geoffrey York<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; line-height: 26.18px;"> tweeted today that </span>President Trump<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; line-height: 26.18px;"> was going to speak to Nigerian President, a lot of people doubted it and even said Trump should do us a favour by speaking with acting President Osinbajo since the President is not home. The subs went on and on, lol. But it happened,</span>President Trump<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; line-height: 26.18px;"> spoke to our very own President this afternoon in London and even invited him to Washington based on a time they both agreed on. Hehehe it happened people.</span></span></span>

President Trump Invites Buhari To Washington

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Presidency reveals details of Buhari’s phone conversation with Donald Trump

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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"></a>The two leaders discussed ways to improve cooperation in the fight against terrorism through provision of necessary equipment. President Trump encouraged President Buhari to keep up the good work he is doing, and also commended him for the efforts made in rescuing 24 of the Chibok Girls and the strides being taken by the Nigerian military.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">President Trump assured the Nigerian President of US readiness to cut a new deal in helping Nigeria in terms of military weapons to combat terrorism. President Trump also invited President Buhari to Washington at a mutually convenient date.</span></span></div>

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2 Die, 29 Vehicles Burnt As Tanker Catches Fire In Apapa

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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two persons are feared dead after a tanker loaded with petrol skidded off the road and spilled its content at Coconut under bridge along Apapa Road, Lagos State, and later caught fire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">No fewer than 29 vehicles parked in a mechanic workshop under the bridge were also burnt, while two cars inside a garage in the area were razed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Punch Metro learnt that trouble started after some miscreants besieged the tanker, which fell at about 8pm on Sunday, to scoop fuel into jerrycans</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">They were reportedly running away from the scene when a jerrycan fell from one of them and subsequently caught fire.<br style="zoom: 1;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was gathered that two persons were trapped in the fire, which spread back to the scene of the accident and caused the tanker to explode.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Punch correspondent, who visited the scene on Monday, counted 25 burnt vehicles apart from the tanker as mechanics lamented their losses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the victims, Friday Asuquo, said five vehicles brought by his customers for repairs were destroyed by the inferno, which raged for about two hours.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">He said, “I came to park a Toyota Matrix around 7pm yesterday (Sunday). As I got home, I was called on the telephone that a tanker fell and it resulted in a fire incident. The fire didn’t break out immediately. Some area boys were scooping fuel from the tanker and it led to a fire incident.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Apart from the Toyota Matrix, three Jeeps of different brands, and a Big Daddy Toyota brought by my customers were burnt. One of my customers has come, I am still expecting others to come for us to discuss. About 30 vehicles were burnt in this workshop. Some have been removed.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another mechanic, Shola Adebayo, told Punch Metro that he was relaxing at home when his apprentice called him. He said four of his customers’ vehicles – Toyota Sienna, Toyota Camry, a pick-up and ML – were razed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It was a great loss to me and I don’t know what to tell the owners of the vehicles. My income is not enough to cater to my family; but I believe God is in control.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Two of those scooping fuel suffered serious burns, but I don’t know whether they are alive or dead,” he added.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">A member of a union at the garage, Sulyman Olanrewaju, said the fire started about an hour after the tanker fell.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Olanrewaju said, “Speeding caused the accident. Then hoodlums began to scoop fuel from the tanker. Some people tried to chase them away. In the process, one of them fell while running away with the fuel in a jerrycan and it resulted in the fire. The boy was caught in the fire and was rushed to a hospital. I am not sure that he will survive.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The two cars that got burnt here were brought for repainting. It was unfortunate that the hoodlums engaged in this kind of act to wreak havoc on the property of innocent people.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">A sympathiser, who did not disclose his name, lamented the losses caused by the accident, saying that the tanker driver fled the scene.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Punch Metro learnt that it took the joint effort of officials of the Lagos State Fire Service and the state emergency management agency to put out the fire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">The fire service director, Rasaq Fadipe, said the driver had wanted to negotiate a sharp bend under the bridge, adding that firefighters from four stations were deployed to put out the fire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">He said, “The vehicle might have just left a depot and was going towards Mile 2. The driver lost control of the vehicle and the tanker fell, resulting in an explosion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The fire trailed the spilled content to a mechanic yard, where over 50 vehicles were parked. Twenty one caught fire, but we were able to prevent over 30 vehicles from being burnt. Fire stations from Alausa, Sari Iganmu, Ilupeju and Isolo responded. There was no casualty.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fadipe also advised motorists against speeding and urged them to always have functioning fire extinguishers in their vehicles.</span></span></div>
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2 Die, 29 Vehicles Burnt As Tanker Catches Fire In Apapa

Two persons are feared dead after a tanker loaded with petrol skidded off the road and spilled its content at Coconut under bridge alon...