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Saturday, March 25, 2017
Suswam faces fresh DSS probe over six new petitions, only wife, counsel allowed access to him
Suswam faces fresh DSS probe over six new petitions
The ex-governor was said to have been emotional when his wife visited him on Thursday and said: “Help me beg the DSS and others to grant me bail on liberal terms. I need bail.”
•Ex-Benue governor begs for liberal bail terms
•Only wife, counsel allowed access to him
•Only wife, counsel allowed access to him
The Department of State Security Service(DSS) has confronted a former
Governor of Benue State, Dr. Gabriel Suswam with six new petitions.
The case haul against the governor has now risen to seven, following
the initial investigation of the ex-governor’s link with a militia
leader in the state.
Suswam, who has been finding it difficult to
meet bail conditions, has, however, begged the DSS for liberal terms at
least to regain freedom to prepare his defence.
But he is
allowed access to his wife, Yemisi Suswam, and his counsel, Mr. J. B.
Daudu (SAN), who was a former President of the Nigerian Bar
Association(NBA).
The ex-governor was said to have been emotional when his wife visited him on Thursday and said: “Help me beg the DSS and others to grant me bail on liberal terms. I need bail.”
According to findings by our correspondent, Suswam has not been able to
give the DSS “credible clues” which could lead to the arrest of a
militia leader, Terwaze Akwazza (a.k.a Gana), who has held three local
government areas captive in Benue State.
The local government areas are Logo, Katsina-Ala and Ukum.
Akwazza was alleged to have either relocated to some parts of Cross River State or Rivers State.
But it was learnt that while the DSS was considering
Friday, March 24, 2017
Full Photo of Woman Beheaded by Ritualist in Badagry
A woman was brutally murdered by a man, Taofik Adara, in Badagry after seeking spiritual help.
The
arrested suspect said he was paid N4000 by a herbalist to kill the
woman.Adara, alias Kie-Kie, was paraded at the Lagos State Police
Command Headquarters, Ikeja.
During his confession, he claimed that he chopped off the woman’s head with a cutlass given to him by his hirers.
He
added that the victim had been hypnotised by a native doctor before he
killed her while two alfas (Islamic clerics) and a herbalist held her
hands.
Adara said:
“I live at Itoga-Zeba area of Badagry. I am a woodcutter by profession and at times I assist owners of coconut plantation to help pluck coconut.
“The whole drama started on Saturday evening when one of my herbalist friends known as Manase came to me to say that he was expecting two alfas from Sango Ota. He said they would be coming with a lady and that he would pay me N4000 to help butcher the woman. He told me that the two alfas needed some fresh human parts to prepare a concoction for one of their clients.
“True to his words, the two alfas arrived at Itoga on Sunday evening. I noticed that before their arrival the two alfas had used some charms on the lady. She was just obeying their directives without asking any question. I asked her where she came from and she explained that she resided at Ota and that she had gone to seek spiritual help from one of the alfas.
“Around 9am on Sunday we took the lady deep into the forest, close to a river. Manase asked her to kneel and she did. It was while she was still kneeling that I chopped off her head with a sharp cutlass given to me by Manase.”
He likened killing the woman to butchering a ram.
He
said after severing the victim’s head from her body, Manase instructed
him to hold on to the head, while he (herbalist) removed her heart and
two hands.
“Manase told me that the two alfas needed the lady’s head, heart and two hands from the wrist. He then took away the remains of the victim to use on a later day. It was while he was cutting off other essential human parts that a policeman who resides in our area arrived. The police would have arrested four of us if he had not shouted. The three of them took to their heels when they heard the noise.”
Adara said last Sunday’s incident was his
second involvement in such act. He said he killed another person about a
year ago, adding that the victim was also brought to him by his
herbalist friend.
According to him, Manase paid him N8000 for the first job.
“The first victim was also a woman. Manase had agreed to pay me N3000 but those who came for the human parts gave me an additional N5000 making it N8000,” he added.
The suspect, who has two wives and
15 children, begged for forgiveness, stressing that he would feel bad
if any member of his family was so treated.
Police Commissioner,
Fatai Owoseni said Adara was being detained at the Homicide Section of
the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID) at Panti, Yaba,
Lagos Mainland.
He said all those involved in the Oct would be brought to book
Cynthia Osokogu was
allegedly killed on July 22, 2012, at Cosmilla Hotel, Lakeview Estate,
Festac Town, Lagos.
However, in a judgment on Thursday, Justice Olabisi Akinlade who found
the accused guilty as charged by the state sentenced them to death for
murder.
The judge held that the circumstantial evidence brought by the state in
proof of the six counts of conspiracy, murder and stealing against the
accused persons were cogent, complete, unequivocal and compelling.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Cynthia Osokogu was
allegedly killed on July 22, 2012, at Cosmilla Hotel, Lakeview Estate,
Festac Town, Lagos.
However, in a judgment on Thursday, Justice Olabisi Akinlade who found
the accused guilty as charged by the state sentenced them to death for
murder.
The judge held that the circumstantial evidence brought by the state in
proof of the six counts of conspiracy, murder and stealing against the
accused persons were cogent, complete, unequivocal and compelling.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Cynthia Osokogu was
allegedly killed on July 22, 2012, at Cosmilla Hotel, Lakeview Estate,
Festac Town, Lagos.
However, in a judgment on Thursday, Justice Olabisi Akinlade who found
the accused guilty as charged by the state sentenced them to death for
murder.
The judge held that the circumstantial evidence brought by the state in
proof of the six counts of conspiracy, murder and stealing against the
accused persons were cogent, complete, unequivocal and compelling.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Cynthia Osokogu was
allegedly killed on July 22, 2012, at Cosmilla Hotel, Lakeview Estate,
Festac Town, Lagos.
However, in a judgment on Thursday, Justice Olabisi Akinlade who found
the accused guilty as charged by the state sentenced them to death for
murder.
The judge held that the circumstantial evidence brought by the state in
proof of the six counts of conspiracy, murder and stealing against the
accused persons were cogent, complete, unequivocal and compelling.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Killers of Cynthia
Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student murdered by
her Facebook friends, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike have been
sentenced to death by a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Killers of Cynthia
Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student murdered by
her Facebook friends, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike have been
sentenced to death by a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Killers of Cynthia
Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student murdered by
her Facebook friends, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike have been
sentenced to death by a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Killers of Cynthia
Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student murdered by
her Facebook friends, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike have been
sentenced to death by a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Killers of Cynthia
Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student murdered by
her Facebook friends, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike have been
sentenced to death by a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Killers of Cynthia
Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student murdered by
her Facebook friends, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike have been
sentenced to death by a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Killers of Cynthia
Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student murdered by
her Facebook friends, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike have been
sentenced to death by a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Killers of Cynthia
Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student murdered by
her Facebook friends, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike have been
sentenced to death by a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Killers of Cynthia
Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student murdered by
her Facebook friends, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike have been
sentenced to death by a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Killers of Cynthia
Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student murdered by
her Facebook friends, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike have been
sentenced to death by a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
By Anthony Ogbonna
Killers of Cynthia Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate
student murdered by her Facebook friends, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka
Ezike have been sentenced to death by a Lagos State High Court in
Igbosere.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
By Anthony Ogbonna
Killers of Cynthia Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate
student murdered by her Facebook friends, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka
Ezike have been sentenced to death by a Lagos State High Court in
Igbosere.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
By Anthony Ogbonna
Killers of Cynthia Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate
student murdered by her Facebook friends, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka
Ezike have been sentenced to death by a Lagos State High Court in
Igbosere.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/breaking-killers-cynthia-osokogu-sentenced-death/
Breaking News: the London terrorist attacker is Nigerian
Breaking News: the London terrorist attacker is Nigerian
Adrian Russell Ajao was birth name of the Westminster attacker Khalid Masood, 52, police say .
As Detectives probe the background of the 52-year-old home-grown
terrorist - charting his descent into violent extremism, it has emerged
the attacker has a Nigeria connection.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Attacker Khalid Masood was born Adrian Russell Ajao in Kent on Christmas Day 1964
• Police officer, mother-of-two, an American and 75-year-old man were killed
• Fifty others hurt in the attack - two 'critical', one has 'life-threatening' injuries
• Nine people in custody after police raid 16 addresses
• Police have had contact with 3,500 witnesses
* Masood was a father of three children.
The man police say was responsible for the Westminster attack has been formally identified as 52-year-old Khalid Masood.
He was a father of three children.
The Metropolitan Police says he was born as Adrian Russell Ajao - but
the story appears to be more confusing still, because of a string of
alternative names or aliases he used.
He was entered onto the birth registry in the Dartford district of
Kent as Adrian Russell Elms, in the weeks after he was born on Christmas
Day 1964.
Elms was his mother's maiden name, but two years after he was born she married a man with the name Ajao.
The future killer used the surnames interchangeably before he converted to Islam and became Masood.
His mother and her husband lived for a long time in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, before moving to Wales.
Their Carmarthenshire home has been searched by detectives from the
Wales Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit. Neither of them have been
treated as suspects.
Police say that Masood was known to them, and had a string of
previous convictions, including grievous bodily harm and public order
offences.
Masood's first conviction came when he was 19 years old, in November 1983, for criminal damage.
In 2000, when he was living in Northiam, near Rye in Kent, the then
Adrian Elms was jailed for two years after admitting attacking a man
with a knife following a row in a pub.
COVER PHOTO: Ajao was shot after stabbing PC Palmer - both men were treated at the scene
He lost his temper and was reported in the local press to have slashed his victim's face, leaving an 8cm gash on his left cheek.
The trial heard that Elms had reacted to racist provocation and had been ostracised in his village.
In 2003 - after leaving prison and moving to Eastbourne - he was back in court.
He was convicted of possession of a knife, after being initially
charged with stabbing a 22-year-old man. It's believed he was then
returned to prison.
That last conviction came when he was 39 years old. In general terms,
that's quite late on in life for your average angry young man stuck in a
world of petty criminality, violence and robbing.
Did he then go straight because, like many criminals, he settled down
with a family? Or was his conversion to Islam - reportedly while in
prison - a tempering factor on his aggression?
Some young violent criminals find a way out of criminality through religion - and perhaps, at the time, that was a factor.
What's not clear is why and how he then became the man who attacked Westminster - and to what extent religion played a part.
The so-called Islamic State group has said it was behind the attack.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop : Read the transcript of one of the greatest speeches delivered by Marthin Luther King Jnr
3 April 1968
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
Memphis, Tenn.
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
Memphis, Tenn.
Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I
listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction
and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. [Laughter]
It's always good to have your closest friend and associate to say
something good about you, and Ralph Abernathy is the best friend that I
have in the world.
I'm delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined [Audience:] (Right) to go on anyhow. (Yeah, All right)
Something is happening in Memphis, something is happening in our world.
And you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time with the
possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole
of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther
King, which age would you like to live in?" I would take my mental
flight by Egypt (Yeah), and I would watch God's children in
their magnificent trek from the dark dungeons of Egypt through, or
rather, across the Red Sea, through the wilderness, on toward the
Promised Land. And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn't stop there. (All right)
I would move on by Greece, and take my
mind to Mount Olympus. And I would see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates,
Euripides, and Aristophanes assembled around the Parthenon [Applause],
and I would watch them around the Parthenon as they discussed the great
and eternal issues of reality. But I wouldn't stop there. (Oh yeah).
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