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Marwa CHAIRMAN, Chief Executive of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Marwa (retd) , has urged political parties to make drug integrity tests part of the screening requirements for aspirants seeking to contest political offices in the 2023 elections on their platforms. Marwa stated this while responding to questions from journalists at the 2022 First Quarter Best Performing Commands Awards ceremony at the agency’s national headquarters in Abuja yesterday. Marwa said: “For politicians, we have long advocated and I take the opportunity again to repeat the advocacy that when they run for public office, it demands a lot of responsibility from the person and we need to be certain if he’s a person that is already a drug addict/user who will spend all the money he’s given for public service to consume cocaine and his head will not be in a stable condition to handle the affairs he has been entrusted with.  "For this reason, we have advocated and will continu...

Pa Ayo Adebanjo. THE pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, called for the setting up of a government of national unity, ahead of the 2023 general elections, saying it will help tackle the insecurity problems in the country and "midwife a new democratic government." Afenifere leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, who presided over the meeting, said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is incapable of tackling the worsening insecurity that is threatening the country. In a communiqué issued after its meeting at Isanya Ogbo in Ogun State, the Yoruba body reviewed the various challenges facing Nigeria, noting that the situation in the country "is now so precarious that no part of the country is safe at any time."  The communiqué reads: "The situation in the country is more decisively.  Given the seriousness of the situation and because the present administration under President Muhammadu Buhari has shown that it is incapable and unwilling to...

The suspect. A 33-year-old  suspected ritualist, Afeez Odusanya, arrested by operatives of the Osun State Security Network, codenamed ‘Amotekun’ for extracting teeth of dead bodies at a burial ground, said he did it for a money ritual. Speaking when he was paraded at Amotekun command, Sabo area, Osogbo, the suspect said he started his quest for money ritual in 2016 but it failed twice after extracting teeth from two different bodies in Sagamu, Ogun State. According to him, “I was caught after I exhumed a corpse at a burial ground in Ilesha, which I want to use for money ritual. I have been exhuming corpses since 2016 and removing their parts for money ritual purposes but the rites failed. I evacuated corpses at Sagamu, Ogun State but was caught. In Osun, also was cut while trying to remove the tooth of a corpse. “It takes me about 30 minutes to remove the tooth from the corpse. It takes me lesser time with my previous experiences. “I will advise other youths attempting to venture i...

The suspects. AN Akure Chief Magistrate's Cour t, sitting in Oke Eda, Ondo State has ordered the remand of four suspected kid robbers with nicknames— Oyenusi, Anini, Osunbor— and their mothers arrested on April 10, 2022. They were arrested by the state security outfit code-named Amotekun for their serial involvement in robbing Point of Sales (PoS) operators in Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State. It would be recalled that the suspected kid robbers confessed that they have taken part in more than 46 robbery operations. The defendants include Ojo Sunday, 16, aka Oyenusi; Timilehin Femi, 13, aka Anini; Timilehin Ojo, 22, Omoniyi Ogundere 17, aka Osunbor, Ayodele Odeyemi, 18, Iyabo Femi 30 and Kehinde Ayodele, 36 The mothers of two of the defendants allegedly make charms to fortify them for operations and prevented their arrest by security agencies. They were charged and arraigned on 13-count charges bordering on conspiracy, burglary and stealing. The state prosecution led by Mr Oluwasegun Akeredo...

*Says suspect cursed son for reporting act to mother as son died following day A 17-year-old girl allegedly raped by her 28-year-old stepbrother, Tolulope Akinyemi, has told an Ondo Chief Magistrate's court how the suspect had impregnated her twice and aborted the pregnancy. The victim added that her step-brother had threatened to kill her, should she report to anybody. Narrating her ordeal, she said: ”One day, when my brother was having sex with me again, his son, Samuel, saw us and went to report to his mother. “My brother’s wife reported the case to the family and they later settled the matter. Thereafter, my brother took me to one doctor to abort the two-month pregnancy. “We all live in my father’s house. But we are from different mothers. I told the family of my intention to leave the house for my brother, so I can stay in another place. But my brother kicked against it. “My father is still alive, but he is ill. And I am the one taking care of him since our mother is dead. My ...

The scene of the incident. NO fewer than 10 persons died, while 14 others sustained injuries in two separate accidents on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Ogun State Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ahmed Umar, said in a statement in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. According to the statement, the first crash occurred at about 1425 hours on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway around Fidiwo area of Ogunmakin. “A total of 18 persons were involved and all-male adults, 13 persons were injured, while four people burnt beyond recognition were recorded from the road traffic crash.” The suspected causes of the crash, according to FRSC, were speed, tyre burst and loss of control, saying the vehicle somersaulted and wentup in flame. “The injured victims were taken to Victory Hospital, Ogere and some to Idera Hospital, Ssgamu,” he said. The second crash, which involved a Toyota Previa with number plate, LRG 165 AA, occurred at about 1755 hours around Kara turning on the Lagos-Ibadan ...

Late Sunday Oputu . A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Mr Sunday Frank-Oputu, was reportedly shot dead by gunmen at his Baybridge residence in the Yenizue-Gene suburb of Yenagoa, the state capital, yesterday. It was gathered that Frank-Oputu’s wife and children were away for a church vigil when the gunmen stormed their home and shot him through his window while asleep. Frank-Oputu, an indigene of Igbomotoru in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state, was in his early fifties when he met his untimely death. According to the source, the deceased was at the forefront of the struggle to extricate his community from the firm control of some persons allegedly behind illegal oil bunkering activities in the Igbomotoru enclave. Contacted, spokesman of the Bayelsa State Police Command, Mr Asinim Butswat, confirmed the incident, saying the police have launched a manhunt for the alleged killers. Meanwhile, Governor Douye Diri has directed the police i...