My Parents Knew I Was A Robber-Suspect

A suspected member of an armed robbery gang, Mutiu Rasheed, who was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command, has said his parents were aware that he was an armed robber.
Punch Metro learnt that Rasheed, along with two others ─ Ahmed Musiliu and Sodiq Dada ─ were nabbed by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad on February 5.

Our correspondent gathered that the three suspects were rounded up by the police in the Isheri Berger area ─ a boundary area between Lagos and Ogun states.

The police said the suspects, who had confessed to the crime, made use of four locally-made guns, two of which had reportedly been recovered.


Our correspondent learnt that Musiliu was first arrested by the police before he led detectives to apprehend the others.

The police added, however, that the gang had other members who were still at large.

During interrogation, the suspects were said to have confessed to have organised robberies during which many vehicles were stolen, including a Toyota Highlander, a Toyota Camry and a Toyota Sienna.

Speaking with PUNCH Metro, 22-year-old Rasheed said his parents, who knew about his robbery operations, had warned him to return the guns in his possession, but he refused.

He said,
“I stayed in Ketu with my parents where I worked in an aluminium company before joining the gang.My mother first knew about this when other gang members came to our house to report to her that I had fled with their guns to Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.
“She then called me on the phone to return the guns, but I did not listen. I was using the guns to go on operations in the Ijebu Ode area.When we went out as a gang, we snatched vehicles which were usually Toyota products.
“We sold them, but the gang did not give me my correct share. Since the police arrested me, my parents have not come to check on me because they are aware of all my activities.”
Also, Musiliu, 23, who had served a one-year jail term at the Ikoyi Prison, said he had been going out with robbery gangs for over six years.

He said,
 “In 2008, I was arrested for armed robbery. We were five members in that gang. I was sent to the Ikoyi Prison where I served one-year jail term. We had robbed in the Ikorodu, Oshodi, Ketu and Ijebu Ode areas.
“When I came out of prison, I joined another gang. The gang leader provided the guns. I was part of the gang that robbed a Toyota Camry vehicle in Ikorodu area. We sold the vehicle at a giveaway price and I was given N100, 000.”
Dada, the third suspect, said he was formerly working as a commercial bus driver before he was lured to join the gang.

He added that he had also gone on several operations.

Military Nabs Boko Haram Terrorist disguised as a woman,recover weapons(Photos)

The Nigerian Military caught a terrorist disguised as a woman during their cordon and search operation in Baga..They also recovered weapons and heavy artillery abandoned by the fleeing terrorists ..More photos below

Villagers burn suspected bank robber to death in Benue( Graphic Pics)

Pandemonium broke out in a border village of Konshisha and Oju local government areas of Benue State when a suspected criminal, who was among the armed robbers that attacked a bank, was burnt to death.Leadership ng reports

Recall that suspected gunmen, armed with dangerous weapons and ammunition, numbering about 20, had, weekend, raided the First Bank branch in Vandeikya LGA of the state, carting away huge sums of money, and killed several others in the process.


The dare devil robberse had a gun battle with the police in the area while trying to escape. The vehicle conveying the robbers, however, crash landed and somersaulted into the bush.
It was gathered that many of the robbers fled with bullet wounds and unfortunately for one of them, was apprehended by the villagers, and instantly set ablaze.

A villager who simply gave his name as Ejum told newsmen yesterday that, “One of the robbers who was trying to escape while the gun battle with the police was ongoing fell into the hands of the villagers and was given juggle justice”.

According to Ejum, the arrested culprit had confessed to being a member of the robbery gang and that the revelation angered the locals who could not wait for police intervention as they hung tyre on his neck and set it on fire

Actor Hanks Anuku denies being HIV positive

Popular Nollywood actor, Hanks Anuku has denied viral report of him being HIV positive and infecting his wife .The actor who has since relocated to Ghana to the NET, he is absolutely HIV free
‘I think it’s just a malicious rumour being spread around and it’s definitely fueled by a lot of pain and jealousy, which explains why it has been so embellished with such fallacies. My wife called me and we’ve spoken about this. She’s a very calm person, and I’m so proud because we understand each other. We know the story is false, and she’s taking it so lightly but it hurts. I’ve never had any such sexcapades in my life; I don’t even hang out with women like that. People that know me will attest to the fact that I have principles and I have self-control when it comes to women. So, I don’t have H.I.V or any infection of any kind

Groom dies in strange auto crash on way to marriage introduction

This is an interesting story, though they didn't mention the names of the people involved. Written by Patience Egwuwa for Sunday Sun. Read below...

While people were busy celebrating love last Val’s Day, a family somewhere in Ebonyi was suddenly overtaken by grief over what would have been the beginning of a beautiful love story between their daughter and the man she was bringing home for introduction.

The young woman, a native of Uburu in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, was bringing home her suitor when only a few poles to her family house, the vehicle they were traveling in had an accident and she watched helplessly as the one she loved took the last breath.

The accident happened at Enufaith in Umunaga Eweze, just before the Ohaozara West Development Council in Uburu. They were traveling in a commercial bus.

Strangely, the young man, an indigene of Abia State, was the only occupant of the bus that died in the accident. The intending couple had traveled alongside a few family members of the man from Aba for the event that was to hold just a few meters from the scene of the accident.

According to an eyewitness account, the passengers claimed that the driver was trying to avoid hitting an old woman who was crossing the road when he lost control and hit the wall of a building.
The eyewitness, Frank Ori said he ran out of his house when he heard the deafening bang of the vehicle hitting the wall.

“I heard when people were shouting and so I ran out of my house to the place. The passengers were talking about a woman. When we asked whom they were referring to, they explained that while they were coming an old woman was crossing the road.

“So, the driver tried to avoid hitting her. But seeing that he was about to hit a building, he turned the steering suddenly and in the process the vehicle somersaulted and hit another wall. But when we came out, we could not see any woman fitting the description they gave. We asked people and they said that they did not see any woman like that.

“Strangely again, out of all the passengers, it was only the young man that was killed. The wife-to-be, who was also traveling with him,  suffered only a small glass cut. They were all coming in the same vehicle. It was only that man that died from the accident. The girl he was going to marry had only a small cut, along with one other woman. Every other person in the bus was safe. It was just the three of them that were rushed to the hospital,” Ori said.

Sunday Sun gathered that the father of the girl was late, while her mother resided in the village. The girl was resident in Aba where she met the late suitor. Ori explained that when rescuers made to move the man out of the damaged vehicle, they discovered that he was not talking.

“It happened that when the vehicle hit the wall, part of the block that fell from the wall fell on the man’s head. It was lying on his head. Then we rushed him alongside the wife-to-be and one other woman that sustained an injury to the Presbyterian Joint Hospital in Uburu. But before getting to the hospital, he gave up the ghost,” Ori said.

I and my team underestimated Boko Haram – president Jonathan

A renowned professor of Agriculture ,who was murdered in the hands of police who mistook him for a Boko Haram kingpin ,calls to question the tactics adopted by our security agencies to fight insurgency.

On Sunday, February, 15, 2015, the Kano State Police Command announced that its men killed two men believed to be Boko Haram kingpins. The deceased, Ahmed Falaki the police said, on Saturday attacked a police station in Kibiya LGA of the state.

According the Command’s spokesman Magaji Majia, some insurgents on motorcycles had at about 5.30pm the previous day attacked Kibiya police station.

    “On the spot, two of the sect members were killed and two others were arrested by the villagers. The remaining members ran towards Ningi road that leads to Bauchi State.”

Majia, an Assistant Supritendent of Police (ASP) announced, apparently to the relief of the people of the state, that the two insurgents arrested by the villagers had been handed over to them and were being interrogated.


Few hours after the police briefing, a call came from a lecturer in Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria. The caller told THISDAY that they haboured the fear that the police may have mistaken Ahmed Falaki, a professor of agriculture in ABU, for a Boko Haram member.
Said the caller,

    “The police have announced that they killed two Boko Haram members on the Sumaila-Kimbiya road. We heard that Professor Falaki’s jeep was snatched on the same road by Boko Haram members at about the same time.”

The caller expressed fears that some inept policemen may have killed innocent Falaki and tagged him a Boko Haram kingpin.He added that the confusion in ABU was heightened by reports that Falaki’s Toyota SUV was abandoned by unknown persons in Burra, in neighbouring Bauchi State.

Shortly after the call, THISDAY contacted the Bauchi State Police spokesman Haruna Mohammed. The officer confirmed that his Command recovered a white Toyota Hilux SUV with ABU Institute of Agriculture inscribed on it.
According to Mohammed, the vehicle was seized in neighbouring Kano State. He however said he couldn’t comment on the occupants of the recovered Toyota truck.

    “All I can tell you is that our men recovered a white Toyota Hilux jeep believed to belong to Ahmadu Bello University. We don’t know who the occupants were or their whereabouts. That is all we know,”

The following day, a clearer picture of what happened emerged after THISDAY contacted Kano State Police Command PRO Majia.
Tasked to comment on the allegation that the Boko Haram kingpin they killed was actually Professor Falaki, he became defensive.
The police spokesman began by “correcting the impression that the men who attacked Kibiya police station were Boko Haram.” He said,

    “Let us just assume they were gunmen.Some gunmen attacked a police station in Kibiya. During the exchange of gunfire, one of the gunmen was killed. The others escaped.”

He insisted that “the professor (Falaki) was attacked by a mob.

    “We tried to rescue him, but unfortunately he was killed before we got there. We were however able to rescue the person accompanying the professor. He has been taken to hospital for treatment,” explained the police spokesman.

Majia, however, failed to confirm the village where Falaki was allegedly killed, or if the police made any arrests.
When THISDAY eventually got one of the professor’s children,  he dismissed the police position as “a fairy tale and an afterthought.”
According to Falaki’s son,  “our father had travelled to Yadagungume in Ningi LGA of Bauchi State. On the trip was his younger brother, Abbas, and his official driver.”

Falaki’s ordeal, said the son,  began after his official Toyota Hilux SUV was seized by some gunmen suspected to be the same people who attacked Kibiya police station.
According to the son,

    “Prof called about 6pm on Saturday that they had a flat tyre in Fala village in Tudun Wada LGA of Kano State. He, however, later assured that the tyre was being fixed and that they would soon hit the road.”

According to the son, it was shortly after fixing the vehicle that some gunmen on motorcycles sped past the professor.

    “They turned back and pointed a gun at my father, his driver and brother. They demanded the key to the Hilux jeep. My father asked the driver to hand over the key. The gunmen now asked if the jeep had an immobilizer. The driver said ‘No.’
    “Not convinced, the gunmen started the jeep and revved it for about five minutes. When the engine didn’t go off, they loaded their motorcycles and sped off.”

THISDAY gathered from the driver that shortly after the gunmen sped off with the Hilux SUV, Falaki called up one of his brothers and narrated their ordeal. Prof, he said, promised that they would get a commercial vehicle and continue their trip to Kano.However, shortly after the robbery, said the driver, the villagers became “funny.”.
He said,

    “They began interrogating us on what we knew about the  Boko Haram people whom we just gave our jeep to, as if we were suspects. None of our explanations appeared to convince them.

    “We were led to the police station. There, the police accused Prof of being a Boko Haram kingpin. He showed them his ABU identity card. On sighting the card, the police claimed it was fake. All attempts by Prof to convince them he was a university lecturer fell on deaf ears.
    “At this point, one of the villagers hit Prof on the head with a big stick. They also hit Abbas, but concentrated more on Prof. The villagers then took turns to hit Prof with all manner of weapons in the police station until he died,” said the driver.

According to the driver, “After Prof was confirmed dead, the police and villagers began jubilating that they had killed a Boko Haram kingpin. They said we would meet our end in Kano SARS (Special Anti Robbery Squad).

    “When the SARS men came, Prof’s body was dumped in the back of a pickup. Abbas, who sustained serious injuries, and I were handcuffed and driven all night to Kano.
    “Prof’s body was dumped in the mortuary in the early hours of Sunday. Abbas was admitted in hospital but with handcuffs and leg iron,” relayed the driver.

One daughter of the murdered Professor described the incident as “the most traumatic event of our lives.” She said,

    “After our father called that his jeep was stolen but that they would get a commercial vehicle to bring them to Kano we were, expectedly, relieved.
    “However, our relief gave way to panic when they didn’t return that night. Worse still was that all their cell phones kept ringing out.
    “On Sunday morning, we went to the Accident and Emergency wards of most hospitals. No news. My brothers then decided to go to the mortuary. There they found my dad’s body. It was the attendants who told them the police brought my dad’s body early on Sunday morning.The question now shifted to the whereabouts of Abbas and the driver. The morgue attendants then gave the number of the SARS officer who brought my dad’s body.”

She continued,

     “For a while the SARS officer didn’t pick our calls. He later called back that my dad was a Boko Haram member. That Abbas and the driver were suspects and would soon be interrogated.
    “It was at this point that we informed ABU authorities and prominent lecturers in ABU and Bayero University. They called to inform the police they just killed Africa’s leading agriculturist,” she said.‘It was when the police realised their grave mistake of killing a professor that they quickly released his body for burial. This was  about 3.30pm on Sunday. He was buried later on the same Sunday,” she added.

THISDAY checks revealed that Falaki began teaching in ABU in 1975. He is reputed to be one of Africa’s leading agriculturists, Falaki, according to his profile on the ABU website, in the course of research visited 75 countries in five continents. The professor had over 85 published works to his credit.

Falaki’s friends and associates described the murdered don as a “jolly good fellow who ran an open door policy to all.”
His immediate family has sent a petition to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mr. Suleiman Abba. The family has demanded an exhaustive investigation into the circumstances that led to the cold blooded murder of their 66- year old breadwinner.

How renowned ABU Professor was killed after being mistaken for Boko Haram Kingpin

A renowned professor of Agriculture ,who was murdered in the hands of police who mistook him for a Boko Haram kingpin ,calls to question the tactics adopted by our security agencies to fight insurgency.

On Sunday, February, 15, 2015, the Kano State Police Command announced that its men killed two men believed to be Boko Haram kingpins. The deceased, Ahmed Falaki the police said, on Saturday attacked a police station in Kibiya LGA of the state.

According the Command’s spokesman Magaji Majia, some insurgents on motorcycles had at about 5.30pm the previous day attacked Kibiya police station.

    “On the spot, two of the sect members were killed and two others were arrested by the villagers. The remaining members ran towards Ningi road that leads to Bauchi State.”

Majia, an Assistant Supritendent of Police (ASP) announced, apparently to the relief of the people of the state, that the two insurgents arrested by the villagers had been handed over to them and were being interrogated.


Few hours after the police briefing, a call came from a lecturer in Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria. The caller told THISDAY that they haboured the fear that the police may have mistaken Ahmed Falaki, a professor of agriculture in ABU, for a Boko Haram member.
Said the caller,

    “The police have announced that they killed two Boko Haram members on the Sumaila-Kimbiya road. We heard that Professor Falaki’s jeep was snatched on the same road by Boko Haram members at about the same time.”

The caller expressed fears that some inept policemen may have killed innocent Falaki and tagged him a Boko Haram kingpin.He added that the confusion in ABU was heightened by reports that Falaki’s Toyota SUV was abandoned by unknown persons in Burra, in neighbouring Bauchi State.

Shortly after the call, THISDAY contacted the Bauchi State Police spokesman Haruna Mohammed. The officer confirmed that his Command recovered a white Toyota Hilux SUV with ABU Institute of Agriculture inscribed on it.
According to Mohammed, the vehicle was seized in neighbouring Kano State. He however said he couldn’t comment on the occupants of the recovered Toyota truck.

    “All I can tell you is that our men recovered a white Toyota Hilux jeep believed to belong to Ahmadu Bello University. We don’t know who the occupants were or their whereabouts. That is all we know,”

The following day, a clearer picture of what happened emerged after THISDAY contacted Kano State Police Command PRO Majia.
Tasked to comment on the allegation that the Boko Haram kingpin they killed was actually Professor Falaki, he became defensive.
The police spokesman began by “correcting the impression that the men who attacked Kibiya police station were Boko Haram.” He said,

    “Let us just assume they were gunmen.Some gunmen attacked a police station in Kibiya. During the exchange of gunfire, one of the gunmen was killed. The others escaped.”

He insisted that “the professor (Falaki) was attacked by a mob.

    “We tried to rescue him, but unfortunately he was killed before we got there. We were however able to rescue the person accompanying the professor. He has been taken to hospital for treatment,” explained the police spokesman.

Majia, however, failed to confirm the village where Falaki was allegedly killed, or if the police made any arrests.
When THISDAY eventually got one of the professor’s children,  he dismissed the police position as “a fairy tale and an afterthought.”
According to Falaki’s son,  “our father had travelled to Yadagungume in Ningi LGA of Bauchi State. On the trip was his younger brother, Abbas, and his official driver.”

Falaki’s ordeal, said the son,  began after his official Toyota Hilux SUV was seized by some gunmen suspected to be the same people who attacked Kibiya police station.
According to the son,

    “Prof called about 6pm on Saturday that they had a flat tyre in Fala village in Tudun Wada LGA of Kano State. He, however, later assured that the tyre was being fixed and that they would soon hit the road.”

According to the son, it was shortly after fixing the vehicle that some gunmen on motorcycles sped past the professor.

    “They turned back and pointed a gun at my father, his driver and brother. They demanded the key to the Hilux jeep. My father asked the driver to hand over the key. The gunmen now asked if the jeep had an immobilizer. The driver said ‘No.’
    “Not convinced, the gunmen started the jeep and revved it for about five minutes. When the engine didn’t go off, they loaded their motorcycles and sped off.”

THISDAY gathered from the driver that shortly after the gunmen sped off with the Hilux SUV, Falaki called up one of his brothers and narrated their ordeal. Prof, he said, promised that they would get a commercial vehicle and continue their trip to Kano.However, shortly after the robbery, said the driver, the villagers became “funny.”.
He said,

    “They began interrogating us on what we knew about the  Boko Haram people whom we just gave our jeep to, as if we were suspects. None of our explanations appeared to convince them.

    “We were led to the police station. There, the police accused Prof of being a Boko Haram kingpin. He showed them his ABU identity card. On sighting the card, the police claimed it was fake. All attempts by Prof to convince them he was a university lecturer fell on deaf ears.
    “At this point, one of the villagers hit Prof on the head with a big stick. They also hit Abbas, but concentrated more on Prof. The villagers then took turns to hit Prof with all manner of weapons in the police station until he died,” said the driver.

According to the driver, “After Prof was confirmed dead, the police and villagers began jubilating that they had killed a Boko Haram kingpin. They said we would meet our end in Kano SARS (Special Anti Robbery Squad).

    “When the SARS men came, Prof’s body was dumped in the back of a pickup. Abbas, who sustained serious injuries, and I were handcuffed and driven all night to Kano.
    “Prof’s body was dumped in the mortuary in the early hours of Sunday. Abbas was admitted in hospital but with handcuffs and leg iron,” relayed the driver.

One daughter of the murdered Professor described the incident as “the most traumatic event of our lives.” She said,

    “After our father called that his jeep was stolen but that they would get a commercial vehicle to bring them to Kano we were, expectedly, relieved.
    “However, our relief gave way to panic when they didn’t return that night. Worse still was that all their cell phones kept ringing out.
    “On Sunday morning, we went to the Accident and Emergency wards of most hospitals. No news. My brothers then decided to go to the mortuary. There they found my dad’s body. It was the attendants who told them the police brought my dad’s body early on Sunday morning.The question now shifted to the whereabouts of Abbas and the driver. The morgue attendants then gave the number of the SARS officer who brought my dad’s body.”

She continued,

     “For a while the SARS officer didn’t pick our calls. He later called back that my dad was a Boko Haram member. That Abbas and the driver were suspects and would soon be interrogated.
    “It was at this point that we informed ABU authorities and prominent lecturers in ABU and Bayero University. They called to inform the police they just killed Africa’s leading agriculturist,” she said.‘It was when the police realised their grave mistake of killing a professor that they quickly released his body for burial. This was  about 3.30pm on Sunday. He was buried later on the same Sunday,” she added.

THISDAY checks revealed that Falaki began teaching in ABU in 1975. He is reputed to be one of Africa’s leading agriculturists, Falaki, according to his profile on the ABU website, in the course of research visited 75 countries in five continents. The professor had over 85 published works to his credit.

Falaki’s friends and associates described the murdered don as a “jolly good fellow who ran an open door policy to all.”
His immediate family has sent a petition to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mr. Suleiman Abba. The family has demanded an exhaustive investigation into the circumstances that led to the cold blooded murder of their 66- year old breadwinner.