Police arrest four for raping Kogi SSS student
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Police arrest four for raping Kogi SSS student
The Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Command, Mr. Seidu Madawaki, on Tuesday in Lokoja paraded four suspects for allegedly raping an 18-year-old Senior Secondary School student.
He stated that the victim (name withheld) who lives at 11 Mission Street, Ankpa reported the crime at Ankpa Police station.
Madawaki said the girl reported that she was returning from an errand when five young men accosted her.
She alleged that the men hit her with charm ring and abducted her to an unknown location in a bush.
According to the CP, the victim alleged that two of the suspected rapists forcibly collected her hand set.
She further alleged that three out of the five suspected rapists forcibly had canal knowledge of her, while two others recorded and took pictures of the illicit act with the phone.
The victim further said the suspects scanned the pictures, uploaded them to the Internet.
She also alleged that the suspected rapists printed some pictures which they were said to have circulated in the town.
Madawaki also paraded 12 other suspected armed robbers said to have been arrested at various locations in Kogi State.
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Aviation Unions Threaten Strike Over Pay Rise, Could Shut Down Air Travel March 10
By Saharareporters, New York
Unions in Nigeria’s aviation sector are threatening to embark on an indefinite strike beginning on March 10 following the failure of the management of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) to implement a pay rise agreement.
The threat is contained in a letter to the Managing Director of NAMA, Mr. Nnamdi Udoh, dated February 17. The unions, under the aegis of National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), and the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreational Employees (AUPCRE), declared they would embark on the strike unless the management fully and immediately implements the agreement.
If they make good their threat, the country's airspace could experience an unprecedented shutdown affecting the operations of both local and foreign airlines.
NAMA's workers are mostly air traffic controllers, navigation tools maintenance engineers and service providers for the airlines.
The letter to Mr. Udoh was jointly signed by NUATE General Secretary, Abdulkareem Motajo; General Secretary of ATSSSAN, Captain N. Tarnongu; and AUPCRE Secretary, Isidore Opara.
Notifying the NAMA boss of their plans, they asked him to include the payment of 12 months arrears on the staff conditions of service, which they claim was stopped since March, 2013.
Serving the strike notice, the unions recalled that at a meeting held at the instance of the Minister of Labour and Productivity last November, it was resolved that a stakeholders follow-up meeting would be reconvened under the chairmanship of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Aviation and the resolutions of the meetings of NAMA management and the unions be presented for consideration.
"There was unanimous agreement to the effect that the agreement as contained in the communiqué and the extract of the meetings between the management of NAMA and the unions held on August 7, 2013 be adopted and consequently ratified to pave way for the subsequent adjustment of the consolidated salary structure of NAMA," the letter warned.
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JTF, police, SSS comb creeks for Jonathan’s cousin
Security outfits operating in Bayelsa State have murdered sleep following Sunday’s abduction of the 70-year-old Inengite Nitabai, the cousin of President Goodluck Jonathan.
In a daring move, 10 heavily armed men stormed the expansive compound of Nitabai at Otuoke, hometown of President Jonathan in Ogbia Local Government Area and whisked the old man away.
But 48 hours after the incident, security agencies had been ordered to find Nitabai who is said to be the adopted father of the President.
It was gathered that gunboats of the JTF and the police had been deployed to the creeks of Ogbia and Nembe.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hilary Opara, said the security agencies were making frantic efforts to find the victim.
Opara was said to have been personally patrolling Otuoke since the incident occurred. He was sighted driven in and out of Otuoke in an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC).
He said gunboats had been stationed at the Onuebum waterside to patrol all nooks and crannies of the creeks.
He said the police personnel were also searching for some suspects who ran away immediately they sighted the police.
It was learnt that the police had so far patrolled Edebiri, Kiambiri, Anyama and Ogobiri creeks.
But Frank, one of the children of Nitabai, said his father was kidnapped a day before a meeting over land dispute.
He said the police had scheduled a meeting with Nitabai and other family members over land dispute on Monday, a day after he was abducted.
He expressed fears that his father’s kidnapping might be connected with the land dispute.
He appealed to security operatives to also look in that direction.
Frank said, “My father heard that some members of his family sold his land at Ogbia.
“He reported the matter to the Commissioner of Police. The commissioner was supposed to meet with my father and other family members involved in the land dispute on Monday. Unfortunately, my father was abducted a day before the meeting.
“I am appealing to the relevant authorities to also look at that aspect.”
Opara revealed on Monday that two suspects had been arrested so far in connection with the land dispute.
“The other two suspects saw my men and ran away. We will get them,” he said.
He, however, said the kidnappers had yet to establish contact with the victim’s family.
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Police rescue Enugu varsity students from kidnappers’ den
Men of the Enugu State Police Command have rescued two students of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology from kidnappers’ den.
The students regained their freedom on Tuesday, eight days after they were kidnapped.
The kidnap victims are Afamefuna Akadieze, a third year student of the Department of Political Science and Miracle Chukwuemeka, a second year student of Department of Sociology.
The PUNCH learnt that the victims were abducted on February 17, around 7 pm, from their hostel located opposite the school gate.
They had reportedly come downstairs from the two-storey hostel, to buy sachet water, when they were seized.
A source disclosed to our correspondent that the suspected kidnappers, numbering about four, pointed a gun at the victims and ordered them to get into a standby taxi, from where they were taken to an unknown destination.
According to the victims, the suspected kidnappers also demanded for their parents’ name and telephone numbers, with which they started calling them, demanding for the sum of N20 million.
It was gathered that they later reduced the ransom to N10,000 with a threat that if the police were involved, they would kill the victims.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Enugu State, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed the incident.
“The case was reported to the state command and the Commissioner of Police, Adamu Mohammed Abubakar, directed the anti-kidnapping outfit to swing into action and to that extent, operation was carried out through information garnered from relevant quarters leading to the arrest of one of the gang members, identified as Ngeneoke Chinugo of Ituku village in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State,” said Amaraizu.
He said, “The suspect, a commercial motorcyclist at Ituku, disclosed how he conveyed one of the fleeing hoodlums with sachet water and food-flask to the forest, near Ufam stream in Ituku, where victims were held hostage.
“Victims were, however, rescued after intensive confrontation inside the den, as the. hoodlums escaped with various degree of injuries, just as manhunt on them are intensified.
“At the den after the encounter, a berreta pistol with some ammunition belonging to the hoodlums was also recovered.”
He added, “Ngeneoke is pleading for forgiveness. Although, he maintained that one of the hoodlums is a family member recently discharged from the prison custody owing to his involvement in criminality.”
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