09/01/17

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Two people were killed on Friday when a vehicle crashed into a large crowd of Muslim worshippers at the Eid-El Kabir prayer ground.

A policeman was also mobbed to death while trying to save the driver of the vehicle from being lynched.

The dead policeman was an orderly to a divisional police officer Three people have reportedly lost their lives in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun state on Friday, September 1.

The incident occurred when a vehicle crashed into a large crowd of Muslim worshippers at the Eid-El Kabir prayer ground.

According to a witness, the driver of the truck lost control and crashed into the crowd leaving two worshippers dead and many others injured.

An angry mob descended on the driver, who was rescued by policemen at the venue, Premium Times reports.
Sources also said one of the policemen, Joseph Adejumo, lost his life in the process of saving the driver from the mob as he was himself mobbed to death.

And in his reaction, the Public Relations Officer, Ogun state Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, said a Bedford truck with number plate AA 523 JGB and laden with logs, reportedly had a brake failure, making the driver to lose control.

He said the truck first hit a Toyota Tundra with number plate APP 995 DD, damaged it, before running over two children at the praying ground, killing them instantly, Punch reports.

He said: “Our operatives said the truck ran over two children at the Etokori praying ground this morning, killing them instantly and injuring scores of others.

“An operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps was among those who sustained injuries. A policeman also died while being rushed to the hospital.”

Also, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Ogun state Police Command Public Relations Officer, confirmed the incident.
He also said that the dead policeman was an orderly to a divisional police officer.
The driver of the vehicle had been arrested and the injured taken to hospital.

He said: “It is true that an accident occurred this morning at Ijebu Ode. The truck, laden with logs, had lost control after its brake failed and rammed into Muslim faithful going to perform Eid prayer in Ijebu Igbo, it killed two people.

“A mob had gathered and wanted to lynch the truck driver, but policemen on ground prevented them.

However, they descended on our operatives and one of them was killed. “We have the truck driver in our custody and two other suspects.”

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The police in Lagos on Thursday said that five persons have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the lynching of two suspected ritualists in Mushin area of the metropolis.

Spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Olarinde Famous-Cole, who confirmed the arrest, said the suspects would be charged to court for jungle justice once investigation was concluded.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that another ritualists’ hideout was uncovered in a tunnel at the Challenge area of Mushin, Lagos on Wednesday.

Sources told NAN that two of the three suspects found at the hideout were lynched by a mob before the arrival of policemen.

A source said: “The hideout used to be the sewage tunnel of a moribund company in the area.

“Syringes and needles were also found in the hideout.”
Two similar ritualists den had been discovered in different parts of the state in the last two months, resulting in the death of suspected ritualists through jungle justice.

On August 9, two people were set ablaze by a mob in the Obadeyi-Ijaiye end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway for allegedly operating a ritual den in the community.

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The Nigeria Union in South Africa has confirmed the killing of a member, Kingsley Ikeri, at Vryheid town in Kwazulu Natal Province on August 30.

Ikeri, 27, was a businessman and native of Mbaitolu in Imo.
In December 2016, Metropolitan Police in Cape Town had suffocated to death a man, Victor Nnadi, also from Imo.

Bartholomew Eziagulu, Chairman of the union in the province, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Durban on Friday that Ikeri was allegedly tortured to death by the police.

He said the union’s investigations revealed that the police arrested the deceased and a friend on suspicion that they were carrying hard drugs.

He said while interrogating him, the police used plastic to cover his face to extort information from him.

Eziagulu said: “In the process, the deceased suffocated. When the police took him to the hospital, he was confirmed dead.”

Adetola Olubajo, the Secretary General of the union, said the national secretariat had been informed about the death of the Nigerian.

He said the body had informed appropriate Nigerian authorities and the police in South Africa.

NAN reports that a senior diplomat from the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg had visited Vryheid on a fact-finding mission.

Some members of the union and other Nigerians accompanied the diplomat to the town.

A total 116 Nigerians have been killed in South Africa through extrajudicial means in the last two years, according to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa.

Seven in 10 of the killings were carried out by the South African Police.

The presidential aide disclosed this sometime in February when she met with the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Lulu Louis Mnguni, in Abuja.
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Vice President, Prof. Osinbajo

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said he is not taking over the negotiation with striking universities teachers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, had on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting said Osinbajo was from then on going to take over the negotiations with the lecturers.

But in a tweet in the wee hours of Friday, the spokesman of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, said Ngige’s position on the issue was incorrect.

Akande, on his Twitter handle, said Ngige and the Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu, will continue to lead the negotiation.

He tweeted: “News reports that VP Osinbajo has taken over ASUU negotiations is untrue & inaccurate. Labour & Education Ministers continue to lead d talks.”

The teachers embarked on the present strike claiming the Federal Government had failed to implement the 2009 agreement it had with their union.
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The United Kingdom Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, on Thursday in Lagos said a lot of the UK’s oil came through the Nigerian waters.

The Secretary made the disclosure when he visited the Nigerian Navy Ship Unity at Naval Dockyard Limited in Victoria Island, Lagos.

Johnson said: “I congratulate the Nigerian Navy for what it is doing to combat piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.
“We in the UK are very proud to offer assistance to the navy to become even better in tackling piracy.

“A lot of our oil in the UK comes through this water, so it is very important that they are tackling this problem of piracy.”

The Chief of Trainings and Operation, Rear Admiral Fergusson Bobai, who represented the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ete-Ibok Ibas, said the visit was to further strengthen the existence bilateral relations between the two countries.

Bobai said: “The age-long relationship between Nigeria and the UK dates back before independence.
“As a matter of fact we got independence from them.

“They helped us to put up the Nigerian Navy and ever since they have been helping us in terms of capacity building.

“So today’s visit of the foreign Secretary is a very clear testimony of the long military relationship between UK and Nigeria.”

Bobai said Britain had in many years been giving the Navy training assistance.
He added that it was not out of place that they see first-hand the military assistance they have been giving to the nation.

He said: “We also have the British training assistance team in Nigeria over some years and they have been training us in so many facets.”

Bobai said that the visit would further boost training of the navy on the fight against piracy and other maritime crimes in the Gulf of Guinea in particular.

He said there were British personnel in Nigeria for three days specifically to conduct trainings on board NNS Unity that had to do with fire fighting and damage control.

“So the cooperation between the two countries is strong,” he said.
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