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Lagos CP, Edgal Imohimi

Two women and four men were on Tuesday arraigned in an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly battering a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) who was on his way to perform his official duty.
The accused, who are all residing at Ikorodu, near Lagos are: Kehinde Alimot, 40; Bukola Ahmed, 32; Ifeanyi Kanu, 22; Owolabi Ibrahim, 39; Aikulola Olamiji, 54, and Jamiu Yussuf, 39.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the accused people were arraigned before Magistrate A.B. Adelabu-Olagbegi on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, unlawful assault and causing a breach of peace.
However, they all pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The magistrate, thereafter, granted them bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum.
The sureties, according to the magistrate, must also be house owners within the magisterial district and must also show evidence of three years tax payment.
She adjourned the case until Dec. 14 for trial.
Earlier, the Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Mary Ajiteru, had said that the accused committed the offences on Oct. 26 along Agunfoye Road, Igbogbo in Ikorodu at about 12.45 a.m.
According to Ajiteru, the accused, including a nursing mother, battered their victim, one Supol Issah Lawal, a DPO attached to the Igbogbo Police Station.
“On sighting the DPO, who was on his way to work, he was battered seriously while in his police uniform,” she said.
Ajiteru said the offences contravened Sections 411, 168 (d), 174(b) of the Lagos State Criminal Code Laws, 2015.
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Grace Mugabe

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s sacking of his Deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa was part of a wider purge, state media said on Tuesday, while analysts say it was meant to neutralise any resistance to the political rise of his wife, Grace.

Mugabe sacked his long-time ally, Mnangagwa, on Monday, for showing “traits of disloyalty”, abruptly removing a favorite to succeed the 93-year-old leader and boosting the likelihood of Grace Mugabe becoming his next deputy and potential successor.

State television ZBC said the purge went beyond removing Mnangagwa, 75, as half of the ruling ZANU-PF’s national provincial executives separately met and passed resolution expelling supporters of the former vice president on Monday.

ZANU-PF leaders in the eastern Manicaland region called for the expulsion of cyber security minister Patrick Chinamasa, a former finance minister before he was moved in a cabinet reshuffle on Oct. 9, ZBC said in an online report.

Chinamasa, fellow cabinet ministers Oppah Muchinguri, Chris Mushohwe and 36 other party members and officials were accused of being Mnangagwa allies, who were disrespectful to Mugabe.

“The province recommended the expulsion of 39 individuals from the province, who were involved with the Mnangagwa-aligned ‘Lacoste’ faction, which is accused of not respecting the party’s one centre of power principle,” ZBC said.

The three cabinet ministers did not respond to calls for comment. The process to weed out Mnangagwa allies was repeated in four other provinces, the state Herald newspaper said.

A senior ZANU-PF official from Matabeleland South Province said that the provincial executive there had on Tuesday passed a resolution to fire 15 senior members linked to Mnangagwa, including State Security Minister, Kembo Mohadi.

Remaining provinces were holding separate meetings on Tuesday, two ZANU-PF sources in Harare said.

Recommendations by the provinces will be discussed by ZANU-PF’s supreme decision-making Politburo at its sitting next week and if adopted will seal the fate of the officials.

International Crisis Group’s southern Africa senior consultant, Piers Pigou, said purges of ZANU-PF members seen as supportive of Mnangagwa would neutralise any potential fight-back.

“Survival is going to be the name of the game for many people,” he said.

Five ZANU-PF provinces and the youth wing also recommended that Grace become vice president, ZBC said, opening the way for the first lady to serve next to her husband in government.

Grace has said ZANU-PF plans to change its charter this month to allow Mugabe to appoint a female vice president at a special congress set for mid-December.

NAN

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President Buhari

President Buhari on Tuesday presented the 2018 Budget of Consolidation to the National Assembly.

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Diezani Alison-Madueke


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday traced N860m to the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada; and a former acting governor of Taraba State, Sani Danladi.

While N500m was traced to Wada, N450m was traced to Danladi.

The money was said to be part of the N23bn allegedly disbursed by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, through the then Director of Finance of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Senator Nenadi Usman.

It was learnt that Wada arrived the EFCC office around 12pm and was still in custody around 9pm.

The spokesman for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed that Wada was detained by the commission.

He said, “Yes, he was invited by the EFCC over N500m Diezani money. He is still in our custody.”

The Gombe zonal office also quizzed Danladi in respect of the N450m collected by him through Senators Joel Dallami Ikenya and Mark Useni during the build-up to the 2015 presidential election.

Danladi, in his statement on oath, told interrogators that he chaired the eight-man committee that disbursed the money for Taraba State.

The EFCC stated, “He further stated that, he and the other members of the committee shared N36m among themselves while the balance of N414m was distributed to other stakeholders across the 16 local government areas of the state and one Development Area Council.”

Danladi was arrested and detained in Abuja last week and later released on bail to reliable sureties, but asked to report to the EFCC Gombe zonal office for further investigation.

Last week, the commission detained a former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, for his role in the disbursement of the Diezani sleaze.

It was learnt that at least 20 former ministers and governors who are members of the PDP may be detained by the commission

In the states which were ruled by the PDP, the governors were said to have taken possession of the funds while in states that had no PDP governors, the ministers handled the money.

They were alleged to have received a minimum of N450m each.

Some of the former governors and ministers that may be picked up soon include  a former Minister of Power, Mohammed Wakil (Borno); and a former Minister of Science and Technology, Alhaji Abdu Bulama (Yobe).

Others are former governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State (now a member of the All Progressives Congress), the immediate past governor of Kebbi State, Saidu Dakin Garin; former governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano State, former governor Ali Modu Sheriff of Borno State, former governor James Ngilari of Adamawa State; and a former governor of Zamfara State, Mamuda Shinkafi.

Sheriff allegedly received N40m from the N450m said to have been received by a former Minister of Power, Mohammed Wakil.

Also, a former deputy governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Imasuen, and a former Secretary to the State Government of Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, may be re-invited for allegedly collecting N700m from the Diezani fund.

The source said many of the PDP chieftains had promised to return some of the funds but had failed to do so and therefore had to be invited.

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Texas First Baptist Church

A U.S. Air Force veteran who fatally shot at least 26 people in a rural Texas church during Sunday services took his own life after a shootout with residents, the local sheriff said Monday.

The gunman, who had been thrown out of the military for assaulting his wife and child, wounded at least 20 others during the rampage in the white-steepled First Baptist Church in the small town of Sutherland Springs.

After the gunman, dressed in black tactical gear and firing an assault rifle, left the church, two armed local residents pursued him in vehicles.

The chase ended when the gunman crashed his car and then shot himself, Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt told CBS News in an interview on Monday morning.

“At this time we believe that he had a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Tackitt said. The suspect was identified him as Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, multiple media reported, citing law enforcement officials.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott told CBS News the attack on the church in Sutherland Springs, a community of fewer than 400 people, located about 40 miles (65 km) east of San Antonio, did not appear to be a “random act.”

It was the latest in a long string of U.S. mass shootings in recent years, coming weeks after a gunman killed 58 people in Las Vegas in the deadliest shooting by a sole gunman in U.S. history. U.S. President Donald Trump, on a trip in Asia, told reporters in Tokyo the preliminary reports indicated the shooter was “deranged.”

“This isn’t a guns situation, I mean we could go into it, but it’s a little bit soon to go into it,” Trump said. “But fortunately somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction, otherwise … it would have been much worse. But this is a mental health problem at the highest level.”

Among the dead was the 14-year-old daughter of church Pastor Frank Pomeroy, the family told several television stations. One couple, Joe and Claryce Holcombe, told the Washington Post they lost eight extended family members, including their pregnant granddaughter-in-law and three of her children.

In rural areas like Sutherland Springs, gun ownership is a part of life and the state’s Republican leaders for years have balked at gun control, arguing that more firearms among responsible owners make the state safer.

Jeff Forrest, a 36-year-old military veteran who lives a block away from the church, said what sounded like high-caliber, semi-automatic gunfire triggered memories of his four combat deployments with the Marine Corps.

“I was on the porch, I heard 10 rounds go off and then my ears just started ringing,” Forrest said. “I hit the deck and I just lay there.”

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Three weeks after being kidnapped by Niger Delta militants in Delta State, a British national, identified as Ian Squire, has died in captivity.

However, three other Britons, who were taken along with the dead one, were freed and returned to Britain, the British High Commission confirmed in a mail to Vanguard, yesterday.

Records showed that Ian Squire was one of four Britons forcefully taken at about 2a.m. on October 13, prompting the Nigerian Government and the British High Commission to launch a spirited bid to free them.

It was not, however, clear how and why Ian was killed while the two countries successfully negotiated the release of the other three—Alanna Carson, David Donovan, and Shirley Donovan.

Meanwhile, security sources, yesterday, revealed that contrary to reports that the Briton was killed by his abductors, he died from complications of asthma and diabetics.

Family’s Reaction

The family of the deceased and the Foreign Office, yesterday, confirmed the death of Ian and released a joint statement made available to Vanguard in Abuja.

The statement from the family said: “Alanna, Ian, David and Shirley were kidnapped in Nigeria three weeks ago.

“We are grateful for the support received by the British High Commission, and help from the Nigerian authorities in negotiating their release.

We are delighted and relieved that Alanna, David, and Shirley have returned home safely. “Our thoughts are now with the family and friends of Ian as we come to terms with his sad death.

“This has been a traumatic time for our loved ones who were kidnapped and for their families and friends here in the UK.

We would, therefore, ask that the media respect our privacy as we come to terms with the news. We will not be making any further comment,” the family said.

The Foreign Office said, yesterday, it will support the families of the abductees and that of Ian.

A Foreign Office spokesperson said: “We are supporting the families of four British people, who were abducted on October 13 in Nigeria, one of who was tragically killed.

“This has clearly been a traumatic time for all concerned, and our staff will continue to do all we can to support the families.

“We are grateful to the Nigerian authorities and are unable to comment given the ongoing nature of their investigations. “We are grateful to media for respecting the privacy of the families.”

‘Militants didn’t kill him’

Details, yesterday, emerged on how the British missionary, who was abducted along three others by militants in Enekorogha community of Delta State died.

Security sources, who spoke to Vanguard, said contrary to reports that the Briton was killed by his abductors in custody, the victim, who was actually asthmatic and diabetic, died from complications of his ailment.

The source said: “The victims have since returned to the United Kingdom. They were released and dropped off at a deserted swampy area of Ekeremor community, Bayelsa State.

“One of the male victims, who was asthmatic and diabetic at the same time, died while in captivity as a result of complications from his ailment.”
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