Stray bullet kills trader as police allegedly chased ''yahoo boy'(Photo)

A yam cake (Ojojo) trader was yesterday killed by stray bullet allegedly shot by officers from Olosan Police Station.
The late Kudirat Adebayo, a mother of four, was murdered near the toll gate in Mushin.The incident occurred around 6pm at Ogunmokun/Toll gate area, Mushin, Lagos.The woman’s death led to fracas between the street boys and the officers.

Many scampered for safety as police shot sporadically to disperse the street boys protesting the woman’s death.They stormed the police station on motorcycles.


The Nation learnt that the officers were chasing a ‘Yahoo yahoo’ guy who ran through Ogunmokun/Toll gate areas on motorcycle and heading towards Onipanu.

Policemen were said to have shot at him when it was impossible for them to nab him, but the bullet hit a woman selling yam cake (Ojojo) around Toll gate area.

Angered by the officers’ action, the boys mobilised themselves and headed to the Olosan Police Station.
Eyewitnesses said they were chased away with gun shots. About five of them were said to have sustained injuries.
An eyewitness Seun Ojo said:

“The boys regrouped and armed with broken bottles and headed back to the station to demand justice for the slain trader. Before they got to the station, the officers have called for reinforcement, who helped repelled the boys. Eight of them were arrested. They were seen at the station on kneels and raising their hands. Those injured were taken away for treatment.”

Another eyewitness, who simply identified himself as Segun said the officers took the body of the slain woman away.

“I don’t know where they (officers) took the body of the woman to. But they headed toward their station,” he said.

According to him, the whole of Ogunmokun, Post Office Road, Toll gate, Onipanu, Abiodun Junction and Kumuyi areas are no go area as traders hurriedly lock their shops and residents went indoor.
An Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) has been stationed on the Post Office Road as officers moving round the areas.

The deceased’s elder sister Nimota Adebayo told The Nation last night that her sister’s remains have been deposited at Isolo General Hospital mortuary.

“She was sitting with her goods and I was beside her. Immediately I entered the shop and came out, I heard gun shots. Bullet hit her head and she died instantly. The two policemen that shot are Prince and Charles. She sells Ojojo. It is not that she interfered or left her shop. Immediately the officers fled our area and shot at the people who followed them. One of them is a guy called Sabina who challenged them was shot at leg. He was rushed to hospital. The deceased body has been taken to Isolo Mortuary. We were just together discussing her make-up and teasing her about whether there was an event today. She is about 50 years

America is being run by an idiot' - ISIS takes a swipe at Donald Trump

ISIS has slammed Donald Trump, saying that the US is "being run by an idiot".

In their first official remarks since Trump took office,spokesman Abi al-Hassan al-Muhajer said:

"America you have drowned and there is no saviour, and you have become prey for the soldiers of the caliphate in every part of the earth, you are bankrupt and the signs of your demise are evident to every eye."
"... There is no more evidence than the fact that you are being run by an idiot who does not know what Syria or Iraq or Islam is,"

Fans hail Michelle Obama as she steps out in her natural hair

 A photo of former US First lady,Michelle Obama rocking her natural hair.Tying it in a ponytail, Michelle who is known to usually rock bob extensions decided to reveal her curly full hair..The picture shared on twitter has been retweeted over 30 thousand times..

Man dies vomiting blood "while returning from in-law's house"

According to online report, a man who was returning from his in-law's house died tragically after he suddenly started vomiting blood.

Journalist Ejiblinks Ofoegbu, who shared the pic, insinuated that the man was poisoned. He wrote;

"This man was coming back from his in-law's house suddenly he started vomiting blood, it is plainly known to everybody that he was poisoned." Graphic pic...

S*x Workers Protest After A Client Killed One Of Them

Commercial s*x workers in Mombasa, Kenya, are holding demonstrations protesting mistreatment by clients after their colleague was allegedly murdered by a client at the weekend.

The lady was found dead by workers who came to clean the room last Saturday. Her colleagues said they last saw her entering the hotel with a man the previous evening. 

Used condoms were recovered from the room as police opened a probe into the incident. Mombasa DCI boss, Jacob Kanake, said several people including the club's managers, are being questioned over the murder.

He said they are tracing the man said to have been with the lady before her body was found.

EFCC Arraigns Man for Defrauding Another Of N200m(Photo)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today April 4, 2017 arraigned one Sa'ad Ahmed Madaki before Justice Jude Daggard of the Federal High Court Kano on one count charge of obtaining by false pretence.

The charge reads that,

“You Sa'ad Ahmed Madaki sometimes in 2011 at Kano within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court with intent to defraud did obtained the sum of N200,000,000 (Two Hundred Million Naira Only) from one Auwal Abdulkadir on the pretext that you would produce industrial plastic and sack packaging machinery and equipment for the said Auwal Abdulkadir which pretense you knew to be false...

After listening to the charge the defendant pleaded not guilty and the case proceeded to trial with the prosecution calling the nominal complainant as witness.

According to the complainant who was led into evidence by the prosecution counsel, N.K Ukoha, the defendant induced him to part with the sum of N200,000,000 (Two Hundred Million Naira Only) under the pretext that the money was for the establishment of Polythene Bag Making Company.

He disclosed to the court that the defendant collected the money from him in tranches between 2000 and 2011.
The second prosecuting witness, an operative of the commission who is the investigation officer of the case, told the court that the defendant was transferred to the Commission by the Department of State Services who arrested for alleged terrorist activities. The DSS released the defendant to the commission upon realizing that his activities verged on financial crimes.


PW2 further informed the court that Upon receipt of the case, the case was assigned to his team and the team immediately swung into action by inviting the complainant, Auwalu Abdulkadir who reported and gave statement. The defendant also volunteered statement and reduced same into writing. The witness revealed that on conclusion of their investigation, it was discovered that the defendant fraudulently obtained the sum of N200,000,000 from the complainant under the pretext that the money was for the establishment of Polythene Bag Making Company.


Prosecution counsel N.K Ukoha showed the witness the DSS referral letter and the statements made by both complainant and the defendant at the EFCC and DSS respectively for identification. The witness identified same and Ukoha applied to tender same in evidence.
The defence counsel objected to the admissibility of the statement. He argued that they were not made voluntarily but under duress.

Ukoha in his response said the statement were not even confessional , that it is only when statements are confessional that the admissibility issue could be raised.


The court ruled that the referral letter from DSS was not objected to and since it was attached with the statement of the defendant as well as the nominal complainant's, both documents were admitted into evidence and marked exhibit P1.
In respect of the statement made to the EFCC, Justice Daggard ordered for a conduct of trial within trial and adjourned the matter to May 15th 2017 for continuation of trial.

Comedian I-Go-Dye Celebrates 38th Birthday With New Pics

Popular Nigerian comedian I Go Dye has released new photos of himself as he marks his birthday today April 4th. The funny man who turned down a scholarship to study structural engineering just to follow his passion sure has a lot of reasons to be happy today.

Bride-To-Be Locked Up In Cell For Pre-Wedding Photo

Simi and her handsome officer hubby-to-be, Larinde took pre-wedding photo to another level, as he locked her up in a cell and cuffed himself to her from outside the cell.

Looks like they are both ready for the life time commitment of marriage...

Protest at National Assembly over Ali Ndume’s suspension by Senate

Thousands of angry Nigerians have blocked the entrance to National Assembly, Abuja, demanding the immediate reinstatement of Ali Ndume, senator representing Borno south in the Senate.

Ndume was suspended last week by the Senate for triggering investigations into allegations of forgery against Bukola Saraki and his friend, Dino Melaye.

Reports accused Saraki of importing a Range Rover SUV without paying appropriate import duty, and attempting to clear the vehicle with falsified papers.

Dino, on his part, was accused of falsely claiming he graduated from Ahmadu Bello University.

The Senate dismissed both allegations, and sanctioned Ndume by suspending him for six months.

There have been moves by Borno politicians to get Ndume reinstated.

The protesters arrived the National Assembly gate early Tuesday, with placards lambasting Saraki and the Senate.

One placard read; “Saraki is a curse”.

This Pretty Lady Died After Giving Birth In Lagos Hospital... husband suspects foul play

The Lagos State Government has begun investigation into the death of 24-year-old make-up artist, Mrs. Chiamaka de Freitas, at the Medical Art Centre, Onigbongbo, Lagos State.

Director of Lagos Office of the Public Defender, Mrs. Salami Olubukola, said the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji Kazeem, had directed that the allegation of the victim’s husband, Arlindo de Freitas, that the hospital had a hand in his wife's death, be investigated.

Arlindo, a Portuguese, had said the hospital forced his late wife to undergo a caesarean section.

He added that after being delivered of a baby boy on March 24, 2017, the Imo State indigene started bleeding due to some complications from the C-section.

He said the victim died on Sunday, March 26, after bleeding for about 15 hours.

He said, “I took her to the hospital on Thursday evening and we did the necessary scans. They said she would have to go through a surgery the following day by 8am.

“When we got there the following day, I signed the necessary papers and she was taken into the theatre. The baby was born by 8.37am and everybody was happy.

“Around 7pm, my wife started bleeding. I noticed that the blood was coming out from different parts of her body, including her private parts. I called the doctors’ attention to it and asked if the bleeding was normal. They said I should not worry that everything was fine.

“She bled till the following day. They called me and said they wanted to do a blood test. After two hours, they said her blood pressure was low. They took my wife again into the theatre to see what was wrong. They said they didn’t see anything.

“They said they needed to do blood transfusion. She continued to bleed until she died on Sunday morning.”

Arlindo, who said his late wife conceived through in vitro fertilisation at the hospital, blamed some of the facility workers whom he said handled the delivery carelessly.

“When she was bleeding, they were injecting her with one pain killer after the other. And at a point, she stopped reacting to it. She bled from 7pm on Friday to 12pm on Saturday, until she lost all her blood. When they were transfusing blood into her, it was passing out from her body until she died.

“They had been talking about the C-section since she was 20 weeks pregnant. They said when the pregnancy got to week 37, they would do the operation. Although she was normal, they insisted on a C-section because it is big money in Nigeria. They charged N1.1m for the C-section. With other costs, including accommodation, we were charged N1.4m,” he added.

He said his lawyer would petition the National Assembly over the matter, saying he would follow the case to the end.

Official reaction
However, the hospital, in a statement, said it had no hand in the death of the victim.

The hospital noted that it was saddened by the development because in its four years of existence, Chiamaka’s death was the first mortality recorded at the hospital.

The statement read in part, “As a maternity unit with zero tolerance for maternal morbidity, mortality and prenatal mortality, we ensure that all our patients’ care is consultant-led. Two consultants are always in attendance for surgeries, including a consultant anaesthetist, a paediatrician and world-class preoperative nurses, for any surgery.

“Chiamaka was so precious to us that her history dates back to when she was trying to conceive three years ago and successfully underwent IVF at Medical Art Centre. She conceived and continued her antenatal care with us.

“When Chiamaka didn’t show up for her regular antenatal classes at 37 weeks in the hospital, the consultants were concerned. They contacted her at week 39. At this time, she told them that she was out of town and would attend when she gets back.

“When she presented herself at 41 weeks, the doctors had to carry out another assessment. After further evaluations, it was discovered that there was a very low volume of amniotic fluid left for the baby’s survival.

“It was at this point they informed her husband that the baby would have to be delivered by a caesarean section. But he was hell bent on his wife having a normal vaginal delivery.

“He insisted on his wife having induction of labour despite these facts. Mr. De Freitas was counselled and persuaded to see reasons why a C-section was a necessity instead of a vaginal delivery which would have been very risky, if not impossible.

“He finally yielded and allowed the medicare surgeons operate on her after signing a written consent, which explicitly stated that other additional procedures may be necessary and he was present at the surgery.”

The statement added that during the operation, it was discovered that the umbilical cord was tied around the baby’s neck twice and after much effort, the woman was delivered of the baby.

Arlindo was alleged to have been found “massaging her abdomen”, after insisting on being left alone with the wife.

The management said the victim suddenly became pale and after some tests, it was discovered that her blood level was low.

The hospital said while it was making attempts to manage the problem, including doing blood transfusion and taking late Chiamata for a second surgery, the victim’s husband was more concerned about the scars that would form on his wife. The victim was reported to have passed on eight hours after the second surgery.

The statement said an autopsy conducted on the corpse in a government hospital showed that the victim died as a result of ‘concealed haematoma behind the bladder’.

“We have a team of experts, who have successfully delivered sets of quintuplet, quadruplet, triplet, twin and singletons, without any mishap,” the statement added.

The Director of OPD, Olubukola, said the agency had already contacted Arlindo, adding that investigations were ongoing into the matter.

“We are interested in the case and we have got in touch with the complainant,” she said.

Family Photo Of Funke Akindele,Husband & Step Children

Funke Akindele husband, JJC Skillz shared these lovely family photos with her and his three kids-Tamira, Benito and Josiah Bello dressed up in casual, matching outfits. as he turns 40 years today. See more lovely pictures below;

Police Officer Kills Himself After Admitting He Molested A 17 Year Old Boy

A police officer in northeast Mississippi has committed suicide after admitting he molested a teenager. Ronnie Russ Robinson, a 53-year-old married grandfather, admitted he groped a 17-year-old boy after flashing his headlights to get the teen to pull over to the median.

Robinson was driving an unmarked vehicle when he spotted the minor in the parking lot of a Dollar General in Glen, Mississippi. The Tishomingo police officer also told the teenager he had sex with two boys earlier that day according to the Clarion-Ledger.

The boy told the officer he was not interested and reported the crime to his parents who contacted Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department.


Robinson admitted to the attack and to molesting other minors when questioned on March 23.

Robinson was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot would inside his home near Iuka on March 24. He was a married father of three and grandfather of six.

Dino Melaye: The Making Of A Brand By Reuben Abati

It is a sign of the times, and a tragedy that the most popular Senator in the Nigerian National Assembly at this moment is not the person who has moved the most impactful motion, not a lawmaker who has proposed a thought-provoking bill, and certainly not any Senator who has given any impressive speech debating a matter of national importance.


What we get, most of the time, in place of legislative responsibility, prudence, accountability and distinction is burlesque, farce, Japanese-styled Bungaku-Bunraku enactments, a dose of medieval commedia d’ell arte and an enormous supply of Yoruba Alarinjo with a bit of the Akata from Efik and Ibibioland.

 And the star in this comedy of errors that the Nigerian National Assembly has become is a gentleman called Dino Melaye. He is the perfect archetype of all that is wrong or right with the Nigerian legislature, a fine representation of contradictory binaries, and a lesson unto the rest of us.  

I am not condemning Dino Melaye. I am in fact just about to say that we created a man like him, just as before him, we needed a Busari Adelakun, and a Lamidi Adedibu to show us the true character of Nigerian politics. And to those who think Dino Melaye is something of an aberration, I say to them that Dino Melaye is indeed a true picture of Nigerian politics.


He is much smarter and far more politically savvy than those who condemn him. His Wikipedia profile announces that his ambition is to be Nigeria’s President someday, may be he won’t become President, but he may suddenly show up in the future as something close to that high office.


 He is far more Nigerian than those who criticize or condemn him. He knows the system. He plays the system. He has the capacity to beat the system. Most people who get to the top in Nigeria beat the system, and when they do so, they flaunt their smartness in the people’s face.

 The pundits write their articles but nothing changes, because a man like Dino Melaye can get a whole Vice Chancellor of a University created under the Act to do his bidding, and a National Assembly to queue up behind him.  

I read one piece in which the writer was wondering how on earth we ended up with a Dino Melaye in the National Assembly: A man like that whose brand raises too many questions. His school certificate result is not exactly impressive. His year of graduation from Ahmadu Bello University has been controversial, even with the sitting Vice Chancellor’s needless testimony. Nobody is sure whether a BA or a BSc is the appropriate description of a degree in Geography.


Dino’s name is allegedly missing in the University’s Graduation Year Brochure, an omission that nobody has been able to explain. There is an NYSC group photograph but he is just about the only person not properly dressed. Former classmates have confirmed that he was actually a university student and that he graduated, and the Vice Chancellor says he got a Third Class. Third Class! 

I have never seen any student so proud of a Third Class like Dino Melaye. To celebrate his Third Class he wore to the National Assembly, a Doctoral candidate’s gown, and thus insulted the entire academic establishment. I have a Ph.D gown and the full robes of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, but no form of temporary insanity will make me wear either of both robes to a wedding party.

Dino Melaye is a Nigerian Senator; nobody should be surprised if one of these days he wears his distinguished borrowed robes to a funeral just to convince everyone that he has a university degree. No serious person advertises a Third Class degree, but Dino Melaye says on top of that, he has acquired six additional degrees, including certificates from Harvard and the London School of Economics!


The lesson from this is that the certificates of everyone who aspires to lead Nigeria at any level must be carefully verified henceforth. Only God knows how many persons at the highest levels in Nigeria are parading certificates and qualifications that should form the subject of scrutiny. A nation that is led by the least educated and the most ignorant of its population is definitely in trouble. 

In the United States, a man like Dino Melaye would probably never win an election. His former wife, Tokunbo accused him of battery and domestic violence and showed pictures to prove her point. Her short-lived successor made similar claims, spent six months and fled.

 There was another lady, one of those “man-eating” Nollywood girls who entertained us with her misery and the story of a child and DNA tests. If the wives and the baby mamas were wrong, Dino Melaye soon had a tiff with Senator Remi Tinubu and what he said about her menopausal status, we don’t have to repeat. He even went to the front of Remi Tinubu’s house in Lagos to pose for a photograph, daring her husband to do his worst.



 Senator Tinubu’s husband, the Jagaban of Borgu, Asiwaju of Lagos, former Governor of Lagos and national leader of the APC knew better. The last time Dino Melaye got into a duel, he came out of it with torn clothes, which he proudly advertised. 

Dino Melaye poses as an anti-corruption crusader. He rides some of the most exotic cars in Nigeria, all labeled Dino 1 to 5 or whatever. He is loud, flamboyant, and unconventional. He can talk, which means he is articulate, he is fearless, he is also fiercely and stubbornly loyal to the incumbent Senate President Bukola Saraki. He can sing. He can dance. He obviously has no respect for women because he is a macho-man, an alpha male.


He can also fight, and he considers journalists the scum of the earth. That is why when Omoyele Sowore of Sahara Reporters digs into his past and qualifications, his immediate response is to say that he is being stalked and to go after the investigative journalist with everything that he can deploy. Melaye was elected as a Senator to make laws for good governance, but he has been busy acting like he is an awada kerikeri actor on loan to the National Assembly. 

I am not condemning him. He won an election. In fact he has won many elections. The people who voted for him must see something in him. The man who represented Kogi West before him used to make useful contributions that made the headlines, he was respected for his informed interventions; there was never a time he wore torn clothes to the Red Chamber, but the people voted him out and elected Dino Melaye and since he started ruffling things up, nobody who voted for him has questioned him.


You actually get the impression that Melaye is considered a hero in his Kogi West constituency. This should explain why he enjoys being the drama king of the National Assembly. 

To politicians of his type, every kind of publicity is good publicity. It is better to be heard and known, for whatever reason, than to be unknown and unsung. In Melaye’s mind, he is obviously having fun.


 The kerfuffle over his academic qualification is probably as far as he is concerned, a joke, because afterall, he doesn’t need more than a secondary school certificate to be a member of the National Assembly. When we write about him, discuss his politics, interview him, project him in the media, we are actually promoting his politics and brand. 

His kind of brand works in Nigeria. What was the value of Busari Adelakun’s politics or that of Lamidi Adedibu? But both men ended up being more prominent in their constituencies than other politicians of their time. Lamidi Adedibu, the exponent of Amala politics, was so powerful, when a certain Governor refused to pay him Godfather-rent, he got him removed from office and as they say, nothing happened.


Adedibu derived his power from being close and loyal to a bigger man of power. He could sing too. And he could dance. And that is perhaps why Dino Melaye should be taken seriously when he breaks out into a song: 

A je kun iya ni o je

A je kun iya ni o je

E ni ti o to ni na, to n dena de ni

A je kun iya ni oje

That song is now top of the charts in Nigeria today, with a remix and multiple parodies by other public figures. The only man who is probably yet to learn that song is Senator Ali Ndume, but it is a song that speaks to him directly and accounts for his six-month suspension from the Senate.

 It is also a song about power and dictatorship. There is nothing in it about values or fairness, or justice. It is a might-is-right composition, about the mighty punishing and oppressing the powerless. “A je kun iya” emphasizes the severity of punishment, “eni ti o to ni na” underscores the imbalance of weight, and the lack of equality in strength. It is a song of intimidation, threat and abuse, completely arrogant in tone and sense. 

Dino Melaye knows how to taunt his critics. I visited his website: dinomelaye.com. There are nice photographs and links to other sites including his Facebook page, projecting him as a courageous and outspoken anti-corruption crusader and a political activist.


 We do not find any information about the bills and motions that he sponsored, or projects that he has embarked upon, or his relationship with his Kogi West Constituency. This may be an oversight on the part of those who manage the site for him, but their omission is perhaps in order, since Dino Melaye is better known for the drama that he creates. 

His Wikipedia profile offers nothing more impressive other than the notably juicy details about his marital life, his threat to “beat and impregnate another man’s wife”, and his monumental contribution to legislative debate about how Nigerian men should stop “importing” wives from foreign countries.

 To this should be added his promotion of the “aje kun iya” folk song into a quasi-national anthem. Elsewhere, a lawmaker’s profile online would refer to his or her electoral history, committee assignments and ideological positions on key national issues. What constitutes a lawmaker’s brand is what he stands for and how well he has served the people. 

Dino Melaye’s brand is peculiar: he can sing, dance, fight and speak out loud. He is an artful master of form. But what exactly does he stand for? What is his position on national security, healthcare, federalism, social security or agriculture? I don’t know. But I won’t condemn him, because he is a well-made product of Nigerian politics. It is after all, difficult to know what most contemporary Nigerian politicians stand for.


He is in addition, probably much better than half of the National Assembly. He is more attentive at least than all those other Senators who don’t attend plenary, certainly better than those who have spent more time there dozing off, or the ones who have spent years in that Assembly and have never uttered a word, or sponsored a bill, support a motion or do anything of note.


The pity is that many of such are now running up and down, seeking to become Governors in their states in 2019. So, why won’t Dino Melaye nurse the ambition of becoming President someday? A je kun iya ni o je…