8 kidnappers arrested in Festac Town

The police in Lagos have arrested eight suspected kidnappers, including their victim who turned out to be a suspected duper.
A source at the Area E Police Command, Festac Town, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the suspects had taken their victim to a hotel in the area for a business transaction.
According to the source, the victim had allegedly collected some money from them on the pretext of securing documents to take them to China.
“After waiting for months, the suspects demanded a refund of their money. But the victim had been telling them that his master who will take them to China was away,” the sources said.
NAN learnt that the victim had in an attempt to pacify the group taken them to a hotel in Festac Town.
“After spending about N100,000 on food and drinks on them, and being unable to pay the bill, he dropped his car and left with the gang members,” the source said.

Man spends 8 years in prison awaiting trial accused of stealing N400!!!

If 22-year-old Tunde Ayodele had known what fate had in store for him when he left his home sometime in 2004, he probably wouldn’t have ventured out on that day. After the day’s job, he was on his way back from his mechanic workshop and was about to take a bike home when he found himself arrested by the police. He was accused of robbing someone of N400.

He was taken to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, Lagos from the police station when there was no one to bail him after three months in police custody. According to the Ogun State indigene, he spent nine months in Panti before he was arraigned before a Lagos High Court. He was subsequently remanded in Ikoyi Prisons.

Speaking to Daily Sun, Ayodele, now 30, lamented that he lost his parents one after the other while he was in prison. “My parents died two years after each other. It was my younger sister who was selling moimoi that told me the bad news during her visits to Ikoyi Prisons where I was held. She told me that I had no parents again,” he lamented.

SHOCKING: We got N7,000 to launch Biu Church attack-Boko Haram suspects

Biu church bombing suspects

Seven suspected Boko Haram men alleged to have masterminded the attack on Ekklizivar Yan’uwa A Nigeria (EYN) Church in Biu, Borno State recently said they were paid N7, 000 each to carry out the attack which left no fewer than three worshipers dead.

One of the seven suspects, Ibrahim Mohammed Babangida, who spoke with journalists from his custody said one Magaji Bala, a butcher paid N7, 500 to him as his engagement fee to carry out the dastard act.

“I was sleeping in my house when Magaji called me and handed over N7,000 to me for the operation,” he said, even as one of the suspects also corroborated the claim. The suspects, Alhassan Inuwa, Ibrahim Mohammed Babangida, Magaji Bala, Nuhu Zakari, Dahiru Sa’adu, Mohammadu Nurah and Mohammed Sani told newsmen at the 21 Armoured Brigade in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, yesterday that they were butchers by profession in Biu Market and were picked up in their different houses in Biu by the JTF operatives.

Graphic pictures: Bomber killed by own bomb!

A suicide bomber who claimed to be on an official assignment in 'God's name' was blown by his own explosives when he carelessly dropped it. He lost his lower limbs and fingers in the process.  He travelled for about 393 km with the device from Yola, Adamawa State to Bauchi before the bomb wen off.

Brazil cancels football match with Nigeria over terrorism fears

The Brazilian football association has cancelled their planned September friendly match against the Nigerian Super Eagles due to incessant bombing incidents in the country.

This followed the US listing of the top 3 Boko Haram leaders as terrorists and placed them on a watch list.

Hopefully this security situation in the country would improve drastically soon else other parties would start cancelling engagements to Nigeria and then foreigners would start shutting down their businesses and start pulling out of the country. For a country not at war, this is really a sad situation!