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Police dismiss trending Chidinma video on murder of Super TV CEO

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The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed a trending video of Chidinma Ojukwu, the prime suspect in the murder of the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, in which she made a u-turn, denying killing Ataga.

In the video, Ojukwu said she did not kill Ataga as she earlier claimed when she was paraded by the police.

Ojukwu, who is in detention released an eight minute video, well dressed and polished, as she recanted all she said earlier when she alleged she stabbed Ataga to death.

Ojukwu was paraded by the Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu on June 24, 2021y at the Police Command in connection with the murder of Ataga.

Ataga was stabbed to death on June 15, 2021 at a service apartment in Lekki Area of Lagos State.

In her narration before newsmen, she and Ataga were in the lodge smoking and that he was trying to make advances on her when she was tired and that he became violent about it, but allowed him have his way on her.

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She added that towards afternoon, he ordered roofies and that they both took them and ate food, which made him to become high.

Ojukwu had added: “I was still not happy with the first one that we had, so, I was staying on my own, smoking and drinking. He, too, was on his own.

“He came to me and I was like I am not happy with what he did. I was like, ‘You don’t help me, you don’t assist me with anything, you are just playing with me around’. He was like, ‘Take my ATM and withdraw what you want’.”

According to her, Ataga later became violent trying to get to her but that she was resisting and defending herself.

She said at some point, he hit her head on the wall and that she also retaliated, adding that at some point, he was chasing her around the kitchen cabinet.

“I took a knife and stabbed his neck. I approached the door and he followed me. I stabbed him twice on the neck side. I threw the knife to the bed and he was going for it but I also went for it. He dragged the knife with me and it broke and he fell on the floor,” she had narrated.

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But in the new viral video released, Ojukwu said Ataga was already killed before she got to the apartment and that she met him dead and did not know who killed him.

She painted a picture of coming into the apartment and meeting Ataga in pool of his blood and that it looked as if someone broke in to kill her.

Ojukwu said he saw him on the floor and did not know what to do and that she took her things and his things and went away.

“I never had anything to do with his death, I don’t know who might have come into the apartment, definitely, somebody did that, but I don’t know who that person is, I don’t know what happened when I left to buy the food, I don’t know,” she said.

But spokesperson, Lagos State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi said the interview was an old one and should be dismissed.

He said whatever was said in the video would not change the facts the police had gathered on Ojukwu as the prime suspect in the murder of Ataga.

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Muyiwa even said it was fake news, but with information contained in the video, it was shot after the parade of Ojukwu by the police.

The question is who conducted the interview when the girl is in detention? How come Ojukwu was corporately dressed in the interview? What is fishing? What kind of conspiracy is going on?

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Police arrest suspected suicide bomber ‘strapped with bomb’ in Plateau bank

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Security operatives have apprehended a man strapped with Person Borne Improvised Explosive Device (SPBIED) inside a bank in Plateau.

 

Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication focused on the Lake Chad region, said the man was nabbed at a bank in Dadin Kowa town in Jos South LGA of the state.

 

The publication said the incident occurred on May 13.

 

Intelligence sources told Makama that the man planned to detonate the explosives at the bank but was spotted by a vigilante operative who raised the alarm.

 

The publication said after the suspect was apprehended, an angry mob surrounded him and insisted he should be killed.

 

Makama could not confirm if the suspect is connected to the fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP).

 

The publication added that the suspect is in the custody of the police and currently undergoing investigation.

 

Nigeria has been battling insurgency for two decades, with suicide bombings, displacement of entire communities and kidnapping for ransom by the terrorists, recorded in that span.

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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said about 83 children — mostly girls — were used as human bombs in 2017 alone.

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Troops kill notorious bandit leader Dongon Bangaje, three others in Kaduna

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Troops of Operation Whirl Punch operating in the North-West zone have killed four bandits, including the notorious Dongon Bangaje, during fighting patrols in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

 

According to a statement by the Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs Samuel Aruwan, the troops first conducted the special fighting patrol over the weekend at Tumburku village. Then they projected the same to Sabon Sara, both in Giwa LGA.

 

He explained that the troops acting on credible intelligence, sighted bandits fleeing the latter location, and engaged the criminals in hot pursuit. During the process, the troops killed two of the bandits. They recovered a range of items including a motorcycle, a mobile phone, gas lighters, tobacco, assorted charms, and a polythene bag containing petrol.

 

In a similar operation conducted at Basurfe village, South-West of Kindandan, the troops fought through an ambush and neutralized two other bandits and also
dislodged a camp serving as a treatment area for the insurgents.

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Recoveries made at the location included two AK-47 rifles, one pump action rifle, three magazines, 16 rounds of ammunition, one Improvised Explosive Device (IED), two radios, and one motorcycle, as well as cigarettes, drugs, and medical accessories.

 

According to the security report, one of the bandits killed in the operations was a notorious bandit leader known as Dogo Bangaje who was eliminated alongside a close associate yet to be identified.

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N10bn airport contract fraud: EFCC arraigns Sirika, brother, company today

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will today, arraign former minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, his brother, Ahmad Sirika and a company, Enginos Nigeria Limited, over alleged N10 billion airport contract fraud.

The arraignment comes barely a week after the anti-graft agency slammed similar charges on Hadi Sirika, his daughter, Fatima, and son-in-law, Jalal and another company, Al Buraq.

 

In particular, the former minister is to explain to Justice Belgore of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, why he awarded the huge contracts to his brother and company and conferred proceeds of crimes to his family without worrying about the crime and why he, his brother and the company should not be penalised in accordance with relevant laws of Nigeria.

 

Part of the charges reads: “That you Hadi Sirika, while being the Minister of Aviation, on or about August 18, 2022, in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this court, did use your position to confer unfair advantage upon Enginos Nigeria Limited whose alter ego, Ahmad Sirika is your biological brother, by using your position to influence the award to them, the contract for the construction of a Terminal Building at Katsina Airport for the sum of N1.345billion and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 and punishable under the same section.

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Count two reads: “That you Hadi Sirika, while being Minister of Aviation, on or about 3d November, 2022, in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this court, did use your position to confer unfair advantage upon Enginos Nigeria Limited whose alter ego, Ahmad Sirika is your blood brother, by using your position to influence the award to them, the contract for the establishment of Fire Truck Maintenance and Refurbishment Centre at Katsina Airport for the sum of N3.811billion and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 and punishable under the same section.

 

Count three reads: “That you Hadi Sirika, while being Minister of Aviation, on or about 5 May 2023, in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this court, did use your position to confer unfair advantage upon Enginos Nigeria Limited whose alter ego, Ahmad Sirika is your blood brother, by using your position to influence the award to them, the contract for the Procurement and Installation of Lift and Air Conditioners and Power Generators for Aviation House, Abuja for the sum of N615.195million and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 and punishable under the same section.

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Count four reads: “That you Hadi Sirika and Enginos Nigeria Limited between August, 2022 and May, 2023 in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this court, had possession of an aggregate sum of N2.337billion, which sum you knew indirectly represented the proceeds of criminal conducts of Ahmad Sirika, who was the Minister of Aviation at the time (to wit: use of office or position for gratification in respect of the said amount), and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 17 (b) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004 and punishable under the same section; and two other charges.

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