Mourinho, a popular book seller in the Cross River University of Technology, (CRUTECH) in Calabar campus in Cross River State was found dead in Hall 2 Hostel on Saturday morning.
Though, the cause of the death was not immediately known at the time of this report, but some students and other people were seen discussing the incident.
An eyewitness said the deceased also sells pens, visual art materials and snacks in front of Hall 3 Hostel and he is most popular due to his philanthropic gesture.
One of the students, who gave his name as Ekanem, said, “I saw him last on Tuesday. Why so soon? I can’t believe it is true! May his Soul Rest in Peace”.
Another student, Francis Asuquo, said Mourinho has been of help to him since he was admitted into the University. “If I don’t have money to buy material for my exams, I always remember his place first, and he had never disappointed me. Why him? May his soul rest in peace”, Asuquo lamented.
Meanwhile, a student who gave his name as Mayor said he has not used the papers he bought from the late Book seller on Friday. He said “Oga Mourinho, I have not used the A3 and A4 papers you sold to me on Friday evening. Now it is a different story they are saying about you. I don’t believe it”.
Speaking with DAILY POST on Sunday evening, the CRUTECH Chief Security Officer, Iwarra Ibiang said the corpse had been evacuated by the family.
“The deceased was found dead in the morning of Saturday, our people (Security) saw the body in the morning and then we called in the Police.
“The Police came and the family also came in and picked the corpse. To say what killed him, there was no injury to say so but the autopsy will reveal what was responsible his death, but for now, that has not been done,” he stated, adding “I was not even around but my deputy was around, he went there with other men on ground.”
A driver, Abiodun Makinde, who the police said is “a member of ‘one chance’ robbery syndicate, terrorising commuters along Sango/Owode/Idiroko road”, has been arrested.
The Ogun State Police Command said the suspect was arrested on September 13, following a distress call made by two of his victims, Gloria Edoh and Saidat Akinola, who complained that they both boarded a cab from Owode to Sango in Ogun.
But on getting to Olokopupo area of Atan Ota, two men they met in the car suddenly brought out knives and other dangerous weapons with which they forced them to surrender their belongings.
The sum of N37,000 and N480,000 was collected from each of them, as well as their Tecno phones, after which they were pushed out of the moving vehicle, consequent upon which they sustained various degrees of injuries, DAILY POST learnt from the police.
The Spokesperson of Ogun Police, Abimbola Oyeyemi said the victims “subsequently found their way to a nearby hospital for treatment. But while coming from the hospital, they sighted and identified Abiodun Makinde as one of the hoodlums who robbed them, hence they raised alarm.
“The alarm they raised attracted the DPO Atan Ota, SP Abiodun Salau, who was on routine patrol of the area with his men and they raced to the scene where the suspect was arrested with the help of members of the public.”
Oyeyemi said, “On getting to the station, one woman (name withheld), who had earlier complained of similar incident also identified the suspect as one of the hoodlums who robbed and raped her on the 12th of September and made away with her pants.”
The suspect, it was gathered, had confessed to participating in the two robbery incidents.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, had ordered the transfer of the suspect to the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) for discreet investigation.
The Nigerian Army on Sunday says it has dismissed three soldiers arrested among a kidnapping gang in the outskirts of Maiduguri.
Maj.-Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed this while handing over the dismissed soldiers to the police in Maiduguri.
Adeniyi disclosed that the soldiers were arrested with 22 other suspects by a joint patrol team in the early hours of Sunday at a building in the outskirts of Maiduguri.
He said that the soldiers were initially deployed to the Operation Lafiya Dole, but engaged in nefarious activities such as kidnapping, armed robbery, killings and cultism.
Adeniyi added that the erring soldiers were dismissed in accordance with the military procedures, warning that the army would not condone criminals in its fold.
“The three soldiers were caught among the evil group, there was further resistance and attempt to escape, so we tied them up with ropes because handcuffs were not available.
“In addition; we could not put violent men that do this kind of crimes into a police van to take to the station, there will be breakout on the road and we know what would happen.
“We have to restrain them thoroughly with ropes before we take them and handover to the police.
“The Acting GOC, 7 Division, Brig.-Gen. AK Ibrahim, has conducted military procedures. We do not keep armed robbers, kidnappers and cultists in the army, they had been dismissed.
“We gathered here to witness their handover to the Nigeria Police Force for civil action, they are dismissed, and they are no longer soldiers of the Nigerian Army.
“Our code of conduct is strict and high, no evil soldier will be allowed to serve in the army,” Adeniyi said.
The commander called on the people to be vigilante and report suspicious persons, movement and activities to security agencies
Meanwhile, the Borno Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohhamed Aliyu, said the command had arrested 25 suspects at Bagani Hotel in Abuja Sheraton Area of the metropolis.
Aliyu said the suspects belong to a cult group called Neo Black Movement, adding that they were arrested wearing black dresses at about 2:00 a.m. while conducting their imitation activities.
He disclosed that preliminary investigations indicated that most of the suspects were students of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri, a medical doctor, a banker and three dismissed soldiers.
Aliyu added that one of the suspects fired shot in the air and run when the patrol team stormed the hideout.
He said the suspects had been terrorizing residents of Maiduguri and its environs, and were involved in robbing filling stations.
The founder of Sahara Reporters and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress Omoyele Sowore has been charged to court by the Federal Government for treasonable felony, cyberstalking President Muhammadu Buhari among other offences.
This was contained in a suit dated September 19, filed at the federal high court in Abuja. The government also accused Sowore of granting an interview with the purpose of insulting the person of the president of the country.
Omoyele Sowore was arrested on August 3, 2019, in Lagos for planning a series of protests tagged #RevolutionNow against bad governance in Nigeria.
On the eve of the expiration of the 45 days, the Federal Government Friday filed seven counts of treasonable felony, cyberstalking Buhari and money laundering against Sowore, along with Olawale Bakare, also known as Mandate.
The charge was signed on behalf of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), by Aminu Alilu, a Chief State Counsel in the Department of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, the Federal Ministry of Justice.
Yesterday couldn’t have been more fun. The good boy in me feels I need spiritual cleansing while the street-me thinks I’m just ‘enjoying’ my youth; whatever the case, I feel good with myself.
Getting heartbroken isn’t something easy to deal. I knew visiting Kay at Abuja would be helpful; so I did. He would have no part hearing me suck over a lady after such a long time and adviced we hangout. I am not the club-type; I suggested we just get a bar close-by that evening, drink with his friends, stay real late into the night and return home at whatever time ‘vision is a little blurred’. Kay concurred.
Right from the very minute I spotted her, I knew she had a thing for me; either she passionately hated me or she liked me. She came with a guy for a drink. She was sitted directly before me on the other table. The guy she came with had his back to me. The way they were dressed showed they had worked late and decided to catch-a-drink together. They must be colleagues, I said to myself.
I don’t do beer; I prefer vodka, against whatever the doctors think might be wrong with that. Intermittently, we locked gazes and she smiles at me. After drenching myself, I was up for ‘the talk’ with a little extra dose of evil-confidence that accompanies drinking, praying that for whatever reason, I should be alone with the lady, even if it’s for a minute. I needed to know what the smile meant.
The guy stood up. Spontaneously, I walked towards her table. As if she read my mind, she stretched her hands forward and I gave her my unlocked phone. She typed her number. I took the phone, nodded and walked away. Not a word was said.
Settling in my seat, I saved her number and straight-up texted her. Instincts right, they were colleagues. Texting got flirty and she perspicaciously led me on.
We were at it for close to 2hours. By now, it was almost 10pm. She texted she had to leave. I replied, asking if I could briefly see her. ‘Come to the car park 7minutes after I step out’ was her exact reply. I guess she needed to ‘free’ her colleague.
All the while, I was barely contributing to whatever discussion was up at our table. I was more into reading and replying her text than joining their discussion. I tapped Kay on the shoulder and whispered I had to go out. I stood up and had barely walked five steps when I got a text directing me to the almost dark end of the car park. I guessed she must have seen me stand through the exquisitely lit, transparent glass structure that housed the bar.
As in the text, I saw her car’s rear lights flash. I found her sitting on her car bonnet, more in the dark part of the car park. Without letting me say a word, she walked towards me, pulled me closer to herself and kissed me. Boom! That was all I needed.
Kissing graduated into pulling her real close to me, working and walking my hands to her back, through her out-of-tuck shirt. My hands are soft and I made them work-and-walk more delicately. I couldn’t unbutton her shirt in that nobody’s car park; I had to ‘manage’ walking my hands to the front and sifting them under the not too tight bra to ‘work on’ her smart boobs.
Before long, she gently pushed me to sit on the bonnet, unzipped my jean and loosely pulled it down, leaving it hanging from my thigh. She ‘sang with my mike’. After a while, I couldn’t have it anymore, and I lifted her up. I gently pulled her close to me, raised her not-too-tight skirt up, shifted her undies and had her ‘sit on the nail’ with her feet on the car bonnet. ‘Ride’ was fun with lots of kisses. Her highly sensitive moaning made it even more romantic.
We were at it when she sighted a man approaching the car park. Damn! We hadn’t even stayed 30minutes at the car park alone! Couldn’t this man had waited a little longer? Why ruin this mad fun for me? I knew we had come to end of our ‘session’.
We hurriedly dressed up. As much as I tried to get her talking, she only smiled with looks that passed messages; even when I asked for her name. I kissed her and watched her drive off. I sent Kay a text and he brought the car keys outside. I took his car perfume, applied a few shots, and returned to the bar.
“I’m home. I enjoyed myself. I had fun, thank you. And I wanted to tell you my name, but I’m dumb” was the text I got few minutes after she left. I couldn’t believe what I read, but almost immediately, I remembered she didn’t say a word to me in person; she only moaned. She may be truly deaf, but she was fun. Mad fun.
Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on Thursday, disclosed that issues concerning the Biafran people were before the various arms and agencies of the United Nations, adding that Biafra’s case would no longer be swept under the carpet.
The IPOB leader had led a delegation to a series of meetings with various UN agencies and officials at Geneva where he presented Biafra’s plight on Tuesday.
Emma Powerful, the IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, in a statement on Thursday, said Kanu’s emergence from the meeting was met with chants of the eulogy by a congregation of Biafrans.
Powerful disclosed that Kanu demanded urgent action against the numerous rights abuses inflicted daily upon Biafra agitators by the government of the day and the need to support the undeniable right of Biafrans to self-determination as enshrined in law, statute and various UN conventions.
The statement added, “Every issue concerning our people is now before the various arms and agencies of the United Nations. Our case will no longer be ignored.
“The case of RUGA settlement was also raised and the august body was left in doubt that Biafrans will never allow Fulani terror settlements in Biafraland.
“Incessant killing of Biafrans in their own land by terrorist Fulani herdsmen, extortion and killing of Biafran motorcyclists and commercial drivers by the Nigerian army and police over refusal to give N50 bribery.”
It added that Kanu was accompanied by his deputy, Mazi Uche Mefor, Head of Directorate of State, Mazi Chika Edoziem and other top echelons of the struggle.
The Biafran leader raised the continued illegal detention of Omoleye Sowore, the relentless persecution of the members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria led by Sheikh El-Zakzaky, among other issues.
Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, earlier in the week said it’s keenly monitoring developments at Aso Rock. Although within the purview of the President, it is believed that recent happenings at the Seat of Power in Nigeria is targeted at waning the Vice-President’s influence. The spokesman of the group, Yinka Odumakin, said “clearly, what has happened is that the VP’s office has been rendered impotent, useless and irrelevant”.
President Muhammadu Buhari had, earlier in the week, dissolved the Economic Management Team (EMT) chaired by the Vice-President, replacing the team with an 8-man Economic Advisory Council (EAC) which will report directly to the President. This writer considers that a positive step in the right direction until media suggestions started to filter in that the action was a calculated attempted to reduce the Vice-President’s influence. This writer considers the composition of the new council a positive, considering the pedigree and economic astuteness of the council members.
The council is headed by Prof Doyin Salami, a former member of the monetary policy committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and a senior lecturer at the Lagos Business School. Others are Mohammed Sagagi (Vice-Chairman), Ode Ojowu, Shehu Yahaya, Chukwuma Soludo, Bismark Rewane and Mohammed Adaya Salisu (Council Secretary and Special Adviser to the President, Development Policy). If the President will not be true to his usually arrogant and ignorant self, and will toe the path of nation building, this council should help find a way to salvage our dwindling economy.
The PUNCH reports that a source in the Presidential Villa confided in its reporter that members of the cabal in the Presidency were bitter about the roles played by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, in his capacity as Acting President, when the President went on medical leave.
The newspaper claimed that its source cited the emergence of Justice Walter Onnoghen as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria on March 7, 2017 and the removal of Lawal Daura as the Director-General of the Department of State Services on August 7, 2018 as two of their grievances against Prof Osinbajo. President Buhari had on November 10, 2016 sworn in Onnoghen in acting capacity despite the recommendation of the National Judicial Council stating that he should be appointed as the Chief Justice of Nigeria, being the most senior justice of the Supreme Court at the time. One can only wonder if truly there are reasons the President was indisposed to sending Onnoghen’s name to the National Assembly for confirmation in a substantive capacity. The Vice-President sent his name to the National Assembly on February 7, 2017 and swore him in on March 7, 2017. To this writer, it was the right thing to do at the time and I strongly believe he must have carried the President along.
The sack of Lawal Daura as the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS) by the Vice-President is another issue The PUNCH source claimed to have necessitated the Vice-President’s ‘treatment’. It was the right thing to do at the time as Nigeria was going through a phase that demanded outright professionalism and unbiased judgements from men around intelligence gathering and security formations in general. Nigerians saw the move as the right step going forward. It’s also believed the VP was expected to ‘monitor’ Obono-Obla on recovery of public assets, but he let Obono-Obla go unchecked.
While it is within the jurisdiction of the President to decide what to or what not to leave on the Vice-President’s desk, the President should be made aware (if he doesn’t already know) that people are beginning to read body languages from the North showing they are desperate to hold on to power beyond 2023 and would employ every means, morally right or wrong, to accomplish it. Nigeria is tensed, but quiet. Nigerians are angry, but calm. The more questionable decisions are made, the more the Federal Government gives people reasons to distrust it.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday held a session in honour of the Chairman of Air Peace, Mr Allen Onyema, for the free air services offered by his airline to the Federal Government for the evacuation of Nigerians in South Africa.
The Nigerians were evacuated from South Africa over xenophobic attacks in that country.
Also, the House passed a resolution asking President Muhammadu Buhari to give a national award to Onyema in recognition of his patriotism, which the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, asked the Clerk to the House, Patrick Giwa, to transmit to Buhari immediately.
The lawmakers also vowed to give the first priority to Air Peace when flying to any part of the country.
The Speaker, shortly after saying the opening prayers, asked that the Order Paper for Wednesday’s plenary be temporarily suspended to allow the lawmakers to receive Onyema for recognition.
Gbajabiamila asked the Majority Leader, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, to move that Onyema be allowed into the chamber.
As the Chief Whip, Mohammed Monguno, ushered the Air Peace boss into the chamber, several lawmakers embraced and shook hands with him.
The Speaker hailed Onyema for his patriotism, saying the lawmakers had recommended the Air Peace boss for Federal Government’s recognition.
Gbajabiamila said, “I believe that we are all witnesses to what he has done for our brothers and sisters in the last couple of weeks. We watched the scenes of Nigerians on TV being reunited with their families and friends; the emotional scenes was brought about or made possible by only one man among many men; a businessman who is into business like every other businessman to make money, but who sacrificed his wealth and business, and at no cost – and I dare say at a loss – deployed his aircraft to bring back our brothers and sisters who were facing danger in South Africa.
“This is a feat that should be commended. And we hereby commend Mr Allen Onyema and recommend you to the Federal Government for higher honour in Nigeria.”
The lawmakers gave Onyema a standing ovation when called upon to address them.
“You have brought tears to my eyes again. I have never been so honoured in my life,” Onyema said in the opening of his speech.
The Air Peace boss told the House that the evacuation of Nigerians from South Africa has brought respect to Nigeria across the world. He also stated that South Africa was suffering dearly for the attacks by its citizens on non-citizens. He said flights were now going to South Africa empty and while stocks in the country were falling.
“That singular act has brought so much respect for Nigeria worldwide,” he said.
The Air Peace boss said the pressure on South Africa forced the country to apologise to Nigeria and other African countries.
“It wouldn’t have happened if the evacuation hadn’t take place,” he said.
According to him, xenophobia will die a natural death in South Africa.
The Air Peace boss noted that he had been previously involved in national projects, urging other wealthy Nigerians to be philanthropic.
He said, “The kind of support we have got from Nigerians through commendations and everything gladden our hearts to the extent that my pilot and cabin crew stood for 24 hours because they (South African authorities) tried to frustrate us. They didn’t want us to evacuate, they pleaded with the Nigerian High Commission not to do it. But they (the commission) told them that they (South African authorities) could not stop the private citizens. They delayed us for 15 hours before allowing us to do the first evacuation.
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“In the last one week, this country has bonded. No more Hausa, no more Yoruba, no more Igbo. Let me use this opportunity to plead with all of you here, the representatives of our people; as long as we fight against each other, we shall not have a nation. It is only when we start fighting for each other that can we have a nation.”
Two representatives of the Process and Industrial Development Ltd on Thursday pleaded guilty before the Federal High Court in Abuja to charges of fraud and tax evasion instituted against them in respect of the contract leading to the recent controversial judgment of a British court empowering the firm to seize about $9.6bn worth of Nigerian assets.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday arraigned P&ID Ltd, Virgin Island, its Nigerian affiliate, P&ID Nigeria Ltd on 11 counts of fraud and tax evasion.
While P&ID Ltd, Virgin Island was represented by its Commercial Director, Mohammad Kuchazi, P&ID Nigeria Limited was represented by Adamu Usman, who is also a lawyer.
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Both men pleaded guilty to all the 11 counts read to them before Justice Inyang Ekwo on Thursday.
Kuchazi was represented by his lawyer, Dandison Akurunwua, while Usman represented himself.
They were accused of, among others, fraudulently claiming to have acquired land from the Cross River State Government in 2010 for the gas supply project agreement which led to the $9.6bn judgment.
