The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has arrested a suspected ritualist who was in possession of 100 used baby diapers and a large sum of money in Lagos.

The suspect was involved in an accident that occured at Moshalashi Roundabout, in the Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos on Monday morning, April 24.

One of the victims involved in the accident died on the way to the hospital.

The agency disclosed this in a statement signed by its Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department, Adebayo Taofiq.

The statement added that the passenger found with used diapers has been handed over to the police for further investigations.

“One of the passengers inside the commercial tricycle involved in the accident was however caught with more than 100 pieces of used small children’s Diapers (Pampers) with a huge sum of money of different denominations and was immediately handed over to Policemen at the scene of the accident,” the statement said.

Further speaking on the accident, Adebayo said the accident involved two males and a female. It added that a preliminary investigation carried out revealed that over-speeding was the cause of the accident.

“Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority on Monday rescued three severely injured accident victims (two males and a female) at Moshalashi Round-About inward Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos.

“LASTMA Akanji Wasiu (Bravo 16) who led the rescue operations confirmed that the accident involved three vehicles, a Mazda commercial bus (FKJ 88 XH), a Tricycle (Keke Napep KJA 369 QM) and a white Camry car (KJA 351 HG) on the main carriageway at Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos.

“Preliminary investigation revealed that the driver of a white Camry car lost control due to overspeeding and hit a commercial tricycle from the rear while the tricycle went off balance and obstructed another up-coming fully loaded Mazda commercial bus going to Iyana-Ipaja.

“The rescued three accident victims were immediately rushed to different Hospitals by their relatives but, unfortunately, one of the rescued accident victims (male) reportedly died along the road to the hospital.

“The vehicles involved in the accident were immediately removed from the road to avoid impeding the free flow of traffic and were handed over to Policemen from Gowon Estate Divisional Police Headquarters for further investigations.”

A man identified as Agbo Onuabuchi aged 24, a native of Ebonyi State but resident at Ogidi in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, has been arraigned and remanded in Enugu Custodial Centre, for allegedly strangling to death and burying his male friend, one Peter Ukekwe aged 44, in a shallow grave, at Amori community in Nkanu West Local Government Area, on April 1.

The suspect and the deceased, had on the said date, travelled from Ogidi, Anambra State, to the mentioned location to visit one Onyeka Edeh, a male native doctor. However, during the night hours, the duo left the host’s house for an unknown destination.

A search was conducted, but they were not found until the following morning, when the suspect was arrested at Obe community in the same LGA, by Police Operatives serving in Nkanu West Division of Enugu State Command, with the assistance of citizens, while he was attempting to escape back to Ogidi, Anambra State.

Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, said the suspect confessed to the crime, stating that he strangled the victim to death and buried him in a shallow grave in the bush, where his remains were exhumed and deposited in the mortuary for preservation and autopsy.

Ndukwe said the case was, thereafter, transferred to the Homicide Section of the State CID Enugu, where an investigation into the case was consolidated, concluded and the suspect was arraigned and remanded accordingly for further hearing.

A lecturer with the Biology Department at Umar Suleiman College of Education Gashua, Yobe State, Dr. Barde Luka Yelwa and his wife, Godiya, have died two days apart.

Dr. Yelwa,38, died on Thursday, April 20, 2023, after suffering from a heart attack in the hospital where he was treating his wife who was sick.

Two days after his death, precisely on Saturday, April 22, his wife also passed away.

The couple left two children behind, a 5-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy.

Dr. Yelwa had acquired his Ph.D. two weeks ago.

The burial of late Dr. & Mrs Barde Luka Yelwa is rescheduled for Monday, April 24, 2023, and the final internment will take place at Dagare Village, 10 Km along Bauchi-Jos Road.

Meanwhile, friends, family members and colleagues have taken to social media to mourn the couple.

“We spoke just a few days ago after your Ph.D. accomplishment not knowing that that’s the last moment I will ever hear from you again,” Comrade Joeman Joseph, wrote.

Wale Adegbite, former chairman of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Ogun Chapter, has advised the incoming government to improve road infrastructure across the country.

Mr Adegbite gave the advice on Monday in Ota, Ogun.

He said improving road infrastructure would reduce the cost of transporting raw materials from the port to factories and from factories to consumers.

He appealed to the incoming administration to create a level playing field in accessing dollars bid by manufacturers through their banks to the Central Bank of Nigeria.

“There is the need for the new government to think toward this direction as this would help to assist manufacturers to facilitate the importation of their inputs into the country,” Mr Adegbite explained.

“In addition, they should grant incentive to manufacturers in the area of reduction in taxes levied on companies to cushion the effects of continuous rising inflation and the challenges of unstable power supply.”

The former MAN chairman also stressed the need for the government to make concerted efforts to close the IFEX rate to reflect true rates transactions are consummated.

An after-prom party in Texas erupted in gunfire early Sunday morning, leaving nine people shot and wounded.

According to the Jasper county sheriff’s office, about 250 people were estimated to have been present at the time of the shooting.

The county sheriff’s office confirmed the incident in a Facebook post stating that police deputies responded to a disturbance with shots fired on County Road 263 north of Jasper County shortly after midnight.

“Upon arrival, nine victims were found to have non-life-threatening injuries,” the statement said.

“The incident erupted at an after-prom party that was being held at the residence on County Road 263,” said the police. Most victims were transported to Jasper Memorial Hospital, and some were transferred to Christus St. Elizabeth for further treatment.”

According to the sheriff’s office, investigations are ongoing, and people of interest are being questioned. The statement said further information would be released when available. A second shooting within the city limits of Jasper, Texas occurred shortly after the first, the statement said.

There were no injuries in the second shooting, but a connection between the two incidents is being investigated due to a “common vehicle at both locations,” the police explained.

Jasper, a city of about 6,800 people, is located in the Deep East Texas subregion, about 40 miles west of the Texas-Louisiana state line.

Two persons have been killed by gunmen who invaded Kuru Station of Wereng Community, Riyom LGA, Plateau State, on Sunday evening, April 23.

Sources told The Nation that the militias invaded the community and started shooting sporadically, killing and wounding people, leading to cries for help.

Spokesman of Operation Safe Haven, (OPSH) in charge of Plateau , Bauchi and Kaduna States, Capt. James Oya confirmed the attack and added that they are on top of the situation.

He said the gunmen sporadically opened fire, while passing by and a bullet reportedly hit and killed a member of the community.

The police in Lagos state have arrested one Tolulopa Olowu, 41, for allegedly stabbing his neighbour, Pablo, to death at First Unity estate in Badore, Ajah in Lagos state on Saturday, April 22.

According to eyewitnesses, both men had a misunderstanding over the parking of vehicles on Gbadamosi street where they reside.

The misunderstanding degenerated into a fight and the suspect allegedly stabbed the deceased with a knife in his stomach, killing him on the spot.

The matter was reported at the Lagbansa police division and the suspect was immediately arrested and is currently in police detention.

Meanwhile, the corpse of the deceased has been deposited at the state morgue in Yaba.

A 14-year-old boy who allegedly defiled a 22-month-old baby has been remanded in Agodi Corrections facility, by a family court in Iyaganku, Oyo State.

The Prosecution Counsel, Insp Oluwakemi Arowosaye told the court that the boy resides with his parents at No 4, Salawu Street, Ibadan. He was accused of defiling the baby between March 31 and April 3.

Chief Magistrate P. O. Adetuyibi did not take the plea of the minor who was charged with defilement, for want in the jurisdiction.

Adetuyibi ordered the police to send the case to the Oyo State Directorate of Public Prosecution for legal advice.

The baby who is an orphan, has been taken by the Oyo State Child Welfare Department of the Ministry for Women Affairs. The judge adjourned the matter until July 20, for mention.

Prof. Benjamin Abakpa, the Executive Secretary of the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC), has been suspended over alleged misappropriation of fund.

His suspension was disclosed in a letter signed by Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Andrew David Adejo.

Prof. Abakpa has been directed to hand over the affairs of the office to the most senior director in the commission.

Spokesperson of the NSSEC, Fatima Bappare, who confirmed Abakpa’s suspension, said he was accused by the board members of administrative ineptitude, financial misappropriation and lack of synergy.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) has been invited to carry out a full investigation.

Mentally-deranged and homeless people will reportedly be captured in the upcoming 2023 housing and population counting.

Prince Diran Iyantan, the NPC Federal Commissioner representing Ondo State disclosed this during a one-day capacity-building workshop for the 2023 population and housing census publicity committee, held in Akure on Wednesday, April 19.

Iyantan also assured Nigerians that the 2023 census would have at least 98 per cent success.

The State Director of NPC, Mr Oluyemi Falusi, on the other hand said digitisation of the census was in line with UN recommendations.

Falusi said the 2023 exercise would be the first digital census to be conducted by Nigeria, adding that it would facilitate faster processes, reduce error, track progress, ensure efficiency and ensure prompt publication of results, among others.

The NPC Director also said the training, recruiting, deployment, conduct, analysis and publication and other processes of the exercise are fully digitalised.

Falusi who further revealed that a 5-tier strategy being deployed for quality assurance, robust monitoring and evaluation system had been set up, concluded by stating that there would be a call centre and a situation room in the state to assess the daily progress of the exercise.

A Keke Napep rider was lynched on Wednesday evening, April 19, shortly after he stabbed a young man named Douglas Joseph to death in Yenizue-Epie community of Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State.

Douglas Joseph, 30, was a native of the community and a father of three. An eye witness who narrated the incident to DailyPost said:

“He said he was coming from Opolo community to Kpansia which was supposed to be N100, but the Keke rider insisted on collecting N150.

“As we were separating them, we saw the Keke rider bring out a dagger. We thought it was just to scare the youth. But he stabbed him on his lap and the young man fell to the ground. People prevented the Keke rider from running away. Unfortunately, his wounded victim died.

Following his death, the Keke rider was lynched by a mob that hit him with different objects.”

Reacting to the incident, the Bayelsa State Police Command, said it has deployed its Anti Riot Squad to restore normalcy at Kpansia and its environs over the unfortunate murder of a community youth by a tricycle rider.