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Angry Tricycle Operators In Delta Protest Alleged Extortion By Council Boss, Gov
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EditorAngry Commercial tricycle operators in their hundreds on Saturday staged a warning protest over alleged extortion by touts in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State.
The tricycle operators held the protest at Jigbale market and blocked the road leading to Orhunwhorhun community, bearing placards.
They accused the Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori and the Udu Council Chairman of allegedly imposing outrageous levies on them.
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One of the commercial tricycle operators Anthony Igbebe who spoke with our correspondent said the protest is a warning to the Delta State Government to address the issues raised.
He said the failure of which, they will block the Udu main bridge and deny every access through the area by Monday, July 17.
“By the time 10,000 workers are affected by Monday, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori will come here.”
Igbebe also appealed to the state Governor to expand the road so that commercial tricycle operators, motorcycle operators and other road users can park very well to avoid extortion.
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Another tricycle operator, Azubuike Alu said the union can no longer face the molestation by touts, saying the Udu Council Chairman and Governor have not been fair to them with the alleged extortion of levies.
Another commercial tricycle operator identified as John said they all came out in the protest because they heard that the Council boss planned to ban their operations in the area.
However, the Chairman of the Delta State branch of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, Peter Edariese was on hand to douse the tension to avoid the destruction of properties by hoodlums.
While addressing the protesters, Edariese charged them to be law-abiding and not resort to the destruction of properties in the area.
Noting that they have the right to freedom of protest, Edariese said, “don’t be disorderly and destructive.”
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JUST IN: Truck Rams Into BRT On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
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May 18, 2024By
EditorA truck has rammed into a Lagos State BRT bus at Ibafo bus-stop along the Lagos Ibadan Expressway.
The PUNCH correspondent who went to the scene gathered that the accident occurred around some minutes to 6am on Saturday.
Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps and Police on response call at the accident scene insisted that only their Public Relations Officers were authorised to speak.
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However, unconfirmed reports from onlookers noted that several people on the BRT bus were injured.
Onlookers accounts noted that the BRT was parked loading its passengers at the bus stop before the truck loaded with cows heading to Lagos rammed into it, taking it off the road to destroy shops and kiosks by the roadside.
The cow truck had been towed a little away from the scene so as not to hinder traffic.
Details later
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Court Jails Social Media Influencer For Celebrity Scam
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May 18, 2024By
EditorA Federal High Court in Ikoyi, has sentenced Aluko Tunmise to one year in prison for his involvement in a celebrity scam.
Tunmise was prosecuted by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a cybercrime-related charge.
This was disclosed in a post on X by EFCC on Friday, May 17.
The post reads: “Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, convicted and sentenced one Aluko Tunmise, a self-acclaimed social media influencer and model, to one year imprisonment for celebrity scam.
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He was arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a one-count charge bordering on cybercrimes.”
“One of the counts reads: “That you, ALUKO TUNMISE JUWONLO (A.K.A. KEANU REEVES), sometime between January and March, 2024 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, directly made a false statement, wherein you held yourself out as a white man by name “KEANU REEVES” on your Telegram Account, knowing same to be false and with intent that the representation is relied upon for the purpose of procuring the issuance of financial instrument to yourself and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 22(3) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act, 2015′.
He pleaded ‘guilty’ to the charge when it was read to him.
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Following his guilty plea, prosecution counsel, C.C.Okezie, sought to present an operative of the EFCC, Vincent Sunday Kwambuge, to review the facts of the matter.
Kwanbuge told the court that the defendant was arrested sometime in March, 2024 at Lekki County Estate, Lagos, following credible intelligence received by the Commission on the activities of some internet fraudsters operating in the area.”
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Three Children Rescued As Fire Guts Storey Building In Delta
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11 hours agoon
May 17, 2024By
EditorThree children have been rescued as fire gutted a-storey building at the Obi Onuorah Crescent back of Okowe plaza in Asaba, the Delta State capital.
The PUNCH correspondent who visited the fire scene on Friday, observed that the roof and the two apartments were razed down as property worth millions of naira was damaged.
However, the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained as at the time of filling this report
Speaking, a widow and mother of four children, Mrs Gloria Sado who wept profusely appealed to Nigerians to come to her aid.
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She said, “I came back Thursday night around 9 pm when I saw a fire burning in our house.
“My three children were in the house, one went with me to market, thank God, it was a lot of effort for my children to be rescued. I didn’t know the cause of the fire
“All the three fire services that came did not have water to quench the fire, our property was burnt to ashes”
Also, her neighbor, Simon Amalimen, and father of two said, “I was in my apartment when I heard fire, fire, I came out and noticed that the fire was coming out from my neighbor’s apartment.
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“When learned that the three children were inside the apartment sleeping, we immediately moved into the fire to rescue the children, then, the fire had to gut my apartment.
“Before we could rescue them, the fire had entered my apartment and my two children and my wife were rescued. Only the boxers I wear are the clothes I came out with.”
He said before the third fire service could arrive, the two apartments and property had been burnt.
The victims were currently homeless as sympathizers were said to have gone to buy some clothes for them.
An official of the state fire service who did not want his name mentioned confirmed the incident.
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