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CP Orders Investigation Into Abandoned Day-old Baby
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EditorOur Reporter, Bauchi
The Commissioner of Police in Bauchi State, Umar Sanda, has ordered the Divisional Police Officer in Bogoro Local Government Area to intensify investigation into the abandonment of a day-old baby.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Ahmed Wakili, told the Newsmen in Bauchi on Friday that the investigation was to unravel the identity of the baby’s mother.
He said that the day-old baby boy was found in an uncompleted building in Sarkin Kudu community.
The commissioner of police ordered the DPO and his men to fish out the mother of the baby within the shortest possible time.
He also urged the public in the area to help in tracking the mother for her to come forward and claim her child.
“On June 2, at about 8.30 a.m. some good Samaritans of Sarkin Kudu community went to the Bogoro Divisional Police Headquarters and reported that on their way to their farms they discovered an abandoned baby crying in an uncompleted building.
“Upon receiving the complaint, the DPO and his team of officers and men moved to the scene and took the abandoned baby to the Bogoro General Hospital for medical checkup.
“After the medical doctors have certified that the baby was healthy, they handed him to the Social Welfare Department of Bogoro Local Council.
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“Upon being briefed, the Commissioner of Police directed the DPO in the area to muster his men and carry out discreet investigation to unravel the identity of the mother of the child,” Wakili said.
Meanwhile, the Information Officer of Bogoro Local Government Council, Mr Gomna James, told newsmen that the baby was discovered by the villagers on Thursday morning.
“The woman must have given birth to the baby in the early hours of Thursday.
“When some people heard the cry of the baby, they went back to the village and reported what they heard.”
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Court Remands Tenant For Setting Landlord’s House On Fire In Ibadan
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May 2, 2024By
EditorAn Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Thursday ordered that a 35-year-old man, Dickson Peter, be remanded in a correction facility for allegedly setting his landlord’s house on fire.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the police charged the defendant with two counts of felony and arson.
The Magistrate, Mr M. Mudashiru, who did not take his plea due to lack of jurisdiction, ordered that he be remanded in the Abolongo Correctional Facility, Oyo Town.
Mudashiru said the remand is pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).
He adjourned the matter until July 23, 2024, for reference.
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Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Femi Oluwadare told the court that Peter, on April 18, at about 12:30 am, was alleged to have unlawfully set fire to the house of his landlord, Cepas Okeme, and destroyed properties worth N6.5 million.
Oluwadare said that after he set the building on fire, it also spread to the next house property belonging to Bose Ali ‘F’ and destroyed property worth N3.5 million.
He said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 443 of the Criminal Code Laws of Oyo State 2000.
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Officer Who Shot Man Dead During Fuel Queue Tumult Identified — Lagos Police
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May 2, 2024By
EditorThe Lagos State Police Command said it has identified the police officer who shot a young man, Toheeb Eniafe, at a petrol station on Wednesday.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin disclosed this on Thursday.
He said, “The person behind the shooting has been identified as a police officer serving at Special Protection Unit (SPU) Base 17, Lion Building, Lagos.
“Investigation is still ongoing and further findings will be made available.
“Meanwhile, the Lagos State Police Command is working with the family of the deceased to ensure that there is no miscarriage of justice.”
Recall that Eniafe was shot on Wednesday at a petrol station belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited at Obalende in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State.
Eniafe was reported to have been shot dead while he and some others were resisting the move by some security agents to buy fuel without joining the queue.
The Delta State Police Command on Thursday paraded a 24-year-old woman, Sofia Nkwo, for killing her one-year-old son.
The woman said she killed her son because she couldn’t care for the child again as the father rejected the child.
Also paraded were fake alcoholic producers, murder, kidnapping suspects, and car snatchers among others.
Parading the suspects at the police headquarters in Asaba, the Delta State capital, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Abaniwonda Olufemi, frowned at the evil act perpetuated by the woman.
He said, “On April 28, 2024, a case of infanticide was reported at Oleh Division, that a suspect named Sofia Nkwor 24, from Isoko south LGA, dump her child of one year and four month old in a well along the road in Araya community Isoko south LGA.
“Children who went to play around the tree discovered the abandoned child floating on the well. The mother Sofia Nkwor was immediately arrested and she stated that she dumped the child on 26th April 2024.
Confessing to the crime, Nkwo, said that she killed her son because she couldn’t care for the child again as the father rejected the child.
On the current kidnappings and killings in Ika North-East and Ika South areas of the state where farmers were being kidnapped and killed by gunmen, CP Olufemi said the command had developed personnel for the area.
“We are aware of the security situation in the Ika area of the state, and I have deployed personnel and directed Area Commander to move into the area and curb the bushes.
“The command is also working with Edo state Command because you know the area is the boundary between Delta and Edo,” he added.
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