Crime
N5.2BILLION CLAIM BY PETITIONER NOT OUR HEADACHE, POLICE COUNSEL TELLS PANEL

N5.2BILLION CLAIM BY PETITIONER NOT OUR HEADACHE, POLICE COUNSEL TELLS PANEL
By: Michael Mike
Counsel to the police Mr. Fidelis Ogobe told the Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct SARS and other Units of the Nigerian Police Force that they will not oppose the N5.2 billion naira claim by a petitioner, Ifechukwu Okolie, provided he can prove his case of unlawful arrest ,detention and extra judicial killing beyond reasonable doubt.
The police lawyer noted that no amount of money can be enough for the loss of life of any individual even as he however prayed the panel members to use their discretion in the circumstances to decide what is just.
According to Mr. Ogobe this became necessary owing to the fact that the complainant was not able to prove that those who abducted the victim were indeed Men of the Nigerian police force.
While concluding his defense, Ogwobe told the panel to hold that the petitioner’s counsel failed to link the alleged abduction of his father to extra-judicial killing, saying that it is settled in law that where there is no wrong there is no remedy.
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Ifechukwu Okolie Iduh a complainant before the panel had asked to be compensated to the tune 5.2billion for police brutality.
Mr. Okolie in his prayers before the panel demanded the police to compensate him with the sum of N100 million being compensation for all manner of in human and degrading treatment meted to his father, Paulinus Okolie Iduh while he was unlawfully detained for eight months by SARS Awkuzu in Anambra state.
The complainant is also demanding the sum of N100 million being compensation for the alleged malicious prosecution on which Paulinus was later discharged and acquitted.
Additionally, the complainant asked that the sum of N5 billion should be paid to him as compensation for the abduction and eventual extra judicial killing of his father.
In his testimony before the panel the complainant narrated how his father, Paulinus Okolie Iduh, a freelance journalist, writer and proprietor of Gods intervention computer secondary school Azia, In Ihiala local government area of Anambra state was arrested in March 2013 by officers of the defunct SARS in Akwuzu.
According to the complainant the victim was brutally tortured starved of food and water; adding that he was severally threatened with execution in order to extract information from him and for the victim to accept the allegation of kidnapping and robbery etc.
Narrating further the complainant told the panel that he severally went to Akwuzu SARS where his father was kept to demand for bail but all efforts proved abortive he said.
Meanwhile the complainant also noted that he was directed by the IPO in the matter to desist from coming to check on his father as he may be killed sooner or later having failed to avail the police of the truth.
However, the victim fell sick in the custody of police without adequate treatment and after spending eight months in police custody he was charged to court and remanded in Nkisi prison for four months and was later discharged and acquitted.
The complainant said afterwards, the victim was warned by the police on that fateful day and threatened before he (the complainant dropped his father at Azia junction in Ihaila LGA of Anambra state to board a vehicle to Abuja where he had secured an invitation with the National Assembly to unveil his book, “the shame of a nation”, which aims at exposing the activities of Akwuzu SARS, before he was abduction.
The matter has been adjourned for a report of the panel.
N5.2BILLION CLAIM BY PETITIONER NOT OUR HEADACHE, POLICE COUNSEL TELLS PANEL
Crime
Stop the Lies!!!!This Viral Video Is Not from the attack in Marte or Any New Attack in Nigeria

Stop the Lies!!!!This Viral Video Is Not from the attack in Marte or Any New Attack in Nigeria
By: Zagazola Makama
Once again, the rumor mill is working overtime and this time, it’s recycling a tired, grim old lie.
A gruesome video is making the rounds on social media again, some claiming it’s from the Marte attack purporting that captured Nigerian soldiers were allegedly executed by ISWAP; others claiming it’s a recent bandit attack. But here’s the annoying part: this same video has been circulating since 2020. Yes, 2020. That’s five years ago and yet people keep resharing it like it’s fresh off the battlefield.
It was published by NairaLand on 5 April 2020 and due to its gory nature, YouTube deleted the video from circulation.
Let’s be clear: the video is not from Nigeria, and certainly not from Marte attack. It was originally recorded in the Sahel region, where JNIM terrorists captured and executed some soldiers. This has been verified, debunked, and buried and yet, here it is again in 2025, haunting our timelines with false claims.
So, before you hit the share button next time, maybe take a moment to check your facts or better yet, stop spreading recycled horror content from a completely different conflict zone and attributing it to the Nigerian military.
Disinformation like this isn’t just lazy, it’s dangerous. And frankly, it’s exhausting.
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Stop the Lies!!!!This Viral Video Is Not from the attack in Marte or Any New Attack in Nigeria
Crime
Two immigration officers shot in Abuja after being mistaken for robbers

Two immigration officers shot in Abuja after being mistaken for robbers
By: Zagazola Makama
Two immigration officers were shot in the Sabon Iddo area of Abuja on Friday night after being mistaken for armed robbers by a man identified as Pastor Darlington, who is currently at large.
A Police sources told Zagazola Makama that the incident occurred at about 10:00 p.m. when the officers, Oyomide Zion and Hakeem Mashood, were on routine movement in the area.
According to police sources, at about 11:40 p.m., the Divisional Police Officer of Iddo Division received a distress call and deployed patrol teams to the scene.
Upon arrival, another immigration officer, Uduk James, reported that his colleagues had been shot. The injured officers were evacuated to the Nigerian Air Force Base Hospital, Abuja, where they are currently receiving treatment.
Police sources say efforts to track and arrest the fleeing suspect, identified as Pastor Darlington alias, have been intensified.
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Two immigration officers shot in Abuja after being mistaken for robbers
Crime
NDLEA arrests Iran-bound Hijab wearing woman with cocaine in private part, stomach, bag at Port Harcourt Airport

NDLEA arrests Iran-bound Hijab wearing woman with cocaine in private part, stomach, bag at Port Harcourt Airport
By: Michael Mike
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have thwarted a desperate attempt at the Port Harcourt International Airport to smuggle cocaine into Iran by a woman, Ihensekhien Obehi who disguised with hijab and concealed the illicit drug in her private part, stomach and false bottom of handbag.
According to a statement by the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, she was intercepted at the security checks of the departure hall of the Port Harcourt airport on Sunday 3rd May 2025 while trying to board a Qatar Airline flight to Iran via Doha following credible intelligence.

Babafemi said during her search, she was found to have inserted three wraps of cocaine in her private part, and two large parcels hidden in false compartments of her handbag while she swallowed 67 pellets of the Class A drug.
He said she was placed under excretion observation and after four excretions that lasted days, she expelled the 67 wraps of the substance in her stomach. She claimed she was to swallow 70 pellets of cocaine but after ingesting 67 pieces she could no longer swallow the remaining three and decided to insert them into her private part, adding that the total weight of the three consignments hidden in different parts of her body comes to 2.523 kilogrammes.

Babafemi said in like manner, NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos last Friday intercepted a 22-year-old British national, Campell Slifer coming from Thailand through Doha on Qatar Airways flight with two suitcases loaded with 35 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 37.6 kilogrammes.
Campell, who claimed he had twice been convicted in the UK for drug trafficking and robbery, said he was recruited in London to travel to Thailand to pick the illicit consignment and bring same to Nigeria.
In Niger state, NDLEA officers acting on intelligence last Wednesday intercepted a fuel truck marked ABJ 693 XU and three other vehicles loaded with 246 bags of skunk, a strain of cannabis with a combined weight of 3, 047 kilogrammes along Suleja-Kaduna road. Four suspects arrested with the exhibits include: Christopher Onyema, 47; Benedict Etineruba, 54; Chukwudi Ujue, 30; and Mohammed Danasabe. Apart from the fuel truck, three other vehicles recovered from the suspects include: Honda Odyssey bus marked YAB 667 CZ; Gulf bus with registration number GWA 125 TQ and
Honda Odyssey bus marked ABJ 230 CN.
At Oja Amukoko in Ijora area of Lagos, two suspects: Eze Chekube and Ike Chinyerem were last Thursday arrested by NDLEA operatives with a total of 109,914 pills of tramadol, swinol and nitrozepam seized from them, while 52.5 kilogrammes skunk was recovered from two suspects: Lukman Umar, 23, and Tukur Ammadu, 20, in a bus at Gwantu, Sanga local government area, Kaduna State last Tuesday, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Bode Saadu- Jebba expressway, Kwara State last Monday arrested Rufai Nasiru with 45,400 pills of tramadol 225mg.
In Bauchi state, NDLEA officers on patrol along Bauchi-Gombe road last Tuesday intercepted a Toyota Tundra jeep marked RBC 111 DW conveying 526 blocks of skunk weighing 505 kilogrammes with two suspects: Isaac Onogure, 37 and Ikechukwu Peter, 44, arrested.
Babafemi said a total of 31 kegs containing 775 litres of codeine syrup were recovered from two suspects: Hafizu Uman, 34, and Ismail Shehu, 48, when NDLEA operatives raided their hideout at Rijiyar Zaki area of Kano on Saturday, while 1.1 kilogrammes of Loud consignment concealed in pillow coming from Thailand was last Tuesday intercepted by NDLEA officers at a courier company in Lagos.
The War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) social advocacy activities by NDLEA commands equally continued across the country in the past week.
Meanwhile, while commending the officers and men of DOGI, MMIA, PHIA, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Bauchi, Kwara, and Niger commands of the agency for the arrests and seizures of the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Rtd) equally praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country for pursuing a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
NDLEA arrests Iran-bound Hijab wearing woman with cocaine in private part, stomach, bag at Port Harcourt Airport
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