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Fire guts new NNPCL tank farm in Lagos

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May 17, 2024

Fire guts new NNPCL tank farm in Lagos

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL Tank Farm at Kayode Street, Marine Beach, in the Apapa area of Lagos was on Friday was gutted by fire.

According to an eyewitness, Mr Tunde Are, the raging fire starter at about 11:00 am.

He said people ran helter-skelter to contain the fire before a rescue team arrived.

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The rescue team, led by the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Lagos State Emergency Management Authority, LASEMA, were still battling to put off the raging fire as of the time of filing this report.

The inferno, it was gathered, resulted from a spillage of petroleum products within the perimeter of the terminal

Confirming the incident, the Director, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Mrs Margaret Adeseye, said concerted effort with various emergency responders within the oil and gas industry was on to contain the situation.

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Ghanaian, friend stab each other to death in Osun

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July 6, 2024

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Police Public Relations Officer, Osun State Command, Yemisi Opalola

Ghanaian, friend stab each other to death in Osun

Two persons believed to be friends have stabbed each other to death in Inisa, Osun State.

The deceased are Alli Baba, a Ghanaian, said to be a palm wine tapper, and his friend, Kayode Olete.

The remains of the two persons were found on Friday in a dilapidated building after they reportedly stabbed themselves to death during a bloody fight.

According to Punch, loud noises were heard by residents close to the building where their bodies were recovered which suggested that the two had a bloody fight.

A resident of Inisa who gave his name as Jamiu, told newsmen that dangerous weapons were likely used in the fight between the two friends, as their intestines were exposed when security agents recovered their bodies on Friday.

Jamiu disclosed, “My house is in the same Baale Okunoye compound where Alli Baba was living. We all heard a loud noise from the house around 9:00 pm on Thursday when the two of them were fighting each other.

“We could not even come to the scene when we heard the noise, because it was late in the evening. When security men came around this morning, they met the two of them dead. They stabbed each other to death, but I can’t say the cause of the fight.”

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The Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Osun State Command, Kehinde Adeleke, confirmed the incident.

She said, “Thursday evening around 21:05 hour, we got a report that two people were fighting at Baale Okunoye Compound, Inisa. One Ali Baba, 60+, male (a Ghanaian by origin and palm wine tapper by profession) and one Kayode Olete, 52, male.

“The two of them were said to be close friends. Nobody knows what led to their fight as the house where the incident happened is isolated and dilapidated. Passersby later saw them in a pool of blood as they had stabbed and macheted themselves with their intestines popping out.

“Our officers immediately contacted the chairman of the LCDA and the elders of the community. When we got to the scene this morning, it was discovered that the two of them had passed on. The families of the two victims were contacted and they gave their consent for them to be buried.”

Meanwhile, a commercial driver plying the Edo/Osun State route, Olalekan Amos, has been arrested by the police for fleeing with electronic gadgets worth N4.5 million he was meant to deliver in Osogbo.

The spokesman for the Command, Yemisi Opalola, in a statement on Friday noted that the suspect, after collecting the electronics from Edo State, sometime in March, refused to deliver the gadgets as agreed at the designated place in Osogbo and fled with the amplifiers.

Opalola said, “Upon the report, the police Anti-cultism Unit who have been on the trail of the suspect, on 4/7/2024 arrested him. He confessed to having sold the said three amplifiers worth N1.5 million each to someone at the rate of N25,000.”

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Father of lynched TASUED student says his son was SUG official not cultist

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July 6, 2024

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Hammed Ayinla Fabiyi

Father of lynched TASUED student says his son was SUG official not cultist

The father of Hammed Ayinla Fabiyi, the final-year student of Tai Solarin University (TASUED) who was dragged out of an exam hall and killed by alleged cultists, has denied the claim by law enforcement that his deceased son was a cult member.

On July 4, a group of suspected cultists stormed an exam hall while exams were ongoing and dragged out Hammed, a 400-level student of history at the Ogun state-owned university.

An eyewitness account and footage had it that the victim was lynched afterwards.

The attackers, all dressed in white shirts, fled the scene before campus security arrived.

The Ogun state police command stated that Hammed was a member of the Eiye cult group.

According to the Ogun State Police Command PRO, Omolola Odutola, the attackers are a group of “about six” men who belonged to a rival confraternity called the Aye.

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However, the victim’s father, Musibau Fabiyi, has denied that his son was a cultist.

He identified his son as an official with TASUED’s student body during a chat with TheCable in Ogun on Friday, July 5.

The bereaved father said his son may have been killed for reasons unrelated to cultism.

“From what I know about my son, he is not a member of any cult. I haven’t even seen him with any dangerous item before,” he said.

“What I can remember is that he told me about some affairs in his school. Since he was a student union executive, he told me that one of the leaders of the union was involved in the misappropriation of funds. He was hellbent on exposing that.

“I think that is where the problem is from. My son is not a member of any cult. If he was, I would have known. I am his father.

“It is unfair how students can do this to themselves. If this was a cultism issue, there would have been threats flying around or cases of retaliation.”

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Ogun ex-convict killed in front of father’s house

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July 6, 2024

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Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Omolola Odutola

Ogun ex-convict killed in front of father’s house

One Adeniji Ibrahim, an ex-convict, has been killed in front of his father’s house in Ogun State.

The incident happened in Abule Oke area of Yewa North Local Government Area of the State.

It’s gathered gathered that the 28-year-old Ibrahim, was killed in the early hours of Wednesday.

The father of the deceased, Adeniji Kamorudeen, was said to have reported the incident at Imasayi Police Division.

According to the father, his son was killed by a group of people who accused him of stealing.

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According to reports, “Kamorudeen had reported at the station that some group of people arrested his son with the allegations of stealing and later killed him in the front of his house.

“He stated further that he knew that his son, Ibrahim was a criminal and had just returned from prison for a similar criminal offence, noting that he did not suspect anyone in connection with the case.”

Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, said the command is investigating the incident and has declared a manhunt for the assailants.

She said: “ Yes, it is true, the incident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday. The command is investigating.”