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NDLEA arrests man swallowing 93 pallets of cocaine in Lagos hotel

The Lagos State command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested Uju Dominic in the Okota area of the state.

According to the agency, Dominic was swallowing 93 pallets of cocaine in preparation for his flight to Italy when he was arrested.

Dominic was a member of a drug cartel supervised by Charles Uwagbale, and both of them found themselves in the NDLEA net when the operatives of the agency stormed Golden Heaven Hotel on Enoma street, off Ago-Palace way, Okota, where they were perfecting their plans.

Femi Babafemi, the agency’s director, media and advocacy, shared the details of the arrest in a statement he signed on Sunday.

LAGOS ARREST

Charles Uwagbale’s drug cartel was said to be an organised team sponsoring and recruiting young drug traffickers in Europe.

“It was a rude shock to a notorious drug kingpin who specialises in sponsoring young Nigerians to traffick Class A drugs to Europe, especially Italy, when operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, stormed his hotel room in Okota area of Lagos late on Friday, 21st July when he was preparing a recruited courier to swallow 93 pallets of cocaine meant for distribution in Italy,” the statement read.

“The 48-year-old drug kingpin, Charles Uwagbale, had recruited Uju Dominic, 35, from his base in Italy with a deal to come to Nigeria, ingest 100 pallets of cocaine on Friday 21st July and return to Italy on Saturday, 22nd July. True to plan, upon the arrival in Nigeria, the mule was lodged in Golden Heaven Hotel located at Enoma street, off Ago-Palace way, Okota, Isolo, Lagos, where Uwagbale brought 93 wraps of the Class A drug for him to swallow at about 23:45pm Friday night.

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“They were in the process when NDLEA operatives who have been on their trail following credible intelligence stormed ther hotel room, arrested both and recovered the drug exhibits with a total weight of 1,427 kilograms.

“Operatives of the Lagos State command of the agency who made the arrest and seizure had on Thursday, 20th July, raised Akala in Mushin area of the state where they recovered 37.5kg cannabis from the home of a fleeing suspect.

“Meanwhile, attempts to smuggle 98 cartons containing five million, one hundred and twenty two thousand, nine hundred (1,122,900) pills of tramadol 225mg with an estimated street value of about three billion, seven hundred million naira (N2.7 billion) only into Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, have been thwarted through the robust synergy between men of the Nigeria Customs Service and NDLEA officers at the airport as well as those at the DHL cargo warehouse. Preliminary findings revealed that the consignments were imported from India and Pakistan, while some of the seized consignments had Freetown, Sierra Leone as final destination.”

OTHER ARRESTS

According to the statement, other arrests and seizures made in Kogi, Adamawa, Bauchi, Sokoto, Yobe, Edo and other states led to the recovery of a large volume of illicit drugs and destruction of cannabis farms worth more than one billion naira.

“In the same vein, NDLEA operatives in Bauchi State have recovered a total of six million, two hundred and sixty-five and eighty (6,265,080) pills of opioids from three suspects: Emmanuel Onyebuchi, 3; Uche Iyida, 33; and Chinedu Ezeanyim, 32, following their arrest alongside a truck driver and his assistant at Shopping Complex, Maiduguri Bye-pass, Bauchi town, on Wednesday, 19th July, and the subsequent follow up on search of the residence of Iyida on Friday, 21st July,” the NDLEA stated.

“No fewer than nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, five hundred (999,500) tablets of exol-5 were also recovered by operatives from a shop close to the market at Hong Road, Gombi, Adamawa State, on Friday, 21st July, while 46,000 capsules of tramadol were seized from a suspect, Paul Ajaegbu, 36, along Owerri-Aba road, Imo State, on Monday, 17th July. Same suspect had earlier been arrested, precisely on 9th February, 2023, for the same offence.

“In Ondo State, NDLEA operatives in their numbers stormed the Ofosu forest where they destroyed 29 hectares of cannabis farms on Thursday, 20th July. The quartet of Osamezu George Chukwuemeka, 51, who owns the farm, his wife, Kate Osamezu, 43; Agboola Wasiu, 37; and Mustapha Sanni, were arrested during the operation, while 118.5kg processed cannabis was recovered from the farm. In another raid of the warehouse of a suspect at Elegbeka, Ose LGA, not less than 107 jumbo bags of the same illicit substance weighing 1,132kg were recovered on Monday, 17th July.

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“While operatives in Sokoto State arrested a suspect, Charles Nwankwo, 50, with 610kg of cannabis in Tamaje area of Sokoto on Friday, 21st July, their counterparts in Yobe also same day nabbed a fleeing suspect, Shaibu Musa, 29, in Dawasa while he was offering them a bribe of N500,000 following the seizure of 36kg skunk in his house on Wednesday, 19th July.

“In Edo State, operatives on Monday, 17th July, raided the Utese forest, Ovia North East LGA where they arrested Victor Asukwo Jack, with 59 bags of processed cannabis sativa weighing 640kg. His two cannabis farms measuring 1.489895 hectares and 2.445295 hectares were destroyed. Also, Endurance Chukwuma, 50, was arrested with seven bags of processed cannabis sativa weighing 68kg, while his cannabis farm measuring 0.254324 hectares was destroyed.

“A total of 273kg cannabis was earlier intercepted in a Toyota Sienna vehicle marked RBC 451 CM on Wednesday, 19th July, at Ogida, Benin City, and a suspect, Lucky Oriakhi, 41, arrested while operatives also seized 48,380 pills of tramadol in a commercial bus marked KAK 65 XA along Ewohimi road, heading to Kabba, Kogi State and arrested the driver, Ibrahim John.

“In Nasarawa, two suspects: Abubakar Suleiman, 30, and Shehu Garba (a.k.a. Shagari), 29, where arrested along Keffi-Akwanga road on Tuesday, 18th July, in a Peugeot J5 vehicle loaded with 1,608.4 kilograms of cannabis sativa. The consignment was loaded in Edo State and meant for distribution in Bauchi State.

“While a total of 1,556.1kg of cannabis was recovered from two suspects: Jonathan Nuhu, 54, and Muhammed Abubakar, 18, following their arrest at Wudil area of Kano State on Thursday 20th July, 76kg of same substance was seized from Yakubu Muhammed, 32, on Monday, 17th July, along Okene/Lokoja highway in a trailer coming from Port-Harcourt to Kano. In the same vein, operatives in Ogun on Wednesday, 19th July, recovered 810 parcels of cannabis weighing 604kg from the house of one Adetunji Abiodun.

“Fresh bid to smuggle into Nigeria, another consignment of Colorado, a synthetic variant of cannabis, through the Tincan port in Apapa, Lagos, was again, on Friday, 21st July, trustrated by NDLEA officers who discovered a total of 323 parcels of the illicit substance weighing 161.5kg concealed in one of the four used vehicles in a container marked MEDU 7519460 coming from Montreal, Canada, during a joint examination of the shipment.

“At least three suspects are currently in NDLEA custody over the shipment while a bribe of N20 million converted to $22,900 offered operatives by the importer’s agents has also been recovered and documented as evidence.

“Impressed by the volume of arrests and seizures made by officers and men of MMIA Lagos, Bauchi, Adamawa, Ondo, Sokoto, Yobe Edo, Imo, Kano, Kogi, Ogun, Nasarawa and Tincan commands in the past week, chairman/chief executive officer of NDLEA, Brig Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) commended them for jobs well done while he urged them and their counterparts across the country to vontinue the synergy with other security agences nd stakeholders in the fight against substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking.”

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Cleric allegedly sets wife’s house ablaze following prayer disagreement in Ekiti

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Ekiti State Police Command Spokesman, DSP Sunday Abutu

Cleric allegedly sets wife’s house ablaze following prayer disagreement in Ekiti

An Ekiti-based Islamic cleric, Ahmed Ojo, has been arrested for allegedly setting fire to his wife’s residence in the Egbe Odo area of Isua Ijesa, Ekiti State, due to her refusal to participate in a late-night prayer with him.

According to Punch, the wife, Bosede Afolabi, revealed that the incident occurred on April 27 when her husband returned home and requested they observe a prayer around 11 pm, which she declined due to exhaustion.

Afolabi stated that her refusal angered her husband, leading to a disturbance that prompted her to seek the intervention of neighbors to calm him down.

Despite efforts to explain her fatigue after a stressful day at work, her husband remained unreceptive, and when she sensed his escalating violence, she sought refuge at a neighbor’s residence for the night.

She narrated further, “At about midnight, a girl from our neighbourhood came to knock on the house to inform us that my house was on fire and that it seemed my husband had set the house on fire.

“I and some neighbours rushed to the scene only to see that the whole building had been engulfed in fire. Before we could get help in putting the fire out, the building had been razed.

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“He was later caught and handed over to the police.”

She added that she remarried Ojo after her first husband passed away, and she has been accommodating him since they got married.

When asked if there had been recurring misunderstanding between them, Afolabi said they had no misunderstanding before the incident.

She, however, blamed her husband’s action on the influence of alcohol.

“What I observed that night was that he was drunk, which was why I tried to avoid the escalation of the disagreement that ensued on that fateful day. He often comes home drunk sometimes, but we have not had any serious misunderstanding in the past,” Afolabi noted.

She added that the incident had left her in a devastating situation due to the huge loss it had caused her.

“I have not been myself since the incident happened because of the loss it has caused me. I appeal to Nigerians to come to my aid,” she concluded.

The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Sunday Abutu, disclosed that the suspect is under investigation.

“The incident happened. The man has been arrested and he is currently undergoing investigation at the state’s CID,” Abutu said.

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Your husband is not your partner, he is the head – Daddy Freeze tells Nigerian women

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Your husband is not your partner, he is the head – Daddy Freeze tells Nigerian women

Popular media personality Daddy Freeze has sparked controversy by declaring that a husband should not be viewed as a partner, but rather as the head of the household.

In a video shared online, he asserted that this notion is deeply rooted in various religious traditions, including Christianity, Islam, and traditionalist beliefs, as well as across different cultural tribes.

According to Daddy Freeze, women should shift their perspective and recognize their husbands as the authority figures in the home, rather than seeing them as equals or partners.

In the video, the outspoken personality claimed that he would disrupt the aspirations of Nigerians wanting to relocate abroad.

He further asserted that individuals accused of illegal activities have unjustly pointed fingers at him.

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In the video, Daddy Freeze mentioned that certain individuals had pleaded with him in the comments section, urging him not to take any action against Nigerians.

Daddy Freeze added that he was trying to pity Nigerians and not act on his words. He further boasted that the people don’t have an idea of how big he was in Nigeria.

This is coming few weeks after the media personality, who runs an online church, appealed to Pastor Chris to extend his resurrecting power to late celebrities Mohbad, who passed on in 2023, and Mr Ibu, who died recently.

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, while speaking at the Healing Steam Festival, disclosed that Christ Embassy had raised more than 50 people from the dead in the last year.

Pastor Chris added that people from different countries, both old and young, were resurrected through his ministry.

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Landlord arrested for impregnating tenant’s teenage daughter

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Landlord arrested for impregnating tenant’s teenage daughter

The Ogun State Police Command said it had arrested a septuagenarian landlord, identified simply as Adesina, for allegedly defiling and impregnating his tenant’s 14-year-old girl (name withheld) at Akegbeyale Street in Ifesowapo Akute, Ifo Local Government Area of the state.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the residents and other tenants were thrown into a state of shock when the septuagenarian suspect was found on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, having sexual intercourse with the 14-year-old girl at about 10:15 pm in the house bathroom.

The minor, according to a police source who was part of the team that arrested the 71-year-old suspect but was not permitted to speak for the command, was said to have made her way to the apartment’s bathroom to take a shower.

Our correspondent learnt that a few seconds later, the landlord was said to have gained entrance into the same bathroom and was believed to be having sexual intercourse with the teenager before he was caught in the act.

After this shocking discovery, some members of the community and other neighbours who witnessed the scene raised the alarm, leading to the arrest of the landlord by the men of the Ajuwon Police Division.

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PUNCH Metro gathered that upon advice by the police and others on the need for the minor to be treated to avoid any infection, the father was said to have taken the 14-year-old girl to the hospital for medical examination.

However, the result of the test was said to have indicated that the minor was about six weeks pregnant.

Confirming the incident on Wednesday, the spokesperson for the state Police Command, Omolola Odutola, told our correspondent the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, where all parties would be grilled.

“The landlord has been arrested and detained. The father reported that he was caught defiling his 14-year-old daughter in their bathroom in the morning. The teenager was taken to Tamara Hospital in Akute for a medical examination.

“However, the medical report further showed that that wasn’t a first-time act because the test showed that the teenager was already six weeks pregnant. The state CID in Eleweran will soon take up the matter for further investigation,” Odutola stated.

In November 2023, the operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps reportedly apprehended another 76-year-old man, David Ogunsanwo, for allegedly defiling a 16-year-old girl in the Abeokuta area of the state. The teenager was also reportedly five months pregnant.

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