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Police in Uitenhage have launched a manhunt for suspects who allegedly robbed a 54-year-old man in Uitenhage on Monday morning at about 11:15. It is alleged that the man was about to enter a financial institution in Caledon Street to deposit cash when he was approached by an unidentified male suspect who threatened him with a firearm. The suspect took the man’s bag and ran across the road towards a white VW Caddy that was stationary in the parking area. A relative of the man saw the incident occur and gave chase, driving into the VW Caddy with his bakkie.The suspect got out of the VW Caddy and jumped into a second red VW Polo and sped off. An undisclosed amount of cash was taken. No shots were fired and no one was injured in the incident.   Police are following up on all possible leads.Preliminary investigations revealed that the white VW Caddy was hijacked in KwaNobuhle on Tuesday.Police are warning business owners to make use of alternative means to deposit cash.

PRINCE DEJI ADEYANJU,CONVENER OF CONCERNED NIGERIANS Members of pro-democracy groups, Concerned Nigerians and OurMumuDonDo Movement, on Saturday, visited the family of Somtochukwu Ibeanusi, the 10-year old boy shot dead by security agents during the forceful eviction of traders from the demolition scene of Ekwe Uku Market, Owerri. The eviction and demotion were ordered by Mr. Rochas Okorocha, the governor of Imo State. In a statement issued after the visit, members of the two groups said Somtochukwu's killing is a symptom of how the country's political leaders use state apparatus and resources to oppress the poor, relieve them of their belongings and kill them when they resist.   Our Mumu Don Do members in Owerri   The statement was jointly signed by Messrs. Charles Oputa, Convener, OurMumuDonDo Movement; Deji Adeyanju, Convener, Concerned Nigerians; Adebayo Raphael, Publicity Secretary, OurMumuDonDo Movement; and Professor  Chidi Odinkalu, former

The State Security Service (SSS), on Saturday, announced the arrest of Husseini Maitangaran, a top commander of by Islamic State of West Africa (ISWA), otherwise known as Boko Haram. He was arrested in Kano on 31 August.  Maitangaran, according to a statement issued by the service, spearheaded several deadly attacks in Kano in 2012. The statement, signed by SSS spokesman, Tony Opuiyo, said the service arrested other top Boko Haram terrorists, who were part of a foiled plan to disrupt the last Eid-el-Kabir celebrations in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, Niger, Bauchi, Yobe and Borno states.                               This followed the discovery of an elaborate plan by ISWA terrorists to launch attacks that would have disrupted the Eid-el-Kabir festivities that took place between 1 and 4th September.                          According to the SSS, the plan entailed gun attacks and suicide bombing on selected targets in the Federal Capital T

SENATOR DINO MELAYE Seems like the plot by Senator Dino Melaye"s political enemies(amongst whom is the non performing governor of Kogi state,Yahaya Bello) is gaining ground as a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday dismissed the suit by Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, challenging the validity of the process of recalling him by his constituents. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, in his judgment, ordered that the Independent National Electoral Commission “shall proceed with the recall process”. The judgment effectively terminated the earlier ex parte order made by another judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja, Justice John Tsoho, on July 6, 2017, directing parties to maintain status quo. But the Justice Dimgba, to whom the case was reassigned, ordered that the process shall only proceed with the recall process, subject to the service of the petition, the full list and signatures of persons in support of the recall process.

Operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service, Tin-Can Island Command has again impounded 1,100 pump action rifles. While briefing newsmen on Monday, the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Colonel Hameed Ali (Rtd), who confirmed the seizure, said that the weapons were carefully concealed in a 1×20 feet container.   Controller General of Customs, Col. Alli, also disclosed already that a customs officer suspected to have cut the seal of the container without following due process, as well as a clerk at the command,  had been arrested in connection with the discovery. Recall that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) had in May this year, intercepted 440 pieces of rifles at Tin Can Island Port, Lagos. Similarly, about three months before this time, the Federal Operations Unit of the service also intercepted 660 pieces of pump action rifles at Apapa Port, also in Lagos. This brings to a total of about 2,110 pump action rifles so far impounded in Lagos a

Three persons in the business of luring and kidnapping girls for the purpose of killing and selling their parts have been arrested by the Ondo State police command.They have also confessed to have been involved in the kidnapping of students of the Adeyemi College of Education in Ondo town. While parading the suspects at the police command in Akure on Thursday, newly deployed Commissioner of Police, Gbenga Adeyanju, said the suspects had been engaged in the crime for a while and had extended their activities to neighbouring states. He said the suspects, John Adenitire, a.k.a Emir; Fisayo Fasanu, a.k.a Abore, and Abdurafiu Tijani, a herbalist, were arrested at different locations, and had confessed to killing three students of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo. Mr. Adeyanju noted that a report of a missing girl made at Fagun Police station in Ondo town on July 28 triggered police investigation that led to the arrest of the suspects.He explained that one of the

Andy Carroll (obscured by umbrella) leaving court Premier League footballer Andy Carroll was whisked from West Ham's training ground back to court after a last-minute request for him to give further evidence in the trial of a man accused of trying to rob him of his £22,000 watch. Police went to escort the 6ft 4in striker from the club's training ground to Barkingside Magistrates' Court on the eve of transfer deadline day, the day after he gave his main evidence in person at Basildon Crown Court. Carroll earlier told Basildon Crown Court that a male motorcyclist, who, he believed, had a gun, demanded he hand over his watch as he drove his green Jeep Wrangler home from training. Jack O'Brien, 22, denies attempting to rob the England-capped 28-year-old on November 2 2016. Carroll appeared on Wednesday by video-link from Barkingside Magistrates' Court, which is around six miles (10km) from West Ham's Rush Green training ground - close

We remember those loved ones who lost their lives in the September 9/11 bombing of the world trade centre orchestrated by devilish Osama bn Laden,who was later killed by the American government led by President Barak Obama,may their souls continue to rest in peace,amen.

Image of the arrest posted by Washington County Sheriff's Office on Twitter A woman was arrested in the US last week for driving under the influence after her 11-year-old son called the cops to report her from inside the car. According to ABC News, Nicole Norris, a 30-year old from Portland, Oregan was arrested on Saturday night and was found to be twice the legal limit by the cops who tested her. They quote Washington County Sheriff's Deputy Shannon Wilde, who said Norris could also face child endangerment charges for driving under the influence with her son in the car. “He was able to tell us how much he saw her drinking, and told us he thought she hit a curb,” Wilde is quoted as saying. “Her driving was so bad he realised this was not normal.” “He was a very brave courageous young man; sometimes doing the right thing is not easy.” The cops used the GPS on the boy's phone to track down the car. They also posted an image of one of their o

A gunman with an assault rifle shot and killed a California sheriff's deputy and wounded two other officers at a Sacramento hotel.   Police believe a stolen vehicle ring was being run out of the hotel, which was later surrounded by officers searching for suspects.The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department's vehicle theft task force was investigating the ring on Wednesday when officers engaged in a 20-mile car chase that began at the hotel. The police say they learned while arresting the two women in the suspected stolen car that one had a room at the hotel. Officials say the shooting began when officers returned to the room and knocked on the door to investigate.They were hit with gunfire coming from inside the room, and a man inside then left through the back, where he shot Robert French and fled in a vehicle.After a short pursuit, police exchanged fire with the man, who was hit, sheriff's spokesman Tony Turnbull said. Jeff Marshall, who lives nea

Rocco Morabito *Top 'ndrangheta crime syndicate boss Rocco Morabito, who has been on the run from Italy since 1994, has been arrested in Uruguay where he had been living under a false name with a forged Brazilian passport. Reggio Calabria chief prosecutor Federico Cafiero de Raho said Morabito had played a big role in cocaine trafficking between South America and Milan, a distribution point for the drug to be sold elsewhere. According to the Guardian he was known as the 'cocaine king of Milan'. The Calabria-based 'ndrangheta is one of the world's biggest cocaine traffickers.  Italian interior minister Marco Minniti said Morabito has been convicted of mafia association and drug trafficking. Morabito must serve 30 years in Italian prison. Italian state radio said Morabito was arrested on Sunday in a Montevideo hotel, but had been living in a villa in Punta del Este, a resort town.

*The youngest of Charles Manson's followers is once more attempting to persuade a parole board that she is reformed and - at the age of 68 - deserves to be released from prison.   Leslie Van Houten, who was 19 when she killed for Manson during a series of murders that terrorised Los Angeles over the summer of 1969, was due to appear before a panel for the 21st time on Wednesday.A similar panel at the California Institution for Women in Chino, where Van Houten is incarcerated, tentatively granted her parole last year but was overruled by state Governor Jerry Brown. Van Houten has candidly described how she joined several other members of the "Manson Family" in killing Los Angeles grocer Leno La Bianca and his wife, Rosemary, in their home on August 9 1969. She was not with Manson followers the night before when they killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others during a similar bloody rampage. At her parole hearing last year, Van Houten sa

A man has been jailed for a year after posting on Facebook "let's kill every Muslim" in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing. Keegan Jakovlevs, 22, from Wrexham, North Wales, was sentenced to 12 months behind bars at Mold Crown Court on Thursday after admitting publishing material with the intention of stirring up religious hatred. Jakovlevs posted the message, which was a public posting, shortly after the May 22 outrage by suicide bomber Salman Abedi, which killed 22 people and injured scores of others. His message read: "Thoughts with all the families in the horrible Manchester bombing (hands together in prayer symbol) but no let's not stop letting them in the country let's kill ever ... Muslim ... we see.. bet they would still send us down". The post was taken down shortly afterwards. Outside court, Sue Hemming, head of the special crime and counter-terrorism division of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said:

PAUL LEIGHTON A paedophile who tricked scores of youngsters across the world into sending him nude selfies then blackmailed them into sexually abusing young relatives on camera has been jailed for 16 year Remorseless Paul Leighton, who created up to 40 fake Facebook profiles to befriend teenagers in the UK, Canada, the US and Australia, admitted three counts of rape despite being thousands of miles away when the offences happened. One 14-year-old from Florida was tricked into believing he was talking to a girl, then blackmailed into repeatedly raping his one-year-old niece. Leighton threatened the teenager that he would post videos of the abuse online if he did not do more. The boy has since been charged by the US authorities. Sentencing Leighton to 16 years with a six year extended licence, Judge Robert Adams told him: "You have effectively destroyed the lives of these people against whom you made these threats." The judge ruled Leighton was

Pensioner battered wife to death with wooden vase made by her son . A pensioner who battered his 81-year-old wife to death with a wooden vase made by one of her sons has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 16 years.   John Chapman, 72, admitted murdering his wife Jean at their second-floor flat in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, at an earlier hearing and was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court on Friday. Andrew Jackson, prosecuting, said Chapman launched a "powerful, sustained and determined attack" as his wife lay asleep in bed six days after her 81st birthday. He said the attack happened at around 4am and Chapman made a 999 call at 6.11am on June 12. "In calm and measured tones, he began by giving his name to the operator then said 'I've just killed my wife'," said Mr Jackson. "Asked what had happened, he said basically 'there have been problems. I've been trying to kill myself but I couldn't do it as I was

● Crime WorldThe organisers of Bestival have said they are "devastated" following the death of a 25-year-old woman at the event. Police at the four-day music festival were alerted just before 1am on Monday to concerns for the welfare of the woman, from London. Following a search, the body of the woman, who had attended Bestival, was discovered in a wooded area on the edge of the site in Lulworth, Dorset. A 28-year-old man from London has been arrested on suspicion of murder. In a statement, Bestival said: "Following today's news announcement, the team at Bestival are devastated to hear about this tragic news. "We continue to support the police in their ongoing investigation and our thoughts and prayers are with all the woman's family and friends." Festival founder Rob da Bank tweeted a link to the statement, which was posted on the festival's Facebook page. The DJ organises the festival, which took place for the first time

ABA- the Police in Abia State has said that there is no cause for alarm over yesterday's clash between soldiers and members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in Umuahia. Soldiers attached to the Forward Operation Base, FOB, Umuahia, had clashed with the IPOB, on Sunday, at Afara Ukwu community, Umuahia. In a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, Abia State Police Command, DSP Geoffrey Ogbonna, the Police stated that the situation was instantly brought under control without loss of life. Ogbonna disclosed that a Policeman sustained a machete cut on his head and back, while one of the soldiers was injured in his left wrist including one Mrs. Grace Nwokeukwu of Umuobasi lsiama Afara, Umuahia who also had a machete cut on her head. He added that the victims were taken to Police Clinic, Umuahia for treatment and urged residents of the city to go about their normal businesses without fear of molestation.

Gunmen Sunday abducted a would-be couple, the best man and their friends at Akunnu-Akoko in Akoko North East Local Government Area of Ondo State on their way to Akure, the Ondo State capital for their engagement ceremony. THISDAY gathered that the groom, Moses Yakubu, his would-be wife and three of their friends were coming from Okene in Kogi State and heading to Akure for the engagement slated for Sunday when the car in which they were travelling was seized at gunpoint at Akunnu-Akoko. The father of the bride, Mr Ahmed Yakubu, who confirmed the incident, said the bride and her younger sister were later set free by the kidnappers but took away the groom and his friends. The abductors, it was gathered, were yet to ask for any ransom from the family members as at the time of filling this report. Following the abduction, family members and invited guests at the venue of the engagement located on Ogungbolahon Street, off Aule Street, Akure all wore mournful looks as they were all worried a

ABUJA-THE  Nigerian Army claimed early Monday that its troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, in the North East, killed many Boko Haram terrorists in ambush at the early hours of Sunday. Also, its counterpart, the Nigerian Air Force said it struck some buildings occupied by the terrorists in a bomb raid, killing many terrorists. The claims of the two successful operations against the terrorists were contained in separate statements released early Monday by the spokesmen of the organizations. The Army, in the statement by Brigadier General Sani Usman, Director Army Public Relations, said the troops of 151 Battalion, 21 Brigade carried out the ambush against the terrorists at the early hours of Sunday 10th September 2017. The successful ambush, he explained, was on suspected Boko Haram terrorists crossing point at Bocost along Ngurosoye -Bama road, Borno State. "The troops neutralized a large number of the Boko Haram terrorists, while other terrorists sustained gun shot wounds. "The

THEME: HE IS AT THE DOOR!  Memorise: Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Revelation 3:20 Read: Revelation 3:19-22 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Message: God is a God of order, and Heaven is a place of order. Heaven is also a place where everything revolves around the will of the Owner: God. There is protocol in Heaven and a hierarchy or authority which must be respected. For this reason, when accessing God's presence, the manner of approach really matters. H