EXCLUSIVE: Dismissed Police Officer Raids, Arrests Sex Worker

A dismissed police officer, Marshal Oshigbemi, alongside two others who are currently at large, impersonated detectives from SCID Panti and stormed a brothel at Ilembe.

The 65-years-old father of ten, had gone into the brothel with his cohorts and arrested some sex workers on duty as well as the manager, charging them human trafficking.

It was gathered that he threatened to ensure they all ended up in jail if they did not cooperate. Having ensured their cooperation, he allegedly raided their till and collected the sum of N4,500. The Ukwani indigene of Delta State, who was dismissed in 2011 for misconduct was arrested when the brothel called in policemen from Ilembe police division.

Killer Cop on Distress Call Murders Victim

Lagos PRO, Braide

By Chiemelie Ezeobi

Twenty-eight years of service to the Nigerian Police by Inspector Ibrahim Abdullahi went down the drain last week Thursday when he shot a man dead in cold blood at Ile-Epo bus stop along the Lagos-Abeokuta Road.

The suspect had until his act been attached to Elere Police Division. Abdullahi had allegedly used his official riffle to kill the victim after he was called in by a yet-to-be identified complainant on a distress call.

SIMON KOLAWOLE: Hypocrisy of Merit and Federal Character

Simon Kolawole Live!: Email: simon.kolawole@thisdaylive.com

As Nigeria gallops towards 100 years of amalgamation, one of the most contentious issues has been the place of quota system and meritocracy in government. Meritocracy campaigners argue that Nigeria is “backward” because public offices are not filled on the basis of “merit”. They contend that we promote mediocrity under the guise of “federal character” by not giving the jobs to the best candidates. In other words, let there be open competition for both elective and appointive positions so that the most qualified will always occupy them. This standpoint means there should be no zoning or rotation of political offices. There should be no quota system and federal character. It means, for instance, that all the ministers of the federation can come from one state – as long as they are the best.

CHUKWUMA SOLUDO: Nasir el-Rufai’s Book as Intellectual Fraud?

By CHUKWUMA SOLUDO

Although there is no single definition of fraud, the online definitions that come to mind as one reads Nasir el-Rufai’s book (The Accidental Public Servant) is “fraud as course of deception, an intentional concealment, omission, or perversion of truth”, or “an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual”. I know el-Rufai as a brilliant fellow and I certainly expected a definitive book. His stated objective was to “tell the story of my public service years…” but it turned out a very bad example of how to write a memoir. It is more of wild concoctions and commentaries on imagined events outside of his “public service years”.  As I read parts of the book that relate to things that I should know about, I shook my head in disbelief. I could not believe that el-Rufai could descend so low. While I will surely correct many of his wrong narratives in my book, I thought I have a duty to make a preliminary response – for public records!

Wukari Mayhem: Death Toll Hits 100

Police Headquarters

No fewer than hundred people were feared killed and several others injured in the violent clash that occurred on Friday in the ancient city of Wukari in Taraba State between the aborigines and Hausa youths in the community.

Also, over hundred houses were set ablaze by the warring groups who THISDAY gathered engaged each other with guns and other dangerous weapons while forty people have been arrested by the state Police Command in connection with the mayhem.

Paul Okoye of PSquare in Paternity Mess

According to Sahara Reporters, Nigeria’s hip hop sensation, P Square (real name Paul Okoye), has reportedly abandoned the mother of his second baby in a London hospital where the woman recently gave birth to the entertainer’s baby.

A few weeks after welcoming his first new born baby in Atlanta, P Square – who is also known as P2 – had another baby delivered for him in a London hospital by a former beauty pageant contestant. However, this time, P Square has refused to claim paternal responsibility for the baby boy.