Gaddafi Sagir has been arrested by operatives of the Kano Police Command for killing his pregnant stepmother, Rabi’atu Sagir and stepsister, Munawara Sagir in Fadama Rijiyar Zaki Quarters, Ungogo Local Government Area of the State. It was gathered that Gaddafi allegedly carried out the crime on the ground that the stepmother was behind the ordeal of his mother which led to her separation from his father and killed the stepmom’s daughter on the premises where she saw him while perpetrating the crime. The spokesperson, Kano Police Command, SP Abdullahi Haruna who confirmed the incident, said the suspect has been arrested in an uncompleted building in an attempt to escape from Kano. SP Haruna said the suspect upon interrogation confessed to having singlehandedly committed the crime. According to the police spokesperson, “On Saturday, at about 2330hrs, a report was received from one Sagir Yakubu, of Fadama Rijiyar Zaki Quarters, Ungogo LGA, Kano State, that he returned home and met his pregnant wife, one Rabi’atu Sagir, ‘f’, 25 years old and her daughter, Munawwara Sagir, ‘f’, 8 years old in a pool of blood motionless. And that, he is strongly suspecting his son, Gaddafi. “On receipt of the report, the Commissioner of Police, Kano State Police Command, CP Mamman Dauda, raised and instructed a team of Detectives led by CSP Usman Abdullahi, Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Rijiyar Zaki Division to proceed to the scene, rush the victims to Hospital and ensure the arrest of the culprit(s). The team immediately went to the scene, cordoned off the area and rushed the victims to Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital Kano, where a Medical Doctor certified them dead. “The suspect, Gaddafi Sagir, 20 years old was arrested in an uncompleted building in an attempt to escape from Kano. “On preliminary investigation, the suspect confessed to having singlehandedly used a screwdriver, stabbed his stepmother on her neck and forehead and strangled her daughter with her head tie until she is no longer breathing. An investigation is in progress,” SP Haruna however stated.

  A 53-year-old hotelier, Kingsley Enageghe, has been arrested by the Police in Lagos for allegedly shooting a guest at Queens Victory Guest hotel located at Olaonikaju close, off Ijesha bus stop. The bullet which pierced through the victim, Kelvin Nwabunor’s thigh, also hit the barman and Nwabunor’s friend in the legs Trouble, as gathered, started during an argument between Nwabuno, 35 and Enageghe, who is the Director of Queens Victory hotel, over the former’s delay in paying for an extra day. Explaining what led to the shooting, the bar attendant, Charles Edet, said Nwabunor paid for three days of lodge but stayed for four days, without renewing payment for the lodge. When accosted, he said Nwabunor told him he was expecting money from someone. According to Edet, “ the owner of the hotel told me to go and move his things out, but on getting to the room, I told him politely. But he told me that he would renew his payment and also pay for extra days, and that I should hold on for him because he was expecting some money to drop into his account. “I told him to go and explain to the owner of the hotel. His friend accompanied him and my boss accepted. “After some hours, he withdrew the money and gave it to my boss. Later, the guest called my boss to complain that the television in his room had not been working since he checked in. He requested that it should be changed since he had paid for extra days. I heard both of them exchanging banters. The owner of the hotel called me and instructed me to lock their room and chase them out, but I could not. He came back furious and asked after the guest. Both of them started pushing each other. Immediately, my boss went inside his office and came out with a gun. “He shot at the guest. Unfortunately for me, the bullet hit me in the leg because I stood in between my boss and the guest, trying to calm my boss. It also hit the guest’s friend, Animashaun Abdullahi, in the leg” Nwabuno’s account On his part, Nwabuno said he lodged in the hotel on January 3,2023, alone and paid for the lodge via transfer. He added that when he appealed to the hotelier to hold on till 4 pm,on the fourth day, for him to receive some money to pay for the extra one day, the owner refused, stating rather, that the new law was that every customer should pay before noon. Narrating, he said, ” I went back upstairs. By then my wife and child were already with me. “My wife came visiting with my eight-month-old son. So, I asked my friend Abdullahi to help me pacify the director to wait till 4 pm. He agreed and gave us back the room key. “By 4 pm, the cash I was expecting came in. I went to the ATM to withdraw some money, only to receive a call that the director had sent my family out and locked the door. I rushed down to the hotel. The amount in question was N4500, but I paid N9,000, for an additional extra day to avoid embarrassment. It was after payment that I told the bar attendant to go inform the director that my television had not been working. But he did not answer the staff, so I went to him to plead with him to make repairs on the television, he said that I should never tell him what to do. “He started insulting me and I insulted him too. He gave me back my money and told me to leave his hotel. I was going upstairs with my wife, son, friend and a staff member of the hotel to get my luggage when he approached me from behind, with a gun. “He pushed me and I pushed him back. The next thing he did was to cock the gun, moved backwards and threatened to shoot. He pulled the trigger, and a bullet hit me in the thigh. My friend Abdullahi and a staff member of the hotel were also hit by the bullet. “Fortunately the bullet did not hit my wife and my baby,”. Doctor’s Account Dr Hassan Ademola of Iwalewa Hospital told Vanguard that when the patients were brought with gun wounds, he alerted the police for permission to treat them. He said:“We went for multiple x-rays which revealed that the bullet passed through their legs. We were able to remove the bullets which were shown to the police officer that came into the theatre with me. When Vanguard arrived at the hotel premises, the building had been sealed. A staff of the hotel who spoke on the condition of anonymity disclosed that a near similar incident occurred on December 14, 2022, after a guest who lodged in one of the rooms hurriedly left to attend to an emergency. He was said to have explained to the owner of the hotel that his younger brother would come and lodge in his stead. But when his younger brother came, he reportedly discovered that the room had been given out to another guest. An argument, according to the member of staff ensued, in the process of which he said his boss brought out his gun threatening to shoot at the guest. “ My boss fired into the air. The man that came to lodge there hurriedly left without using the room”. Confirming the incident to Vanguard, spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said, “the suspect has been arrested and will be prosecuted as soon as investigation is concluded”

  Director of Special Projects and New media of the Tinubu/Shettima presidential campaign Council, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has claimed that presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar is sick and currently in London for treatment. Fani-Kayode made this claim in a tweet via his verified Twitter handle on Sunday. He tweeted, “Yet again Mr. Privatise Everything fell dangerously ill & ran to Dubai for a “stich it up” procedure. Watch how he walks & you will know what’s going on. Now he is on his way to the UK to beg British MP’s for their support. Must he bend the knee for the Brits too? Truly shameful.” Meanwhile, the Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation has urged Nigerians to disregard what it called “the lies of unrepentant liars” against the Presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar who is currently in London. The Campaign Office said Atiku is in London on the invitation of the Government of the United Kingdom. Spokesperson and Director Public Affairs PDP Presidential Campaign Management Committee, Senator Dino Melaye, in Abuja, on Sunday. He said, “Atiku is 100% fit and in super form healthwise. The British Government invited the leading presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, just like they had invited Bola Tinubu and Peter Obi earlier. “Nigerians should henceforth disregard drug induced statements propelled by Ikebe super like online medium.”

  Ahead of the February 25, 2023, general elections, Nigerians have been urged to use their Permanent Voters Cards, PVC to elect credible leaders that would take the country to greater heights. The Director General of the organisation, Kabir Ashiru, gave the charge during the inauguration of the National and State executive members, held in Ikeja, Lagos at the weekend. Among people inaugurated included: Mrs Animashaun Toyin is National Woman Leader, Mr Olatunde Moruf Mekudi, as Lagos State Coordinator. Ashiru told newsmen that the group was formed to galvanize support for Tinubu’s presidency and re-election of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu in order to consolidate his achievements. He said that the group would be moving from door to door across the country to inform Nigerians about the programme and manifesto of APC with a view to securing their votes for APC. Ashiru described Tinubu as a trusted and detribalized Nigerian who has the experience and capacity to find lasting solutions to various challenges facing the country. In a remark, the Vice Chairman of Ikorodu Local Government Area, Princess Folashade Olabanji-Oba, who commended the group for taking it upon themselves in mobilizing support for APC candidates, urged those who have not collected their PVC to use the window of opportunity created by the electoral body to do so in order to vote for the party. Olabanji-Oba said the choice of Tinubu, as president would transform and take the country to greater heights, saying that “the achievements of Sanwo-Olu is a pointer for Nigerians to support the party at the polls.”

  THE Coordinator of Tinubu/Shetima Grassroots Independent Campaign Council, Cross River chapter, Elder David Okon says Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has not Islamised his wife, who is a Christian and would therefore not islamise Nigeria. Speaking in Calabar, while inaugurating the senatorial and local chapters of the organisation, Okon said Tinubu is humane and the composition of his executive council, when he was governor of Lagos State, speaks volume of his nature which shows that he has no sinister plans against Christians. He said the Tinubu/Shetima Grassroots Independent Council is the brain child of Tinubu to carry out door-to-door canvassing of votes for his election and its membership spreads across the country. “This group is a Council of its own and not competing with the PCC, but to work in synergy with other campaign bodies to ensure the emergence of our principal, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the next President of Nigeria,” Okon added. He said Asiwaju has chosen the Grassroots Independent Campaign Council as his disciples to spread his message across the country and called on all those inaugurated to be up and doing. Professor Eyo Etim Nyong, Chairman of the event, who spoke in the same direction, stated that God can use negative situations to change the lives of his people and opined that the Muslim- Muslim ticket would turn out to be a blessing to the country. He said what Nigerians’ need at this moment is to focus on those things that bind them together and not what divides them as the country was going through challenging tines. The Chairman, Presidential Campaign Council, Media in Cross River State, Miss Beatrice Akpala, pledged to work with other campaign organisations to facilitate landslide victory for Tinubu in the forthcoming election Akpala said the media unit of the PCC is working hard to publicise the electoral value of Tinubu in all parts of the country to harvest massive votes for the APC presidential candidate. “We are taking the message of what this country stands to benefit from Tinubu and particularly what our state stands to gain from Tinubu being sworn in as President of this country in May and in that regard we are ready to work with organisations, corporate bodies and individuals campaigning for Tinubu/Shetima election Victory conr February,” he added. Miss Akpala, whose speech was delivered by a member of the PCC Media Unit, Mr Emmanuel Unah, said the victory of Tinubu in the election is sure, stating that the focus presently in the campaign is the magnitude of victory to silence the opponents.