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Lebanese man arrested for kidnapping his 61 year old Aunt in Lagos

<div><div id="id_519f6c9a102685c48132789" class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"> A 23 year old Lebanese man has been arrested by police in Lagos for kidnapping his 61 year old aunt, Alhaja Essa Dannawi. Mohammed Dannawi (pictured above) conspired with a former employee of his aunt, Obi Kwentua, (pictured above) to kidnap the woman on May 2nd at her home in Ebute Meta, Lagos. Mohammed, who later confessed to the crime, told police during interrogation that he didn't kidnap his aunt because of money but to punish her because she offended him and his wife. He said: “My aunty did something very bad to my wife and I and so I decided to punish her. I met with Obi (Kwentua) and told him that I wanted my aunty kidnapped. I gave him the spare key to her house and he in turn hired some boys to do the work. On the day of the operation, I left the house and five guys stormed the place and took my aunty away. The plan was not to demand money from her, it was just punishment.” Punish your own relation by kidnapping her? Wow! Continue reading... After the kidnapping, the kidnappers demanded N100m ransom from the woman's family but later agreed to collect N4m. It was during negotiations with the kidnappers that Mohammed confessed to being behind the kidnap and with his co-operation the police were able to arrest one of the suspects, Obi Kwentua when he came to collect the N4million ransom from relatives of the victim at Rita Lori Hotel in Surulere. Essa Dannawi was later released while Mohammed and Kwentua were arrested.</div> </div> <div class="mvm uiStreamAttachments fbMainStreamAttachment"><div class="clearfix photoRedesign"><a class="uiPhotoThumb photoRedesignAspect" href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151507671113409&set=a.493310898408.258548.127503268408&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf" rel="theater"><img class="img" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/q71/s480x480/943097_10151507671113409_133185870_n.jpg" alt="Lebanese man arrested for kidnapping in Lagos A 23 year old Lebanese man has been arrested by police in Lagos for kidnapping his 61 year old aunt, Alhaja Essa Dannawi. Mohammed Dannawi (pictured above) conspired with a former employee of his aunt, Obi Kwentua, (pictured above) to kidnap the woman on May 2nd at her home in Ebute Meta, Lagos. Mohammed, who later confessed to the crime, told police during interrogation that he didn't kidnap his aunt because of money but to punish her because she offended him and his wife. He said: “My aunty did something very bad to my wife and I and so I decided to punish her. I met with Obi (Kwentua) and told him that I wanted my aunty kidnapped. I gave him the spare key to her house and he in turn hired some boys to do the work. On the day of the operation, I left the house and five guys stormed the place and took my aunty away. The plan was not to demand money from her, it was just punishment.” Punish your own relation by kidnapping her? Wow! Continue reading... After the kidnapping, the kidnappers demanded N100m ransom from the woman's family but later agreed to collect N4m. It was during negotiations with the kidnappers that Mohammed confessed to being behind the kidnap and with his co-operation the police were able to arrest one of the suspects, Obi Kwentua when he came to collect the N4million ransom from relatives of the victim at Rita Lori Hotel in Surulere. Essa Dannawi was later released while Mohammed and Kwentua were arrested." height="297" width="352" /></a></div> </div>

Woolwich suspect, Michael Adebolajo, described as the 'typical boy next door' from devout Christian family

<div class="widget code html widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138641 socialwidget"></div> <div class="widget pageTools custom widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138653 article-links"><div class="article-links"><div class="print-link"><a id="showPrintPage" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-killer-woolwich-suspect-michael-adebolajo-described-as-the-typical-boy-next-door-from-devout-christian-family-8630045.html#" name="showPrintPage"></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="widget slideshow default widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-7804719"><div id="galleriaLoadId-7804719" class="indLoading"><div id="slideshow-7804719"><div style="width: 460px; height: 345px;" class="galleria-container notouch"><div class="galleria-stage"><div style="xg-p: relative; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;" class="galleria-images"><div style="overflow: hidden; xg-p: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; opacity: 1; width: 460px; height: 385px; transition: none 0s ease 0s; z-index: 1;" class="galleria-image"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.awoof.me"><img class="align-left" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8628006.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/web-woolwich-itv2.jpg?width=460" width="460"/></a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138699 articleContent">Michael Adebolajo, one of the men arrested over the Woolwich murder, was a polite and well-mannered schoolboy rapper who turned to militant Islam after rebelling against his devoutly Christian family. <div class="body">Described as the “typical boy next door” by one of his former girlfriends, Adebolajo, 28, drifted into petty crime and converted to Islam in 2003, the year that he left sixth-form college in Romford, east London, according to former school-friends and acquaintances. By the time he was seen on the streets wielding a cleaver a decade later, he used the name Mujahid and had become a snarling fire-and-brimstone preacher exhorting fellow Muslims to travel to Syria to fight. As a schoolboy at Marshalls Park school, the reality was starkly different. “He was really friendly and really polite and there was never anything to suggest he would be caught up with anything like this,” his former girlfriend Justine Rigden, 26, who went out with him for a year, told The Independent. “He was just a lovely polite boy. He stayed at my family's house and I stayed with his. He was a very family-oriented person. ”He had a group of friends from Hackney. They weren't wrong 'uns, they were okay and he used to do a bit of MC-ing, rapping. Nobody can believe it. He was just this normal regular boy.“ Fellow pupil Jamie Virtue said Mr Adebolajo got into ”a few fights“ as a pupil, but nothing out of the ordinary. He even had a reputation for defending other students from bullies. Mr Adebolajo, who has two sisters and a younger brother, spent two years at Havering College where he became involved in a Nigerian street gang, according to another friend. He was said to carry a knife around for protection and during street robberies for phones, according to one friend, called Louise. ”As he got older he started mixing with other people from outside. We used to go around the house and there used to be 20 black guys and they would walk around the streets... They were stealing people's phones and that and they had knives,“ she told The Guardian. The family suddenly moved to Saxilby, near Lincoln, in 2003 because of concerns that he was mixing with the wrong people. The dispute had sparked furious rows between the son and his parents - with the teenager even smashing the windscreen of their parents' car during one dispute, one former neighbour Kemi Ibrahim-Adeoti, 45, said. That house was searched by the police and remained cordoned off. It proved to be a significant year: as well as moving, he left college but also converted to Islam and changed his name to Mujahid. Anjem Choudary, the former leader of the banned Islamist organisation, Al Muhajiroun, confirmed that he knew Mr Adebolajo, who converted in 2003 and attended meetings of the group and its successor organisations for eight years. He told The Independent: ”I knew him as Mujahid and he attended our meetings and my lectures. I wouldn't describe him as a member [of Al Muhajiroun]. There were lots of people who came to our activities who weren't necessarily members. “He was a pleasant, quiet guy. He was interested in Islam, in memorising the Koran. He disappeared about two years ago. I don't know what influences he has been under since then.” Al Muhajiroun, founded in 1983 by Islamist Omar Bakri Muhammad, became notorious for attempting to justify the 9/11 attacks. Mr Choudary, who has long been a controversial figures in Britain's Islamist circles, has been an outspoken critic of British military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr Choudary said: “My position is clear. There is a covenant which says that in return for Muslims being allowed to live peacefully and practice their faith in Britain, then it is forbidden to attack anyone from the British authorities, soldiers, in the UK.” He denied that Mr Adebolajo could have been radicalised by his teachings, adding that more extremist material, including the sermons of Yemen-based cleric Anwar Al Awlaki and the Al Qaeda-linked magazine Inspire, have been easily available via the internet. “Mujahid left us two years ago,” he said. “There is plenty of material out there that does not observe the covenant we do that there can be no attacks in Europe. There is Al-Awlaki and Inspire. I do not know what sort of material Mujahid could have seen.” He appears to have been politically active for a number of years. He was spotted standing outside Paddington Green police station in 2007 holding a placard reading “Crusade Against Muslims”, the BBC reported last night. David Garnett, 44, an unemployed man from Woolwich Dockyards said he had seen Michael Adebolajo about two months ago, preaching outside WHSmith on the High Street in Woolwich, close to the scene of the attacks. “He was shouting all the Islamic stuff. He said 'Allah is great' and we should all be ruled by Islamic rule. People ignored him and he just shouted louder and louder. Nobody paid any attention.” He was one of many preachers of different faiths who tried to make their voices heard. “He said that Islamic law will come into force in this country one day soon ,” said Mr Garnett. “The more he got louder the more people got embarrassed.” New footage in the aftermath of the attacks showed him addressing a camera vowing to continue fighting. In a similar message to his Woolwich sermons, he is recorded as saying: “So what if we want to live by the sharia in Muslim lands. Why does that mean you must follow us and chase us and call us extremists and kill us? Rather, you are extreme.” Students from the University of Greenwich, where Adebalajo studied, spoke of their shock. One undergraduate who spoke on condition of anonymity said: “For an educated person to apparently go from being calm and rational, by all accounts, to do what he did is quite frightening.” Police seize new suspect in armed raid The second suspect for the murder of Lee Rigby was spotted at a flat in a Greenwich council block raided by armed police, neighbours said. His identity remained unknown, and police are waiting to question the 22-year-old in hospital. Officers smashed their way into the flat at Aylmer House, close to the old Royal Naval College, and led away two or three women, according to witnesses. Neighbours said there had been many "comings and goings" in recent days. An area either side of the flat remained cordoned off all day. <a href="http://oas.northernandshell.co.uk/5c/www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1197451804/Top1/default/empty.gif/4b5971346831476651346b4142476462?x" target="_top"><img src="http://imageceu1.247realmedia.com/0/default/empty.gif" alt="" border="0" height="1" width="1"/></a> <h1>Woolwich killers were under watch for EIGHT YEARS so why didn’t MI5 act?</h1> <h3>PROUD AND RESOLUTE in his ceremonial uniform, this is the British soldier murdered by two Islamist fanatics in an outrage that shocked the world.</h3> <div class="clearfix hR new-style"> <img src="http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/lee-rigby-soldier-killed-402210.jpg" alt="Lee-Rigby-a-true-warrior" title="Lee Rigby, a true warrior"/> Lee Rigby, a true warrior It has now emerged that MI5 had been tracking his killers for eight years. MI5 had the two Islamist fanatics who butchered soldier Lee Rigby under surveillance for up to eight years, it was revealed yesterday. Agents kept British-born Muslim convert Michael Adebolajo and his unnamed accomplice “on the radar” as they monitored the activities of would-be terrorists. Intelligence sources said the men had featured in “several investigations” in recent years but there was no indication they were plotting an attack and they were classified as fringe figures. Adebolajo, 28, and his fellow killer, aged 22, were under armed guard in separate London hospitals last night after they were shot by police. Their injuries are not life-threatening. It is understood one of the men, who both have Nigerian backgrounds, was intercepted as he tried to travel to Somalia to join the Al Qaeda-linked militant group Al Shabaab. David Cameron yesterday ordered an urgent review into what MI5 had gleaned about the two men and whether any chances were missed of intercepting them before the murder in Woolwich, south London. <img src="http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/secondary/37951.jpg" alt=" " title=" "/>Drummer Lee Rigby on ceremonial duties The move revives memories of the lost opportunities to capture two of the 7/7 suicide bombers who were secretly watched by MI5 as they met other terrorist suspects months before the 2005 atrocity. In a major development yesterday, two suspected members of the Woolwich “terror cell” were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder by Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism squad. The suspects, a man and a woman both aged 29, were detained by armed police in dawn raids and were being questioned at a south London police station last night. Extensive searches were also carried out at Adebolajo’s parents’ house in Lincolnshire, at his sister’s home in Romford, Essex, three addresses in south London and one in east London.Witnesses described how police armed with machine guns arrested the hijab-wearing girlfriend of the younger of the killers. At least a dozen officers in body armour and balaclavas stormed a ground-floor flat in Greenwich less than a mile from the murder scene. Police outside Lee Rigby's parents' home yesterday <blockquote id="nointellitxt">He is a nutter. The police were always dealing with him Nicola James, 45 </blockquote> The unnamed woman was led away in handcuffs. Her sister, Danielle Thomas, 31, nephew Kane Thomas, 15, and her two children – one a baby, the other a toddler – left with police. Neighbours claimed Danielle converted to Islam two or three years ago. Nicola James, 45, said: “When I was watching the news about the killing I recognised the man in green as the boyfriend of Danielle’s sister. He was coming and going quite a lot in the last few weeks. We never spoke. “I don’t know the sister’s name. She always wore a headscarf. Danielle wore one occasionally. When you walked past you would hear them chanting through the windows. <img src="http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/secondary/37950.jpg" alt=" " title=" "/>The men involved in the Woolwich horror are still both in hospital “There’s a teenage boy who lives there too. He came over to my part of the estate once and my dog bit him. They were a decent family. If it wasn’t for the dog bite we would be friends.” Mrs James said she also knew Michael Adebolajo. “He was always on the high street handing out his Muslim leaflets and shouting about getting our armies out of other countries. “He is a nutter. The police were always dealing with him.” William Bennett, 38, a father-of-three, said: “I have seen the man coming and going. I didn’t pay any attention to him but when I saw the TV last night I recognised him straight away.” Mr Cameron spoke of his revulsion at the killing. He said the death of a brave soldier would bring Britain together and “make us stronger”. And last night US President Barack Obama issued a statement condemning the “appalling” attack. He said: “The US stands resolute with the UK, our ally and friend, against violent extremism and terror.” Earlier Scotland Yard put out a statement saying armed officers arrived at the scene within 14 minutes. Some witnesses had said the marksmen took 20 minutes to get there. The Independent Police Complaints Commission said two officers fired shots and a third discharged a Taser stun gun. “At this stage we are not pursuing any criminal or misconduct offences.” </div> </div> </div>

Ibadan: Customs intercepts vehicles conveying 56,750 live ammunition

IBADAN - FEW hours after the Oyo State Police Command arrested a man with 3,500 live cartridges, the Oyo/Osun Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service also impounded a vehicle loaded with 56,750 rounds of ammunition at Saki in Oke Ogun area of Oyo State. The Customs Area Controller, Mr Richard Oteri, said the vehicle conveying the ammunition was arrested along the Igboho road in Saki. Disclosing that the contraband was concealed in bags packed with dried cassava tubers, he appealed to royal fathers and community leaders to sensitize their subjects on the dangers of smuggling especially in the light of serious security challenges in the country. He said the command generated more than N4.5 billion in the first quarter of this year. The breakdown showed thatN49,726,393 was made from revenue collected on vehicles between January and April this year. Oteri further explained that 2,716 bags of rice, 28 fairly used assorted cars and SUVs, 2,500 cartons of frozen product, a lorry loaded with 700 cartons of foreign shoes, a bus loaded with textile materials and 521 used tyres concealed with 600 bags of animal feeds in a trailer were seized by his command. Oteri later handed over the ammunition to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations, Oyo State Police Command, Musa Kimo. Kimo, while receiving the ammunition said "we shall not relent in ensuring adequate security" Customs impounds N5.9m contraband Also the Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone C of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, yesterday, intercepted a trailer loaded with 62 sacks of second hand clothings. Showing newsmen round the seized items, Customs Area Controller, CAC, Mr. Victor David Dimka, explained that the vehicle was impounded at about 5.20 a.m along the ever busy Aba-Uyo federal highway. "Sixty two bales of banned second hand clothes that were carefully concealed in a 10-tyre Mack tipping trailer, were early this morning (yesterday) impounded by our operatives," Dimka said.

Suspected Wife killer Akolade Arowolo gives Strange Testimony ! My Wife stabbed herself 76times

My wife was either drunk or hypnotised - Arowolo Akolade Arowolo, a 32-year-old man, who is standing trial for allegedly killing his banker wife, Titilayo (Omozoje) Arowolo, has told an Ikeja High Court that his wife exhibited strange behaviour on the day she died. He said she could have been hypnotised, mentally unstable or drunk. Akolade alleged that his wife's stepmother, Toun Oyakhire, was not a good person and had pitted his wife against him. Akolade, while being led in evidence by his lawyer, Olanrewaju Ajanaku, said he and his wife had sex on the day she died. He said they had agreed to stay indoors throughout the day since it was his birthday, adding that he, however, went out to withdraw some money which they would use in celebrating his birthday. He said on returning home, an argument ensued, causing his wife to slap him. He said, "On June 24, 2011, after we had sex, we made some commitments one of which included that she (Titilayo) would no longer be running off to her parents' home whenever we fought and we decided that we would do everything possible to make the marriage work. We decided that we would stay indoors till evening. "I went out around 10am to withdraw money from the bank and I bought some items. On the way, I picked up my mechanic because he needed to repair my car. On getting home, about an hour later, the security guard and the mechanic helped me to take the items to my apartment and he (mechanic) drove the car away. "On getting home, I realised my wife was completely dressed and she said she was going out. As I pleaded with her, she started shouting, saying that Aunty Toun (Stepmother) and Aunty Labisi told her to leave the house. She was very angry and she slapped me." Akolade said he ran to the house of his next door neighbour and told his neighbour's mother, Mrs. Hannah Alaka, to intervene. He said Mrs. Alaka called Titilayo and spoke to her by the corridor leading to the staircase and convinced her not to go out. Akolade said he and his wife returned into their apartment and he proceeded to fuel the generator when he received a phone call from his sister-in-law, Folake Oyakhire. He said he and Folake shared the same birthday. Akolade said, "After speaking with Folake, she asked to speak with her sister so I started looking for my wife all over the place. I called out her name but she did not answer. On getting to the entrance to our room, I slipped and almost fell. As I attempted to hand over the phone to my wife, she stabbed me in the arm with a kitchen knife. "She stabbed me again this time on the left side of my chest. I tried to wrest the knife from her and she started screaming, 'I will kill you and kill myself.' In the struggle, she stabbed me in the navel. "Later. I asked my wife why she did this and she started apologising. I then decided to get help for her but I could not find the key to the main door to the house." Akolade said he scattered the wardrobe, where his wife said she had kept the keys but still could not find them. He said, "After attempting to force open the door of the house with no success, I decided to jump from the balcony and I met the security guard and mechanic there. I jumped into my car and drove towards the Aswani Police Division. "On my way to the station, I met some traffic policemen and I explained to them that my wife needed help. They were telling me to take care of myself first since I was covered in blood. While I was still explaining to them, an oncoming vehicle knocked me over and I fell unconscious. "When I regained consciousness, I found myself in a strange environment and was told that it was a Good Samaritan that had rescued me. I later made a telephone call to my mother. It was the person who picked up the phone that told me that my wife was dead." While being cross-examined by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mrs. Olabisi Ogungbesan, Akolade told the court that his wife was alive the last time he saw her. He said he sustained more injuries than her and even debunked the report of the pathologist, Prof. John Obafunwa, who had asserted in his testimony that Titilayo was stabbed 76 times, saying it was not possible for a human being to inflict such wounds on oneself. Ogungbesan, who debunked Akolade's testimony, said, "Akolade, why did you not inform the mechanic, neighbours or even your security guard that your wife was bleeding instead of going to the police station? Why did you not use your mobile phone to call for help? "If you did not stab your wife to death; then who did? You said your wife was mentally unstable, are you a certified psychiatrist? Since it has been established that you were the last person to see her alive I put it to you that you stabbed your wife to death." Akolade answered that his wife had taken alcohol that morning. He said, "If you had seen her that day, she was even more powerful than me. She overpowered me. I was not thinking clearly that day. That was why I ran straight to the police station without telling neighbours. It was possible that she stabbed herself to death but it was not 76 times." Justice Lateefa Okunnu, adjourned the matter till September 17, 2013, for the final address of counsel.

20 Private Jets leave Nigeria

Photo: Stella Oduah Aviation Boss <a target="_self" href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/yrG0YlPnk7GLVFk0awa7nv5BhUCyjhcHUSmtRQcYa0PIe5hDqZ2Ufyfwfy3zoTCGIbk2PBvdCyVlotfRCtnpdUS2EvQyJWb8/stellaodua.jpg"><img class="align-left" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/yrG0YlPnk7GLVFk0awa7nv5BhUCyjhcHUSmtRQcYa0PIe5hDqZ2Ufyfwfy3zoTCGIbk2PBvdCyVlotfRCtnpdUS2EvQyJWb8/stellaodua.jpg" width="130"/></a> About 20 private jets registered abroad but flying in Nigeria may have left the country barely one month after the Federal Government unveiled a new policy barring foreign-owned aircraft from staying in the country beyond 15 days, aviation industry sources have disclosed. The 20 private jets, it was gathered, were among those the government believed were being used to carry out illegal charter services in the country in connivance with some local operators. Findings revealed that the government's new policy on private jets combined with the recent controversy that trailed Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State's Global 6000 plane had forced the private jet owners to start leaving the country. Aviation sources said the foreign-registered private jets started leaving the country following the introduction of the new policy and the controversies over Amaechi's jet forced the Nigerian Civil aviation Authority to start beaming its searchlight on foreign-registered jets in the country. A top aviation official said, "Many of the foreign-registered private jets flying illegally in Nigeria have started leaving the country. They are illegal because most of them have been carrying out illegal charter services in the country. "Now that the new policy on private jets and the controversy trailing Amaechi's private jet has put a spotlight on that sector, most of them are now fleeing the country. These foreign-registered planes come into the country under the auspices of private operators, and as such, were coming into the country on ad-hoc basis as private operators. But they end up doing commercial business with charter." The long-awaited National Civil Aviation Policy, 2013 was unveiled three weeks ago with severe rules for private jet ownership in the country. Among other stringent rules, all foreign-registered private jets will no longer be allowed to stay in the country beyond 15 days as recommended by the NCAP. It, however, states that foreign-registered private jets on special mission in Nigeria will be allowed to stay for 60 days following a special approval from the office of the Minister of Aviation. Part VII of the NCAP 2013, which deals with general aviation (private jets), read in part, "Retention of foreign registered aircraft in Nigeria will not be permitted beyond a period of 15 days from date of entry. However, the Minister of Aviation may, in certain circumstances, grant the extension of this period for up to 60 days." Over 70 per cent of private jets in the country are carrying foreign registration, a former Managing Director of Aerocontractors Airlines, Captain Akin George, has said. Some industry chief executive officers said the new policy might force most of business moguls and pastors, whose private jets are currently carrying foreign registration, to fly the jets outside the country every 15 days in order to comply with the policy. The other option for owners of private jets with foreign registration is to de-register them and subsequently register them in Nigeria, according to some industry experts. "I think what the government is saying is that most of these people should go and de-register their planes and put them on Nigerian registration," an industry CEO, who pleaded not to be named, told our correspondent. State governments, whose jets carry foreign registration numbers, include Akwa Ibom and Rivers. The aviation authorities have risen in defence of the policy, saying the government was only referring to foreign-registered private jets carrying out illegal charter business in the country. Aviation sources said that about 50 private jets were currently carrying out illegal charter services in the country. But the latest spotlight on the sector has forced many of them out of the country permanently, sources said. Aviation stakeholders are, however, insisting that the government lacked the legal powers to enforce the policy as some of its sections negate the Civil Aviation Act, 2006.