The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) says its operatives have found a lifeless body of a man on the Ikeja railway track, in Agege area of the state.

Nosa Okunbor, head of LASEMA’s public affairs unit, said investigations showed that the man was hit by a moving train in the early hours of Monday.

He said the body has been deposited at the morgue.

“On arrival of the Eagle response team at the incident scene by 0902hrs, LRT discovered the body of an adult male laying dead on the railway track,” he said.

“Further investigations by the Eagle Response Team revealed that the adult male was reportedly hit by a moving train in the early hours of the day.

“Unfortunately, an unidentified adult male lost his life to the incident. The Agency’s response team recovered the body from the railway tracks.

“The response team bagged the commodity and handed it over to the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit, SEHMU. SEHMU has transferred the commodity to the morgue for further processing.”

The agencies that responded to the incident include LASEMA Response Team, Nigeria Railway Corporation, (NRC), and Lagos Neighborhood Safety Corps (LNSC).

The Yobe police command says it has arrested a woman identified as Hamsatu Modu for allegedly trafficking 350 rounds of ammunition in the state.

In a statement on Monday, Dungus Abdulkarim, Yobe police spokesperson, said a suspect was caught transporting the arms from Buni Yadi to Damaturu, the state capital.

Abdulkarim said Modu was arrested following credible intelligence about the suspect’s movement.

“On October 20, 2024, at about 1830 hours, ‘A’ Divisional Police Headquarters, Damaturu, received credible intelligence regarding a suspected gunrunner en route to Damaturu,” the statement reads.

“Swift action led to the interception of a Golf 3 saloon car, and a thorough search revealed 350 rounds of live 7.62×39 MM ammunition concealed in the suspect’s luggage.”

The spokesperson said that the suspect is being interrogated to “uncover the motives and dismantle the underlying criminal organization.”

Garba Ahmed, Yobe police commissioner, reaffirmed the command’s commitment to combating crime.

He called for the cooperation and vigilance of residents against suspicious activities in their neighbourhoods.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says those challenging its legality are “feeling the heat” of anti-graft war.

In an interview with Channels Television on Monday, Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC’s director of public affairs, said the agency is “worried and shocked” about the suit in view of the “corruption problem” in the country.

BACKGROUND

Recently, attorneys-general of 16 states of the federation filed a suit challenging the constitutionality of the law establishing the EFCC.

The states argued that in enacting the law in 2004, the national assembly failed to adhere to section 12 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which governs the incorporation of international treaties into domestic law.

They noted that the EFCC Act cannot be applied to states that did not give their consent to its creation.

The supreme court had fixed October 22 to hear the suit filed by the 16 states.

In two letters addressed to the constitution review committees of the senate and house of representatives, Olisa Agbakoba, a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), said EFCC was not constitutionally established.

Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, and some civil society organisations have faulted the suit.

‘NIGERIA CAN’T SURVIVE WITHOUT US’

Uwujaren said the establishment of the EFCC followed due process in the national assembly while calling on Nigerians to reject the move to “derail” the operations of the agency.

“I am worried that with the kind of problem we have with corruption in this country, some people will go to court to challenge the legality of EFCC,” he said.

“What you see playing out today is simply people who are feeling the heat of the work of the EFCC, and they simply want to derail what is going on within the EFCC. They see EFCC as a threat.

“Nigerians should see through the gimmick of those who are behind the suit on the legality of the commission.

“We are really shocked by what is happening. Nigerians should see through this shenanigan and oppose it because I don’t see how this country can survive without the EFCC with the kind of corruption problem that we have in this country. Nigeria cannot do without the EFCC.”

EFCC was established December 12, 2002 following an act of national assembly under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has stated that the current economic hardship being witnessed in the nation cannot be attributed to the Tinubu-led administration.

Akpabio expressed this thought at the 2024 reunion of the UNICAL '87 Law Class over the weekend.

According to him, with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in power, there is light at the end of the tunnel because his administration will leave behind lasting legacies that will guarantee the future of Nigerians.

“The difficulties we are witnessing in our nation today were not caused by the present administration. These are as a result of years of maladministration. Any country that does not have backbone infrastructure, you don’t have something to develop, you don’t save for the raining day, when there is economic malaise such as we are witnessing in the world today, such country is bound to be affected.

The good news is that under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we have hope today, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

The things that we are trying to do now, we are doing  for posterity. Not for ourselves. Be assured that this administration will leave behind lasting legacies that will guarantee a better future.”

The Lagos State Police Command has launched a manhunt for a 48-year-old man, Kadiri Yusuf alias Alado, over the alleged physical assault of two of his children in the Orile Agege area of Lagos.

The suspect is alleged to have inflicted grievous bodily injuries on his two children, aged 11 and 13 years.

NAN's City and Crime gathered that the incident was reported at the station by the teacher of one of the children.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident said around 5pm on Friday, October 18, the head teacher of a primary school in Orile Agege, reported that at about 7am of the same date, she found out that one of her pupils had wounds all over her body.

Hundeyin said the teacher further claimed that upon inquiry, the little girl of about 11 years, confided in her how her father, one Kadiri Yusuf alias Alado, used to beat her.

“The little girl also confided in her teacher that her father also beat up her elder brother whose age was also put at 13.

“The victims have been retrieved and treated. They have also been handed over to their sister for safe custody.

The suspect fled from home before the arrival of the police. Efforts are on to apprehend him,” he said.

Twenty-nine suspects have been paraded by the Imo State Police Command over their alleged involvement in kidnapping within the state.

The police also recovered AK-47 rifles and other dangerous items from them.

Among those paraded were four female suspects.

A press statement issued by the command’s public relations officer, ASP Henry Okoye, informed that the operation that led to the arrest of the suspects was carried out by the command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit on October 19, 2024, dislodging the camp said to belong to the suspects in Nempi, Oru West Local Government Area of the state, leading to the arrest of 29 suspects—25 males and four females.

He stated that the operation was initiated following the apprehension of a 25-year-old male suspect, Anukuru Nnana Emmanuel, at Mgbidi in Oru East Local Government Area of the state.

The police spokesperson hinted that information obtained from the suspect during cross-examination enabled police operatives to locate and dismantle the camp.

ASP Okoye further hinted that during the operation several dangerous items were recovered from the suspects, including 4 pump-action guns, two locally-made revolvers, five locally-made pistols, three AK-47 magazines, a Point of Sale (POS) machine, and 20 rounds of live cartridges. Also recovered were one white SUV and local bulletproof charms said to have been used by the suspects.

He added that over N200,000, allegedly extorted from kidnapping victims, was also recovered from them.

“Investigation is ongoing; efforts are in progress to apprehend the manufacturers of the locally made guns. The destruction of this camp is part of the command’s ongoing efforts to combat violent crimes and restore peace within the state,” he stated.