No fewer than 41 suspected homosexuals have been arrested by security operatives in Bauchi State.

The suspects were arrested during a joint operation by men of the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Bauchi State command.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Kamal Abubakar, who confirmed the incident, said the police had charged 37 of the suspects to court.

He said, “Although we gathered through intelligence reports that the suspects were homosexuals, we did not charge them to court as homosexuals or lesbians since we did not catch them in the act. But we charged them for being public nuisance since they were arrested at a birthday party.”

The Bauchi State Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Alhaji Ado Zigau, said the suspects were arrested based on intelligence reports.

He said,

“Intelligence reports revealed that some lesbians and homosexuals planned a gathering at the Federal Secretariat Conference Hall. Security operatives were mobilised to the scene and they arrested quite a number of the suspects. Each security team arrested some suspects and took them to their office for interrogation.”

Meanwhile the state command of the NSCDC paraded four of the suspects.

The Public Relations Officer of the corps, DSC Garkuwa Adamu, said,

“On September 1, 2018, intelligence information revealed that some group of youths suspected to be homosexuals were having a meeting at the Federal Secretariat and we swung into action and arrested four suspects.

“The suspects are Abubakar Adamu, 18; Usman Abubakar, 20; Dalhatu Hassan, 19; and Mukhtar Mohammed, 20.

“We recovered three Jincheng motorcycles, one Haojue ladies motorcycle, one generator, three birthday cakes, four GSM phones and other souvenirs during the operation,” he said.

One of the suspects, Abubakar Adamu, denied being a gay.

He said

“We are not gay; we don’t have lesbians among us. I organised a birthday party and invited my friends. I sat with a female friend when I was arrested. I am a tailor and we followed due process and applied to use the Federal Secretariat Conference Hall, which they gave us.

“After we finished the birthday, security operatives came in and arrested us. But we are not homosexuals and we don’t belong to any association.”

When asked how he got money to organise the birthday, he said

“I am a tailor. My customers pay me between N400 and N2,500. My friends contributed some of the items. I have learnt my lesson and I will not organise a birthday party again.”

Source: Punch

A group of Nigerians today reportedly contributed N45 million naira to purchase the APC Presidential form for President Buhari, who is seeking re-election in the 2019 general election.

Last week, President Buhari was quoted to have said he does not have the money to purchase the nomination form.

President Buhari’s personal assistant on New media, Bashir Ahmad, disclosed the gesture of the group of Nigerians on his twitter handle this afternoon. See his tweet below:

While President @MBuhari is far in China, a group of good Nigerians bought expression of interest form and nomination form for him. #PMB 2.0 pic.twitter.com/sn8DA0vWf3

— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) September 5, 2018

A suspected member of the Black Axe Confraternity has revealed he got lured into the group after he was promised he would meet music star David ‘Davido’ Adeleke.

The suspect, Tobi Adegoke, 25, was among 27 suspected cultists arrested from various parts of Lagos and paraded by Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal on Wednesday.

The young man who is an upcoming music artist believed meeting Davido who he alleged is a memeber of the cult group, would have helped in skyrocketing his music career.

Speaking to The Nation, He said: “I am an Aiye member (Black Axe). I have been in the cult for about two years. I was told that Davido was a member and if I joined, I will be able to meet him.

“It was the guy who initiated me that said so. He said he worked for Davido and that it will be easy access. But since I joined, I have not met Davido. They told me I’ll become a very popular musician but see where I am now.

“I am renouncing my membership of Aiye. I will never belong to any cult again. They should look at my face very well. They will never see me in their midst again.

“I lived at Oniru in Lekki. I used to be a domestic help. Since I joined, I have not done anything bad. I habe not killed anybody. I just wanted to be a famous musician.

He, however, regretted not being patient in pursuing his music career.

Another suspect, Biodun Alade, 22, said he joined his own group about four months ago.

It was also reported that several others denied being cultists, insisting that they were arrested during random raids carried out by policemen in their neighborhoods.

Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector General of Police, has asked operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) to desist from running after internet fraudsters, Dailytrust reports.

He said they had the mandate of curbing armed robbery and kidnapping, warning that any officer caught arresting cybercrime suspects would be sanctioned appropriately.

Idris gave the warning yesterday at the FSARS headquarters at Magbo in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He was represented by the team leader of South West Monitoring Fact Finding Committee on SARS Reform, DCP Adepojulo Ilori.

He assured the people of what he called “positively transformed” operatives of FSARS. He said the committee had embarked on the inspection of SARS detention facilities across the southwest states.

Part of the committee’s mandate was to decongest the detention facilities and submit a comprehensive report to the IGP.

An Israeli member of parliament has come under fire for saying that Africans have no culture and that Israel should stop African refugees from having children.

The Israeli member of Israel’s Knesset or parliament (MP), Oren Hazan from the ruling Likud party, further said that Africans are not refugees but economic migrants.

The member of parliament was speaking during an interview that was posted on the Facebook page of his political party.

During an interview with Avi Yemeni, an Israeli-Australian pro-Israel activist, on July 27, Hazan further said that African immigrants were a threat to Israel and would destroy the country.

“If we don’t kick them out they will kick us out. We need to destroy the problem when it is still small,” said Hazan.

However, his comments and statements have not been condemned by the Likud party led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel came under strong criticism for its mass deportation of Africans earlier in the year with protests breaking out in the country and human rights organisations condemning the move and the inhumane way the Africans were treated.

Earlier in the year Hazan’s interviewer, Avi Yemeni who is a rightist activist, also started a petition in Australia to help what he described as the “persecuted white minority” of South Africa stating that whites “were facing genocide” in the southern African country.

A certain Timothy Dogo, 35, has been arrested by the Niger state police command after he allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl at the Tufa Community in the Gurara Local Goverment Area of the state.

According to police reports, the victim was on an errand for her parents when Timothy dragged her into an uncompleted building and forcefully had sex with her.

When interrogated, Dogo who confessed to have had sex with four other unaderaged girls in the area, said the 14-year-old girl’s presence got him aroused.

“There was nothing to show that she is a teenager, she looks like a 20-year-old girl, I never knew that she is under-age; otherwise I wouldn’t have tried it in the first place. I raped her because her looks turn me on each time I set my eyes on her; there was this spirit that would tell me to make love to her and that was why on that fateful day, I dragged her into an uncompleted building to commit the act” he said

According to the police, Dogo would soon be arraigned in court.