A video of uniformed soldiers seen hiding for their lives during the Thursday’s attack carried out by gunmen on several banks in Uromi, Edo state have surfaced on social media.
It was earlier reported that three banks were attacked by armed robbers in Uromi community, Esan North-East Local Government Area of Edo State.
It was gathered that no fewer than five persons, including a policeman, were reportedly killed during the robbery attack.
The banks that were robbed by the gunmen include First Bank, Union Bank, and Unity Bank.
It was learned that the robbers gained access to the banks through the aid of dynamites and made away with huge cash.
The bank robbers shot sporadically into the air while the operation lasted, leaving residents to scamper for safety.
Recent update reaching this publication revealed that 21 persons died from the attack with their bodies are said to have been deposited at St Camillius Hospital’s Mortuary.
A resident in the area told reporters that the attacks were coordinated, adding that the robbers came prepared.
In the new video shared online captured the moment the uniformed men were hiding for the fear of their lives while the attack lasted for more than an hour.
Watch the video below;
Soldiers spotted hiding as robbers ravage banks in Uromi. Sources have it that the police station locked their gate 🤦🏾♂️ pic.twitter.com/MPRNuVIj8T
FUNKE ASHEKUN, I promised to open a file on you through our investigative line to get the facts, and reel out the truth about the fabricated lies and stories you tell on your marriage gone left show.
Just the other day, I saw your show that made me feel so sorry for you as I watched and listen to all the fallacies and fabrications you doled out of your mouth. The worst part was that You looked so BELIEVEABLE, but we aint fooled, because that’s the firsthand trait of the devil and its operations. (Make believe is what it’s called).
FUNKE, first of, it’s obvious that you have no job in that AMERICA, since you absconded with a tourist visa it will be difficult to get a proper job. Hence, you opted for a gossip sit down and talk Facebook nonsense that you are doing now. It’s now clear WHY YOU FEATURED IN MAUREENS SHOW A WHILE AGO. YOU PRACTICALLY USED HER SHOW TO LAUNCH YOURSELF, NICE ONE.
FUNKE, I am very sure that you are aware of Maureen’s travails and what she is presently suffering and will continue to suffer for all her fake and wrong publications and recordings. If I may remind you, since there is an established connection between you and her, all judgement relating to her matter will be binding on you as well.
Let me start with our findings based on the issues you treated in your show. First the matter of your GOs haunted houses, which you claimed are destroying destinies. Through our investigations, we found out that for almost twenty years of going and coming, you lived under the umbrella of this ministry and the huge financial support of this same GO that you are castigating today.
As at 1995 when you came to that ministry, we found out that you actually eloped with your now husband from deeper life, after exploiting a man you were supposed or rather promised to marry. With all sort of lies you told against Deeper Life ministry, the GO had compassion on you and provided shelter, by renting a flat for you and your mother at Fola Agoro.
You have lived in the ministry’s housing units in different part of Lagos, the houses you claimed to be haunted. In these your self-acclaimed haunted houses, you got married and gave birth to four children.
In these same houses where you lived for free for years, your children were given scholarship by the GO that you claimed is occultic. This same person gave you and your husband your first proper jobs in the ministry and in the banking sector.
You alleged that the GO was using your glory, meanwhile you came to the ministry with nothing and built a house, while living in the so-called haunted houses.
You alleged that the GO sent armed robbers to chase you out of your house, meanwhile when you ran away from this house that you built at Ikorodu village, we learnt that he was the one that gave you and your family shelter by renting a flat for you guys again.
This same GO you alleged to be Occultic, we found out sent your mother to the best hospital in Lagos as at when she was seriously ill, we have data to prove this if you want name, date and time we will provide.
You Kept saying that you spent two decades in the ministry, but you always failed to make it clear to your audience and viewers that you were a rolling stone.
FUNKE, we found out that you were practically drifting from church to church looking for greener pastures, a place where you could make exploit without discipline. You were at Christ Miracle Church Mission, Omega Fire Ministry, and many others yet the GO took you back whenever you returned.
You alleged that pastor Suleiman Collided with your GO to manipulate you and get you to return to the ministry, we found out that as at when you met with Pst Suleiman, the GO and Suleiman had no connection whatsoever, they had never met.
So why the lies from the pit of hell
You created some drama scenarios in your show about what happened in one of the houses you lived in, so we decided to launch some investigations and found out that the lady you spoke about that was gasping for breath as if life was seeping out of her. Sister (withheld for security reasons) had always had panic attacks.
Attacks that came because of what happened to her in her previous marriage. And that was the reason she came to God and found Solace and shelter, and as when we got in touch with her God has visited her and she is happily married.
For the other story you told (sis name withheld for security reasons) that had an illness you couldn’t mention. We found out that her case was a case of fibroid. And like very critical cases of fibroid attacks, she always had heavy bleeding during her period which makes her very weak, and this sometimes makes her seek medical attention.
We realized That people came to the church of God for solutions and were given accommodations as their problems are being dealt with, their issues have nothing to do with the house that they lived in or the GO being occultic so where did you get your stories from
We are doing our findings and working hard to do all investigations necessary to show the world how manipulative and dangerous you and your mission is.
You are threading the path that Maureen walked and failed, Funke there is nothing wrong if you want to make money from YouTube and Facebook out of joblessness but its is sad that you want to harm the church of God and his servants with your baseless and unfounded twisted stories.
You should be more careful since you know that your father in-law is a native doctor that oversees your affairs, this path may not go well for you, we have done our finding and we are still investigating.
I will not advise you to desist like I did Maureen, but I will say get ready to face the wrath of God and the law when the time comes.
FYI. We are waiting for the evidence of how you found out that it was the GO that sent robbers to your house. The evidence of the people that burnt the house of the person you spoke about.The evidence and name of the cult he belongs to, and his position in the confraternity. Names of women he has sexually molested. The date,how and when? You have to provide these evidence.
Name somebody that took an oath in the ministry be a pastor or a member, and provide a copy of document signed or a copy of the document that people used or are using to swear secrecy.
You dare say you did not abscond with church money, madam we discovered you took church money and never returned them.
Funke, if you ever were a Christian, and understood how deliverance work in a spiritual ministry, you will never speak about the GO laying hand on you as occultic. I believe time will soon catch up with you
A Liar is a destroyer
Femi for Sahara weekly. WE WILL KEEP STANDING FOR THE TRUTH
Russia Attack on Ukraine Live: At least 40 people have been killed
Klitschko, Kasparov and Shevchenko react to Russian invasion of Ukraine
The Ukrainian Premier League suspended operations as Russia attacked Ukraine on Thursday.
In a brief statement, the league said the suspension was due to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s decision to impose martial law. It did not give any planned date to resume.
The Brazilian players of Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv are reunited with their families in a hotel in Kyiv and recorded this video asking for help from the Brazilian authorities as they try to leave the country.
Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv’s Brazilian players ask for help in leaving Ukraine
Paralympics in talks
The International Paralympic Committee said it was in talks with sports officials in Ukraine and Russia as their teams prepare to head to China for the start of the Paralympic Games next week.
“The IPC is in dialogue with both the Ukrainian and Russian Paralympic Committees ahead of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games,” the IPC said in an emailed statement. “As a politically neutral organization, the IPC’s focus remains on the upcoming Games rather than the ongoing situation.”
Russia’s name, flag and anthem are already barred from the March 4-13 Paralympics in Beijing over previous doping disputes. Its team is due to compete as RPC, short for Russian Paralympic Committee.
Ahead of its National Convention slated for March 26, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has named members of the committees that will conduct its zonal congresses.
The ruling APC had on Tuesday said that the zonal congress had been scheduled for March 12 while the much-anticipated convention will take place two weeks later.
In a statement on Thursday by the National Secretary of the Caretaker Committee, John Akpanudoedehe, the party said the chairmen of the committees are all members of the Mai Mala Buni-led committee.
Akpanudoedehe added that the secretaries of the committees are selected from amongst the deputy governors from their respective geopolitical zones.
He said Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger will head the party’s committee in the North Central while former Senate President Ken Nnamani will lead the party’s committee in the South East.
Below are the chairpersons and members of the zonal committees in the geo-political zones:
Society gazette reports a viral video clip showing the moment a lecturer chased out students from the lecture room for allegedly not wearing their bra.
According to reports, the incident happened at Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku.
Further reports said that the lecturer sent the students out of the lecture room for not putting on their bra, panties and a well sewed jean as against the ripped ones.
The clash between Russia and Ukraine on Thursday recorded at least six casualties.
Reports obtained by Naija News confirmed that a bomb exploded today in the southern Odesa region, injuring no fewer than seven people.
The bombing was confirmed to newsmen in a statement credited to Ukraine’s General Office of the National Police.
This is the first casualties to be announced in the city of Podolsk as Russian forces continue military operations in Ukraine.
Conditions on the seven people injured in the bombing are not yet clear, there are 19 people unaccounted for as at the time this report is given.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted that “Putin has just launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.”
NBC News had reported earlier that a loud explosion was heard in the central capital of Kyiv and the northeast city of Kharkiv.
The development reportedly occurred a few minutes after Putin’s announcement.
The attacks ended hopes for a diplomatic solution that the United States and its allies had been attempting for weeks.
Prior to Putin’s announcement, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy said he tried to call the Russian leader but was rebuffed, Naija News learnt.
Meanwhile, United States of America President Joe Biden has condemned the military attack and invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
Naija News earlier reported that Russia on Thursday morning announced that it has destroyed Ukrainian military airbases and its air defence systems.
In a statement issued by Russia’s Defence Ministry, the government added that Kyiv’s air defence systems were also “eliminated” in the attack.
This is coming hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a military offensive against Ukraine to defend separatists in the east of the country.
In a statement released by the White House after the attack on Ukraine, US President said the world will hold President Putin accountable for the loss of lives in the country.
The US leader described the attack on Ukraine as unprovoked and unjustified, adding that more sanctions would be imposed on Russia and its business entities.
Biden said he would address the United States on Thursday to announce the further consequences the United States and our allies and partners will impose on Russia.
The US president said he held a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky after the attack on Ukraine, which is sandwiched between Russia and NATO member Poland.
President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has directed Nigerians in Ukraine to remain calm but very vigilant and be responsible for their own security and safety as the country is being attacked by Russia.
The Federal Government in a statement released by Nigerian Embassy, in Kiev, charged Nigerians who don’t feel safe in the country to temporarily relocate to anywhere considered safe by private arrangement.
This is coming at a time Russian troops launched attacks on its neighbour, Ukraine despite sanctions from world leaders.
The Embassy advised Nigerians resident in Ukraine to ensure that they validate all their resident documents for ease of return to the country when desired.
The statement sighted by Naija News states, “The attention of the Embassy has been drawn to the declaration of state of emergency and Martial law on the entire territory of Ukraine except the Donestsk and Luhansk regions by the government of Ukraine, effective from midnight of February 23, 2022, for a period of 30 days, as well as the latest development on the Ukraine-Russia crises.
“Given development, the embassy urges Nigerian Nationals resident in Ukraine to remain calm but very vigilant and be responsible for their security and safety.
“The embassy wishes to add that should any Nigerian National consider the situation as emotionally disturbing, such National may temporarily relocate to anywhere considered safe by private arrangement. They should, however, ensure that they do all the needful to validate all their resident documents for ease of return to the country when desired.
“Students seeking temporary relocation are enjoined to seek proper clearance and guarantee form from their respective institutions during this period.
“For those who are still considering it appropriate to remain in the country, be rest assured that the embassy remains open for its consular duties and responsibilities at all times.”
Russia on Thursday morning announced that it has destroyed Ukrainian military airbases and its air defence systems.
Naija News reports that this was made known by Russia’s defence ministry.
“Military infrastructure at Ukrainian army air bases has been rendered out of action,” the defence ministry said in a statement.
The Ministry added that Kyiv’s air defence systems were also “eliminated”.
This is coming hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a military offensive against Ukraine to defend separatists in the east of the country.
Naija News reports that the Russian President made the announcement in a surprised televised statement on Thursday
“I have made the decision of a military operation,” Putin who has seen his country hit by multiple sanctions from the west said.
This newspaper reports that the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had appealed to Vladimir Putin to stop his troops from entering Ukraine.
He made the personal plea at an emergency Security Council meeting Wednesday night.
“President Putin, stop your troops from attacking Ukraine, give peace a chance, too many people have already died,” Guterres said.
Operatives of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday morning stormed the residence of Marlian music artistes Mohbad and Zinolesky to arrest the duo.
Naija News gathered that NDLEA officials allegedly broke into the residence of the musicians in the Lekki area of Lagos State, in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The officials carried out the arrest without having any search warrants, manhandling the artistes signed to Marlian Music, eyewitnesses claimed.
In videos trending online, the NDLEA operatives were seen assaulting the musician with clubs and shooting into the air to force them into waiting vans.
Oniyide Azeez (Zinoleesky) and Ilerioluwa Oladimeji (Mohbad) are associated with Azeez Fashola (Naira Marley) who is currently facing fraud charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Hope this #NDLEA bursting houses In Nigeria is put to stop#zinolesky#nairamarley#mufasatundeednut#zinoleesky pic.twitter.com/72833VD76A
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele has described as fake news reports that he purchased an aircraft for his 2023 presidential campaign.
Reports had surfaced online on Wednesday claiming that the CBN governor purchased “three airplanes” to support his presidential campaign.
The report also stated that individuals close to President Muhammadu Buhari had asked Emefiele to resign immediately.
Reacting in a post on his new Twitter account, the CBN governor wrote: “Fake News”, accompanied with a screen shot of the report.
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