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Omoyele Sowore Celebrates His 46th Birthday In Front Of Police Station [Pictures]

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Sahara Reporters publisher Omoyele Sowore celebrated his 46th birthday yesterday.

However, the most interesting twist to the celebration is that Sowore’s invitation to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) yesterday coincided with his birthday.

Sowore had been invited to the SCID for an ‘interview’ which was later aborted as the Police Station reportedly lost one of it’s officers.

However, Sowore’s supporters decided to celebrate his birthday right in front of the police station. The police had no alternative but to cope with all the revolutionary singing that followed. Some of the police officers looked considerably embarrassed as Sowore and his throng of supporters celebrated away.

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1 person killed, police station razed in Zaria tanker fire.

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The Police have confirmed the death of one person in a tanker fire incident in Zaria, which also razed a police station and 15 vehicles.

The incident occurred on Saturday night at Danmagaji area of Zaria in Kaduna State, when the tanker driver lost control in an attempt to avoid a pot hall.

In the process, he was said to have crushed to death a motorcyclist, while an ensuing fire razed the police station and vehicles.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Commissioner of Police in the state, Agyole Abeh, confirmed the figure to journalists after visiting the scene on Sunday.

“The incident was quite unfortunate but we have to give glory to God because the level of lives involved is what we should appreciate God for.

“The inferno would have consumed a lot of lives, most especially as Danmagaji usually has heavy traffic, and this police station is a place where people always patronise.

“Today, we would have been telling a different story.

“However everything in the station has been completely burnt down, as you can see the structure, nothing is left apart from the wall,” he said.

The police commissioner solicited for the intervention of the state government, traditional and community leaders in rebuilding the police station.

“The state government had never let the police down, it has been given resounding assistance to the force and I believe it will find an immediate solution to the problem.”

Why irate youth burnt our station – Nigeria Police

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The Benue Police Command has confirmed that a police post at Awajir in Konshisha Local Government Area of the state was on Wednesday burnt down by irate youth.

The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in the state, Moses Yamu, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Makurdi that the station was burnt following altercations between officials of the State Produce Board and a motorist.

Mr. Yamu, an assistant superintendent of police, said the produce team had stopped a motorist for routine checks and an altercation had ensued, resulting in a crisis.

He explained that while the two aggrieved groups were engaged in altercation, a police patrol team sighted them and stopped to restore peace and order.

Mr. Yamu said one of the passengers grabbed a riffle from a policeman and shot a passerby, igniting the crisis in which the station was burnt.

He said no arrest had been made while normalcy had been restored in the area.

But some eye witnesses alleged that the commercial motorcyclist who was shot had refused to pay a bribe to the patrol team.

Boko Haram Attack Borno Town

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Boko Haram militants, who arrived on motorcycles throwing bombs, raided a mostly Christian town in Nigeria’s northeast after nightfall on Saturday, residents and a military source said.

Residents said scores of people had been killed in the town of Shani, but a police source said they had been unable to verify the death toll as communications to the town had been largely cut off.

“They rode on motorcycles and were more than 30 men. They started throwing bombs into houses…then the Boko Haram fired shots at people fleeing,” resident Ishaya Brimah told Reuters by phone from a nearby village on Sunday. “They set ablaze the police station, houses and a telecom mast…I saw people fleeing, some bodies on the ground.”

Shani is located in Nigeria’s Borno state, the heartland of Islamist group Boko Haram’s five-year insurgency, which has displaced more than one million people.

A shopkeeper in Shani, Shuabu Lawal, said he started hearing explosions at around 8 pm on Saturday evening. “A boy ran into my shop and said his father and elder brother had been shot. He was only wearing shorts, no top and sweating despite the wintry weather. I shut down my shop immediately, leaving some items outside,” Lawal said.

The police source said Shani’s police station had been destroyed in the attack. Militants have already attacked the town twice this year, most recently in June when at least 11 people were killed and the office of the electoral commission was burnt.

Credit: Reuters