THE DEADLY ANINI’S TRUE STORIES

Indeed, Nigeria has recorded only two types of armed robbers: Lawrence Anini and Others.
No armed robber in the history of this Country has ever held the entire country to ransom as Anini.
In fact, his reign was so bloody that he was even discussed at the State Security Council meeting.
THIS IS HIS STORY:
Lawrence Nomanyagbon Anini was born in a village about 20 miles from Benin City in present-day Edo State.
Anini was an only son of his Evbueisi-born mother, he had two sisters. His father died when he was still a young boy.
Anini was brought to Benin where he was admitted at the Oza Primary School but from a young age, he started manifesting the signs of truancy.
He struggled to finish his primary school then entered the Igiedumu Secondary School. He did not spend more than three years when he dropped out of school, preferring to be an apprentice at a local mechanic workshop. That was around 1976.
Anini later migrated to Benin, learned to drive and became a skilled taxi driver(Legend has it that he was the best driver created by the Almighty).
He became known in Benin motor parks as a man who could control the varied competing interests among motor park touts and operators.
He later dived into the criminal business in the city and soon became a driver and transporter for gangs, criminal godfathers and thieves.
Later on, he decided to create his own gang which included:
1. Monday Osunbor (The Deadliest Man That Ever Lived),
2. Friday Ofege,
3. Henry Ekponwan,
4. Eweka and
5. Alhaji zed zed or Zegezege who was never captured.
They started out as car hijackers, bus robbers and bank thieves.
Gradually, Anini and his gang extended their criminal acts all over Benin City.
THE DEADLY ANINI’S REIGN OF TERROR:
Following the sudden overthrow of the politicians in the early 1980s and banning of politics in 1984 by the Buhari regime, Anini discovered that armed robbery was far more lucrative and that was when he formed his gang…
In early 1986, two members of his gang were tried and prosecuted against an earlier under-the-table ‘agreement’ with the police to destroy evidence against the gang members.
The incident, and Anini’s view of police betrayal, is believed to have spurred retaliatory actions by Anini.
In August, 1986, Anini and his gang masterminded a fatal bank robbery in which a police officer and others were killed. That same month, two officers on duty were shot at a barricade while trying to stop Anini’s car. During a span of three months, he was known to have killed nine police officers.
In an operation in August 1986, the Anini team struck at First Bank, Sabongida-Ora, where they carted away N2,000(big money back then). He killed many people that day.
On September 6, 1986, the Anini gang snatched a Peugeot 504 car from Albert Otoe, the driver of an Assistant Inspector General of Police, Christopher Omeben. In snatching the car, they killed the driver and went to hide his corpse somewhere. It was not until three months later that the skeleton of the driver was spotted 16 kilometers away from Benin City, along the Benin-Agbor highway.
A day after this attack, Anini, operating in a Passat car believed to have been stolen, also effected the snatching of another Peugeot 504 car near the former FEDECO office, in Benin.
Two days after, the Anini men killed two policemen in Orhiowon Local Government of the state.
Still in that month, three different robbery attacks, all pointing to Anini’s involvement, took place. They include the murder of Frank Unoarumi, a former employee of the Nigerian Observer newspapers; the killing of Mrs. Remi Sobanjo, a chartered accountant, and the stealing of the Mercedes Benz car in Benin, of the Ughelli monarch, the Ovie.
Before September 1986 drew to a close, Anini struck at a gas station along Wire Road, Benin, where he stole a substantial part of the day’s sales. He shot the station’s attendant and gleefully started spraying his booty along the road for people to pick.
The height of Anini’s exploits, however, took place on October 1, 1986, the Independence Day when the state’s Commissioner of Police, Casmir Igbokwe was ambushed by the gang in Benin, and nearly yanked off his nose in a hail of bullets. The police boss survived the attacks with serious injuries. Earlier that day also, the Anini men had gunned down a police man within the city
“The Law”, as he was nicknamed, during an operation that went bad had to escape from the police by driving in reverse from Agbor (Delta State) to Benin City (Edo State). Indeed, he was a real life “James Bond-007”.
Also, on October 21 of same year, the Anini robbery gang terminated the life of a Benin-based medical doctor, A.O Emojeve when they gunned him down along Textile Mill Road, in Benin.
Not done, Anini and gang went and robbed the Agbor branch of African Continental Bank and carted away about N46, 000. A day after the operation, Anini, The Law, turned to a ‘Father Christmas’ as he strew wads of naira notes on the ground for free pick by market men and women at a village near Benin. Anini’s image thus loomed larger than life, he spearheaded a four-month reign of terror between August and December 1986.
Anini also reportedly wrote numerous letters to media houses using political tones of Robin Hood-like words, to describe his criminal acts.
Worried by the seeming elusiveness of Anini and his gang members, the military President, General Ibrahim Babangida then ordered a massive manhunt for the kingpin and his fellow robbers. The police thus went after them, combing every part of Bendel State(Now Delta and Edo States) where they were reportedly operating and living. The whole nation was gripped with fear of the robbers and their daredevil exploits.
However, Police manhunt failed to stop their activities; the more they were hunted, the more intensified their activities became. Some of the locals in the area even began to tell stories of their invincibility and for a while, it felt like they were never going to be caught.
However, at the conclusion of a meeting of the Armed Forces Ruling Council in October 1986, General Babangida turned to the Inspector- General of Police, Etim Inyang, and asked, ‘My friend, where is Anini?’.
At about this time, Nigerian newspapers and journals were also publishing various reports and editorials on the ‘Anini Challenge’, the ‘Anini Saga’, the ‘Anini Factor’, ‘Lawrence Anini – the Man, the Myth’, ‘Anini, Jack the Ripper’, and ‘Lawrence Anini: A Robin Hood in Bendel’. The Guardian asked, emphatically, in one of its reports: ‘Will they ever find Anini, “The Law”?’.
THE D-DAY: DAY OF RECKONING!!!
Finally, it took the courage of Superintendent of Police, Kayode Uanreroro to bring the Anini reign of terror to an end.
On December 3, 1986, Uanreroro caught Anini at No 26, Oyemwosa Street, opposite Iguodala Primary School, Benin City, in company with six women. Acting on a tip-off from the locals, the policeman went straight to the house where Anini was hiding and apprehended him with very little resistance.
Uanreroro led a crack 10-man team to the house, knocked on the door of the room, and Anini himself, clad in underpants, opened the door. “Where is Anini,” the police officer quickly enquired.
Dazed as he was caught off guard and having no escape route, Anini all the same tried to be smart. “Oh, Anini is under the bed in the inner room”. As he said it, he made some moves to walk past Uanreroro and his team. In the process, he shoved and head-butted the police officer but it was an exercise in futility.
Uanreroro promptly reached for his gun, stepped hard on Anini’s right toes and shot at his left ankle. Anini surged forward but the policemen took hold of him and put him in a sitting position.
They then pumped more bullets into his shot leg and almost severed the ankle from his entire leg. Already, anguished by the excruciating pains, the policemen asked him, “Are you Anini?” And he replied, “My brother, I won’t deceive you; I won’t tell you lie, I’m Anini.”
(AT THIS POINT, PLEASE TAKE A CHILLED BOTTLE OF WATER BEFORE YOU CONTINUE READING)
Anini was from there taken to the police command headquarters where the state’s Police Commissioner, Parry Osayande, was waiting. While in the police net, Anini who had poor command of English and could only communicate in pidgin, made a whole lot of revelations.
He disclosed, for instance that Osunbor, who had been arrested earlier, was his deputy, saying that Osunbor actually shot and wounded the former police boss of the state, Akagbosu
Anini was shot in the leg, transferred to a military hospital, and had one of his legs amputated. That was after Monday Osunbor was also captured. When Anini’s hideout was searched, police recovered assorted charms, including the one he usually wore around his waist during “operations”.
It was instructive that after Anini was captured and dispossessed of his charms, the man who terrorized a whole state and who was supposed to be fearless suddenly became remorseful, making confessions. This was against public expectation of a daredevil hoodlum who would remain defiant to the very end.
THE ROLE OF THE POLICE IN ANINI’S EXPLOITS
Shortly after the arrest of Anini and his gang(excluding Alhaji zed zed or Zegezege who was never captured, he may still be alive living a normal life till date), the dare-devil robbers began to cry and confess, revealing the roles played by key police officers and men, in the aiding and abetting of criminals in Bendel State and the entire country.
Anini particularly revealed that Iyamu, who was the most senior police officer shielding the robbers, would reveal police secrets to them and then, give them logistic supports such as arms, to carry out robbery operations.
He further revealed that Iyamu, after each operation, would join them in sharing the loot. It was further exposed how Iyamu planned to kill Christopher Omeben, an Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Intelligence and Investigation.
But Iyamu was later to be disappointed as the assailants dispatched to eliminate Omeben were only able to kill his driver, Otue, a sergeant. Iyamu, whom the robbers fondly referred to as ‘Baba’, reportedly had choice buildings in Benin City; being how he invested the loots he obtained from men of the underworld
THE END OF ANINI AND HIS GANG
Due to amputation of his leg, Anini was confined to a wheelchair throughout his trial.
Iyamu, on his part, denied ever knowing and collaborating with Anini, but Anini The Law furiously retorted, “You are a shameless liar!”
Anini had accused him before Justice James Omo-Agege in the High Court of Justice, off Sapele Road in Benin City.
Of the 10 police officers Anini implicated, five were convicted. The robbery suspects, including Iyamu, were sentenced to death.
But in passing his judgement, Justice Omo-Agege remarked, “Anini will forever be remembered in the history of crime in this country, but it would be of un-blessed memory. Few people if ever, would give the name to their children.” Their execution took place on March 29, 1987.

Exclusive! “Sholaye Jeremi Never Had Any Relationship With Linda Ikeji

If this is true, Jeremi is a flagabasted bloody nicompu ....(ee no dey dictionary oo, na my papa insult be that)

Exclusive! “Sholaye Jeremi Never Had Any Relationship With Linda Ikeji—Insiders ….How Blogger Blackmailed Him With Pregnancy
By Kemi Ashefon

   
Since Blogger Linda Ikeji has decided to go public with her purported affair with businessman, Solaye Jeremi, its obvious she has set the ball rolling.

Indeed, Linda, who bought a Bentley Mulsanne to celebrate her son’s arrival, confessed that she had to tell her story despite that family and friends advised her to the contrary.

With a confirmation on Friday morning that oil and gas billionaire, Sholaye Jeremi, is the father of her new baby, while addressing other issues surrounding their purported affair, Sholaye’s friends have decided to unveil what actually transpired between Linda and their friends.

“She was silly to have written all that because many have seen through her veneer of piety and pretence that she is just another desperate young lady who employed the oldest trick in the book— tie a potential suitor down with pregnancy, a source close to Sholaye revealed.

Still referring to Linda’s post in her blog entitled ‘Meet my son Jayce…and yes, Sholaye Jeremi is his dad,’ which has since gone viral, Sholaye’s friends said:

“Linda desperately wove an incoherent story of how she met Sholaye, in one breath saying he lived in a three bedroom apartment in Lekki and in another saying he was a billionaire further lending credence to the insinuations that she just wanted to be Mrs Jeremi by all means and crudely deployed old feminine wiles to achieve that but in vain.”

Tracing the genesis of her relationship with the Delta State-born billionaire to one night in December 2015 shortly after moving into her Banana Island mansion and how they hit it off almost immediately, Linda wrote, “I was definitely searching and I fell in love almost immediately and so we became an item…It was a whirlwind romance. He was the funniest and most romantic guy I’d met up until that point, so it was easy to fall in love and I truly believed the feeling was mutual.” She went on to describe how one thing led to the other and ‘she fell pregnant’ even though the relationship had gone south. Linda welcomed a son whom she named Jayce Jeremi three months ago.

“Predictably, Linda’s post is the trending topic on all social media platforms – an uproar borne out of the song and dance she made of her alleged celibacy. A lot of Nigerians have weighed in on the matter while the man in the middle of the storm, a private man who despite his billions and connections, remained anonymous until this blogger came into his life. Even now, he would rather keep quiet.

“What Jeremi and Linda had was just a fling – a typical case of boy meets girl, just that in this case, there was a very desperate party. Jeremi was just out to have fun and there was not supposed to be any commitment or emotional attachment. But Linda had her plans from the moment she set eyes on him.”

“When Linda came up with the pregnancy tale and stormed his house crying and begging, Jeremi had to be diplomatic about it because he didn’t want to create a scene.

“He told her point-blank how disappointed he was and that if she was trying to lure him into marriage, she had another think coming. That was when Linda began to plead and blackmail him. Initially, she said it was a taboo from her part of Imo State to have a child outside wedlock. Later, she said Jeremi should just meet her father to assure him that he is the owner to save them from shame and what the world would think of her after she had deceived a lot of young girls about her pious life.”

“I am privy to the fact that Linda has been begging him to just accept paternity of the baby. And she herself confessed that she knew he was not in love with her neither did they talk about marriage but since she was pregnant, abortion was out of the question because of her age. Now, Jeremi feels used and I don’t know how the matter can ever be settled because what they had was not supposed to lead to this – it was more like a one night stand. So, all the emotion she is whipping up is to sway her gullible followers,” the source said.

POLICE ARREST 3 SUSPECTS FOR ASSAULTING LADY WHO HID USED CONDOM IN PRIVATE PART

Three suspects are in police custody after a video emerged on social media showing them assaulting a naked young woman in a bathroom.

One of the suspects, Banty was alleged to have shoved his fingers into her vagina, thereafter, pulled out a used condom

The incident happened when the young woman after intercourse , with Banty entered the bathroom  to wash herself.

Whilst there, Banty and his friend, Precious  showed up in the company of other friends.

Upon seeing them, the frightened young lady sensing gang rape attempt surrendered to their torture and abuse.

Banty and his friends then picked the victim and forced her to undress.

The video footage showed where she was pleading and Banty inserted his fingers into her private parts while one of them started making a video and taking pictures.

Police visited the scene and apprehended the named suspects and recovered 2 cell phones containing the video and pictures and clothes belonging to the victim.

Police spokesperson expressed disgust over the incident saying it is saddening that young men could assault a young lady by taking videos which they later post on social media.

“This country has got laws and channels of reporting grievances and anything short of that will not be condoned. We are not in a jungle where only the fittest survive. We are ruled by laws and the provisions of the law should be adhered to,” He said.

Meanwhile NGOCC has condemned in the strongest terms the assault of a woman by the men in the video that has gone viral on social media in which some of them were visibly seen abusing the lady whom one of them had earlier made love to.

The conduct of the boys in the video is not only cruel, but inhuman and an abuse of the woman’s rights. The behavior of the boys to undress and dehumanize a lady the worst form of indignity and a violation of human rights that any human being can be exposed to.

Horrific Revelations: How We Killed Elozino - Yahoo Ritualists

Horrific Revelations: How We Killed Elozino - Yahoo Ritualists

By: Patrick Ochei

In Delta, tears are still flowing over the gruesome murder of a First Class 300 Level undergraduate of Delta State University, Abraka. The very latest pathetic confessional statements of the 4-man Yahoo Plus gang, which could not hold back emotions, were made today, at the Delta State Police Command, where the Commissioner of Police had magnanimously permitted the PPRO, DSP Andrew Aniamaka to parade the suspects before the Channels TV correspondent for recording. The Vice Chairman of NUJ Delta State, was equally present to listen to the revelations of the murderous Yahoo Ritualists.

First to reveal how they killed the young Elozino Joshualia Ogege was the security guard, Onos who had offered to assist the victim secure an accommodation.

According to him, "I was contacted by Desmond and another to provide a female student for Yahoo rituals. We had planned it, and when Elozino approached me that she was looking for accommodation, I saw it as a good opportunity.

I contacted Desmond who told me to tell her to come back the next day. So the next day, they brought a Corola car; and when Elozino came, they used something on her face which made her unconscious.

We took her to a bush where we first plucked out one of her eyes while she was still alive. She was even crying and begging us to forgive her and let her go, but we plucked the other eye, removed her breast and heart before she died".

Implicating his supervisor, Onos posited that he was posted into the school by his supervisor for the purposes of carrying out such missions when contacted.

But the Supervisor with a security company attached to the University, Uche Nwaosisi who said he is from Asaba, denied knowledge of the crime, stating that he was among those that chased and caught Onos when the police came after him in the school.

" When all these were happening, Onos threatened to implicate me for assisting the police to catch him. When the police caught him, they discovered two phones with him, which he claimed I sold one to him. That was my involvement ", the supervisor claimed.

However, one of the Yahoo Plus conspirators, Desmond who appeared remorseful, affirmed that the Elozino's murder made it the fifth lives he had taken for ritual purposes. He said the first four female victims were adopted at Oghara and killed for the rituals, adding that Elozino's murder was his first from the University community in Abraka.

According to him, " Each time we killed, we removed the vital organs like the eyes, the heart and the breast of the victims, normally females, and take to the Baba (herbalist), who usually would ask us to come back.

Baba used to burn the heart and pound it to make powder substance out of it. It is the powder that he gives us, which we apply before speaking to our victims to make money from them. Any big woman we approach obliges us and provides money for us", Desmond revealed.

For the herbalist who appeared hardened and unrepentant, identified as Robinson, he kept calling on God as a witness that he was speaking the truth. He said Elozino's heart and eye happened to be the first he received from the Yahoo Plus customers.

He said he first met the boys seven years ago when they brought an accident victim for him to cure, maintaining that he specializes in treating bone fractures, making women pregnant, preparing love portions for people, curing appendicitis and others.

He said when they came with Elozino's body parts, they gave him N10,000, promising to give him more money later, and asked him to make them rich.

The Baba (herbalist), posited that they later brought N130,000 more to him and that was when he discovered they had mighty buildings. He said he only prayed for them to succeed in what they do.

He however, could not state categorically what he used those body parts for, whether he used to burn them or pound them in the mortal that was brought as evidence to the Police Headquarters.

The second Yahoo Plus member was alleged to have slumped and died when the police was close to catching him. The minor female relative who was used to make a call relating to their illicit operation was arrested and still with the police.

Addressing the journalists, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Andrew Aniamaka maintained that, now that all the killers of Elozino had been caught except the one that slumped and died, the police would now arraign them in court to face the consequences of their action.

He stressed that nobody should blame hardship to take up arms against fellow humans, adding that in most sane climes, hardships even bond people together.

The Command's Spokesperson posited that it is an issue of value orientation; thereby calling on families, churches and other faith based organizations to rise up against this menace of ritual killings plaguing our society.

Aniamaka reassured the public that the Command was ready to face headlong any security challenge ahead of the Christmas season.

He said the operations order for the Ember months had since been dropped, arguing that all the police crack teams like the Dragons, Eagle Net, Squadrons, Safer Highways, SARS and others had been on red alert to effectively curtail crimes and criminality within this period.

ALERT! Five Corpers Kidnapped On Their Way To Camp

Some gunmen on Wednesday kidnapped five members of the National Youth Service Corps who were travelling to their orientation camps in Akwa Ibom and Rivers states.

Two other passengers on the bus conveying the corps members were also kidnapped.

The fresh graduates and the other victims were travelling from Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, to Rivers and Akwa Ibom states where they were billed to undertake their three-week NYSC orientation.

They were kidnapped on the Owerri-Port Harcourt Expressway and taken to the Umuapu forest in the Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State.

Briefing journalists after the victims were rescued by the police, the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Imo State Police Command, Dasuki Galadanchi, said the kidnappers established contact with the families of the corps members and demanded N5m ransom.

The CP gave the names of the corps members as Abiola Temitope, Olubisi Adekanmi, Jose Temitayo, Folarin Opeyemi and Shonibare Ademola.

Other victims were identified as Leonard Uzondu and Raymond Ojodahe.

The CP said, “The victims were travelling from Ibadan to Port Harcourt. Five out of the seven of them are prospective corps members. 

They were on their way to the NYSC orientation camps in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states for the three weeks camping.

“They were kidnapped around 5am on Wednesday at Umuapu, on the Owerri-Port-Harcourt Expressway. The kidnappers took them to a forest and dispossessed them of all their belongings, including money, phones, ATM cards and voter cards.

“They compelled them to call their relatives at home to speak to them. Immediately contact was established, they instilled fear in the parents and demanded N5m for their freedom.”

The CP explained that through intelligence gathering, the operatives of the Counter Terrorism Unit of the command were alerted.

He said, “The operatives went into the bush and on sighting the officers, the kidnappers abandoned their victims and fled. We rescued them unhurt, but the hoodlums made away with their valuables.

“This is part of the dividends of community policing. I urge Imo State residents to keep sharing information with the police. We cannot do it alone.”

Galadanchi said he had ordered investigation into the incident with a view to arresting the fleeing suspects.

One of the victims, Abiola, said, “They stopped our bus and ordered us at gunpoint to follow them into the forest. They were five with guns and machetes.

“In the bush, they took our belongings except our credentials and ordered us to call our parents. They made a demand of N5m, but they later brought it down to N3m.

“They ordered us to close our eyes. They were even quarrelling on how to share our personal belongings which they took from us. It was in the process that the police intervened and they abandoned us and ran away.”

SEXUAL INTERCOURSE AND HOW IT CAN LEAD TO INFECTION

FORMS OF SEXUAL INTERCOURSE AND HOW IT CAN LEAD TO INFECTION

NB: This info seeks to create awareness on how infection is possible so people can take measures or precautions but not to promote or condemn.

1. PENOVAGINAL SEX
This is sexual intercourse involving the use of the penis and the vagina. If the male is infected with any of the Sexually Transmitted Infections then his semen will be contaminated or infectious and can infect the lady if there is no protection. Similarly, the lady's vaginal fluid gets contaminated or infectious and can also infect the man if she has any of the STIs.

2. ANAL SEX
This is sexual intercourse involving the penis and the anus during sexual intercourse. When there is no lubricant to prevent friction, the anus poses a high risk of infection if any of the two is infected with an STI. Anal Sex can take place between a man and a man or a man and a woman.

The anus can stretch beyond its limit if the penis is big and without using lubricant. The anal sphincter can have some abrasions or cuts which can facilitate the infection.

Some people start with anal sex and end up having vaginal sex in the process. What is likely to happen in this case is that, the penis can pick germs from the anus and introduce them into the vagina leading to infection.

3. ORAL SEX
This is sexual intercourse involving the mouth and the genital being it the penis in the mouth of the lady or the tongue by a man or a woman licking the vulva including the vaginal opening and the clitoris.

If the lady is infected then her vaginal fluid is contaminated so anyone who licks is likely to pick the infection in the mouth.

Some people prefer to lick the anus as well. This can equally lead to infection.

4. VAGINA-VAGINAL SEX
This is usually practiced by some lesbians by rubbing the two vulvas together for pleasure especially with the clitoris.

If any of these girls is infected, the fluid in her vagina will be contaminated and can get the other person infected if there is an exchange of the vaginal fluid.

Same way infection is possible when toys or dildos are exchanged with sexual partners.

TAKE NOTE
Each time you have sex with somebody you do not know the person's status in terms of infection, you risk your life. Some of the STIs are incurable and you will have to treat for the REST OF YOUR LIFE.

Don't play games with your life because You Only Live Once (YOLO✌🏽)

Go for a check up with your sexual partner and be very sure. Have protected sex or completely ABSTAIN till you are ready for the consequences of sexual intercourse.

By Nurse Jozi

The Secret Meaning Of Anklets

While many women consider the wearing of anklets just another fashionable statement, there are less than ideal symbolic association to the accessory.
Anklets- Which are also called ankle chains, ankle bracelets or ankle strings have been worn by women throughout history. Aside from functioning as foot adornment ,they also signal social status.
In ancient Egypt, women of all social classes worn them as an ornament. They were made of various metals .Naturally the rich women had gold while those who weren't so wealthy worn silver or irons ones .
Some account also claimed that worshiper of a deity calked Baal prescribed the use of anklets for prostitutes.
This was so these unfortunate women were easily recognized .