The remains of Muhammed Alkali, the retired army general, who was declared missing on September 3 by the Nigerian Army a couple of days after his retirement, has been found in an abandoned well in a village known as Guchwet in Shen district of Jos South local government area of Plateau state.
Our source reports that the water from the well was drained on Wednesday, October 31, and the remains of the retired senior military officer was pulled out and covered in a green and white body bag.
The military authorities confirmed the development. They added that the appropriate authorities would soon issue a statement on the development.
However, no medical investigation has been carried out to ascertain if the remains belonged to the general.
B. A. Akinruluyo, general officer commanding, 3 division, Rukuba barracks, had said soldiers located a grave where Alkali was initially buried.
According to Akinruluyo, some of the suspects arrested in connection with the mystery behind the disappearance and death of General Alkai confessed that the body of the deceased retired Army boss was buried in a place known as “No Man’s Land” in Dura-Du community in Plateau state. He said those behind the dastardly act later exhumed the corpse and took it to an unknown place.
The garrison commander 3 Armoured Division, Maxwell Kobe Cantonment, Rukuba near Jos, Brigadier General Umar Mohammed, who led the search operation for the missing general said the location for the abandoned well was provided by one of the eight suspects on the police wanted list who submitted himself for interrogation.
Late Alkali was the immediate past chief of administration of the Nigerian Army. He was declared missing when he was traveling from Abuja to Bauchi state. The deceased general just retired from service after 35 years in the Nigerian Army.
Previously the chief of Army staff constituted a special task force to carry out sting operations aimed at finally locating the whereabouts of General Idris Alkali, the retired major-general who went missing on Monday, September 3.
The Army said the first phase of the operation involved combing the entire Doi Du community in Du District of Jos South LGA of Plateau state.
It was a sad day for the Delta police police command as the Division Police Officer (DPO) and Division Crime Officer (DCO) were beaten to blood by a self-crowned activist in what looked like a dramatic stage play.
The incident began when a supposed human rights activist wearing lawyer’s robe stormed the division C of Delta police command seeking for the release of two suspected cultists held over a case of murder.
Entering the police station, he was challenged by Divisional Police Officer (DPO) CSP Aniete Uyo who put his identity on integrity test, leading the brawl between the two where the DPO was beaten, his uniform ripped off and office vandalised.
The Divisional Crime Officer trying to intervene was also assaulted. He was wounded in the head and rushed to the hospital for medical treatment.
Addressing the issue before the press, the commissioner of police, Mustafa, said: “The supposed activist and three other persons, who carried out the attack on the policemen have been arrested.
"We are going to arraign them in court for the incident; you cannot invade a police station and fight our officers in that way.”
The policemen manning Nnamdi Azikiwe bypass in Kaduna met their untimely death on Wednesday, October 17, upon being sighted by the gunmen who shot at them from a close range.
Kaduna police command said it was aware of the saddening incident, and all hands had been put on deck to ensure that the culprit face the consequences of their action.
Image:Rescue teams continue to search the wreckageAll 189 people on board a passenger jet that crashed into the sea off Indonesia are presumed dead in what is set to become one of the worst aviation disasters in the country's history.
The Lion Air flight between Jakarta and an island off Sumatra went down on Monday morning, with the passenger jet having lost contact just 13 minutes after take-off.
Indonesian search and rescue officials have recovered body parts from the scene of the crash, in addition to ID cards, bags, mangled mobile phones and other belongings.
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Video:A Lion Air flight with 189 people on board crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Indonesia's capital.
They have also retrieved pieces of the aircraft, although the main body of the plane has not yet been found and they are not expecting any of those on board to have survived.
Operation director Bambang Suryo Aji told reporters: "My prediction is that nobody survived because the victims that we found, their bodies were no longer intact. And it's been hours, so it is likely 189 people have died."
Image:The Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency is not expecting to find any survivors
Among those on board were crew, an Italian national, one baby, two children, and around 20 members of staff from the Indonesian finance ministry, but so far only one of the pilots has been named.
The Indian Embassy named one of them as Indian citizen Bhavye Suneja, whose parents are en route to Indonesia from their home in New Delhi.
He and his co-pilot had 11,000 flying hours between them.
Image:The Indonesian Navy has been involved in searches of the crash site
Lion Air chief executive Edward Sirait admitted that the plane involved in the crash had experienced a "technical problem" on a previous flight, but said it had been resolved "according to procedure".
He did not specify what the issue was and the airline insisted that the plane was airworthy when it left Jakarta at 6.20am, bound for Pangkal Pinang, on the island of Bangka, about an hour later.
Image:The plane went down not long after take-off
But the Boeing 737-800 was cleared to return to its departure airport after making a request just two or three minutes after take-off, before the crew of a tug boat nearby told authorities they saw it falling from the sky.
Yusuf Latif, a spokesperson for the search and rescue agency, said it crashed into water "about 30 to 40 metres deep".
Image:People watch rescue team members on a boat before they head to the scene
Relatives gathered at Pangkal Pinang airport and the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency headquarters in the capital in the hope of good news, but have been told it is likely all those on board are dead.
Feni, who uses a single name, said her soon-to-be-married sister was on the flight and had been planning to meet relatives in Pangkal Pinang.
Image:Members of a rescue team bring personal items and wreckage ashore at the port in Tanjung Priok
She said: "We are here to find any information about my younger sister, her fiance, her in-law to be and a friend of them.
"We don't have any information. No one provided us with any information that we need. We're confused. We hope that our family is still alive."
Image:This aerial shot shows the location of where the Lion Air plane is believed to have crashed
More than 300 people, including soldiers, police, divers and fishermen are involved in the ongoing search, which is expected to last for at least seven days.ope Francis has expressed his condolences to those affected, offering "the assurance of his prayers for all those who have died and for those who mourn their loss".
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has met relatives of those on-board, and urged people to "keep on praying" as search teams continue their work.
Image:Relatives with family members on board hug as they await information on their loved ones
The accident is the first involving the fuel-efficient Boeing 737 MAX model, powered by two CFM LEAP-1B engines, which was first delivered to Lion Air in 2017.
Aviation tracking service Flight Radar said the plane that crashed had been delivered to the budget airline in August.
The crash will be a huge blow to the reputation of Lion Air, which until 2016 had been banned by the EU from flying to member states due to fears over aviation regulation in Indonesia.
Image:Relatives arrive at Soekarno Hatta International airport near Jakarta
There have been concerns that the aviation industry in Indonesia has been growing far too quickly, with too few well-trained personnel to keep up with growing demand for air travel on the island nation.
Lion Air only began operating in 2000, one year after its founding, and has grown to operate 183 flights in Indonesia and in other surrounding nations, including Malaysia and China.
Image:Members of a rescue team prepare to search for survivors
Following the crash on Monday, the Australian government announced on its website that its officials and contractors would no longer use the airline.
The European Commission said it had no immediate plans to ban Lion Air again, as there "have been no indications that the safety levels at Lion Air or the safety oversight in Indonesia" were deteriorating.
Spokesman Enrico Brivio says the commission would analyse the results of the investigation into the crash.
Image:Some debris from the plane has been recovered
If fears that all 189 people on board the Lion Air flight are well-placed, it would make it the deadliest air accident of the year so far - and the second most devastating plane crash in Indonesia's history.
The worst was in 1997, when 234 people were killed in an Airbus A-300B4 crash. The plane - operated by Garuda Indonesia - went down in a smog-shrouded ravine in North Sumatra.
Image:A wallet belonging to a passenger floats at sea in the waters
In 2014, an AirAsia plane plunged into the Java Sea during a storm, killing 162 people. It was flying from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore at the time.
Nine years prior, a Mandala Airlines domestic flight crashed into a densely populated suburb in Medan. Passengers, crew and people on the ground made up the 150 people who died.
Image:Among the wreckage is part of the Lion Air logo
Other major accidents include an Adam Air plane that went down off the island of Sulawesi on New Year's Day in 2007, killing all 102 people on-board.
Indonesian authorities said the pilots lost control after becoming preoccupied with malfunctioning navigational equipment.
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As the 2019 general elections draw nearer, President Muhammadu Buhari has said it will require more than one election cycle to fix Nigeria and deliver the promised change.
According to the president, the fruits of the efforts he has made in fixing the country since he took the mantle of leadership will soon begin to manifest.
President Buhari, who made the assurance on Monday, October 29, while delivering the 75th anniversary business lecture of the Island Club in Lagos, called on Nigerians to re-elect him for a second term.
The minister of power, works and housing, Babatunde Fashola, delivered the lecture titled “Nation building and institutional development, lessons for Nigeria from the Island Club at 75” on behalf of the president.
The president said: “It took more than one term and one election cycle of the chairman of Island Club to build this hall just as it will require more than one election cycle to build the nation and deliver change.
“The process of change and reform did not happen because Island Club did anything; it happened because people, members of the club, and I believe, non-members, who were men of goodwill, chose to act."
According to the president, his reforms in the power sector has led to improved power supply. He said this improvement had rubbed off on small-scale businesses in the country.
Buhari added: “It is because of these small business owners, hard-working Nigerians that I am offering myself to serve for one more time."
Bello said people who love Nigeria would support Buhari to run for second term so that he could strengthen the nations institutions of governance and assure a greater nation.
Speaking in a statement through his director general, media and publicity, Kingsley Fanwo, the governor said Buhari remained the most respected and most popular candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He said: “We are a Democratic Party who will do everything within the ambience of the rule of law. But we cannot forget that our party has the most respected, the most popular and the most incorrigible material in the person of President Muhammadu Buhari."
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The senator representing Kaduna central at the National Assembly Senator Shehu Sani said the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not exist after the tenure of President Buhari . He argued that Buhari remains the heart, soul and oxygen of the party.
Sani disclosed this when he made an appearance on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
“APC cannot last beyond the political lifespan of President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari remains the heart, soul and oxygen of the party. I don’t think after Buhari, there will be APC again in the sense that everything begins and ends with him,” he said.
The senator said this weeks after he dumped the ruling party for the People’s Redemption Party (PRP).
“I believe that APC has in every possible way disappointed not only those who are its members, but it disappointed the country,” he had said in his resignation letter written to APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole on October 19.
She said 2019 should not be a repeat of what has happened in the country as Nigeria cannot remain a recycling plant for the aged who have lost ideas.
Ezwkwesili said Nigerians do not love bondage and therefore cannot live between the APC and the PDP saying the candidates of the party are brothers of a ruling class that has manipulated the people for many years.
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With the 2019 general election fast approaching and with the tempo of the security breach which may likely increase need to be checked by the operatives for the nation to be at safer side.
Rev. Peter Omofoye chairman Oyo State Police Community Relations Committee ( PCRC.)made the observation during the inauguration of Apata Area Command PCRC.
Given credit to Oyo State Police Commissioner Abiodun Odude for is roles in rebranding both PCRC. and Community Policing and formation of six more area command to make it ten in numbers in the state with objectives mission of bringing police to the door steps of the people in the state he call for synergy within the operatives .
He emphasized that collective responsiblity of the stakeholders in area of intelligence gathering will go along way in fighting various crimes.
Omofoye while reiterating the PCRC commitment towards the promotion of security values,enjoin the police to always uphold truth with integrity and remains resolute in the cause of their legitimate duties.
He therefore tasks stakeholders to rendered there utmost assistance for the operatives most especially the police in the area of intelligence gathering.
He finally charged PCRC nationwide not to give any chances for the miscreants in their various divisions.
Earlier the area commander ACP. Francis Ojomo while appreciating PCRC for unflinching commitments for the police,sue for regular intelligence gathering from the stakeholders.
Ojomo call for more collaboration with the police this according to him will make the work easy.
The Apata Area Command PCRC chairman chief Fatola pledges his Exco members commitments towards the upgrade of the police stressing that they will works together in the area command as a team.
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