Release Nnamdi Kanu for peace to reign, Southeast Senators beg Tinubu.
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Senators from the South-East region of the country on Wednesday, pleaded with President Bola Tinubu to order the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
The Senators, numbering 15 and led by a former deputy Governor of Abia state, Senator Enyinanya Abaribe, claimed that unless Kanu is released, the social and economic activities in the South-East region will continue to be stagnant.
The Senators held a closed door meeting with the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), where their letter begging Tinubu to release Kanu was delivered for onward passage to President Tinubu.
Addressing Judiciary Correspondents immediately after the closed-door meeting, Abaribe who spoke on behalf of his colleagues, lamented that the economy and social life in the Sout- East region had suffered enough due to the continued incarceration of the Biafra Nation Agitator.
Abaribe noted with grave concern that the peaceful demand of the detained IPOB leader had been hijacked by hoodlums and criminals leading to wanton killings of innocent people, including security operatives.
Putin and Xi to meet at SCO summit to bolster security and counter the US
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping are due to meet on Wednesday at a summit of a Eurasian security and defence club seen by Moscow and Beijing as an instrument to counter the influence of the United States and its allies.
Putin and the Chinese president have expanded the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a club founded in 2001 with Russia, China and Central Asian powers, to include India, Iran and Pakistan as a counterweight to the West.
Putin is holding a series of bilateral meetings on Wednesday on the sidelines of the July 3-4 SCO summit in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, the Kremlin said.
Ahead of the meeting with Xi, Putin met Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and the presidents of Azerbaijan and Mongolia, Ilham Aliyev and Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh.
India said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is expected in Moscow later this month, will not attend. He is sending Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar instead.
Russia and China regard the SCO, which promotes common approaches to external security threats, such as drug trafficking, and focuses on countering any domestic instability, as a means to project their influence across Asia.
"The leaders of the SCO member countries will discuss the current state and prospects for further deepening multifaceted cooperation within the organisation and improving its activities," the Kremlin said in a statement.
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Two suspects arrested for car theft in Ogun
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The Ogun State Police Command has recovered a black Nissan Pathfinder Jeep which had been converted into a pickup van by its owner from two suspected car thieves, Adebayo Abosede and Modupe Obadimu, in the Lafenwa area of the state.
A police source privy to the report of the stolen vehicle but who spoke on condition pf anonymity because he was not authorised to speak for the command, said the car was taken away from the compound of Lukman Otesile on Abiola Way in Abeokuta, the state capital, on Saturday.
Our correspondent learnt that Otesile had earlier been entrusted with the car with number plate SL 842 AAA by its owner.
The state police spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, confirmed on Tuesday that the vehicle had been recovered and the suspects had been detained.
She added that the car was parked in front of Otesile’s house but went missing after he allowed the two strangers into his home.
PUNCH Online gathered that Otesile reported that his elder sister had introduced Abosede and Obadimu as extended family members who were set to move in with him.
Abducted travellers on Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode expressway regain freedom
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The Ogun State Police Command on Wednesday said that four abducted travellers on the Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode expressway on Sunday have regained freedom.
The Spokesman for the state command, SP Omolola Odutola disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
Odutola said those rescued along Ogere axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway by the anti-kidnapping team of the state police command included one Mr Ola, and three Indian nationals.
She said, “One Mr Ola, Pujan, and two other Indians names yet unknown have regained their freedom along Ogere inward Lagos Ibadan expressway. Efforts ongoing to arrest the fleeing suspects”
The Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu, on Monday had ordered the anti-kidnapping unit to launch a manhunt against the hoodlums who attacked and kidnapped the travellers.
The gunmen were said to have ambushed the travellers between Sagamu Area Command of the Nigeria Police and Ilisan township.
According to the Chairman of Ilisan Development Council, Wemmy Osude, said some other victims were taken into the bush by the hoodlums