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Crime: Medical doctor injects taxi driver to death, steak Camry car
A Kwara-based medical doctor, Abbas Adio, has murdered a taxi driver, Emmanuel Oyiobo, by trickishly injecting him with a substance which took his life in Benin City, Edo State.
Spokesperson of the Osun State Police Command, SP Yemisi Opalola, while parading the suspect on Tuesday in Osogbo at the Police Headquarters, said the suspect was arrested while freeing with the deceased’s car.
Opalola said Osun State Command received a distress call from Edo State Command that “Toyota Camry car (YAB 368 CN) was snatched from Benin and tracked to Osun State”.
“The Osun Police Command quickly put security mechanism in place and the said car was intercepted along Ejigbo/Ogbomoso road and Adio was arrested” she said.
She added that during the preliminary stage of the investigation “Adio travelled from Kwara State to Benin in Edo State and met one Emmanuel Oyiobo, a taxi driver who was drove him for the days he spent in Benin and they became friends and exchanged contact and have been communicating since then”.
Sports
Nigeria Wheelchair Basketball Federation Commends BetKing for its Support to the Sport
The President of the Nigeria Wheelchair Basketball Federation, Seyi Johnson, has praised the Corporate Social sagacity of BetKing for it’s support to the growth of the Sports in the Country.
Wheelchair Basketball which represents one of the fastest growing Para-Sports in the Country, has been boosted with the partnership and Sponsorship from BetKing.
The President of the Federation, Seyi Johnson said BetKing has shown that they are a true lover of Nigerian Sports and special sports in particular, with all its doing for the Federation.
” On behalf of the Nigeria Wheelchair Basketball, the entire board and every stakeholder in the Sport, I want to personally appreciate BetKing for all they are doing.
” Words are too few to express my sincere gratitude to them because they have really shown that this is where their mouth is, with the kind of support we are getting from them”.
” When we approached them , it was just like they were already expecting us and they showed us that they truly understand the Nigeria Sports history and the role Special Sports have been playing in the country’s success at International competitions over the years”.
The President of the Federation added that they need more of such support from the Corporate bodies to complement what the Government is doing, especially when you look at the restructuring and revamping going on in Nigerian Sports at the moment with the coming of the National Sports Commission, NSC.
” We need more of the Corporate players to come assist and follow in the footsteps of BetKing and with that we will see rapid growth of Nigeria Para-sports “,he stated.
He concluded by revealing that the Nigeria Wheelchair Basketball team has a very good chance of qualifying for it’s first ever Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year when the qualifiers hold later this year in South Africa and BetKing has been playing a major role to ensure this is achieved.
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