Tajudeen Salaudeen, a leader of Amotekun security network in Oyo state, has reportedly passed away.

According to Vanguard, Tajudeen who was a leader of the para-military security group in Kajola local government area died on Thursday, January 28.

He died in a road crash while trying to avoid a pothole as he rode on his motorcycle.

It was gathered that Tajudeen was heading to Okeho in the early hours of Thursday when he got a call to come back for an emergency assignment at Ilero. He died while returning.

Salaudeen Tajudeen died on Thursday in Ilero. Credit: PM News

His body was deposited at a private hospital morgue in Ilero close to Okeho (Kajola) in Iwajowa local council development.

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Tajudeen was later buried on Thursday according to Islamic right.

Martins-Kuye is dead

In a related development, Alhaji Jubil Martins-Kuye, Nigerian former minister of commerce and industry, passed away at the age of 78.

According to a family source, the former minister who served twice died in his hometown in Ago-Iwoye on Sunday morning.

A chartered accountant who practised for several years in Lagos and overseas before moving to politics, Kuye was appointed minister on 6 April 2010 when former president Goodluck Jonathan, then an acting president, announced a new cabinet.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that he academic community in the country was plunged into mourning following the death of Folabi Olumide, a renowned professor who was the pioneer vice chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU).

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The passing on the late don was announced by the current vice-chancellor of the LASU, Professor Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun, in a statement.

Olumide died on Friday, January 8, after a brief illness at the age of 81 years. He was, however, succeeded by Jadesola Akande after he was removed from the position for alleged "financial and administrative improprieties."

During a gun duel in Oru East local government area of Imo state on Saturday, August 28, policemen succeeded in killing the head of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN).

PM News reports that during the raid, the brave officers recovered three Improvised Explosives Devices (I.E.D), two Pump Action Guns, nine Cartridges, one locally made pistol alongside a Toyota Highlander SUV vehicle.

However, the spokesman of the command, CSP Michael Abattam, said that while returning from the successful operation, members of the proscribed groups ambushed the security agents and engaged them in a heated gun battle which left at least one policeman and several criminals dead.

At the time of the exchange, the commissioner of police in the state, Hussaini Rabiu, sent a reinforcement of the command’s special forces and tactical teams led by ACP Evans Shem.

Meanwhile, a man suspected to be a financier of IPOB and ESNhad been arrested by the police in Imo state.

The Imo police command disclosed that the suspect, Boniface Okeke, and 25 members of the group were arrested Sunday, August 1, at a hotel in the Orlu area of the state.

According to the commissioner of police, Abutu Yaro, the suspects were held in connection with terrorism and attacks on security agencies and individuals.

He said Okeke, 57, confessed to having funded IPOB and ESN operations in the state to the tune of N10,000,000 while he was outside the country.

The police disclosed that the arrests were made possible through the assistance of one Emmanuel Nnaji, 15, who was apprehended after the recent attack on Omumaand Njaba police stations.

The command said:

Source: Legit.ng News