Joseph

Simple, self determined, caring,understanding, charming,God fearing,sincere.

#Live_lif3_as_it_comes

[Facts East Africa @east_facts]

FACT: Rwanda's president Paul Kagame once served in the Ugandan army as a spy chief.

[EFCC Nigeria @officialEFCC]

The repercussion of corruption cripples the economy of a nation.....the mandate to rid Nigeria of all forms of economic and financial crimes is not negotiable.

#EFCCNigeria
#Interfaith

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

2Baba is the first African Artiste to collectively win a BET Award, MTV Europe Music Award, World Music Award and MOBO Award.

2face became the first African Artiste to win an MTV EMA in 2005.

Him and D'banj became the first Africans to win BET Awards in 2011.

His song, African Queen was the first music video to be broadcast on MTV Base Africa when it was launched on February 22, 2005.

He was featured on Ife Di Mma by Tony One Week, which was the first music video to be aired on Hip TV in 2013.

His debut album, Face2Face sold 1 million copies in a week in 2004.

His second album, Grass To Grace sold 2 million copies in weeks.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

Due to amputation of his leg, Anini was confined to a wheelchair throughout his trial. He was sentenced to death by Justice James Omo-Agege and executed on March 29, 1987

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

Anini was shot in the leg, transferred to a military hospital, and had one of his legs amputated. When Anini’s hideout was searched, police recovered assorted charms, including the one he usually wore around his waist during “operations”.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

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.”

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

In the process, he shoved and head-butted the police officer but it was an exercise in futility. Uanreroro 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

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

Opened the door. ��Where is Anini,” the police officer 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

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

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....

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

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.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

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’.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

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?’

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

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.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

The police thus went after them, combing every part of Bendel State where they were reportedly operating and living. The whole nation was gripped with fear of the robbers and their daredevil exploits.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

Worried by the seeming elusiveness of Anini and his gang members, the then military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, ordered a massive manhunt for the kingpin and his fellow robbers.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

A day after the operation, Anini, The Law, turned to a ‘Father Christmas’ as he sprayed wads of naira notes on the ground for free pick by market men and women at a village near Benin.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

Anini thus spear-headed 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.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

car near the former FEDECO office, in Benin. Two days after, the Anini men killed two policemen in Orhiowon Local Government Area of the state. Still in that month, three different robbery attacks, all pointing to Anini’s involvement, took place.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

It was not until three months later that the skeleton of the driver was spotted 16 kilometers away from Benin, 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

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

On September 6, same year, 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.