by Admin | Feb 27, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday February 25th, 2016 presented three new witnesses against a former Director- General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi. Akpobolokemi, alongside five others, are standing trial before Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos in a N2.3billion money laundering charge preferred against them by the EFCC. At the resumed hearing of the matter on Thursday, prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo led three witnesses Yahaya Mohammed Yusuf and Wakili Dauda,( both bureau de change operators) and Olamide Ogunsanya , an Assistant Director with NIMASA, in evidence. Yusuf ho s the 7th prosecution witness told the court how he received the sum of Two Hundred and Thirty Million, Nine Hundred and Twenty Six Thousand Naira (N230,926,000) from Extreme Vertex Nigeria Limited through an account: Kofar Fada Nigeria Limited, owned by his brother. Extreme Vertex Nigeria Limited is one of the companies alleged to have benefited from the disbursement of over Two Billion Naira from the Committee on International Shipping and Port Security( ISPS) in NIMASA. Yusuf said that the second accused person: Captain Ezekiel Bala Agaba was his long- time customer . According to him, on 7 November, 2014, Kofar Fada Nigeria Limited received the total sum of One Hundred and Forty Five Million, Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira Only (N145,350,000) in three tranches from Extreme Vertex Nigeria Limited. On 14 November, 2014, another Eighty- Five Million, Five Hundred and Seventy Six Thousand Naira ( N85, 576,000) was also paid in by the same company into Kofar Fada Nigeria Limited’s bank account....
by Admin | Feb 27, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Lagos state police has arrested a Liberian man who tried to sell his son – The arrested man was exposed by his wife – A pastor is under investigation regarding his role in the illegal trade – The suspect has confessed that he collected N250,000 for his son who is just 9-months-old A woman in Lagos has exposed the plot of her husband who tried to sell their son. The Nigerian woman who is married to a Liberian citizen reportedly decried her husband’s plan to sell their son and flee to Ghana. Ijeoma Ndoku raised an alarm which led to the arrest of her husband, Mr Daniel Barney. The Lagos state police command arrested Mr Barnney for selling his nine-month-old son Emmanuel for N250,000. Sources say Barley sold his son in a desperate attempt to raise cash to meet pressing family needs. The embattled Liberian who is currently being held at Festac police station over the matter, said he sold his son to a 43-year-old woman called Ekah Richard. According to the 32-yaer-old father, the sum of N250,000 was obtained from Ms Richard through Alhaji Adamu. He added that the money was given to him to start a business. He denied selling the baby, claiming that his wife abandoned the child, pointing out that since he could not cater for the boy alone, he took him to an orphanage. Nigerian Watch reports that the police arrested Mr Barnney at Mile 2 on Friday, February 12 and recovered the baby from Ms Richard. Ijeoma denied her husband’s claims, saying: “For over three months, he has been saying...
by Admin | Feb 27, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Uzordima Chukwudi, 29, was a lotto operator before he took to kidnapping, a trade he was into before he was arrested by the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, led by CSP Abba Kyari. Chukwudi was arrested alongside some other members of the group, including Joseph Chiaotu, aka Ejima, 21, Anozie Chinonso, 25 and 27-year-old Chukwuma Agim, who is a prison official, in connection with the kidnap of a woman in Imo State. Speaking to journalists during the week, Chukwudi said he was studying Mechanical Engineering at Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Imo State before he dropped out in his final year. “What led me into kidnapping was unfortunate,” he said. He explained that the pressure to raise the bride price of his pregnant girlfriend lured him into the crime. He said, “My girlfriend is pregnant and I have been under pressure to pay her bride price but I had no money. She told me that since she became pregnant her mother had been ostracised by her fellow women in their village. The pressure was too much that I needed to look for money by all means.” On how he came across the other suspects, Chukwudi explained that when the pressure became unbearable, he contacted two of his friends; Nnamdi, who is now in prison, and Chiboy, who later introduced him to Agim for the trade. He said, “Agim, being a prison official, was the one making way for us whenever we approached a police check point but our first operation was not successful because the person we targeted escaped. But on the second operation, Chiboy went...
by Admin | Feb 27, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI There have been rumours about Kim K wanting to divorce her Husband Kanye because of his embarrasing twitter rants, so Kim Kardashian took to her website kimkardashianwest.com, to make a big statement about where she stands when it comes to her husband and her loyalty. On Friday she dedicated a post to which she titled: ‘Currently.’ When listing what she is ‘loving’ right now, she wrote: ‘My husband.’ Then she added that she ‘hated’ that people don’t get that Kanye ‘will stand up against the whole world for his creativity and art.’ Then said she was listening to the song I Love Kanye and was wearing ‘Yeezy Season 3 samples she took from the show. She concluded the post by writing that she wants “everyone to be as honest as Kanye,” and she was watching “Kanye shoot his new video” and reading “Kanye’s tweets.” She ended the post with a Kimoji of her flipping her middle...
by Admin | Feb 27, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Despite the fact that the duo have gone their separate ways, Toyin Aimakhu wishes him aa happy...
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