by Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A retired officer of the State Security Service, Mr Hosea Danjuma, was on Tuesday abducted by gunmen at his residence in Baisa, headquarters of Kurmi Local Government Area of Taraba. The Caretaker Chairman of the council, Mr Steven Agya, confirmed the development in an interview with our source in Jalingo. Agya said that the council had mobilised youths to join hands with security agents in searching for the kidnapped man. “Yes, Danjuma was kidnapped around 1:47 a.m. on Tuesday by unknown gunmen at his residence in Baisa. A family member , Mrs Adama Danjuma said that the gunmen destroyed the back gate of the house from where they gained entrance into the compound. She explained that the gunmen were furious and threatened to shoot anybody, who resisted the abduction of her uncle. According to her, the abductors used motorcycle to whisk her uncle away to an unknown destination. The abduction occurred two weeks after the mother of the Deputy Governor of the state, Hajiya Beli Manu, was kidnapped for several hours before she was released. Source:...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI There is an uneasy calm in Ihuokpara Community, in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State following the death of two men last week as a result of an adulterous woman. One of the men, New Telegraph learnt, was the husband of the woman while the other was the woman’s secret lover. According to unconfirmed reports, the woman, whose name has not been ascertained at the time of filing the report, after having her normal outing with her secret lover, returned home and shortly after her husband died mysteriously. Following his death, the villagers put two into two together and concluded that it was the open secret love that caused the man’s...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former president Goodluck Jonathan and late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s government to account for all the loots they recovered during their administrations, our source reports. Delivering judgement in a Freedom of Information suit filed by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) today March 1st, the presiding judge, Justice M.B. Idris, ruled that successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999 “breached the fundamental principles of transparency and accountability for failing to disclose details about the spending of recovered stolen public funds, including on a dedicated website.” He thereafter ordered that President Buhari “ensures that his government, and the governments of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and former President Goodluck Jonathan account fully for all recovered loot.”. Details ordered by the court to be made public include: information on the total amount of recovered stolen public assets by each government; the amount of recovered stolen public assets spent by each government as well as the objects of such spending and the projects on which such funds were spent. Source:...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI In another case of forceful abduction, a 15-year-old girl identified as Patience Paul from ohimini LGA of Benue State was allegedly taken by two men in gidan kukah, Runji sambo area of Sokoto State with the intention of converting her to Islam. Below is what her brother wrote as shared by Tsembelee Daniel Sorkaa on Facebook. “BENUE people let’s help our own. Keep sharing until she gets help. SUMMARY Subject matter: Forceful abduction Name of complainant: Paul Isaac Adaji, from ohimini L.G area of Benue state. Reasons complain about: Forcefully abduction of my younger sister by two of our neighbours (Monde & Suleiman) and the Hisbah group in gidan kukah, Runjin sambo area sokoto, with the intention of converting her to Islam. They confirmed to the police that they took the girl to the sultan’s palace, but the police later said nothing but ask the complainant to go and maintain peace. Date missing: Since on the 12th of August 2015. Name of the Girl: Patience Paul. Her age Now: 15 years. Language spoken: Idoma Her whereabouts: In the Sultans palace. GSM Number of the Hisbah commander’s or abductors: Ilyasu Muhammed Gsm No. 08169317038 Umar Dauda Gada Gsm No. 08035584277 Dr. Kasarawa (GSM Num. not known) Thanks and hope to hear from you soon. N.BN. Gsm number of complainant: 08063358061, 07083285018” Source:...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Tears flowed like river from the eyes of parents on Tuesday after the abduction of three students of the Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Ikorodu, Lagos by gunmen on Monday night. Many of the parents including officials of the school also refused to talk to journalists. Amid heavy security, some of the parents besieged the school to pick their children. The students were preparing for exams and went to the classroom to read and revise. It was in the process that the hoodlums came armed with Ak47 and started shooting sporadically and took three of them. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Fatai Owoseni, and an Assistant Inspector-General of Police, B. Hassan, are holding a closed-door meeting with the parents of the students, who were abducted from secondary school in Lagos. The senior police officials, who arrived the school this morning with military men, inspected the school premises, including the broken fence reportedly used by the abductors before the meeting. he Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2 Command, Bala Hassan, has assured the parents of three students, who were abducted from a school in Ikorodu, that the police will rescue the children. Hassan said this today when he, in company with the Police Commissioner in Lagos, Fatai Owoseni, visitedBabington Macaulay Junior Seminary from where the children were seized on Monday night. The Lagos State Police Command has conducted a helicopter surveillance of the vicinity of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School where no fewer than three pupils were abducted by...
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