by Admin | Sep 18, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI This report by JAMES COCKAYNE, head of United Nations University Office of the United Nations, details how terror groups have taken to social media to sell their female victims into slavery. The members of the United Nations Security Council hear terrible stories from conflict zones with alarming frequency. So it takes a truly horrific tale to bring them to tears. Yet as officials in the Council listened in December to Nadia Murad Basee Taha bravely recount her torturous ordeal as an Islamic State sex slave, some wept openly. When she fell silent, she received a rare ovation. Murad is returning next week to the UN to be inducted as a Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. Since her last visit, the Security Council has requested a report from the Secretary-General on human trafficking in conflict, and what can be done about it. The council should act soon – because the problem appears to be rapidly getting worse. Is slavery making a comeback? International law is clear that slavery is never allowed, anywhere, any time. Yet the best estimates suggest that 45.8 million people alive today are enslaved. Armed groups have long forced vulnerable people into sexual exploitation, military service, and forced labor including construction, cleaning work, digging trenches, mining and agriculture. Some people displaced by conflict in South-East Asia may even end up catching and processing the fish that ends up in our supermarkets. But today, organizations such as Islamic State and Boko Haram are openly encouraging and organizing slavery on a scale not seen since World War II. More than 5,000...
by Admin | Sep 18, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Adegboyega Michael, the leader of the fraud syndicate which was allegedly involved in the transfer of money from bank customer’s account in a first generation bank (name withheld) through the connivance of a bank staff member, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command. Michael (38) was arrested on August 26, four months after the police had been looking for him. Crime Reports learnt that a female banker (names withheld) whose password was used to access a bank customer’s account details lodged a complaint with the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, that she was falsely accused of fraud in her office. The owner of the account who was based in London had lodged a complaint with the bank when he discovered that money in his account had depleted. The police commissioner reportedly forwarded the petition to the Rapid Response Squad on April 19 and by the following day, four suspects were arrested. Those nabbed included Ezurike Peter (35) who was a staff member of the bank in which the account of the victim was domiciled, Ayo Olalekan (32), Ochenehi Israel (31) and the gang leader’s wife. A manhunt was also launched for the syndicate leader, Michael. The syndicate’s modus operandi, according to police sources, was to increase the limit of a bank customer’s account after Peter, who was an insider, would have got the customer’s details and phone number by using his colleague’s password to access it. The phone number of the account holder would also be blocked temporarily from receiving debit alert while the limit of his/her financial transaction would be upped...
by Admin | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Friday, declined jurisdiction to hear a case instituted by Human Rights activist and lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, in November 2015, challenging the appointment of Col Hameed Ali, Rtd, as the Comptroller General of the Nigeria nCustoms Service by Gen Muhammadu Buhari Rtd. Adegboruwa had asked the court for an interpretation as to whether the President could appoint anyone as Comptroller General of customs without complying with Section 3 of the Official Gazette of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made on 25th March 2002, where it was stipulated that only those within the rank of Deputy Comptroller General of Customs can be elevated as substantive Comptroller General and asking the court to nullify the appointment. In response to the case, the Nigerian Customs service filed a preliminary objection dated 29th April, 2016, challenging the locus standi of the applicant to file and maintain the suit. The customs service contended further that Adegboruwa’s suit was a mere academic exercise raising hypothetical questions that the court should not entertain. The court heard arguments from counsel to the parties on 15th June 2016 and adjourned for to September 16, 2016, for judgment. But during proceedings on Friday, Adegboruwa appeared in person whilst the respondents, Gen Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation, were absent and unrepresented. In its judgment, the court held that the President is empowered under Section 5 of the 1999 Constitution, to exercise all executive powers, either by himself directly or through officers delegated for that purpose. The court held further that under section 171 of the same...
by Admin | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The former first lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan has alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) hired mercenaries to implicate her. Mrs. Jonathan said the anti-graft agency is plotting to take her hard earned money, adding that those who pleaded guilty to the fraud allegations were not authorised by the companies. This is coming as four companies accused of allegedly laundering $15m for the former first lady, pleaded guilty. A statement issued by her media aide, Chima Osuji, reads: “This is a clear evidence of the desperation of the prosecution to pull down the former First Lady and confiscate her hard-earned money. “It is an irony that it was the former First Lady who went to court for the repatriation of her confiscated money when she realised that the EFCC and its co-travellers were playing politics with this issue after she had come out publicly to say that the said money belongs to her and that she has all evidence to prove the sources of her money. Up till this very moment, the EFCC has refused to interrogate or invite her for questioning. “The biggest twist in court on Thursday was that the fourth to seventh defendants pleaded guilty to all the 15 counts. It is clear that these unknown faces were agents of the EFCC, who have been stage-managed and tutored to come to court to complicate the case as a strategy to confiscate her money.” Mrs. Jonathan had earlier asked the EFCC to lift the restrictions on her bank account, so she can take her $31.4m. She said the money was for her...
by Admin | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Commissioner of Police in Abia State, Mr. Adeleye Oyebade, has reunited a stolen 15 months old baby with her mother, Miss Chioma Chijindu of No 8 Ohafia Street, Umuahia, the Abia State capital. It was learnt that Chijindu was allegedly drugged by lover, one Lawan Nuhu, before he made away with the baby and other valuables from the house. Parading the suspects at the police headquarters in Umuahia, Oyebade said a combined team of police operatives acting on a tip-off arrested Nuhu together with two other suspects, Lawal Ahmed and Chidinma Johnson. They were arrested at Lokpanta in Umunneochi Local Government Area of the state with the stolen baby. The CP added that other items recovered from the suspects were the sum of N170,000, 58 ladies handbags and one Peugeot 307 salon car with Registration Number AZ 166 KWL. Oyebade stated that investigation was ongoing to establish how the suspects came about with the car and other items in their possession. Nuhu who claimed to have been living with Chijindu for over two years, insisted that he wanted to take the baby to Yola in Adamawa State for Sallah celebrations. He said, “I had my daughter with Chioma whom I have been living with in Umuahia. Although we are not legally married, her parents know about our relationship. “But we have been having some misunderstanding for some time because she told me that she will marry another man, which is why I wanted to take my baby to my state. “She was sleeping when I left the house with my daughter; it was on my way...
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