by Admin | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been freed, a senior Nigerian government official has told the BBC. It is thought that they are now with the security services in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri. It is not yet clear how the girls were rescued. The Islamist militant group kidnapped more than 250 students from a school in Chibok in April 2014 – an act that provoked international condemnation. Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been freed, a senior Nigerian government official has told the BBC. It is thought that they are now with the security services in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri. It is not yet clear how the girls were rescued. The Islamist militant group kidnapped more than 250 students from a school in Chibok in April 2014 – an act that provoked international...
by Admin | Oct 13, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Emerging reports suggests that the vice principal, a teacher and 2 students of Government Model College at the Igbonla area of Epe have been released from the den of those who kidnapped them. Lagos model college Igbonla An 11-man gang had last week stormed Government Model College at the Igbonla area of Epe and abducted two students, their vice principal and a teacher. The release came following the expiration of the 24 hours ultimatum given by the kidnappers of two students, the vice principal and a teacher from the secondary school located in Epe, Lagos. According to This Day, the victims were released at about 10.30pm in yet to be ascertained circumstances. Although it was yet to be confirmed, it was gathered that the family of one abducted student who was sick, had paid N1 million ransom as requested by the kidnappers. It was also gathered that the other families did not pay a dime. The police has confirmed the release, but are yet to make a formal statement. Meanwhile, to beef up security at the community level, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos state on Tuesday said no fewer than 5,000 men and women would be recruited to Neighbourhood Watch – the state grass roots security outfit. Ambode, who spoke at the ‘2016 3rd Quarter Town Hall Meeting’ of his administration at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, added that the new recruits would earn at least N25,000 monthly, apart from other allowances. He said the Neighbourhood Safety Agency Bill which he signed into law on August 15, 2016, was part of efforts to institutionalise and deepen community...
by Admin | Oct 13, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Justices must go, says govt Buhari meets CJN Mahmud Detectives found a Rolls Royce in the fleet of about 15 cars of one of the seven judges under investigation by the Department of State Services (DSS), The Nation learnt yesterday. The judge was said to have hired a notable construction firm to build his palatial home and imported furniture from Brazil, Argentina and Spain. The judge, said a source close to the investigation, once conducted his “poor colleagues” around his mansion. Another judge told the DSS that he did not know how N18million was paid into his account and he did not get alert to enable him complain to his bankers. One of the judges also said the money found in his account was his accumulated medical allowances. Another judge was found to have submitted three assets declaration forms to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). The asset forms of the seven judges, who were arrested last weekend in a controversial sting operation, were being analysed by the DSS yesterday. The Federal Government has foreclosed the return of all the seven judges to the bench. The government believes the judges cannot be in the dock and be adjudicating at the same time. Those arrested are: Justices Sylvester Ngwuta and Inyang Okoro – the suspended Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Ilorin Division, Justice Mohammed Ladan Tsamiya, who was picked up in Sokoto; Justice Adeniyi Ademola (Federal High Court); the Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice I. A. Umezulike; Justice Kabiru Auta of Kano State High Court; and Justice Muazu Pindiga (Gombe State High Court). Of the...
by Admin | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Justice Ibrahim Auta, the Chief Justice of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, may well be neck deep in the corruption that led to last weekend’s arrest of some high court judges by the Department of State Security (DSS), SaharaReporters has learnt. Investigators said Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court in Abuja, in whose home over $550,000 was allegedly found during the raid, has confessed to a deal between him and Chief Judge Auta by which $300,000 of the physical cash found in his bedroom was to have been shared between the two men. He said only $50,000 belonged to him in the deal, indicating that the CJ was awaiting his share when the DSS operatives swooped in on his residence and arrested him on Saturday night. It is unclear to whom the balance of $200,000 would have gone. Asked if that had been the pattern of bribery for the CJ, he answered in the affirmative, saying that several High Court judges are assigned lucrative cases by the CJ, who then requests them to collect the bribes in dollars and transfer to him physically at home. He revealed that the CJ has received monies from him several times after matching him with high profile cases that are then settled in favor of the highest bidders. SaharaReporters learnt that CJ Auta was quizzed and then quietly released yesterday by the DSS, but the department has not officially confirmed either his arrest or interrogation. Powerful interests are pushing back against the arrest of corrupt judges. SaharaReporters has however learnt that four, including Appellate Court judge Uwani Abba-Aji,...
by Admin | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A man named Engr Godwin Apple is leading a campaign to get justice for a girl brutalized by the wife of a lecturer at Federal College of Education, Obudu, Cross River state (FCE Obudu). The woman, Ijeoma Oha, pictured (left) with her husband. Dr Amechi, tortured the girl (right) constantly but finally met her waterloo when a vigilante group intervened. According to Engr Godwin, the girl was heard crying in the night during the torture. “It attracted the attention of the Vigilante group in the area there in Obudu, and they rushed immediately only to find the little girl in a very weak point, almost out of life. As they made an attempt to invite the Police, the lady ‘Ijeoma Oha’ offered them a N3,000.00 bribe so that they can over-look the situation. God however helped the vigilante group to insist in inviting the police and the girl was taken to the Secret Heart Hospital Obudu. Mrs Ijeoma Oha was taken away by the police from the Nigerian Police Command” Ambassador Godwin Apple Agim is inviting the operational bodies of UNICEF, UPF, UN and the Nigerian States Security Service SSS “to commence the arrest of one Dr. Amechi Oha. A Chief Lecturer in Igbo department, FCE Obudu. He and his wife Mrs Ijeoma Amechi Oha, adopted, enslaved, concealed and assaulted this little girl they used as a house maid. They should both be charged for crimes against...
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