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EFCC arraigns illegal polytechnic operator in Ado-Ekiti

EFCC arraigns illegal polytechnic operator in Ado-Ekiti

Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan Zonal Office on Monday arraigned in a Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti an illegal polytechnic operator The alleged illegal operator, Johnson Babatola, was arraigned before Justice Taiwo Taiwo on a seven count bordering on advance fee fraud and operation of illegal Polytechnic. Babatola, a former Principal Manager of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Ado-Ekiti branch pleaded not guilty to the charges The EFCC said that the suspect was arrested following a petition from the National Board for Technical Education in Kaduna, alleging that he was operating an illegal polytechnic named Teedek Polytechnic at Ilogbo, Ekiti State. The board said that the accused had allegedly extorted gullible students, who were not aware of the status of the institution. The petitioner further alleged that some of the students of the polytechnic had earlier reported the institution to the board and they had published the school as an illegal institution in some national dailies. It said that the accused failed to stop the fraudulent act and as such continued to fleece innocent students through the polytechnic. The petitioner said that Babatola had sometime between the month of August, 2013 and March 2015 intended to defraud Adakeja Thomas Olusola at Ilogbo Ekiti within the jurisdiction of the court. The accused had intended obtaining the sum of N118, 000.00 from Adakeja, having falsely represented that the money was tuition fees. It said that the accused had told the victim that money was for the award of National Diploma Certificate by Teedek Polytechnic. The offence contravened section 1 and punishable under section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee...
Nigeria Police Parade Two Soldiers, Others Who Allegedly Kidnapped CBN Governor’s Wife

Nigeria Police Parade Two Soldiers, Others Who Allegedly Kidnapped CBN Governor’s Wife

Follow @NigeriaPI The Nigeria Police on Monday paraded nine suspects allegedly responsible for the kidnap of Margret Emefiele, the wife of Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele. According to our source, two of the suspects are serving soldiers of the Nigerian Army, while another is a dismissed soldier. The Police named the serving soldiers as Lance Corporal Musa Maidabra, 28, and Lance corporal Edwin George. The dismissed soldier is other Ernest Uduefe, 32. The other suspects are Mohammed Abubakar, 29, who was identified as the gang leader; Mohammed Musa, 26; Mohammed Sule, 26, Ibrahim Abdullahi, 30, Aliyu Musa, 30; and Mohammed Yusuf, 36. All the suspects are...

My husband impregnated our daughter, woman tells court

Follow @NigeriaPI A mother of a 13-year-old girl that was raped and impregnated by her father has filed  for a divorce before a Sharia court Magajin Gari, Kaduna, Kaduna State. In a writ of summon submitted before the court, the mother, Maryam Manta alleged that  her 40-year-old husband, Hafizu Isyaku raped  his 13-year-old daughter, (names withheld) and got her  pregnant when they were staying at Mararaba, a surburb of Abuja. She revealed that the shameful  act forced her to abandon their home in Maraba, where she lives with her husband and relocated to Kaduna with their six children. She told the court further, “When I returned from where I went to see my parents, as a mother and as a woman, I noticed my daughter was not behaving normal and at the same time sick. “But I didn’t suspect anything because my husband do constantly gave her some concoctions to drink which he claimed was going to heal the daughter’s ailment. “But when the ailment persisted and I noticed my daughter had missed her period, I questioned and threatened her to tell me  if she had any affair with a man and she eventually opened up to me that her father had been making love to her. “So, when I confronted Hafizu with the issue, he cried and confessed about joining a cult group which mounted pressure on him to get his daughter pregnant and also abort it as part of the sacrifice. “I became confused and cried my life out and he promised to disssociate himself from the cult and I went together with him to the hospital where...
“Please I don’t want to be imprisoned for the 8th time and the third time this year” – Suspect begs

“Please I don’t want to be imprisoned for the 8th time and the third time this year” – Suspect begs

Follow @NigeriaPI In a record chasing history that is close to Guinness book of record, a 41 year-old man arrested by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police for stealing the phone of his helper has pleaded that he should be assisted from going to prison the eighth time. The suspect, Emmanuel Oyewunmi, from Ikale, Ondo State, was arrested by the operatives on Friday night at Ojodu-Berger Bus Stop for stealing N600 and a phone from a bus driver and a passenger. Oyewunmi, before now, has been on the wanted list of RRS’s operatives for stealing a Samsung Galaxy S4 belonging to one Mrs. Adesewa Oni from her car. On the said day, Oyewunmi was a park attendant outside Shoprite Shopping Mall, Ikeja, when Oni drove in to attend a ceremony at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium in Alausa. For keeping an eye on her car, Oni instead of offering Oyewunmi the N200 he requested decided to drive him to a nearby ATM to withdraw some money out of which she gave him N1000. Unwittingly for her, she left Oyewunmi inside her car while she gets the money from the ATM. Upon returning, she handed Oyewunmi the N1,000 and she drove off. The victim, while reliving her experience said “I have driven about five minutes away from Alausa when I felt the urge to make some calls for appointments, and I realised that my phone, Samsung Galaxy S4, was missing. Quickly, my mind raced to him and I realised my folly. “How could I have left a total stranger in my car alone, leaving...