by Admin | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The late Prof. Mani The late Prof. Mani was the second professor from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine killed by Boko Haram attack since the insurgency begun in 2009. Born in Katsina town on April 11, 1957, Prof. Mani attended Kayalwa Primary School, Katsina (1964-1970), Government College Kaduna (1971-1975) and School of Basic Studies, ABU Zaria (1975-1976). He got admission into the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ABU Zaria and graduated with Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) in 1981. He did his NYSC at the School of Agriculture in Asaba, worked briefly with the Niger Basin Development Authority in Ilorin, Kwara State before he proceeded to the University of Maiduguri as Assistant Lecturer, Department of Veterinary Medicine in October 1982. The late professor attended the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh, UK, (1984-1985), where he got his Masters and later got his PhD in same school and returned to Maiduguri in 1994. He was a Fellow of the College of Veterinary Surgeons (2010), Director of UNIMAID Veterinary Teaching Hospital (1997-2000), Head of Department (2005-2010) and Acting Dean of Vet Faculty (2008-2010). Until his death, he was the Director of UNIMAID Veterinary Teaching Hospital. He is survived by his wife and two children. A professor and four other persons were killed yesterday when a young suicide bomber detonated a bomb during the dawn (fajr) Islamic prayer at the Senior Staff aQuarters of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), the Borno State capital. The late Prof. Aliyu Usman Mani, a Professor of Veterinary Medicine, and the others, were praying when the blast occurred. State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) Chairman Satomi Ahmed...
by Admin | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed that it is looking into the petition requesting the anticorruption body to “urgently begin a thorough, transparent and effective investigation into allegation that N500 million Safe School funds for Chibok girls, commissioned by former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to rebuild the Government Girls School in Chibok, is missing and cannot be accounted for.” The petition 27 December 2016 was sent to the EFCC Chair Ibrahim Mustafa Magu by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). This development was disclosed Monday by SERAP’s senior staff attorney Timothy Adewale. Adewale said: “We have received confirmation from the EFCC that the body is looking into our petition. The EFCC has also expressed its determination to diligently investigate the allegation of the missing N500 million Safe School funds for Chibok girls, and sought additional information from SERAP.” “SERAP appreciates the prompt attention the EFCC has given to the matter, and our organization is committed to sending to the EFCC additional information including any available documentary evidence in our possession in order to enable the anticorruption body to get to the root of the matter, identify suspected perpetrators and bring them to justice, as well as recover any missing funds.” It would be recalled that SERAP had in its petition urged the EFCC to “invite for questioning, and name and shame anyone suspected to be involved in the alleged diversion, including the contractors allegedly handling the project.” The petition reads in part: “The allegation that N500m has been lost to corruption has resulted in denying the girls access to education, and shows...
by Admin | Jan 16, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI For allegedly obtaining over a million naira from a man under the pretext of marrying him, a 33-year-old woman, Oluwaseye Ajeigbe, on Friday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The accused, a civil servant, who resides at 60, Akinola St., Bariga, Lagos, is being tried for alleged fraud, stealing, obtaining by false pretences and threat to life. The prosecutor, Insp. Benedict Aigbokhan, told the court that the offences were committed between December 2015 and April 2016 in Lagos. Aigbokhan said that the accused and the complainant, Mr Collins Akinsiku, met on Facebook and became lovers. “Akinsiku is based in the UK, while the accused is here in Lagos; they started chatting and fell in love with themselves on the internet. “The Akinsiku family had gone to the accused house for an introduction on Jan. 17, 2016,” he said. The complainant said that after the introduction, the accused was to come to the UK to visit the complainant, but she never did. “The complainant sent more than a million naira to the accused’s GTBank account, to process her visa. “Thereafter, the accused changed her account password and token, so that the complainant would not have access to it anymore. “She cut off completely from the complainant. And when he saw the moves and demanded for his money, she threatened to kill him,’’ the prosecutor said. Aigbokhan said that the complainant financed all the expenses incurred on the introduction. The offences contravened Sections 230, 278,312 and 323 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. Ajeigbe, however, entered a not guilty plea. The Magistrate, Mrs O. A. Akokhia, admitted the accused to bail in the...
by Admin | Jan 16, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Osun State Command of The Nigerian Police have arrested Wale Akinsola, a notorious robber The State Police Public Relations Officer, Folasade Odoro said Akinsola was arrested on Friday evening at the New World Hotel in Ipetumodu town where he was drinking beer. She said Akinsola, an ex-convict is popularly known as Bishop and that it took the collective efforts of policemen and local vigilante group in the community to arrest the suspect. Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Fimihan Adeoye said the arrest was a clear warning that Osun could not be a safe haven for criminals. He explained that Akinsola had earlier escaped arrest at a scene of robbery where one of his gang members Azeez Oyeyemi was arrested with two locally made pistols. Adeoye said the suspects would be prosecuted in court after the completion of investigation by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. He assured that members of Akinsola’s gang and all other armed robbers terrorising the state would soon be apprehended and brought to book in due...
by Admin | Jan 16, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The EFCC has made a startling discovery about former Enugu State Chief Judge Innocent Azubuike Umezulike’s: Detectives found N632.2 million in his bank account, reinforcing the reason for his involuntary retirement. The agency also found that the lodgements came from lawyers, businessmen, politicians and litigants. According to The Nation newspaper, Justice Umezulike was believed to have operated the account without a Bank Verification Number (BVN). The former Chief Judge has been invited for interrogation on January 17 on some of the “shocking” lodgments. The NJC on September 29, 2016 recommended Justice Umezulike for compulsory retirement alongside Justice Mohammed Tsamiya, who was the Presiding Justice of the Ilorin Division of the Court of Appeal Justice Kabiru Auta of Kano State High Court was recommended for dismissal. The NJC said it recommended Umezulike to Governor Justice Lawrence Ugwuanyi of Enugu State for compulsory retirement for “delivering judgment in a case 126 days after final addresses were adopted by parties, and for other instances of abuse of office”. The council also found Justice Umezulike guilty of allegedly “receiving a donation of N10m from a businessman, Prince Arthur Eze, during his book launch while two cases in which Eze was said to have had “vested interest”, were in the judge’s...
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