by Admin | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Lagos Police Command has arrested suspected kidnappers, Chinobi Sabestine and Blessing Emma for allegedly abducting an eight-year-old boy. It was learnt that the suspects were apprehended by policemen attached to the command’s Anti-Kidnapping Squad in a bank in the Oyingbo area of the state as they were about withdrawing the ransom paid by the boy’s family into an account. The police, however, did not give the name of the bank and the victim. It was gathered that upon their arrest, they led the operatives to a hotel in the community, where the boy was held hostage in one of the rooms. A police source told Punch that the manager of the hotel – 219 Hotel – was arrested while the boy had been reunited with his parents. She said, “On January 20, at about 1.45am, a case of kidnap was reported to the command. It was reported that a boy of eight years old was kidnapped by unknown men. Police operatives deployed in Oyingbo arrested two suspected kidnappers. “On Tuesday, intelligence report and investigation carried out by men of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad, traced one of the kidnappers to a bank in Oyingbo, where the suspect wanted to withdraw the ransom that was paid into his account. Sabestine was arrested along with Blessing, who accompanied him to the bank and suspected to be one of the kidnappers. “An on-the-spot interrogation led police operatives to 129 Hotel at the Oyingbo area, where the victim was rescued. He was pale and shivering. He was immediately given medical attention and reunited with his parents.” The state Police Public Relations Officer,...
by Admin | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A Robber has made away with over N600,000 belonging to Bank Customers in the Apapa-Warehouse Branch of Diamond Bank in Lagos State after disguising as a Bank Staff. See full Story below: As shared by Facebook User, Nnamdi Ikeh-Akabogu: INTELLIGENT ROBBERY, WITHIN BANKING HALLS: “I have a neighbour who sells foodstuffs. She travelled for the new year so so instructed a relation to pay in the money(130,000) into her Diamond Bank Account… She was in the Banking Hall, Warehouse Branch, Apapa, with the money in her bag. While filling her teller, someone asked her if she was paying in & at which she said yes. She later joined the long pay-in queue. After a moment, and with d queue practically not moving, a young man, dressed in corporate suit (all thought was the Bank’s cashier) came close to her and in a low voice asked for people who were paying above 100,000. About five people stepped out and he asked them to follow him a few meters away from the queue. They all thought he was the Bank’s staff, out to offer help. He collected all their money, the completed tellers and asked them to wait on the line, so he can go in and stamp their tellers….. And so the man left. They waited and waited endlessly, not knowing that he had long exited the Bank,through the rear exit, with their over #650,000.00. It was after d seemingly unending wait they decided to report d matter to the Manager,who had to come down… checked the CCTV footage and behold, the gentleman in suit, was neither the...
by Admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Tosin Owobo, an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday described to a Federal High Court in Lagos, Nigeria, how now-retired Air Marshal Adesola Amosu Nanayon and two other Air Force chiefs diverted the sum of N3 billion meant for the security of the country’s maritime environment into his personal oil and gas companies. Led in evidence by EFCC prosecutor Rotimi Oyedepo, Owobo, who is an Assistant Detective Superintendent with the anti-graft agency, offered graphic details of how Nanayon, who was at the time Nigeria’s Chief of Air Staff (COAS), received the money from the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) under the leadership of Patrick Akpolobokemi. Amosu is standing trial before the court over the fraud alongside Air Vice Marshal Jacob Bola Adigun, Air Commodore Gbadebo Owodunni Olugbenga, and eight fictitious companies. The companies facing trial alongside the three Air Force chiefs are: Delfina Oil and Gas Ltd, Mcallan Oil And Gas Limited, Hebron Housing and Properties Company Limited, Trapezites BDC, Fonds and Pricey Ltd, Deegee Oil and Gas Limited, and Timsegg Investment Limited and Solomon Health Care. At the resumed trial on Wednesday, Mr. Owobo informed the court that the anti-graft agency discovered in its investigation that there was a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Nigerian Air force (NAF) and NIMASA while Air Marshall Alex Badeh was the nation’s COAS, and that a sum of N1. 480 billion was paid by NIMASA to the NAF account in 2014 for securing the nation’s maritime environment. He said the money was paid in two tranches of N1.480 million into an account...
by Admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Senate may have concluded plans to investigate the Minister of Power, works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, over the award of 10 road and bridge contracts worth N166 billion. The Bureau Public Procurement had queried Fashola over the violation of laws guiding contract awards in Nigeria based on the manner he selected contractors for the projects. At the resumption of plenary on Wednesday, Senator Dino Melaye, who raised a point of order on alleged contracts infractions by the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing on the floor, said Nigerians had opened a ledger for thieves in power. Melaye said: “I draw the attention of the country to some infraction and corruption between the Ministry of Power and the Bureau for Public Procurement.” He alleged that the Ministry and the BPP had colluded in inflating the cost of contracts for the rehabilitation and construction of bridges and roads across the country. Melaye added: “Nigerians are watching. “They have opened a ledger for thieves in power and who are still in power.” Melaye thereafter asked the Red Chamber to give him the opportunity to bring a motion on the issue to the chamber on Thursday. The Senate is expected to debate the matter on...
by Admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) chairman Prof Itse Sagay (SAN), yesterday faulted a statement by Kaduna Central Senator Shehu Sani, that the Buhari administration is treating corruption in government with “deodorant”. Sagay said Sani’s comments were a political statement. He accused the senator of fighting his own political “battles” which influence his views. Sani had dismissed as “false” President Muhammadu Buhari’s claims on a Senate report indicting Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, of corruption. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in its response to the report on Lawal and the representation of Magu for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) job, described Buhari’s anti-corruption war is “a ruse.” Source: The...
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