by Admin | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A Lokoja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded a man, Abdulkareem Dahiru, in prison over alleged kidnap of a five-year-old boy. The Chief Magistrate, Alhassan Husaini, ordered that Dahiru should be remanded at the Federal Prisons, Koton-Karfe and advised him to get a lawyer to represent him. “The court cannot take your plea because you have no counsel representing you. I want you to get a lawyer before the next date of adjournment,’’ he ruled. Dahiru is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and kidnapping. Earlier, Police Prosecutor Mohammed Abaji told the court that the accused committed the offences with three others along Okene-Lokoja Road, opposite Federal College of Education, Okene. He alleged that the accused had been on the run since the boy was kidnapped, but was arrested at Okengwe in Okene Local Government Area following a tip-off He said investigations showed that the accused and members of his gang belonged to a dreadful group that indulged in armed robbery in Okene. The offences contravened Section 97(1) of The Penal Code and Section 4 of the Kogi State Kidnapping and Other Related Offences Law, 2015. The magistrate adjourned the case to Feb. 7 for...
by Admin | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Police in Kaduna on Sunday confirmed that gunmen attacked Zankan village, a Fulani settlement in Kaura Local Government of the state. The spokesperson of the Kaduna Police, Aliyu Usman, said in Kaduna that the incident occurred at about 8.30 p.m. on Saturday. He said one person was killed and five others injured in the attack. “The dead and the injured persons have been taken to the nearest medical centre in Ganawuri town, Plateau State,” Mr. Usman said. He, however, said that investigation into the incident had commenced. “We are trailing the suspects behind the attack, but so far, no arrest has been made. “We are, however, optimistic that the additional police operatives deployed in the area will fish out the culprits very soon,” he said. The spokesman reiterated the commitment of the command to secure citizens and property in the state, saying “we will not allow lawlessness to thrive.” He appealed to the public to always assist security agencies in the state with useful information to enable them to take proactive...
by Admin | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI 33 year old suspect, Olawasegun Oladimeji, who was arrested by operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command for vandalising Toyota cars in Victoria Island, has confessed that a spare part dealer in Ladipo International Market was the one who gave him the specifications of cars to vandalise. The suspect, a barber by profession, was arrested in Lekki last week by the RRS officials, barely six weeks after he regained freedom from Kirikiri Prison, Lagos. The suspect, according to report had just vandalised some vehicles around Lekki before he was apprehended by the RRS’s patrol team. Found in his possession were several body parts of Toyota Corolla and mobile phones, which he stole from the garage guards, who were sleeping when he broke in. He disclosed that he was released from prison in November, 2016 after he was convicted for three months for removing Toyota body parts in another garage in Apapa, in July, 2016. According to him: “Oga Dona (auto parts dealer) has my number. He would call to give me the type of vehicle body parts that are on high demand in the market. He would tell me to get them for him…. I have been working for him now for 8 years. I steal different vehicle body parts, particularly, Toyota products…. I remove Toyota Corolla brain box, headlight, rear light, buttons, etc…. Since I came back from prison in November, 2016, I have stolen brain-boxes of 47 cars. My targets are Toyota products.” He continued: “Whenever I am going on operation, he is the ones that gives me transport money....
by Admin | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement has made a fresh demand for the rescue of the 195 Chibok girls remaining in Boko Haram captivity. The movement also said it would no longer tolerate delays in their release and excuses from President Muhammadu Buhari, saying it was indecision on the part of the government that robbed the military of the time to defeat the insurgents before they became unmanageable.The group’s position was contained in a statement jointly signed by its co-conveners, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili and Mrs. Aisha Yesufu. Source:...
by Admin | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, a former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has pleaded with the Federal High Court in Lagos not to judge his case based on a series of statements he wrote while in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Dudafa, who is being prosecuted for an alleged fraud of N5.1bn, told Justice Mohammed Idris, before who he is being tried, on Monday that using those statements would occasion injustice against him, claiming that he did not voluntarily make them. He told the judge that the anti-graft agency locked him up for about two months and subjected him to what he described as dehumanising treatments, thereby giving him no other option but to write and sign the statements against his will in order to secure his freedom. Dudafa stated this while being led in evidence by his lawyer, Mr. Gboyega Oyewole, during a trial-within-trial to test the authenticity of the confessional statements and asset declaration form he filed while in the EFCC custody. “After the 13th of May, 2016, they took me back to the cell and they continued taking me out each day so that I could go through agony. “In the cell, I was isolated. I was not treated like any other detainee. All other detainees had access to their phones and food but me. My family members were stopped from bringing food to me and I accused the EFCC of planning to poison me. “They wanted to break me down, to make me implicate some people. They asked me questions about former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan; they said...
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