by Admin | Jan 23, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Unknown gunmen attacked Zankan village in Kaura Local Government Area, Kaduna State on Saturday, killing 13-year-old Yahaya Musa, Daily Trust reports. A Zankan village local disclosed to the newspaper that gunmen arrived in the Fulani village on Saturday night at around 8:30 pm and began firing upon residents. In the process, they killed the 13-year-old boy and injured five others, who are receiving medical treatment in Plateau State. The resident, who pleaded for anonymity, called on the law enforcement authorities to improve security in the village. In a related development in nearby Zangon Kataf, local man Danjuma Musa reported that he was robbed on Thursday. He said youths approached him while he was riding his motorcycle and robbed him of N40,000, his cell phone, ATM cards, and his motorcycle. The youths threatened Mr. Musa’s life, but according to him, civil defense personnel intervened and freed him. However, he was not able to retrieve his stolen items. Daily Trust reached out to Police Public Relations Officer Aliyu Usman, who confirmed the two incidents. Source:...
by Admin | Jan 21, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Court of Appeal sitting in Ado Ekiti, has restrained the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon Kola Oluwawole from swearing–in Mr Toyin Obayemi in place of the occupant of Ado Constituency 1 seat, Hon Musa Arogundade. The Speaker is to stay action on the matter pending the determination of the appeal filed by the sacked legislator. According to the ruling prepared by Justice Olanrewaju Belgore, which was delivered by Justice P.O. Elechi, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was also restrained from recognizing Obayemi as its candidate for the 2015 House of Assembly poll. Arogundade had filed a motion for an order staying the execution of the judgment in a case filed by Obayemi which was delivered on July 4, 2016 judgment delivered by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of an Ado Ekiti Federal High Court. He also filed an injunction restraining the Assembly Speaker from inaugurating Obayemi as the lawmaker representing Ado Constituency 1 pending the determination of the main appeal before the court. Respondents in the motion at the Appeal Court are Obayemi (1st), Independent National Electoral Commission (2nd), Odunayo Talabi (3rd) and PDP (4th). He further urged parties in the suit to maintain status quo ante bellum pending the determination of the main appeal filed by Arogundade to keep his seat in the Assembly. Addressing the court after the ruling was delivered, counsel to the applicant, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), said: “The hierarchical structure of our legal system must be preserved; once a higher court has spoken, the lower court should blow the muted trumpet. “The lynchpin of the ruling is that Rt. Hon....
by Admin | Jan 21, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Leonard Dilcon, a former member of the House of Representatives, has accused his divorce-seeking wife, Joy, of sleeping with her pastor, and blamed him for the crisis in his marriage. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that Mr. Dilcon made the accusation while defending himself in a divorce suit filed by his wife at a High Court in Jos. Joy had asked for a dissolution of the 20-year-old marriage in a case she filed on September 14, 2014, and also requested the court to grant her custody of their three children. The defendant, in his submission, accused the wife of neglecting the marriage and further accused her of having extra marital affairs with Pastor Danjuma Fwenji of God’s Grace Divine Mission, Jos. He accused his wife and the said pastor of committing sexual immorality at her parents’ home and the church. “Each time I try to resolve our differences with my wife, the Pastor will appear and confuse everything,” Mr. Dilcon, who represented Pankshin/Kanam/Kanke Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, alleged. But Mr. Fwenji, who appeared before the court on Friday, denied ever having sex with the petitioner. He told the court that he only met the petitioner in 2006, when she was brought to his ministry for prayers and counselling. The pastor said that he and other elders of the church prayed for the woman after listening to her. Under cross examination by the defendant’s counsel, Francis Okafor, Mr. Fwenji said that he could not recall seeing the petitioner again, owing to the large number of people that worship in the church. The Pastor said...
by Admin | Jan 21, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI ENUGU — There was tension in Enugu, yesterday, following the killing of two persons during a bloody clash between some Igbo and Fulani at Gariki Market, Enugu. Those killed were identified as one Ali, a Fulani man and Ifeanyi Ifeacho, an Igbo man. Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State Vanguard sources said the incident happened on Wednesday evening. An eye witness told Vanguard that trouble started in the market when Ali came from New Artisan market with a cow to slaughter in Gariki abattoir, where Ifeanyi worked as an attendant, following the closure of New Artisan market by the Enugu State government earlier this week. According to an eye-witness, when Ali finished slaughtering his cow, he gave Ifeanyi N400 instead of the N500 fee for slaughtering the cow in the abattoir. Ifeanyi was said to have asked Ali to give him the remaining N100 but the Fulani man remained adamant, insisting that he would not pay any other money. The misunderstanding degenerated to a fight between the two during which Ali pulled out a dagger and stabbed Ifeanyi severally on the stomach. Ifeanyi slumped and died on the spot. Ali was said to have attempted to escape but some traders grabbed and lynched him . The angry Igbo traders later mobilized and burnt down the mosque inside Gariki Market. Meanwhile, normalcy has returned, following the deployment of anti-riot policemen to the market and environs even as the Enugu State police Spokesman, Superintendent Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed the story. Amaraizu said the command had already deployed anti-riot policemen to Gariki market to stop the situation from escalating. His words:...
by Admin | Jan 21, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI BARELY one week after a 35-year-old fashion designer, Hassan Taiwo, died after he was shot by a policeman in Lagos Island, another police officer attached to the Lion Building Division, Superintendent Raji, has allegedly shot a Lagos Island-based commercial tricyclist, Adisa Fatade. The 37 -year -old transporter who plies Tinubu- Tom Jones axis was shot during a police raid on warring hoodlums around Martins/Evans Streets at about 12 p.m last Thursday. He was said to have visited his sister’s restaurant and was leaving when the officer shot. Fatade was rushed to the hospital but was not treated until a police report was provided. The Nation gathered the police afterwards stormed the hospital and handcuffed the victim on account of being a criminal. The police allgedly threatened his sister, Abimbola Tijani, who refuted the claim that Fatade was among the criminals. She said the officers accused her of conniving with a criminal in sheer defence of their indiscretions. According to her, Fatade had just finished eating when the news of the fight came. She explained that many shop owners immediately locked up for fear that the police might arrive soon. She was seeing Fatade off when the police arrived and began to shoot sporadically in the direction of those fleeing for their dear lives. “It happened the second day after Hassan was shot. Some people were fighting in the area, and everyone wanted to close their stores and leave. That was when the police arrived. People started running on sighting them and the police started shooting in our direction. By the time we stopped running, my brother was...
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