by Admin | Apr 11, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A 33 -year-old trader, Umeme Lotachukwu Fabian, arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos, with drugs suspected to be methamphetamine weighing 1.205kg, has blamed his indulgence on the need to raise money for wedding. Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect, travelling to Soekarno–Hatta International Airport, Jakarta, Indonesia, claimed to be an Ivorian. He was arrested while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Indonesia with a Cote d’lvoire international passport bearing the name Grou Bi Clauvis. NDLEA commander at the Lagos airport, Ahmadu Garba, however, said that during investigation, it was revealed that the suspect hailed from Anambra State with the name Umeme Lotachukwu Fabian. In his statement, the suspect disclosed that he was offered five thousand dollars to smuggle the drugs to Indonesia. “I am the only son of my parents. I wanted to invest the money in my clothes business and also commence preparation for my marriage in a bid to settle down in life. They offered me five thousand naira to smuggle the drugs to Indonesia”, he stated. Fabian explained that he was not aware that drug trafficking attracts capital punishment in Indonesia” , he said . Source: Vanguard...
by Admin | Apr 11, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Rival cult groups engaged in gun battle on the streets of Ilorin, Kwara State capital during which four men were allegedly killed. Vanguard gathered that several shops and homes around Baboko,Osere,Ikokoro areas of Ilorin where the gun fight took place had been under lock since Thursday night when the incident occurred as shop owners and residents feared being hit by stray bullets. A similar incident had occurred around the same Ikokoro area in 2016 after a suspected cult member, Wasiu Adanri, was murdered. Sunday Vanguard sources said the Thursday night’s gun fight started after one of the victims, simply identified as ‘Abbey’, was shot dead around Ikokoro area. The unidentified gunmen, believed to be of a rival cult group,were said to have stormed the area at about 7.45pm and allegedly went straight to the apartment of the victim and fired several gun bullets at him. The victim, who was allegedly confirmed dead by his killers before they left, was said to have been a member of a cult. The colleagues of the victim, in a reprisal attack, were said to have trailed the assailants to Baboko and Osere areas of Ilorin, on Friday, engaging them in gun fight till yesterday morning, during which three others were allegedly shot dead. Contacted, police public relations officer, Ajayi Okasanmi, however, confirmed that only one life was lost in the cult clash. Source: Vanguard...
by Admin | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Troops of the 33 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Bauchi have arrested seven suspected fake currency merchants in the city and Kano State. Parading the suspects at the brigade headquarters in Bauchi, the capital, Assistant Director, Army Public Relations Officer, Major Joseph Afolashade, said the troops acted on a tip-off to arrest the fake currency vendors around a popular market area. He revealed that soldiers dressed in plain clothes, stormed the busy Wunti Market on March 31, 2017, and arrested one Mallam Idris Hassan in the process. Afolashade said, “As of the time of his arrest, he was in possession of N21, 000 fake (N1, 000) currency notes. He claimed that the fake currency notes were given to him by one Mallam Auwal Wanzam, who resides in Bauchi.” Afolashade said other suspects arrested across the two states include Mallam Sani Ibrahim, who was nabbed in the Bauchi metropolis, Abdulahi Suleiman, Zubairu Ya’u and Isyaku Hardo, apprehended at Karfin Madaki, Ganjuwa Local Government Area of Bauchi State. According to him, preliminary investigations revealed that they also have a syndicate group in Kano State, where one Malam Abubakar Musa was eventually arrested. He stated that the sum of N26, 000 fake currencies were also recovered from them thus bringing the total amount of recovered counterfeit notes to N47, 000. Afolashade, however, revealed that the suspected gang leader and the printer of the syndicate, Malam Suleiman Abubakar, from Kafin Madaki, Ganjuwa Local Government area of Bauchi State, was still at large. Source: Today...
by Admin | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s reference to Salamigate as another confirmation that the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, became governor through judicial fraud. The party said this while referring to the Court of Appeal, Ilorin judgment delivered by Justice Isa Ayo Salami, which removed Segun Oni of the PDP from office and declared Fayemi as governor of Ekiti on October 15, 2010. The party maintained that Fayemi had never won any election in his life. Obasanjo while playing host to members of the Correspondents Chapel, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ogun State Chapter, at his hilltop residence in Abeokuta on Sunday, said; “…Our judges must be committed in fighting corruption. They must be committed to fighting corruption. Because if the investigation is very sound and you have ‘ogbologbo’ lawyer to handle the case, if you have Salamigate, you know what the answer will be.” But in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Monday and signed by the State Publicity Secretary, Mr Jackson Adebayo, said, “Fayemi never won the 2009 rerun governorship election. Rather, he was awarded victory by Justice Salami after cancelling votes in wards where the PDP won and this has been further established by former President Obasanjo.” The PDP said Nigerians should recall that records of telephone calls and messages between Justice Salami and APC chieftains like Lai Mohammed before and after the judgment were made public, confirming that the judgment was obtained by fraud. “It should also be recalled that even programmes of Fayemi’s swearing-in ceremony and other souvenirs were printed more...
by Admin | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The eighth National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria parades a long list of suspected thieves more than the number any anti-graft agency can prosecute in one administration. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have investigated a good number of the serving senators at one time or the other for embezzlement, money laundering, diversion of public funds and other criminal charges. In fact, a total of 21 of the lawmakers including the senate president currently are involved in corruption cases that have reached various stages of trials in courts. Former Senate President David Mark is reputed to be one of the most corrupt public officers in Nigerian history. The senator representing Benue-South in the upper legislative house is a retired army general who amassed a lot of wealth during the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, another military autocrat with a history of corrupt self-enrichment. Mark, a fifth –term senator, is one of the few Nigerians listed in #PanamaPapers, the report that reveals identities of clients of the most secretive companies in the world, registered through the law firm of Mossack Fonseca. The senator together with his wife, Vikky Preye Mark both laundered billion of dollars abroad. As Nigeria’s Minister for Communications in the 1980s, David Mark acquired a reputation for speaking in a gruff manner. His most notorious gaffe was a statement that telephones were not meant for poor Nigerians. The statement was in response to criticism of the scarcity of telephone lines as well as their high cost. Mark was then at the peak of a flourishing military career that saw him amass an...
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