by Admin | May 19, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Police Command in Kebbi has arrested a 37-year-old man, Danbaba Umar, in Kaoje, Bagudo Local Government Area, who specialises in exhuming corpses from graves for ritual purposes. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Ibrahim Kabiru, told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday that the arrest of the suspect followed a tip-off. He said Umar was arrested at about 3:30 a.m. at the Kaoje graveyard while attempting to exhume a male corpse for ritual purposes. Advertisement He said the suspect confessed to the crime and revealed that he was sent to commit the act by one, Malam Muhammadu from Sokoto State. A father of ten, the suspect told newsmen that he was a professional driver who was transporting wood planks from Zaria to Sokoto for sale prior to his recruitment for the criminal act. Umar said inadequate money to cater for his family compelled him to engage in the crime. source: today...
by Admin | May 19, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A Nigerian, identified as Eneh Wilfried Amobi, has been arrested in India for allegedly possessing cocaine worth $1.4m at a suburban railway station in Mumbai. The Indian newspaper, The Hindustan Times said a team from the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) caught him after a tip-off by a ticket checker. According to an official, Wilfried Amobi , 47, was caught with a large quantity of contraband. “Wilfried said he was as a tourist and as he wanted $200 to return home, he offered to smuggle the drug,” Kumar Sanjay Jha, NCB zonal director, Mumbai and Goa region told HT. The drugs weighing 1.3kg was to be delivered to someone in the city, an official said. The drugs were concealed in courier packets and were in his bag. “As foreign nationals are asked to show passports even for domestic flights, couriers prefer trains,” said Jha. The agency said Amobi was one among the many couriers entrusted by a city-based cartel to smuggle the drugs into the city. “We suspect that at least four people were involved. The packets changed hands at various railway stations to dodge authorities,” said Jha. According to the police, the suspects booked tickets in first class AC, second AC and AC 3 tier. According to a source, Amobi got down from the Delhi-Mumbai Rajdhani Express and was about to take a local train. A ticket checker stopped him and asked for a ticket. NCB said it was all part of a trap to buy time after which Wilfried was caught. Emir Sanusi cannot escape probe – Kano Speaker, Rurum vows According to the NCB, cocaine...
by Admin | May 19, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Kano – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today secured the conviction of Umar Yusuf, and Ibrahim Ahmed Bebeji, former Chief Clerical Officers in the Account and Internal Audit Department respectively at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dala, Kano State. The duo was convicted for conniving to misappropriate the sum of N3, 180,853 (Three Million, One Hundred and Eighty Thousand, Eight Hundred and Fifty Three Naira Only) belonging to National Orthopaedic Hospital Dala, Kano State. The convicts perpetrated the fraud through the manipulation of receipt paid by patients. Upon their arraignment on 29th July , 2015 they pleaded not guilty and in order to prove the case against the convicts, counsel for the prosecution, Musa Isah called a total of four witnesses and tendered several exhibits. In her judgment today, Justice Aboki held that the prosecution established the ingredients of the offence of Conspiracy in count one and she accordingly convicted them as charged. Also on counts two and three, the trial judge found the first accused person guilty as charged and convicted him accordingly. The second convict was discharged and acquitted on count two and three. Before passing the sentence, counsel representing the convicts pleaded for mercy . Consequently, the first convict was sentenced to four months imprisonment and a fine of N50,000 (Fifty Thousand Naira Only) on each of count one and three. On count two the first convict was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment and fine of N200,000 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira Only). The first convict was also ordered to restitute the sum of N639,428 (Six Hundred and Thirty Nine Thousand , Four Hundred and...
by Admin | May 19, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI An activist lawyer and Director, Prisoners’ Rights Advocacy Initiative, Mr. Ahmad Adetola-Kazeem, has identified lack of job opportunities as one of the reasons many prison inmates return to crime after being released. According to him, except inmates are adequately prepared to be gainfully engaged after prison life, many will always return to crime and find their way back to the prison, compounding the problem of prison congestion in the country. Adetola-Kazeem said this during the presentation of certificates to 120 inmates and some prison officials at Ikoyi Prisons, Lagos who underwent a three-day skill acquisition, business development and value reorientation workshop organised by PRAI, a non-governmental organisation. The workshop, which took place between April 18 and 20, 2017, featured practical sessions in which the inmates and prison officials were taught how to make shoes, belts, small chops, produce detergents, disinfectants, among others. The workshop was divided into three areas — Event Management, which encompassed decoration, ushering and security; Art and Craft; and Production and Catering — with the inmates given the liberty to acquire training in their areas of interest. Speaking on the rationale behind the initiative, Adetola-Kazeem said, “We have assisted over 100 inmates directly by securing their freedom when they were illegally detained without trial. But the challenge has always been how do you bring them out and make them stay out? That was why we decided to go beyond litigation. “Sometimes they return to prison after being released by engaging in crime because some of them don’t have hope or means of survival. The actual problem is that they feel they don’t have hope....
by Admin | May 19, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday re-arraigned the son of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Mahmud; and the son of the late Ibadan multibillionaire, Chief Alao Arisekola, Abdullahi, for conspiracy, obtaining money under false pretence and uttering. Also arraigned on 38 counts before a Lagos State High Court on Tuesday were Ochonogor Alex and the companies of the defendants, Eterna Plc, Axenergy Limited and Star Inspection Services Nigeria Limited. The EFCC claimed that the defendants conspired among themselves and obtained the sum of N3,121,393,098 from the Federal Government under the guise that the money was for the importation of Premium Motor Spirit. One of the charges read in part, “Mahmud Tukur, Ochonogor Alex, Abdullahi Alao-Arisekola, Eterna Plc, Axenergy, and Star Inspection Services Nigeria Limited on, or about April 28, 2011 within the jurisdiction of this honorable court, by false pretence and with an intent to defraud, obtained the sum of N176,385,103.56 from the Federal Government of Nigeria which sum was in excess of the amount due to Eterna Plc as subsidy for the importation of 17,343,668 litres of Premium Motor Spirit by purporting to have imported the product through the mother vessel, MT. Emirates Star, with the bill of lading bearing April 28, 2011, as against the actual mother vessel of Gunhild Kirk with the bill of lading date of April 3, 2011.” The defendants pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to them. The prosecutor, Mr. Tayo Olukotun, requested for a trial date in view of the plea of the defendants. Counsel for the 1st and...
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