by Admin | May 30, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Bayelsa State Command, has solicited the cooperation of residents and relevant stakeholders to rid the state of narcotics abuse and illicit drug trade. A statement on Monday by the agency’s Principal Staff Officer, Public Affairs, Mr. Osakwe Ikenna, a superintendent of narcotics, said for the war on drug trafficking to be won, there was the need for stakeholders’ synergy. The agency also solicited the support of stakeholders and members of the public in terms of volunteering information, saying the agency was moving from reactive to a proactive organisation. The statement said, ”The State Commander hereby wishes to solicit for the cooperation and partnership of the good people and residents of Bayelsa State in fighting the war against the illicit drug trade and abuse. ”With such concerted efforts, the fight against narcotics abuse and other problems associated with hard drugs will be reduced drastically. It will also engender a peaceful, progressive and drug-free state.” The appeal for partnership came just as a new State Commander, NDLEA, Mr. Abdullahi Abdul, has taken over the mantle of leadership of the command. Abdul, who resumed duty recently, took over from Mrs. Josephine Obi, who has been redeployed to Jigawa State as its commander. Prior to his resumption in the state, Abdul was the immediate past Commander of Jigawa State Command of the agency. Meanwhile, the agency has appealed to parents and guardians to warn their children and wards to desist from drugs. It said, ”Drug has negative effects on the individuals. So, talk to your neighbours and friends to shun the use of narcotic drugs...
by Admin | May 30, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday arraigned a 50 year old man, Ahmed Echodo, for allegedly misleading the police force, to conduct a raid at a residense belonging to the deputy Senate president, Ike Ekeremadu, on Friday. According to the one-count charge, two defendants were accused of the offense, though only Mr. Echodo was arraigned at a magistrate court in Abuja. Security operatives had ransacked Mr. Ekweremadu’s residense on Friday morning in search of evidense, following information indicting occupants in the residense of criminal offences, but found nothing. PREMIUM TIMES had reported that security officers at residense located in Ganges street Maitama Abuja, told this paper that the raid was conducted by Police officers, under the instruction of the Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris. Although that information was denied by the force public relations officer, Moshood Jimoh; the force on Tuesday charged two men on a one-count for misleading the Nigeria Police. According to the charge, the men; Mr. Echodo and Maiwada Adamu are accused of conspiring to falsely inform the office of the IGP that Mr. Ekweremadu’s residense at number 10 Ganges Street, Maitama, Abuja, and occupied by Oliver Ogenyi is been maintained and used for criminal activities such as rhe maintance of arms and ammunitions. The second accused Mr. Adamu was not in court while the first defendant pleaded not guilty to th charge. The prosecution counsel, Ismail Tawo, informed the court that Mr. Adamu was at large. The Magistrate, Umar Kagarko, asked the police to find Mr. Adamu and present him in court at the next sitting. Counsel to the defense, Peter Ngwoke...
by Admin | May 30, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI In the wake of the alleged N1 billion ransom demanded by abductors of six students from Igbonla Model School, near Epe, Lagos, the Lagos State Police Command has said it would “not negotiate with the kidnappers.” The police spokesperson, Olarinde Famous-Cole, said on Monday that “it is the statutory responsibility of the police to keep the children safe, which is paramount and that’s what we are concerned about.” The Punch newspaper had reported that parents of the children were contacted on Saturday and allowed to briefly speak with their children. They also stated that while two of the parents were asked to pay N400 million each, another two were told to raise N100 million per child. The parents were reportedly told to meet with the school authorities and the state government to raise the money. “Since we are all a party to the incident that happened, we are playing our roles as security agents to get those kids out of the hands of those militants,” said Mr. Famous-Cole. “We are certainly liaising with the school and the government and the parents as regards some of the things we can share with them as per security intelligence.” “The kids are safe, but we are just trying to get them out and that’s what important,” the police spokesperson said. The students were abducted at around 5 a.m. last Thursday by gunmen who arrived through a creek behind the school. The hoodlums broke through the school’s fence to gain access into the premises. The incident occurred seven months after gunmen kidnapped two teachers and four pupils of the same school....
by Admin | May 30, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A mother who fled conflict and admitted killing three of her children and attempting to murder a fourth by driving her car into a lake was jailed for 26 years in Australia on Tuesday. Akon Guode, who came to Australia after fleeing civil war in South Sudan, plunged the vehicle into the lake on the outskirts of Melbourne in 2015, killing one-year-old son Bol and four-year-old twins Hanger and Madit. Rescuers pulled her and five-year-old daughter Alual from the sinking vehicle. In handing down his sentence, Justice Lex Lasry said the 37-year-old suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome but why she had driven into the lake remained a “tragic mystery”. “The sentence I’m about to impose is in some respects inadequate to reflect the gravity of what you’ve done, yet at the same time excessive given your mental state and your background of hardship and desperation,” he said. Nonetheless “these are obviously grave offences”, Lasry added. “These children trusted you as their mother as they were entitled to do. Your betrayal of that trust had catastrophic consequences whatever the true reasons were for your consequences.” The defence told the court Guode suffered severe psychological trauma from the civil war. Witnesses said before the tragedy Guode had complained of receiving threats from the estranged wife of the children’s father — with whom she had been having a long affair — and had isolated herself from the Sudanese community. The mother-of-seven’s eldest daughter had previously told the court she was concerned about Guode’s driving as she had been experiencing dizzy spells for six months leading up to the deaths....
by Admin | May 29, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Two prominent members of Olubadan-in-Council, High Chief Lekan Balogun and High Chief Rashidi Ladoja, who are Otun and Osi Olubadan respectively, have dragged Governor Abiola Ajimobi to court over his plan to tinker with the 1957 Chieftaincy Law. The 1957 chieftaincy Law among others, stipulates succession order to the throne of the Olubadan of Ibadanland. Ajimobi is planning a new law to make room for more beaded crowns in Ibadan because of its current cosmopolitan nature. But Senators Ladoja and Balogun, would have none of that as they are asking the state High Court in the suit number m/317/2017 to restrain the seven-member Judicial Commission of Inquiry from sitting, accepting any memorandum or in any way taking any step in furtherance of its assignment, pending the determination of motion on notice in respect of the subject. Ajimobi, on May 19, inaugurated the judicial panel headed by retired Justice Akintunde Boade, with the mandate to, among others, review the existing requirement and qualification for ascendancy to the throne of the Olubadan and submit its report in four weeks. In the suit filed by their counsel, Michael Lana, on Friday, the Otun and Osi Olubadan contend that the judicial panel said by Ajimobi to have been constituted under Sections 10, 12 and 25 of the Chiefs Law 2000 was invalid, as the governor lacked the power to change or amend the customary law relating to the selection of Olubadan. The claimants said the primary aim of the Chiefs Law was that traditional institutions must be guided and operated not in accordance with modern dictates as argued by the governor...
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