by Admin | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole fighting insurgency in the North-East, have neutralised not less than eight suspected female suicide bombers in the last one week, according to an official. Lt. Col. Kingsley Samuel, Deputy Director, Army Public Relations Department, said this in a statement issued to newsmen on Tuesday in Maiduguri. He said the suicide bombers were unleashed by remnants of desperate Boko Haram terrorists trying to cause mayhem in the region. “Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole in the past few days intensified efforts towards checkmating suicide bombings in Borno in North-East Nigeria. “The troops recorded huge feat in foiling suicide bomb attacks by neutralising not less than 8 female suicide bombers who were unleashed by remnants of desperate Boko Haram terrorists,” he said. Samuel said one of the suspected female bombers was neutralised last Sunday by troops of 251 Battalion of the 7 Division Garrison, while trying to infiltrate Dalori Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp. “The female suicide bomber who was sighted by vigilant sentries refused several warnings to halt when challenged. “Subsequently, she was neutralised resulting in the detonation of her suicide vest killing her without any other casualty on the side of troops or civilians. “Unfortunately, the blast from the detonation of the female suicide bomber’s vest created a hole on the fence of Dalori IDP Camp 2,” Samuel said. The army spokesman said that troops were maintaining strict vigilance in the state to forestall any breach of security. He said that on July 16, two suspected female suicide bombers trying to infiltrate military locations at Mammanti village at about 10.15 p.m. were neutralised....
by Admin | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Minister of Interior, Lt-Gen Abdulrahman Danbazzau has vowed that kidnappers in the country, especially those terrorising commuters along the Abuja-Kaduna highway would be treated as terrorists and the fun weight of the law would be brought to crush them. Speaking with indigenes of Rijana, a settlement on the Kaduna-Abuja high way, which is a notorious haven for kidnappers, the minister said there was the need for people in the area to liaise with security agencies by providing information on the activities of criminals in the area. But a spokesman of the people of the area, Abdulsalam Abubakar pointedly told the minister that the people are afraid of divulging information to the police because they end up being exposed to the criminals who have so far killed 18 informants that provided information to the police. Responding to the complaints from the residents of the area, General Danbazau however assured them that government would do everything possible to bring the situation under control. Danbazzau According to the Minister, “we are here on fact funding mission because of incessant kidnapping going on in this area. Government is interested because it is its responsibility to protect lives and property and besides, it is a promise this government made before it was elected into office. So I’m here to meet with the community and see how the ongoing special operation is going. “We see this as act of terrorism because every element of terrorism is reflecting and it must stop. I’m aware that, most of the people involved are foreigners but they cannot succeed without connivance with those that reside here...
by Admin | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Central Bank of Nigeria has said that it has recovered over N51.9bn illegally deducted by commercial banks and returned it to the customers. The CBN stated that the amount was illegally removed from the accounts of bank customers across the country in the past five years. The Acting Director, Corporate Communications, CBN, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, disclosed this in Port Harcourt during an interactive session with stakeholders, including labour union leaders, in the South-South zone. Okoroafor stated that the recovery and return of the funds to customers became necessary after series of complaints on illegal deductions from their accounts by commercial bank customers got to the apex bank. Putting the exact amount recovered and returned by the CBN Consumer Protection Department at N51,913,350,828.85, he explained that $18,191,444.19, €26.286,62 and £6,000 were also recovered within the period. Okorafor, who was represented by an assistant director in the apex bank, John Attah, recalled that the CBN received 10,548 complaints, adding that the amounts recovered were from 5,746 resolved cases. He stated, “When such complaints are received, the CBN will embark on a thorough investigation of what happened and how the deductions were made. If we discover that the bank was wrong, we will write and order the bank to return the money to the customer’s account. “We do not keep this kind of money in any special account. Someone owns it and the banks know the accounts from where they made the deductions. So, we mandate them to pay it back into the accounts.” He, however, expressed the apex bank’s continued commitment to customers’ protection, adding that the interactive...
by Admin | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Mike Okeme, the Special Adviser to Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Labour Relations and SERVICOM, last Friday escaped being lynched during an election of the state chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) held at the La-Diva Hotel in Asaba. Okeme, a former state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), who was working round the clock to see that the governor’s anointed chairmanship candidate, Timothy Chukunwosa Umukoro, was delivered, invaded the venue with political thugs to smuggle in fake cartons of ballot papers to rig the election. A SaharaReporters correspondent who monitored the election observed that Okeme’s intention was to add up the smuggled fake ballot papers to votes that were being collated when the teachers pounced on him. He was swiftly whisked away by operatives to prevent him from being lynched. According to the teachers, Governor Okowa had tried all means to ensure his candidate prevailed over their popular and preferred choice, Titus Okotie. Speaking with our correspondent shortly after Mr. Okotie was declared the winner despite the governor’s script that was played by Okeme to impose Umukoro on them, a teacher who simply identified himself as Chukwudi, said that before the election, the governor had, through Chiedu Ebie, the commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, issued a series of threats and intimidation should they work against the governor’s choice. “Okeme thinks he smuggled fake ballot papers to rig election for Okowa’s candidate,” he said. “We all decided to show solidarity to our popular and well-accepted candidate and shunned all forms of intimidation from the state governor who has through his aide and...
by Admin | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Convicted oil marketer Rowaye Jubril and his firm, Brila Energy, for the second time yesterday approached an Ikeja High Court asking for a stay of execution of its order. The court had ordered Jubril and the company to refund N963.7 million stolen subsidy money to the Federal Government. The company had been ordered by Justice Lateefa Okunnu to make restitution of the money, which it fraudulently obtained as subsidy. They were both found guilty on the 13 counts bordering on conspiracy, obtaining money by false pretence, forgery and use of false documents. Jubril was sentenced to 10 years on the first count and eight years for counts two to 13. Justice Okunnu, on June 14, struck out an application filed by Jubril, through his lawyer, Lawal Pedro (SAN), seeking stay of the order that his company make restitution to the Federal Government to the tune of N963.7 million. The judge had held that “an order of stay of execution of a judgment must be based on a valid appeal” and that “it is only on that basis that a judgment cannot be executed until disposal of an appeal”. However yesterday, the convicts were back in court asking the court for a stay of proceedings regarding the monetary part of the judgment. Pedro in a 20-paragraph affidavit in support of his prayer pleaded with the court to restrain the respondents, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), from enforcing the monetary aspect of the verdict. “I appeal to the court to stay execution pending the outcome of an Appeal. If the monetary judgment is enforced that would be...
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