by Admin | Jul 17, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A Video showing 10 distraught women, believed to be the ones kidnapped in a raid by the militant group on a military/police convoy in Borno State some weeks ago. Following the incident, which took place a few kilometres outside Maiduguri, on Damboa Road, the Nigeria police refuted claims by Boko Haram that some police officers had been killed or abducted by the terror group. Although the two women who speak on the video, which was sent exclusively to SaharaReporters, do not introduce themselves as police personnel, one Amina Adam Gomdia, speaking in eloquent Hausa, describes five of the women in their midst as public servants who are also breadwinners in their families. Gomdia introduces herself as a lecturer at the Federal College of Fisheries, Baga. It is not clear if the other women, who appear to be too shocked to speak, with some of them in tears, are police women or wives of police officers. But it would be recalled that the convoy they were travelling in when they were attacked was carrying the corpse of a police woman who had earlier been killed by the terrorist group. The second woman who speaks on the video gives her name as Deborah Philipus. She says that right from the minute they were abducted, Boko Haram has taken care of them, including treating their injuries, and that they have not lacked food, water or other necessities. “We are grateful to you,” she says, referring to Boko Haram, “but the Government of Nigeria should not say we were not abducted, indeed we were abducted,” she says. SaharaReporters learned she lost...
by Admin | Jul 17, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI aware that his elder brother visited Nigeria, insisting that his client did not owe him any obligation to report his movement within and outside Nigeria. The fugitive’s $3000 withdrawal was reportedly the last of the $115,000 that was paid into his account by Shell Petroleum for the Videofied project executed by Continental Alarm. “This man refused to honor our invitation, claiming he was suffering from renal disease, but he was well enough to go to Ecobank to withdraw the last dollar from the contract proceeds he is accused of diverting criminally,” one EFCC source said, adding that the fugitive’s arrogant behavior earned him inclusion on a watch list. Our correspondent learned that Mr. Nwasike remains in the EFCC’s custody following his arrest. One source disclosed that the fugitive was arguing that he should be let go on account of his purported ill health, a claim considered spurious by EFCC agents, considering the suspect’s past conduct. “This is a man who has shown disdain for the commission by refusing to respond to our invitation, and now that he has been apprehended, he comes up with the claim of sickness. We consider him a flight risk as he has shown both a determination and ability to run and also hide,” one source said. Mr. Nwasike, who hails from Ogidi in Anambra State, was disengaged by Shell apparently on account of acts of impropriety. He also reportedly met the same fate when he worked for Global Energy. SOURCE: SAHARA...
by Admin | Jul 15, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, who is reportedly out of the country, has instructed that the Commission should challenge the court order stopping the Senator Dino Melaye‘s recall process. In a statement released on Saturday, INEC said Yakubu is not, “succumbing to blackmail,” that was rumoured to have come from the Senate. “It may be of interest here to note that the INEC chair is out of the country. “He left last weekend and was not part of the meeting (some days ago) where the decision was taken to obey the court order. “He had however earlier sought and agreed with legal advice and instructed that the Commission should challenge any court order and the competence of the action when word got out last week that Senator Dino Melaye had filed a suit trying to stop his recall. “If indeed there was a threat of blackmail (overt or otherwise), Prof Yakubu from his words and action isn’t succumbing to it. “In any case, he isn’t a sole administrator and all 12 members of the commission have a say in decision making and there’s a consensus in our approach to challenge the Senator’s suit. INEC should be allowed to do its work, regardless of the outcome,” the statement...
by Admin | Jul 15, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Kogi State government announced on Friday that it had uncovered an N8.4 billion fraud at the Kogi State University, Ayangba. The Director-General, Media and Publicity to the state governor, Kingsley Fanwo, told journalists in Lokoja that three suspects had been arrested in connection with the fraud. “The suspects perpetrated the fraud by including names of ghost workers into the payroll of the institution. “They (suspects) work in the accounts department of the school and committed the fraud by stealing N100 million per month over a period of seven years,” Mr Fanwo said in a briefing, shortly after the weekly executive council meeting. He said the fraud was discovered during the just concluded staff screening exercise. Mr. Fanwo said the suspects had been handed over to the police for investigation and prosecution. He said the government would soon establish “international markets” at Kabba, Ankpa and Adavi to boost the Kogi economy, adding that contracts for the projects hand been awarded with work expected to commence in September. He said the council also approved the contract for the construction of the office of the state-owned newspapers, “The Graphic.” Mr. Fanwo said the council also took a decisive look at the menace of erosion in some parts of the state and set up a committee to work with the State Emergency Management Agency to tackle the problem. (NAN) Source: Premium...
by Admin | Jul 15, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Oyo State Police Command has arrested a 37-year-old woman, Bukola Ogun, who planned her own kidnap and demanded N10million ransom with a view to scaring her husband to relocate her and their two children to the United States of America. Bukola was said to have connived with a three-man gang, including a cousin, to orchestrate her own kidnap. Three armed hoodlums reportedly stormed the residence of the supposed victim at Elesun Street in Oluyole, Ibadan, on July 4, 2017 around 7.45pm, and took her away. After leaving the scene, the woman was said to have lodged herself in a hotel at Imalefalafia area of Ibadan, where she was for three days. But the husband, who was unaware that his wife masterminded the kidnap, informed the police, who later arrested two suspects, Kayode Adepoju, 37, and Olalekan Anafi. Adepoju is Bukola’s cousin. The state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude, paraded the suspects along with other persons arrested over offences ranging from armed robbery to stealing and other crimes, at the state police headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan yesterday. Ogun’s husband has dual citizenship of Nigeria and the United States, and had lived in the US for many years before he relocated to Nigeria. It was further gathered that the husband, who is a salary earner in Nigeria, had begun the process of relocating his family to the US. The wife, who has two children for her husband within the past six years of their marriage, was said to have considered the process too slow. Bukola, in an interview with newsmen, said: “I just woke up one day and thought...
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