by Admin | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Proscribed Students Union Government (SUG) of the Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State, has appealed to the Federal Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, to look into the financial records of the polytechnic since the appointment of Dr Sanusi Jimah as Rector, alleging that several corrupt practices were ongoing in the higher institution. The student body that was proscribed in September also called the minister of education to prevail Dr. Jimah to stop using army officers, hunters, vigilance groups and police in the campus, saying their lives were no longer safe as result of the intimidation, harassment and threat from the security agents. President of the erstwhile Students Union Government of the institution, Mr Samson Okoduwa, who was in the company with the Speaker of the students Representatives Mr Unuareluokpa and the Secretary General of the Union Mr Obukoowo Favour, at a media briefing in Benin, said the rector planned to impose a tyrannical administration, hence his refusal to organise SUG election. The group further appealed to the Minster to release the result of the interview conducted for a new rector for the institution so a substantive rector could be appointed for the polytechnic. The students alleged the authorities of the institutions unleashed security men on them during a peaceful protest calling for the conduct of the SUG election and in the process, majority of the students were molested and injured. However, in a swift reaction, the Rector through the Chief Relations Officer of the Polytechnic, Mr Mustapha Oshiobugie, denied the entire allegations saying that the Students Union Government has been proscribed. He explained that modalities have been completed...
by Admin | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Former acting governor of Kogi State, chief Clarence Olafemi has described as untrue a media publication that he stole the sum of N3billion. The former Kogi State Acting Governor in a statement on Wednesday night made available vowed to sue the said media organization for defaming his character. According to Olafemi, within the short period he served the State, he collected less than N3billion as allocation from the federation account. He demanded for a public apology from the writer. The statement reads in part “I am surprised that the platform can allow false allegation and call a whole race ‘animal’. Alleging that I, Clarence Olafemi stole 3billion is not only a nicked lie but character assassination, baseless and unfounded. “I am therefore, demanding a public apology from the writer or we head to court; since I do not know the writer I will sue the news media. “My total allocation for the two months I served as acting Governor, the total money collected by Government was less than 3billion put together and salaries were paid, projects were embarked upon and I was able to save 400million naira handed over to my successor. “You might hate me as a person but I take serious exception when touching on my integrity.” SOURCE:...
by Admin | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu, has expressed the commission’s resolve to go after human traffickers. Ibrahim Magu, Acting Executive Chairman, EFCC Magu said this when a delegation from the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) visited him in Abuja. Spokesman of the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, who reported the visit in a statement, said the NAPTIP delegation was led by its Director-General, Dame Julie Okah-Donli. Magu said the anti-graft agency had jurisdiction over human trafficking, which he said, was an offshoot of corruption. “We are prepared to go after human traffickers, because we strongly believe that it is an aspect of corruption, and corruption is the greatest enemy of Nigeria. “Corruption is the reason why young Nigerians are risking their lives walking through the Mediterranean up to Spain and other European countries in search of greener pasture. “It is a very sad situation, and we must change the trend by ensuring that we join hands to fight corruption, as this is the only solution to the ills militating against our country’s development,” he said. While calling for NAPTIP’s partnership in the fight against corruption, Magu assured Okah-Donli of the EFCC’s support in combating the increasing cases of “organ harvesting” involving Nigerians. “EFCC has an enormous task in the fight against corruption, and NAPTIP is also a stakeholder in the fight, so we also need your assistance and collaboration,” he said. Okah-Donli, who said the visit was part of the agency’s familiarisation efforts, used the opportunity to highlight NAPTIP’s strides in combating human trafficking in the...
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Follow @NigeriaPI Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested two suspects for alleged attempt to smuggle methamphetamine out of the country. The suspects – John Ifechukwu and Victor Anadu – were intercepted by the NDLEA operatives at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja. They reportedly swallowed 65 and 54 wraps of substances to conceal the drug. The spokesperson for the NDLEA, Jonah Achemah, who confirmed the arrest on Wednesday, said a 37-year-old woman, Omotayo Anifowoshe, was also arrested at the local wing of the Lagos airport with 3.0 kilogrammes of ephedrine and 1.9kg of cocaine. Achemah said, “Ifechukwu flew in from Lagos and was intercepted at the airport in Abuja. He excreted 65 wraps of substances weighing 864 grammes out of which only one wrap tested positive for methamphetamine. Anadu was intercepted on his way to Indonesia. He excreted 54 wraps weighing 1,073.4 kilogrammes of suspected substances out of which 700 grammes tested positive for methamphetamine. The remaining 373.4 grammes did not test positive for any known...
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Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, November 1, 2017, arraigned nine suspected payroll fraudsters before Justice Peter Kekemeke of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Apo, Abuja, on a 16-count charge of conspiracy and stealing to the tune of N293million. The suspects: Usman Aliyu Dayo, Osuntope Opeyemi, Johnson Adedokun, Ojeifo Robert Slyvanus, Oyebade Ebenezer Ayodeji, Florence Olaolu Dada, Olaolu Haruna Dada, Blessing Ejeh, and Aderibigbe Isaac Taiwo were alleged to have conspired to collect salaries and entitlements as ghost workers from different ministries. The offense breaches Section 97(1) of the Penal Code Act (Abuja) LFN 1990, and punishable under the same Act. One of the counts reads: “That you, Usman Aliyu Dayo, Osuntope Opeyemi, Ojeifo Robert Sylvanus, Johnson Adedokun and Oyebade Ebenezer Ayodeji, being employees of the Federal Government of Nigeria in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine, Federal Ministry Water Resources and Federal Ministry of Agriculture in the year 2014 in Abuja within the Judicial Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory committed theft by dishonestly creating fictitious names and accounts in the Federal Payroll for payment of the sum of N97,373,401.31 (Ninety Seven Million, Three Hundred and Seventy Three Thousand, Four Hundred and One Naira, Thirty One Kobo) as salaries and allowances from the Federal Government’s account without her consent and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 289 of the Penal Code Act ( Abuja ) LFN, 1990.” The defendants pleaded not guilty to the counts. In view of their plea, counsel to the EFCC, Muktar Aliyu, asked the court to...
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