by Admin | Oct 13, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Justices must go, says govt Buhari meets CJN Mahmud Detectives found a Rolls Royce in the fleet of about 15 cars of one of the seven judges under investigation by the Department of State Services (DSS), The Nation learnt yesterday. The judge was said to have hired a notable construction firm to build his palatial home and imported furniture from Brazil, Argentina and Spain. The judge, said a source close to the investigation, once conducted his “poor colleagues” around his mansion. Another judge told the DSS that he did not know how N18million was paid into his account and he did not get alert to enable him complain to his bankers. One of the judges also said the money found in his account was his accumulated medical allowances. Another judge was found to have submitted three assets declaration forms to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). The asset forms of the seven judges, who were arrested last weekend in a controversial sting operation, were being analysed by the DSS yesterday. The Federal Government has foreclosed the return of all the seven judges to the bench. The government believes the judges cannot be in the dock and be adjudicating at the same time. Those arrested are: Justices Sylvester Ngwuta and Inyang Okoro – the suspended Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Ilorin Division, Justice Mohammed Ladan Tsamiya, who was picked up in Sokoto; Justice Adeniyi Ademola (Federal High Court); the Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice I. A. Umezulike; Justice Kabiru Auta of Kano State High Court; and Justice Muazu Pindiga (Gombe State High Court). Of the...
by Admin | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Justice Ibrahim Auta, the Chief Justice of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, may well be neck deep in the corruption that led to last weekend’s arrest of some high court judges by the Department of State Security (DSS), SaharaReporters has learnt. Investigators said Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court in Abuja, in whose home over $550,000 was allegedly found during the raid, has confessed to a deal between him and Chief Judge Auta by which $300,000 of the physical cash found in his bedroom was to have been shared between the two men. He said only $50,000 belonged to him in the deal, indicating that the CJ was awaiting his share when the DSS operatives swooped in on his residence and arrested him on Saturday night. It is unclear to whom the balance of $200,000 would have gone. Asked if that had been the pattern of bribery for the CJ, he answered in the affirmative, saying that several High Court judges are assigned lucrative cases by the CJ, who then requests them to collect the bribes in dollars and transfer to him physically at home. He revealed that the CJ has received monies from him several times after matching him with high profile cases that are then settled in favor of the highest bidders. SaharaReporters learnt that CJ Auta was quizzed and then quietly released yesterday by the DSS, but the department has not officially confirmed either his arrest or interrogation. Powerful interests are pushing back against the arrest of corrupt judges. SaharaReporters has however learnt that four, including Appellate Court judge Uwani Abba-Aji,...
by Admin | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A man named Engr Godwin Apple is leading a campaign to get justice for a girl brutalized by the wife of a lecturer at Federal College of Education, Obudu, Cross River state (FCE Obudu). The woman, Ijeoma Oha, pictured (left) with her husband. Dr Amechi, tortured the girl (right) constantly but finally met her waterloo when a vigilante group intervened. According to Engr Godwin, the girl was heard crying in the night during the torture. “It attracted the attention of the Vigilante group in the area there in Obudu, and they rushed immediately only to find the little girl in a very weak point, almost out of life. As they made an attempt to invite the Police, the lady ‘Ijeoma Oha’ offered them a N3,000.00 bribe so that they can over-look the situation. God however helped the vigilante group to insist in inviting the police and the girl was taken to the Secret Heart Hospital Obudu. Mrs Ijeoma Oha was taken away by the police from the Nigerian Police Command” Ambassador Godwin Apple Agim is inviting the operational bodies of UNICEF, UPF, UN and the Nigerian States Security Service SSS “to commence the arrest of one Dr. Amechi Oha. A Chief Lecturer in Igbo department, FCE Obudu. He and his wife Mrs Ijeoma Amechi Oha, adopted, enslaved, concealed and assaulted this little girl they used as a house maid. They should both be charged for crimes against...
by Admin | Oct 11, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Chai, her mother’s head is strong. Baby Sultana has been declared missing since seven months ago when she was kidnapped. She was however found yesterday at the airport as the man in the right photo above tried to take her out of the...
by Admin | Oct 11, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan Zonal Office on Monday arraigned in a Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti an illegal polytechnic operator The alleged illegal operator, Johnson Babatola, was arraigned before Justice Taiwo Taiwo on a seven count bordering on advance fee fraud and operation of illegal Polytechnic. Babatola, a former Principal Manager of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Ado-Ekiti branch pleaded not guilty to the charges The EFCC said that the suspect was arrested following a petition from the National Board for Technical Education in Kaduna, alleging that he was operating an illegal polytechnic named Teedek Polytechnic at Ilogbo, Ekiti State. The board said that the accused had allegedly extorted gullible students, who were not aware of the status of the institution. The petitioner further alleged that some of the students of the polytechnic had earlier reported the institution to the board and they had published the school as an illegal institution in some national dailies. It said that the accused failed to stop the fraudulent act and as such continued to fleece innocent students through the polytechnic. The petitioner said that Babatola had sometime between the month of August, 2013 and March 2015 intended to defraud Adakeja Thomas Olusola at Ilogbo Ekiti within the jurisdiction of the court. The accused had intended obtaining the sum of N118, 000.00 from Adakeja, having falsely represented that the money was tuition fees. It said that the accused had told the victim that money was for the award of National Diploma Certificate by Teedek Polytechnic. The offence contravened section 1 and punishable under section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee...
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