by Admin | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Nigeria Police on Monday paraded nine suspects allegedly responsible for the kidnap of Margret Emefiele, the wife of Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele. According to our source, two of the suspects are serving soldiers of the Nigerian Army, while another is a dismissed soldier. The Police named the serving soldiers as Lance Corporal Musa Maidabra, 28, and Lance corporal Edwin George. The dismissed soldier is other Ernest Uduefe, 32. The other suspects are Mohammed Abubakar, 29, who was identified as the gang leader; Mohammed Musa, 26; Mohammed Sule, 26, Ibrahim Abdullahi, 30, Aliyu Musa, 30; and Mohammed Yusuf, 36. All the suspects are...
by Admin | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A mother of a 13-year-old girl that was raped and impregnated by her father has filed for a divorce before a Sharia court Magajin Gari, Kaduna, Kaduna State. In a writ of summon submitted before the court, the mother, Maryam Manta alleged that her 40-year-old husband, Hafizu Isyaku raped his 13-year-old daughter, (names withheld) and got her pregnant when they were staying at Mararaba, a surburb of Abuja. She revealed that the shameful act forced her to abandon their home in Maraba, where she lives with her husband and relocated to Kaduna with their six children. She told the court further, “When I returned from where I went to see my parents, as a mother and as a woman, I noticed my daughter was not behaving normal and at the same time sick. “But I didn’t suspect anything because my husband do constantly gave her some concoctions to drink which he claimed was going to heal the daughter’s ailment. “But when the ailment persisted and I noticed my daughter had missed her period, I questioned and threatened her to tell me if she had any affair with a man and she eventually opened up to me that her father had been making love to her. “So, when I confronted Hafizu with the issue, he cried and confessed about joining a cult group which mounted pressure on him to get his daughter pregnant and also abort it as part of the sacrifice. “I became confused and cried my life out and he promised to disssociate himself from the cult and I went together with him to the hospital where...
by Admin | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI In a record chasing history that is close to Guinness book of record, a 41 year-old man arrested by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police for stealing the phone of his helper has pleaded that he should be assisted from going to prison the eighth time. The suspect, Emmanuel Oyewunmi, from Ikale, Ondo State, was arrested by the operatives on Friday night at Ojodu-Berger Bus Stop for stealing N600 and a phone from a bus driver and a passenger. Oyewunmi, before now, has been on the wanted list of RRS’s operatives for stealing a Samsung Galaxy S4 belonging to one Mrs. Adesewa Oni from her car. On the said day, Oyewunmi was a park attendant outside Shoprite Shopping Mall, Ikeja, when Oni drove in to attend a ceremony at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium in Alausa. For keeping an eye on her car, Oni instead of offering Oyewunmi the N200 he requested decided to drive him to a nearby ATM to withdraw some money out of which she gave him N1000. Unwittingly for her, she left Oyewunmi inside her car while she gets the money from the ATM. Upon returning, she handed Oyewunmi the N1,000 and she drove off. The victim, while reliving her experience said “I have driven about five minutes away from Alausa when I felt the urge to make some calls for appointments, and I realised that my phone, Samsung Galaxy S4, was missing. Quickly, my mind raced to him and I realised my folly. “How could I have left a total stranger in my car alone, leaving...
by Admin | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI One of the four pupils of the Lagos Junior Model College, Igbonla, Epe, Lagos State, who were abducted by gunmen last Thursday, has fallen sick. A source close to the family of the affected schoolboy told PUNCH Metro on Sunday that the kidnappers, however, assured the parents that they had administered treatment to him. Our correspondent gathered that negotiations on the ransom were in progress as the victims’ families were running around to raise the sums demanded by the gang. PUNCH Metro had reported that the attackers, comprising five men and a woman, at about 8am on Thursday, stormed the school and abducted four pupils, a teacher and a vice-principal. The victims, who were reportedly rounding off prayers at the assembly hall, were taken away by the abductors, who shot sporadically into the air. The pupils, identified as Isaac Adebisi, Okonkwo Emmanuel, Abu and Jeremiah; the English Language/Civic Education teacher, Lukman Oyerinde, and the Vice-Principal, A.O. Oyesola, were taken away in a speedboat. It was reported that the kidnappers, who called a parent of one of the schoolboys, demanded N30m for the victims, requesting N5m for each of the six. PUNCH Metro learnt on Sunday that one of the schoolboys had fallen ill. The family members reportedly pleaded that the gang should collect the amount raised so far and let go of him. The source said, “The men called on Saturday and Sunday and told us that one of the boys was sick. They said his temperature was high. They called one of the relations of the pupil and wanted to know the drug they could use...
by Admin | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Eight more senior judges are under investigation and will soon be arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) as part of its latest attempt to cleanse the judiciary of corruption, Daily Trust gathered yesterday. Seven judges were earlier arrested in different states across the country between Friday night and Saturday morning over alleged corrupt practices. A top official of the service told Daily Trust that the seven senior judges arrested were still in custody and would be arraigned in court any moment. The judges in custody last night are: Inyang Okoro and Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court, Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Kabir Auta of the Kano High Court, Mu’azu Pindiga of the Gombe High Court, Mohammed Tsamiya of the Court of Appeal, Ilorin and the Chief Judge of Enugu State Justice I. A. Umezulike. The DSS said Saturday that it recovered over N93 million and $530,000 cash from three arrested judges. The source said the judges were allowed access to their families and were cooperating with the agency. “We still respect them. They are not being treated like common criminals,” he said. As part of the investigations, three registry staff from various courts were also invited for questioning, the source said. He added that the corruption cases against the judges were disturbing and investigations were carried out with “facts and figures.” He said the current clampdown on the judicial officers was based on intelligence, and not on the perception of ordinary Nigerians. “We received petitions against these judges on cases they are handling. The worst part of it is where they...
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