by Admin | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Friday, declined jurisdiction to hear a case instituted by Human Rights activist and lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, in November 2015, challenging the appointment of Col Hameed Ali, Rtd, as the Comptroller General of the Nigeria nCustoms Service by Gen Muhammadu Buhari Rtd. Adegboruwa had asked the court for an interpretation as to whether the President could appoint anyone as Comptroller General of customs without complying with Section 3 of the Official Gazette of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made on 25th March 2002, where it was stipulated that only those within the rank of Deputy Comptroller General of Customs can be elevated as substantive Comptroller General and asking the court to nullify the appointment. In response to the case, the Nigerian Customs service filed a preliminary objection dated 29th April, 2016, challenging the locus standi of the applicant to file and maintain the suit. The customs service contended further that Adegboruwa’s suit was a mere academic exercise raising hypothetical questions that the court should not entertain. The court heard arguments from counsel to the parties on 15th June 2016 and adjourned for to September 16, 2016, for judgment. But during proceedings on Friday, Adegboruwa appeared in person whilst the respondents, Gen Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation, were absent and unrepresented. In its judgment, the court held that the President is empowered under Section 5 of the 1999 Constitution, to exercise all executive powers, either by himself directly or through officers delegated for that purpose. The court held further that under section 171 of the same...
by Admin | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The former first lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan has alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) hired mercenaries to implicate her. Mrs. Jonathan said the anti-graft agency is plotting to take her hard earned money, adding that those who pleaded guilty to the fraud allegations were not authorised by the companies. This is coming as four companies accused of allegedly laundering $15m for the former first lady, pleaded guilty. A statement issued by her media aide, Chima Osuji, reads: “This is a clear evidence of the desperation of the prosecution to pull down the former First Lady and confiscate her hard-earned money. “It is an irony that it was the former First Lady who went to court for the repatriation of her confiscated money when she realised that the EFCC and its co-travellers were playing politics with this issue after she had come out publicly to say that the said money belongs to her and that she has all evidence to prove the sources of her money. Up till this very moment, the EFCC has refused to interrogate or invite her for questioning. “The biggest twist in court on Thursday was that the fourth to seventh defendants pleaded guilty to all the 15 counts. It is clear that these unknown faces were agents of the EFCC, who have been stage-managed and tutored to come to court to complicate the case as a strategy to confiscate her money.” Mrs. Jonathan had earlier asked the EFCC to lift the restrictions on her bank account, so she can take her $31.4m. She said the money was for her...
by Admin | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Commissioner of Police in Abia State, Mr. Adeleye Oyebade, has reunited a stolen 15 months old baby with her mother, Miss Chioma Chijindu of No 8 Ohafia Street, Umuahia, the Abia State capital. It was learnt that Chijindu was allegedly drugged by lover, one Lawan Nuhu, before he made away with the baby and other valuables from the house. Parading the suspects at the police headquarters in Umuahia, Oyebade said a combined team of police operatives acting on a tip-off arrested Nuhu together with two other suspects, Lawal Ahmed and Chidinma Johnson. They were arrested at Lokpanta in Umunneochi Local Government Area of the state with the stolen baby. The CP added that other items recovered from the suspects were the sum of N170,000, 58 ladies handbags and one Peugeot 307 salon car with Registration Number AZ 166 KWL. Oyebade stated that investigation was ongoing to establish how the suspects came about with the car and other items in their possession. Nuhu who claimed to have been living with Chijindu for over two years, insisted that he wanted to take the baby to Yola in Adamawa State for Sallah celebrations. He said, “I had my daughter with Chioma whom I have been living with in Umuahia. Although we are not legally married, her parents know about our relationship. “But we have been having some misunderstanding for some time because she told me that she will marry another man, which is why I wanted to take my baby to my state. “She was sleeping when I left the house with my daughter; it was on my way...
by Admin | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A 37-year-old husband, Ganiyu Fatai, asked an Ado-Ekiti Customary Court in Ekiti State to dissolve his 16-year-old marriage to his wife, Modupe. Fatai is seeking the dissolution on the grounds of adultery, threats to life, stubbornness and lack of respect for him and his family. Fatai told the court that when they were living with his brother, people always told him that she was wayward. He said that there was a time his wife went to Aso-Rock hotel with a lady that lives close to their house, saying his brother’s wife and his friend told him. The father of three said sometimes she will go out without his consent and she will not return back in two days or a week. According to him, there was a day she left home for two days during Christmas eve and there was nobody to cook for the children. “When she came back, I ordered her to leave my house but neighbours intervened”, he said. He claimed that there was a day he asked her to accompany him to the hospital and when he was treated, she told him that she wanted to stay with the nurse that he can go home. “I hid in a place and watched her as she took a cab to Ilawe and I followed her with a bike. She went to a man’s house but I refused to cause commotion at the place. “When I asked her what she went to do, she denied but later confessed that she went for a naming ceremony”, he said. Fatai said that his wife and her friend...
by Admin | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI There was confusion in Rumuokurusi community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers when an unidentified woman in a commercial tricycle (keke) snatched a 13-month-old baby, Chinazamepkere Eke, and disappeared to an unknown destination. The unidentified woman had ostensibly instructed the keke rider to get close to a six-year-old girl known as Chinyere Agbai carrying the baby on her back, before pulling her victim into the vehicle to Agbai’s dismay. It was gathered that the child theft, which happened at about 8.30 am on Monday shocked indigenes of the community, who said that such an incident had never occurred in the area. The distraught mother of the stolen child, Ms. Oluchi Eke, who spoke with Southern City News on Thursday, said she was in her shop where she sells provisions when she learnt that her baby girl had been stolen. Eke, who said she had separated with her husband, explained that she was dazed by the information she got about her baby. The 31-year-old mother of two said it was not the first time her baby would be brought to her in the shop and wondered why a fellow woman would steal her second child in such a manner. Eke, however, explained that she had reported the matter at Elimgbu Police Station. According to her, “This thing happened on Monday; my first daughter was carrying the little girl to the shop on the road around Orianwo Street, by Tank junction in Rumuokurusi. “A woman in a keke dragged the little baby into the Keke and went away with my child. The baby that was carrying the little...
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