by Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog |
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by Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI News jus breaking from our source is that no fewer than three students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School, a private school in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, have been abducted by some gunmen. It was learnt that the bandits stormed the school at about 8.30 pm on Monday and seized the children. The Lagos State Police Command confirmed that three schoolgirls were abducted. However unconfirmed reports said the number of the abducted students was more than three. Source:...
by Admin | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Ruling in the case of unlawful arrest brought by Rickey Tarfa, SAN, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and three others persons which was billed for today suffered a setback sequel to the applicant’s attempt to introduce new evidence. Tarfa had approach the court asking the court to award N2.5 billion as damages against the EFCC over his arrest and detention. At the last date in court, Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court, Lagos adjourned to today February 29, 2016 for judgment after listening to the submissions of counsel. Tarfa had in an affidavit by one John Olusegun Odubela, who is the head of Chambers in the firm of Messrs Rickey Tarfa & Co, admitted that the applicant gave the sum of Two Hundred and Twenty Five Thousand Naira Only (N225,000) to Justice M.N Yunusa of the Federal High Court. He has now approached the court for an order granting him leave to re-open and adduce further evidence that the said Justice M. N. Yunusa is Mr. Mohammed Awwal Yunusa, a former employee in Tarfa’s chambers, as the beneficiary of the N225, 000. Tarfa, SAN, had stated in his earlier affidavit ’’That it was a common knowledge in legal circles that the Honourable Justice M.N Yunusa lost his father in-law Alhaji Audi Garba Damasa on 28th December 2013 in Maiduguri and travelled there to attend to the funeral rites. “That the applicant and some friends of the Honourable Justice M.N Yunusa made some donations towards the said funeral rites and to commiserate with the Judge since they could not physically go and commiserate...
by Admin | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI 14 year old Ese Oruru has regained her freedom. She was rescued from her abductor, Yinusa, who kidnapped her from her mother’s shop in Bayelsa in August 2015, forced her to change her religion and married her. Ese is currently in police custody. According to our source, Ese Oruru, who was allegedly kidnapped from Bayelsa State to Kano, said she was not interested in reuniting with her family and denied reports that she was abducted from her home in Bayelsa State. In an exclusive audio recording obtained by the online publication today, the girl also said she eloped with her lover to Kano in order to convert to Islam. “My name is Aisha Chuwas. I am 17-year-old. I came here to be a Muslim and I will stay here.” Human rights lawyer, Huwaila Mohammed, who was given access to the girl at the Zonal Police Headquarters in Kano, said upon interrogation, she understood the girl was never forced to convert to Islam. She also had access to Miss Oruru’s lover and established that he is just 18 years old, ‘not anywhere above 20’. “I was surprised when I saw a very small boy. He is just 18-year old. I was enraged thinking that it was an old man involved in the saga. From the way I see it, they eloped not because of religion but love,” she said. Source: Premium...
by Admin | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A former minister of interior, Abba Moro and other accused persons in the 2014 Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment scam are to be remanded in Kuje prison custody. Moro and four others are facing trial for allegedly defrauding 676,675 job seekers of N676.6million in the deadly Nigeria Immigration Service job recruitment in 2014. At the court sitting today, February 29, the three accused persons after listening to the charges against them by the Economics and Financial Crimes commission, EFCC, they pleaded not...
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