by Admin | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A 14-year-old boy, name withheld, was on Tuesday appeared in an Ota Senior Magistrates’ Court in Ogun for allegedly defiling a seven-year-old girl, name withheld. The accused, who lives at No. 6, Ifelodun Community, Oke-Ore, Atan, Ota, is facing a charge of defilement. The prosecutor, Sgt. Chudu Gbesi, told the court that the accused committed the offence on April 2 at 11.30 a.m at his residence. He said that the accused had an unlawful carnal knowledge of the seven-year-old girl. Gbesi said that the offence contravened Section 32 of the Child Right Law, Law of Ogun, 2006. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Senior Magistrate, Mr S. O. Banwo, granted the accused bail in the sum of N200, 000 with two sureties in like sum. He said that the sureties must be gainfully employed with evidence of tax payment to the Ogun Government. Banwo also ordered that one of the sureties must be closed relation of the accused while the other must be resident within the court’s jurisdiction. He adjourned the case till May 9 for hearing. Source: Today...
by Admin | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI An FCT High Court, sitting in Jabi, on Tuesday, sentenced one Amos Alabi, a Civil Defence Officer to five years in prison for criminal breach of trust and other fraud related offences. Alabi was in 2015 charged with 11 offences including fraud and criminal breach of trust before Justice Halilu Yusuf of the court. Yusuf said he was convinced that 36-year-old defendant, actually committed the case of criminal breach of trust and freed him from other 10 charges. “The court finds it difficult to corroborate the statement made by the defendant while he was giving evidence led by his counsel and during his cross examination led by the prosecution counsel,’’ he said. The judge said that the testimony given by the defendant when he was been led in evidence by his counsel, Mr J.C Njikoye contradicted the ones he gave when he was being cross examined by the prosecution, Mohammed Saraya. The judge said that the prosecution was able to prove the allegation of criminal breach of trust based on the evidence placed before the court by a prosecution witness. Yusuf, who did not give an option of fine, added that the statement admitted by the defendant when the officers of the corps were investigating the issues surrounding the case, also testified to the defendant committing the crime. According to the judge, characters such as that of the defendant deserves to be kept away from the public and that the judgment will serve as a deterrent to those who might want to emulate the character. However, the judge discharged and acquitted the defendant for the other 10-count...
by Admin | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Detectives attached to the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two suspects who posed as passengers and killed an Uber driver, in an attempt to steal his vehicle. The suspects and one other, who is at large, strangled the driver, Innevosa Emmanuel, and disposed him of his KIA RIO salon car marked KTU 594DM. They boarded the vehicle from Ikeja to Ogba, Oke-Ira during which they suddenly ordered the driver to make a U-turn and take them to Oremeji Street, Obawole area of Ogba, where he was strangled and the vehicle was driven away. According to one of the suspects, he said they were three that participated in the killing of the driver. “I and Michael met at Ogba where I went to drink and we became friends. I told him how difficult things were for me that I needed to relocate to Benin to start all over again. “It was at this point that Michael told me about a deal that could fetch me some money that we could get a car and then sell it to his boss. “Michael then told me about one Alex (Emmanuel) who had a vehicle and we agreed to meet the following day. Since then we had been meeting and discussing how to buy the vehicle. “On the fateful day the Uber driver came, I was with Michael in his office and his friend Destiny was with him but I don’t know if he discussed the vehicle deal with Destiny. “Around 9:30p.m, we called the Uber driver to come and pick us at Tantalizer eatery at...
by Admin | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Six men are standing trial in a Gudu Upper Area Court, Abuja, for allegedly belonging to a gang of thieves. The defendants – Michael Olayende, Yohanne Sunday, Gangi Musa, Isang Tom, Emmanuel Egbu and Jerry Musa, of no fixed addresses, are facing trial on a one-count charge of belonging to a gang of thieves. According to the prosecutor, Fidelis Ogbobe, a police patrol team, headed by Sgt. Bulus Jidai, raided an alleged criminal hideout in Apo Mechanic village, Abuja and arrested the six suspects on April 8. “They were intercepted and suspected to be members of a gang of thieves that had been terrorising Apo and its environs in the recent past. “When they were all questioned, they could not give satisfactory accounts of themselves and their means of livelihood,’’ Ogbobe said. He said that the offence was contrary to Section 306 of the Penal Code. All the six defendants denied the charge preferred against them. The judge, Mr Umar Kagarko, admitted all the defendants to bail in the sum of N30, 000 each and one surety each in like sum. He adjourned hearing in the matter till June 6. Source: Today...
by Admin | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Cultists and youths bearing arms in Ogoniland have murdered a site engineer identified as Ade Adeyemo, working for a contractor renovating Birabi Memorial Grammar School, Bori, in Khana Local Government Area. The engineer was allegedly murdered on Tuesday morning. It was learnt that the killers felt that the engineer had been a stumbling block from the continuous looting of building materials at the project site. The school is one of those selected by Governor Nyesom Wike’s administration for renovation. According to a close source to the family of the deceased: “It has been very difficult breaking the sad news to parents because of their state of health. His mother is hypertensive, while his father is recuperating from partial stroke.” It was further learnt that the General Overseer of the church where the family worships had been contacted to find a subtle way of breaking the news without causing serious trauma to the parents. Omoni Nnamdi, the Rivers Police Public Relations Officer told our correspondent exclusively on phone that the incident was true. “I can confirm to you that it is true. When we were alerted, before our men got to the scene, they took off. I can assure that the culprits have been identified and we are on their trail” The corpse of the late Engineer Ade Adeyemo has been moved from Ogoniland and taken to the Kpaima Morgue in Port Harcourt. Source: P.M...
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