by Admin | Apr 6, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Italian government is set to deport at least 40 Nigerians back into the country over immigration offenses. The deportees will arrive at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Tuesday night. Our correspondent gathered that many of the deportees entered Italy illegally while others entered the country with visiting visas but stayed past their expiration dates. A source close to the Department of State Security attached to the Lagos airport told our correspondent that some of the impending deportees also committed criminal offenses in their host country and would immediately be handed over to the police on arrival. It would be recalled that 23 Nigerians were repatriated from the United Kingdom last Friday over similar...
by Admin | Apr 6, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and financial crimes commission EFCC, Gombe Zonal office secured the conviction and sentenced of one Adamu Babawuro Shuaibu before Justice SA’AD Muhammad of the Gombe State High Court on one count charge bordering on cheating. The suspect was arrested by EFCC operatives on 23, May 2016 at Hammadu kafi area in Gombe via a petition submitted by one Honorouble Mamman Alkali of Kaltungo town. It was alleged that the suspect collected the sum of N500,000.00 from the complainant in order to supply timber “MADRID” from Taraba state which he failed. He was arraigned on 6 February, 2017 and he pleaded not guilty. The prosecution counsel opened his case by calling witnesses and all the necessary documents related to the transaction. The case was slated today for continuing of hearing, when matter was called the accuse decided to change his plea to guilty. In view of that, the prosecution counsel Zarami Muhammad urged the court convict and sentence the accuse according to law. In his judgement, justice Sa’ad found the accuse guilty by his pronouncement, therefore sentenced him to six months imprisonment. However, he gave the convict an option of N40,000 fine. He also ordered the restitution of N500,000.00 Source: NTA...
by Admin | Apr 6, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI In 2008, the American State Department wrote a report that focused on the 2007 murder of one Victor Obafaiye, the principal witness against Senator Dino Melaye in an electoral petition against the controversial legislator from Kogi State. The US State Department’s report about Mr. Obafaiye’s murder was issued on March 11, 2008 and written by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Report. The report noted that Mr. Melaye was elected into the Federal House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) filed a legal challenge disputing his election. However, Mr. Obafaiye, said to be in possession of documents that might have shown that Mr. Melaye tampered with election results, was murdered before he could testify. “On August 19, Victor Obafaiye, the principal witness for the Action Congress in the Kogi State Election Tribunal, was assassinated. Obafaiye was crucial to the case, as he was supposedly in possession of documents that would have served as evidence of election tampering by the PDP House of Assembly [sic] candidate, Dino Melaye,” stated the US State Department report. SEE ALSO ABU Whistleblowers Contradict VC, Insist Dino Melaye Did Not Graduate 403 Comments 1 Week Ago The report did not directly accuse Mr. Melaye of masterminding Mr. Obafaiye’s murder, but the report suggested that the State Department considered the case one of the significant instances where the use of violence undercuts the practices of electoral democracy in Nigeria. Mr. Melaye, who was in 2015 elected to the Nigerian Senate, has since been able to visit the US, suggesting that...
by Admin | Apr 6, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A Nigerian police officer identified as Corporal Yusuf Ibrahim has been accused of assaulting and molesting Omoromoke Comfort Adekunle, a final year female student of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko (AAUA) in Ondo State. Ms. Adekunle alleged that Corporal Ibrahim, whose police number is 364909, attacked her at a security checkpoint in Ago-yeye community along Owo/Akungba road. Several students who spoke to our correspondent described the police officer as a notorious extorter who is assigned to the ‘A Division’ of the Owo Divisional Police in Ondo State.According to Ms. Adekunle, the officer attacked her for spurning his demands for a bribe, adding that Mr. Ibrahim was irate that she had recently told him she was opposed to bribery. Ms. Adekunle, who suffered severe bodily injury in the assault, described her ordeal in a statement obtained by our correspondent on Tuesday in Akure, the capital of Ondo State. In the statement, the final year student explained that she was in a vehicle headed for Akungba to submit her academic project at Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko (AAUA) when Mr. Ibrahim ordered the vehicle to stop at a checkpoint at Ago-yeye on the Owo/Akunga road. She said Corporal Ibrahim demanded that the driver pay a N50 bribe. She wrote that the driver, who did not have a N50 note, gave the police officer N500, expecting to receive change of N450. Instead, “the police officer went away with the money for more than five minutes without returning the change,” Ms. Adekunle wrote. According to her, the police officer’s action infuriated the passengers who were losing patience with his behavior. She...
by Admin | Apr 6, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Fourteen students who were remanded in Kirikiri Prison on the orders of a Lagos Mobile Court last weekend were freed on Thursday as students and activists massed outside the court to demand their freedom. The students, who were seeking an explanation of the bizarre rustication of a graduated student and a visually-impaired student by authorities at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), were ordered to be arrested by the Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Ademola Adeleke, on Friday. Lagos State Commissioner of Police Owoseni Fatai claimed that the fourteen students had made a “riotous invasion” of the premises of the Television Continental in Lagos. The Television Continental, however, has since debunked the allegation as fallacious. After their arrest, the students were hurriedly taken before a Lagos Mobile Court at Oshodi and were then ordered to be remanded in Kirikiri Prison without bail. Several activists who visited the students at the prison reported that prison officials demanded bribes. They said each individual visitor was compelled to pay N200 each at three separate levels before being allowed to meet with the students. At the hearing on Thursday, the Lagos Mobile Court was massively attended by students and activists demanding the students’ release, but the police had withdrawn their false charges and indicated that they would no longer press charges against the students. Lawyers on the students’ case condemned the unjust remand of the students in prison. Leading the team of the students’ lawyers, Barrister Monday Ubani said the Lagos Mobile Court lacked jurisdiction to try the students, adding that their abuse was totally uncalled for. “This (Mobile Court) is meant...
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