by Admin | Feb 9, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Nigerian Police Force has paraded a five man gang suspected to be involve in the killing of one Custom Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Customs, Aliyu Dayyab on December 22 2016 at the Lagos Tincan area. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP. Jimoh Moshood stated this during a press briefing on Friday in Abuja. “This afternoon, I am parading before you a five man gang of vicious armed robbers and killers of an Assistant Superintendent of Customs (ASC) Aliyu Dayyab on 22/12/2016 at Tincan area of Lagos. “Sequel to the report of the incident and a coordinated operation carried out by IGP’S Intelligence Response Team (IRT) and Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU) on the directive of the Inspector General of Police, to fish out the killers of the custom officer.” He said. According to him, the suspects were trailed and arrested between 28th December 2016, and 18th January, 2017. He named the suspects as; Lucky Williams, 29 years, from Oboritu LGA AkwaIbom state who is said to be the gang leader, Akinloye Samuel, Abraham lot, Bolaji Taiwo, 25 years and Lanre Humplrey Aimuto, 33years. An Infinix phone belonging to the victim was recovered from Lucky Williams suspect to be the gang leader. “It is pertinent to state that Humphrey Aimudo organized the gang that robbed and killed the Custom officer on the 22/12/2016 while he closed from duty on his way home. “The suspects confessed to have information that the custom Officer had in his possession four million Naira cash and some Dollars and this prompted the attack and killing of the officer after they snatched the bag...
by Admin | Feb 9, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Two wealth seekers, Saheed Adeyemi and Michael Edemba have been arraigned before the Oyo State Magistrates Court, Ibadan after confessing to using human heads for money ritual. The pair were apprehended on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 by officers of the Omi-Adio police division, Daily Post reports. Edemba, who is 60 years of age admitted that a quest for financial comfort was the motivation behind his involvement in the crime. The sexagenarian was caught with his accomplice, Adeyemi, who is also a herbalist after a successful ambush by the police. Confirming this report was Ken Brasana, the police prosecutor on the case who said, “The herbalist, Adeyemi, walked into the ambush laid by the police while he tried to remove the human head wrapped in a black polythene bag, which was hidden beside a shop at Abidogun Junction, Omi- Adio. “The duo is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and unlawful possession of human skull.” Magistrate R.A. Ebeloku-Mustapha in his ruling on the matter granted the suspects bail in the sum of N200, 000 with two reliable sureties each following their not-guilty...
by Admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arraigned one Ibrahim Rabiu and five others before Justice M. SHITU of Federal high Court Bauchi on a three count charge bordering on conspiracy, diversion and conversion of good and received a stolen property to the tune of N5.5 million. The Suspects Zakari Isa, Nura Garba, Muhammad wada Ibrahim, Ibrahim Rabiu and one Babawo now at large were arrested by EFCC operatives in Bauchi and Jos following a petition by one Alhaji Umaru Sabo of Pantami quarters, Gombe. The petitioner alleged that on 28 September, 2015 one of the suspects, Nura Garba who pretended to be a truck driver convinced him and he entrusted and gave him a full truck load of 600 bags of rice worth N5,520,000.00 to be delivered from Lagos to Suleja, Niger state. Instead, the suspect connived with other members of the syndicate and fraudulently diverted the said goods to Bauchi, sold same and used the money for personal needs. In his ruling, Justice Shitu adjourned the case to 28/3/2017 for trial. However, he granted bail to all the accuse to two reliable sureties one to be a civil servant of level 12 or a person with landed property with C of O within the jurisdiction of the...
by Admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI An FCT High Court, Maitama, on Tuesday adjourned till March 1 for adoption of addresses in a case of alleged breach of trust and diversion of N190 million filed against Mr Steve Oronsaye. Oronsaye, former Head of Service of the Federation, was also the Chairman, Presidential Committee on Financial Action Task Force, set up by former President Goodluck Jonathan. He was docked for breach of trust and diversion of N190 million meant for the committee he chaired. The judge, Justice Olasumbo Goodluck, adjourned the matter after listening to the submissions of counsel in the matter. The prosecuting counsel, Mr Faruk Abdullahi, informed the court that he just filed reply to the no case submission filed by the defense. The defence counsel, Mr Peter Erivnode reminded the court that the no case submission was made since Dec. 9 and duly served on the prosecution and it was almost two months now. He said that the prosecution realising that the matter was for adoption today decided to file its reply this morning. Erivnode told the court that this was a clear indication that the prosecution was not prepared to pursue this matter diligently. “ In this circumstance, we pray the court to grant us an adjournment to enable us study what was in the reply,“ he said. Recalls that the prosecution called six witnesses to prove its case and also closed its case on Nov. 15.On Dec. 9, the defence opened its case by filing no case submission, saying that the prosecution does not have any case against the...
by Admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Corporal Michael Olujimi, a policeman attached to the Okitipupa Police Division in Ondo State, is dead after he was shot by unidentified gunmen. The sad incident occurred Saturday, at about 5:30 a.m. Olujimi was heading to the station to resume duty when the gunmen opened fire on him and escaped, immediately leaving him in a pool of his own blood and fighting for his life. He was still alive when help came and he was rushed to the hospital, sadly he did not make it. A witness spoke to Vanguard about the incident, saying; “He was going to the station to resume duty this morning (Saturday) when the incident happened. We met him in a pool of blood and quickly called the station. “He was not dead when we found him and rushed him to an undisclosed hospital. Robbers have invaded this town and I think the police should step up strategies to bring these culprits to book.” The Okitipupa Divisional Police Officer, DSP Oluwole Ojo, when contacted by Vanguard on phone, said that he had not been adequately briefed, hence could not comment on the...
by Admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Ajibola Alao, 29, a member of a one-chance gang arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command, has disclosed that his failure to heed his late mother’s advice not to steal other peoples’ sweat caused his arrest. Alao was chased and arrested on Thursday afternoon during one of his routine operations in Oshodi after dispossessing their lone passenger of his two phones and the sum of N60,000:00. The suspect, in company of the driver and conductor of their operational bus, a Volkswagen Transporter, with registration number, APP 820 XE, had picked up their passenger, Asotie Benedict, at Ladipo with agreed plan to drop him at Oshodi Under Bridge. But instead, Alao and his accomplices, armed with an alternative plan did not stop at Oshodi Under Bridge for him to alight. Citing the presence of LASTMA at that Bus Stop, they pretended they ascending the bridge towards Oshodi Oke, it was at this point they dispossessed Asotie of his two mobile phones (Blackberry Passport and Samsung) and his wallet containing N60,000:00 before forcing him to alight while the vehicle was in motion. According to Asotie, 24: “After throwing me out in motion, they threw N100:00 fare beside me on the road, perhaps, for me to find my way back home. But, I didn’t give up, I chased the danfo bus…. Fortunately, I sighted RRS vehicle, Response 091 and I quickly alerted them and they chased the vehicle to a halt. They arrested Alao, who took all I had on me but the driver and the conductor abandoned their vehicle and escaped....
by Admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The panel constituted to investigate the electoral and other offences perpetrated during the Dec. 10 Rivers Parliamentary re-run election, has alleged that it recovered N111 million from 23 INEC officials. The Chairman of the panel, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Damian Okoro, made the allegation while presenting the team’s report to the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, in Abuja on Tuesday. He alleged that three senior electoral officers collected N20 million each out of the N360 million given to them by Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers, while the remaining officers received N15 million each. Okoro further alleged that there were some cases of misconduct on the part of some electoral officers, who were compromised in the line of duty. “By this investigation, this panel has diligently unraveled what went wrong with the re-run election in Rivers, the details of which are contained in the report. “We discovered that failure of leadership and followership rather than law enforcement was responsible for the political upheaval in the state,” he said. He added that the task given to the panel was challenging because of the tense political and security atmosphere in the state. The chairman said that lawless elements targeted political opponents of their sponsors, and law enforcement agents, especially the police. He attributed some of the violent acts to inflammatory statements by some narrow-minded politicians. “Apart from their utterances, politicians in their desperation for power, also armed thugs who unleashed terror on their opponents,” he said. He said that six police officers, who were indicted, had been tried and dismissed from the force. Speaking, the inspector-general of police, said that...
by Admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Not again! A 38-year-old trader, Hafeez Yusuf, who lives in Kareem Oyelade street, Dopemu, Lagos, has been remanded for raping a 7-year-old boy who went to his shop to buy biscuit. Yusuf reportedly lured the little boy into his inner shop and penetrated the boy via his anus. The victim eventually confided in his mother when the pain became unbearable, leading to Yusuf’s arrest. A Magistrates’ Court in Ikeja, Lagos state, ordered on Friday for the suspect to be remanded to Kirikiri Prison for raping a minor on the 13th of January. The presiding Magistrate, Davies Abegunde, refused the plea made by the accused and ordered that he be kept in prison until the next hearing, Daily post reports. The case has been adjourned to February 20th. Hope he pays for his action and his punishment is commensurate to his...
by Admin | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau (SANEB) have arrested a Nigerian drug kingpin who has been on the run since December 2016. The Nigerian man whose identity is yet to revealed had been initially asked to hand himself over after he was linked to a clandestine laboratory, which was used to manufacture Crystal Meth in Pomona. In a recent police raid, they arrested him and also seized drugs, chemicals and drug manufacturing equipment estimated to be around R3 million from his hideout. The 45-year-old who made a brief appearance at the Benoni Magistrates Court on Friday, February 3, 2017, was charged with Drugs and Drug Trafficking of Act 140 of 1992. Speaking after his arrest, the head of Hawks in Gauteng, Major-General Prince Mokotedi, vowed to continue bursting more drug lords in the country. ‘We shall continue to tear the strongholds of drug lords as we remain unambiguous in our fight against drugs from communities which is included in our mandate,’ he...
by Admin | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Ajibola Alao, 29, a member of a one-chance gang arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command, has disclosed that his failure to heed his late mother’s advice not to steal other peoples’ sweat caused his arrest. Alao was chased and arrested on Thursday afternoon during one of his routine operations in Oshodi after dispossessing their lone passenger of his two phones and the sum of N60,000:00. The suspect, in company of the driver and conductor of their operational bus, a Volkswagen Transporter, with registration number, APP 820 XE, had picked up their passenger, Asotie Benedict, at Ladipo with agreed plan to drop him at Oshodi Under Bridge. But instead, Alao and his accomplices, armed with an alternative plan did not stop at Oshodi Under Bridge for him to alight. Citing the presence of LASTMA at that Bus Stop, they pretended they ascending the bridge towards Oshodi Oke, it was at this point they dispossessed Asotie of his two mobile phones (Blackberry Passport and Samsung) and his wallet containing N60,000:00 before forcing him to alight while the vehicle was in motion. According to Asotie, 24: “After throwing me out in motion, they threw N100:00 fare beside me on the road, perhaps, for me to find my way back home. But, I didn’t give up, I chased the danfo bus…. Fortunately, I sighted RRS vehicle, Response 091 and I quickly alerted them and they chased the vehicle to a halt. They arrested Alao, who took all I had on me but the driver and the conductor abandoned their vehicle and escaped....
by Admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, who is facing trial over alleged N26million fraud, has begged the Federal High Court in Abuja to allow him to return the money to the Federal Government. Fani- Kayode The former Minister, through his lawyer, Mr Ahmed Raji, SAN, urged the court to allow him to explore out-of-court settlement deal with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which is prosecuting him on a five-count charge. Fani-Kayode was the Director of Media and Publicity in the campaign team of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan during the 2015 election. He was accused of illegally receiving N26m from the detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, before the election to organise media campaign for Jonathan. EFCC maintained the he committed an offence contrary to section 17(b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011, as amended in 2012 and punishable under Section 17(b) of the same Act. Meantime, at the resumed sitting on the matter on Monday, the defendant prayed for an adjournment to purse settlement options with the anti-graft agency. Raji, SAN, said his client was ready to restitute and save FG and himself the rigours of trial in view of the amount involved in the case. Besides, Raji said he was new on the matter and would need some time to appraise the case-file to be able to properly defend his client. “Secondly my lord, looking at the facts of the case and the money involved, I believe that there are other options we can explore. “The case involves the sum of N26 million and the law allows you to explore...
by Admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Oyo State Police command has arrested 175 suspects for various offences committed within and outside the state As a result, local rival cults that have been terrorising some communities within Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, would no longer disturb public peace as their leaders have been rounded up. The State Police Commissioner, Mr Sam Adegbuyi, who made the disclosure, told journalists at the command headquarters Eleyele Ibadan, that the miscreants who were notorious for fatal political and communal clashes, have been on the run for too long despite bounties placed on their heads. Giving account of other arrests made, he said: “54 armed robbery suspects, three kidnappers, 16 burglars, four cultists, two ritualists, (found with decomposing human skull) and two rapists, were paraded while 94 vehicles have been recovered. Mr Adegbuyi noted that the doggedness and courage of the special anti-robbery squad and the cooperation of the people, made the feat achievable. “They terrorised Ibadan metropolis precisely in Idi Aro, Beere, Mapo, idi arere and so on but the police rose to the occasion. In the process, the gang leader of this group popularly known as Ekugbemi {moshood oladokun} was arrested during a gun duel with operatives of the command.” “After several unsuccessful attempts to arrest him (Moshood) in his criminal hide out in Ibadan, he escaped to Agege and later to a riverine area of Ajah in Lagos where he was arrested.” Furthermore, he revealed that another gang leader, Adekola Ademola a.k.a ‘Omo Alaja’ was also arrested on a separate man hunt in Ibadan. For many months, some areas in Ibadan were said to have...
by Admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The abduction of a two-month-old baby, Kudus Adebowale, by a customer has unsettled traders at a market in the Badagry Roundabout area of Lagos State. Kudu’s mother, Mrs. Alimat Adebowale, sells biscuits in the market, while the suspected abductor was identified simply as T-girl. PUNCH Metro learnt that T-girl was well known to most of the traders in the market and had lived in the community for over four years until a few months ago when she travelled. T-girl was said to have returned to the neighbourhood last week and went to the market, where she was treated to a warm reception around 9am on Thursday. It was gathered that she approached Alimat, who was breastfeeding the baby, Kudus, and took the child under the guise of playing with him. She reportedly strapped Kudus to her back afterwards and sat on a chair behind his mother, who was busy attending to customers. “Nobody knew when she (T-girl) disappeared from the market with the baby. The mother had looked back to check on Kudus, when she discovered that she had left the market with her child. We called her number, but she didn’t pick our calls. That was when it occurred to us that she had stolen the baby. “I don’t really blame Iya Kudus. She thought the child was in a safe hand because almost everybody here knows T-girl. She would come to buy things here and play with us. She is from Ibadan (Oyo State) and had lived here for more than four years before she travelled some months ago. She came back last week,” a...
by Admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Saturday sealed off an estate belonging to the immediate past Governor of Bauchi State, Mallam Isa Yuguda. The EFCC said on its official Facebook page that the action was sequel to an order by Justice J. T. Tshoho of a Federal High Court Abuja for the interim forfeiture of the property. The commission said, “The EFCC has seized a house located at 184 Attahiru Bafarawa Close, beside Fariah suites , old GRA, Bauchi, Bauchi State belonging to a former governor of the state, Mallam Isa Yuguda, pending the conclusion of investigation against him bordering on abuse of office, money laundering and diversion of public funds. “The court had directed the Bauchi State Lands Registry to furnish the EFCC with the copies of all documents including building plan approval in respect of the property.” Yuguda, who last year, dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, served as minister of aviation under former President Olusegun Obasanjo and also served as governor for two terms on the platform of the party Source:...
by Admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC), an umbrella organization for over 150 anti-graft groups, has told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), to immediately investigate some Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) officials alleged to have been involved in bribe taking during the 2015 general elections. These include Professor Maurice Iwu, former INEC Chairman, state Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) and Administrative Secretaries. The call was made in a petition by CSNAC to the interim EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu. Signed by the coalition’s National Chairman, Mr. Olanrewaju Suraju, the petition said the group observed that the current investigation into the matter is less than far-reaching and called on the EFCC not to spare any of those involved. CSNAC recalled a report in The Nation Newspaper of January 16, 2017, which alleged that not fewer than 200 INEC officials were queried for allegedly collecting bribes during the 2015 elections. “It was reported that about N23.29billion was paid out to INEC officials in a desperate bid to change the results of the election won by President Muhammadu Buhari. “In addition to the above, it was further stated that an investigation conducted by your agency revealed that the money involved came from former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke,” CSNAC stated. The coalition added that it is aware that the INEC is currently investigating the allegations through a panel it constituted. The panel, headed by National Commissioner, Baba Shettima Arfo, CSNAC explained, has the mandate to probe and apply internal sanctions to officials found culpable and subsequently turn over such officials to the EFCC for prosecution. While CSNAC is in favor of the step,...
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