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Don’t Be A Victim. Investigate Every Property Before You Buy Any Land This Year(3)

Follow @NigeriaPI The Deed of Assignment or Conveyance: This is the second most important document you need to do a personal search. A deed of conveyance or assignment traces the history of how the property or land has reached the present owner till date. It relates all the information in respect of the true owners of the land before it was passed to Mr A and How MR A sold it to Mr B and How Mr B intend to sell it to you. With that document, you can trace in most respect the original families to find out if there is any dispute as to the ownership of the land how it has been transfered. It is extremely important to trace the original source of the land because its there you know if the land actually has been duly transfered to the present owner. It is here you get to know of if there is any family dispute and some families are still quarreling over the true ownership of the land. It is there you tend to get the family names to go and do a thorough search in court or Alausa to know of any lingering dispute. Its here you get to know the hanky panky the present owner intends to play when he begins to tell you rooster and bull stories so that you pay for the land immediately. Never fall for this trick. Ask for a copy of the deed if they have one and hand it over to your lawyer for a through search on the family. To be honest this is the most...

How Ex-Minister Abba Moro, Others Spent N676m Proceeds From Immigration Job Scam

Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC is set to arraign former Interior Minister Abba Moro and four others for allegedly defrauding 676,675 job seekers of N676.6million in the deadly Nigeria Immigration Service job recruitment. in 2014 According to charges preferred against the accused, EFCC said N202,500,000 was spent on buying No. 1, Lahn Crescent, Maitama, Abuja and N120, 100,000 was lavished on the upgrade of No.2, Sigure Close, Off Monrovia Street, Wuse II Abuja. The agency alleged that recruitment firms, Drexel Tech Nigeria Limited and  Mahmood Ahmadu converted N101, 200,000  to US dollars for personal use. Recall that the 19 applicants died and scores got injured in stampede in different stadia in March 2014 during the controversial recruitment. The charges are as follows: “That you Abba Moro, Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia, F.O Alayebami , Mahmood Ahmadu (at large) and Drexel Tech Nigeria Ltd on or about the 17th of March 2013 at Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with intent to defraud conspired to induce a total number of 676,675 Nigerian job applicants seeking employment with Nigerian Immigration Service to deliver property to wit: cumulative sum of N676,675,000 which sum represents the sum of N1,000 per applicant under the false pretence that the money represents payment for their online recruitment exercise into Nigerian Immigration Service and which pretence you knew was false, contrary to Section 8 and 1(1) (b) and punishable under Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, No. 14 of 2006 “That you Abba Moro, Anastasia Daniel Nwobia, F.O Alayebami , Mahmood Ahmadu ( at large) and Drexel Tech Nigeria Ltd on or about...

man beat wife to death because of infidelity

Follow @NigeriaPI A man from Ebonyi state, named locally as James Uguru, has been arrested after beating his wife Jacint to death for her alleged infidelity. The murder took place over the weekend in the area of Ndubia Inyimaegu community, in the Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State. Local police spokesman ASP George Okafor revealed that Uguru had angrily beaten his wife into a stupor and then death after the deceased stopped him from chasing after her alleged lover boy. Uguru, who lives and works in Lagos state, was said to have become suspicious of the wife’s apparent promiscuity after he heard rumors about her adultery making the rounds in the community whenever he visited home to see his family.   After Uguru came back from Lagos to visit, trouble started when the couple were having a discussion in their sitting room when suddenly, a phone started to ring in their marital bedroom. The husband went to find the phone but his wife then stopped him by holding on to his waist, preventing him from moving.   Uguru is said to have become furious after he was being prevented from entering the bedroom, and at that moment, his wife’s alleged lover emerged from under the bed to make his escape.   According to local reports, his wife’s insistence that he should not chase after the man made him vent his anger on her. “He started punching the woman, who eventually collapsed and was rushed to the hospital where she was confirmed dead,”an eyewitness said. Police spokesman also reported that, Uguru has been arrested and charged however the woman’s...

EFCC Re-arraigns Pastor For N40.2 Million Fraud

Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on February 22, 2016 re-arraigned Rev. Kim David Pam on an amended 18-count charge bordering on stealing, fraudulent misappropriation and criminal breach of trust, before Justice Longji of Plateau State High Court Jos. The accused is said to have abused his position as Chairman of Goodliving Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society and the sole signatory of the accounts domiciled in First Bank Nigeria Plc and Zenith Bank Nigeria Plc, among other offences. One of the charge reads, “that you Reverend David Kim Pam between the 23rd day of April 2012 and the 11th day of May 2012 through one James Pam misappropriated the sum of Eleven Million, Three Hundred and Fifty Eight Thousand, Five Hundred Naira (11,358,500.00) being money belonging to Goodliving Multi Purpose Cooperative Society domiciled at First Bank Nigeria Plc Jos Main Branch and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 308 of the Penal Code Law of Plateau State and punishable under section 309 of the same Act”. The accused pleaded not guilty to the charges. In view of his plea, the prosecution counsel C.D Denis asked the court to fix a date for trial to commence. Justice Longji adjourned to April 12, 2016 for definite hearing. Pam who was initially arraigned sometime in November 21, 2013 pleaded not guilty to a 9-count charge before Justice Yargate B. Nimpar of the Plateau State High Court. Justice Nimpar granted bail to the accused in the sum of N5 million with two sureties in like sum. One of the sureties must own a landed property in Bukuru area of Jos  and must...

Lagos Trader Rapes Nine-year-old Boy In The Anus

Follow @NigeriaPI The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 34-year-old trader, Mallam Isiaka, for allegedly raping a nine-year-old boy in the Iju area of the state. It was learnt that Isiaka was arrested and detained on Saturday by the Iju Police Division after the victim, Christopher, (pseudonym), complained about pains in the anus to his mother. Christopher, a primary 1 pupil, who stayed with his family on Coker Alhaja Street, Old Akute Road, Iju, was said to have opened up to his mother that Isiaka allegedly raped him through the anus at different times when she sent him to buy items from the trader. Our correspondent gathered that the boy was taken to the Mirabel Centre for tests which revealed that the boy had been slept with through the anus. Further tests to ascertain infections were carried out on him. The mother thereafter reported the matter at the police station and Isiaka was arrested on Saturday. Christopher also told his mother that he could not open up on the incident because the suspect allegedly threatened that he (Christopher) would die if he reported anything to his parents. Speaking with our source, a neighbour, who identified herself only as Olawumi, said the parents first became suspicious when Christopher was sent on an errand penultimate Monday and he came back with his pants soaked after staying longer than usual. She said, “Isiaka sells items across the road in his shop. The boy’s parents used to send him on errands to the shops. He bought household items like sugar, milk and biscuits from Isiaka. We call him mallam. “It was on...

Lagos establishes first DNA Forensic lab in Nigeria

Follow @NigeriaPI Read the press statement below… “In furtherance of its commitment to the criminal justice sector reforms and take the fight against crime to a greater level, the Lagos State Government on Tuesday announced that it has concluded plans to establish the first ever high-powered DNA Forensic Laboratory in Nigeria which will take off within the next six to twelve months. The lab, which would be called the Lagos State DNA Forensics Centre (LSDFC), when fully operational, would fulfill an unmet need for DNA profiling which is a unique forensic technique that is now being used all over the world. Addressing journalists at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in Alausa on Tuesday, the State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, said the establishment of the centre was another eloquent testimony of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s sincerity and seriousness towards fighting all forms of criminality. Kazeem, who addressed the media alongside senior officials of the Ministry, said Governor Ambode had been at the vanguard of the war against domestic, sexual and violent crimes, and that the centre was geared towards vigorous justice sector reforms. He recalled the ground-breaking donation of equipment worth N4.8 billion to the Nigerian Police, the Light Up Lagos Project, and the recent solidarity visit of the Governor to crime flash points like the Isawo area of Ikorodu where criminals have been terrorizing innocent citizens, among others as further proofs of the Governor’s determination to tackle crime. Speaking on the importance of the forensic centre, the Commissioner said the facility which would be driven by the Ministry of Justice with active support of the...

Don’t Be A Victim. Investigate Every Property Before You Buy Any Land This Year (2)

Follow @NigeriaPI  Survey Plan: This to me is the most important document From the start you must ask for from the omonile, agent or family that intends to sell the land/property to you. This survey plan is what i would carry to the Land Bureau to go and do a geographical search on first. No matter how cheap or beautiful or strategically located a land or property is, once that property has been discovered to be designated for Government use in future, there is no point going any futher to purchase it. It will be a very foolish risk to attempt to defile the government and say nothing would happen, at least there are so many houses around or so many people have bought their own and nothing has happened. Well for those who are conversant with Uncle Fashola’s no nonsense approach in maintaining the master plan of Lagos, once your property is within that area that has being designated for Future Government use, no matter how long maybe its in the year 2023, the plan must be carried out accordingly and your property will go down without any form of compensation because you failed to do the right thing by throwing caution to the wind. Examples include the 8 Lane Dual Carriage Way in Badagry that all the houses that were on that land were demolished, All the houses in Alimosho local Government that were near pipe lines, The ones in Idiroko, The houses in ijegun etc! In fact remind me of the ones you know. Also in Lekki Ajah, its even worse because there are some areas...

Adam Johnson denies having oral sex with underage girl, says they only kissed but he can’t remember getting aroused

Follow @NigeriaPI Footballer Adam Johnson was in court today and denied having oral or penetrative sex with a 15 year old girl. He admitted to only kissing the girl and when asked by prosecutor Daniel Thomas if he was sexually aroused by the kiss,  Johnson said he had ‘no specific recollection’ of being sexually aroused but admitted it was a ‘possibility’. Johnson arrived at Bradford Crown Court today without his girlfriend Stacey Flounders, the last time she appeared in court with him was on Tuesday last week. The court heard last week that Johnson twice met a 15-year-old in January last year after she befriended him on Facebook. At the first meeting, the girl got into Johnson’s Range Rover Sport, where he signed two football shirts for her. The pair then exchanged messages online, at which Johnson spoke about getting a ‘thank you kiss’ from the girl, the jury heard. When he met the teenager in his car for a second time, she says she performed a sex act on him and he put his hand down her trousers, an allegation the football staunchly denies. The Englishman already sacked by his club Sunderland for admitting to child sex offences of grooming and kissing an under age girl , also confessed in court today that as at when he was kissing the girl , he and his partner Stacey Flounders were having a rocky relationship and he also sent sexual messages to different women in their 20s. He told the jury: ‘I wasn’t being a good person to my girlfriend or my daughter. I was talking to people I shouldn’t have.’...

EFCC Arrests Ex-Minister Abba Moro, Two Others Over Job Scam

Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arrested a former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, over the Nigerian Immigration recruitment scam in which no fewer than 20 job seekers died. Moro and two other officials in the ministry were said to have been arrested by the anti-graft agency on Monday evening in Abuja. The two other officials, according to sources, were former Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Anaesthesia Nwaobia, and a deputy director in the ministry. The EFCC had intensified effort recover about N600 million said to have been realised from the proceeds of the online registration by Nigerian job seekers, who enrolled for the ill-fated immigration recruitment in 2014. Each of the candidates was made to part with N1000 through a company allegedly engaged a top politicians and officials of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Abba Moro, whose ministry supervised the agency and NIS boss, David Paraddang were initially suspended and eventually sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari. Among those who paid the money, were 15 innocent Nigerians who were crushed to death in a stampede across rowdy stadia in the country where the controversial job tests were to be carried...

Hairdresser stabbed boyfriend to death for spending too much time on Facebook

Follow @NigeriaPI Terri-Marie Palmer, 23, fatally stabbed Damon Searson in the heart after flying into a jealous rage over his social media activity. She then dialled 999 and claimed the stabbing happened accidentally when she threw Damon the blade at the caravan park where they were staying. She said: “It’s a carving knife. We literally only got it today. It’s really f****** sharp.” But a jury didn’t believe Palmer and convicted her of murder.. Terri-Marie Palmer, 23, fatally stabbed Damon Searson in the heart after flying into a jealous rage over his social media activity. She then dialled 999 and claimed the stabbing happened accidentally when she threw Damon the blade at the caravan park where they were staying. She said: “It’s a carving knife. We literally only got it today. It’s really f****** sharp.” But a jury didn’t believe Palmer and convicted her of...

Don’t Be A Victim. Investigate Every Property Before You Buy Any Land This Year(1)

Follow @NigeriaPI For the avoidance of doubt for First Time Property/Land Buyers or New Property Viewers and Readers  who dont know what a property search is, it means before you buy any land or property whatso ever in any form or shape where ever, you have to know the validity of it. Lagos in particular is so notorious when it comes to sale of property or land that have so many fraudulent defects surrounding that land/ property that you wont even know what has hit you. These set of people are known as the Omoniles, land grabbers or land touts. Omoniles naturally should mean owners of the original land which includes the original family that truthfully inherited the property from their fore fathers that has passed down to them. But the real problem comes when there are so many members of the family that are divided in terms of claiming ownership of the lands and how the land truthfully devolved to them. Before you know it, a property that is meant to be shared by a family of 3 to claim ownership is now being contested by the brother in law, the aunty, the great grand uncle relatives etc and thats when they begin to employ touts going around to masquerade as the original owners with the right to sell and after you fall victim of their sweet tongues and coercion, you realise that you bought from the wrong family or the wrong set of people who have no right to sell the land to you and you would be confronted by the original owners  when you have started...

Checking Online Payment Fraud In Nigeria

Follow @NigeriaPI Perceived high-level fraud within the online community, network issue and lack of education have continued to pose huge challenges to online payment in Nigeria Education of the public on how to use card payment system and security of the online system are some of the solution that could be adopted to tackle the challenge, the Co-founder of Vogue Pay, Michael Simeoni, said. He expressed confidence in online transactions which he said were more secured. Mr Simeoni and Mr Quam Ojikutu, Co-founder of Vogue Pay, discussed how online fraud could be tackled to ensure safer transactions. Mr Ojikutu said that the creation of an eco-system that allowed a shared database, the effective implementation of the Bank Verification Number and the social security number system that would link everyone to a specific information would go a long way in tackling the challenge. Source: Channels...

CBN Asks Nigerians To Report Cases Of Illegal Charges By Banks

Follow @NigeriaPI In a statement by the CBN’s spokesman, Ibrahim Mu’azu, the apex bank said it had received series of complaints from customers of Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) alleging excessive charges from their respective banks. The bank reiterated that the Revised Guide to Bank Charges clearly specified allowable charges for all banking services, warning that it would not in any way condone the fleecing of banking customers under any guise. “It was in the quest to provide a strong voice to banks’ customers and moderate the arbitrary charges that the CBN in 2012, established its Consumer Protection Department,” the statement read. The apex bank said it had investigated over 6,000 complaints relating to unauthorised bank charges brought to its notice and that banks had been compelled to refund over 6.2 billion Naira to affected customers in 2015 alone. It expressed its resolve to continuously enforce the provision of the Revised Guide to Bank Charges and urged members of the public to report cases of infringement to enable it investigate and apply sanctions on any erring Deposit Money Bank (DMB). Bank Customers are urged to forward their complaints to the Director, Consumer Protection Department through an email the apex bank provided – cpd@cbn.gov.ng Source: Channels...