by Admin | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Aminu Abubakar, son of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, was released from prison custody on Wednesday after earlier being remanded by the court. This was announced by Festus Keyamo, who is representing Mr. Abubakar’s estranged wife, Ummi Fatima Bolori. Mr. Abubakar and Ms. Bolori have been in a legal battle over the custody of their children. The couple had divorced in 2011 and had agreed to allow the children to spend time with their father while on vacation. In 2013, however, Mr. Abubakar allegedly refused to return the children to their mother. On October 11, 2017, Chief Magistrate K.B. Ayeye of the Tinubu Magistrate Court in Lagos ordered Mr. Abubakar to produce his six-year-old son in court, but he failed to do so. Mr. Abubakar was subsequently ordered to be remanded by the court on Wednesday, October 18. However, according to Ms. Bolori’s attorney, Festus Keyamo, Mr. Abubakar later produced his son in court as ordered. He was then released from prison custody. Mr. Keyamo added that Ms. Bolori has since been reunited with her two children. SOURCE: Sahara...
by Admin | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye has fired back at Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello, accusing him of misappropriation of funds meant for workers’ salaries. Melaye accused the Governor of spending about N40m for newspaper publication. He condemned Gov. Bello on Thursday for using such huge amount on propagating ‘lies’ instead of paying workers’ salaries and pension. He wrote on his Instagram page @dinomelaye: “Yahaya Bello today spent about N40m today on adverts in leadership newspaper (72 pages) “To propagate lies when he has not paid salaries and pension for over 15 months; “Workers are on strike and he is engaging in colossal wastage. God help us.” SOURCE: DAILY...
by Admin | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Even as it labors to swat aside allegations of corruption arising from the award of $25 billion contracts by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), a fresh corruption scandal has erupted in the Presidency. This time, it is swirling around the State House Medical Centre, on which the whistle was blown by Mrs. Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking last week at the opening of a two-day stakeholders meeting on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition held at the Presidential Villa, the first lady lamented the wretched situation at the State House Medical Centre, saying the facility lacks the most basic of things, including syringes, required in a hospital despite huge budgetary allocations. She lamented that she had to use the services of a private clinic owned by non-Nigerians when she was told that the X-Ray machine at the State House Medical Centre was not functioning. She lambasted the Dr. Hussain Munir, Chief Medical Director of the center, over its poor state, adding that the use of resources allocated to the facility must be probed. Documents obtained showed that the budget approved for the clinic in 2016 was N3.9 billion. However, the total amount spent on the purchase of drugs and other consumables was N25,983,620.00. This year, the documents stated, the approved budget for drugs and consumables stood at N290,455,312.00. From this sum, only N14,786,736.00 has been expended on drugs, with just N15 million spent on consumables. The facility, revealed the document, received no capital allocation for 2017. In a letter written by Dr. Munir to Mr. Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to...
by Admin | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Thirteen Nigerians have been arrested by the Police in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, for various crimes. According to BangkokNation, the Nigerians were arrested at about 10 a.m on Wednesday by a team of police officers led by acting Immigration Bureau commissioner, Pol Lt-General Sutthipong Wongpin, after searching six buildings of a condominium complex on Romklao road in Klong Sam Prawet subdistrict of Lat Krabang district. Sutthipong said the search on the six buildings was conducted based on information obtained from two Nigerians the police earlier arrested for internet love scam. They found 19 Nigerians living at the condominium. Six of them were found to have unlawfully entered the country and five of them had overstayed their visas. Sutthipong said two other Nigerians were suspected of being involved in the romance scam. Police also seized 15 passbooks, seven notebooks, 12 phones, one tablet and nine passports from the suspects. Sutthipong said the two romance-scam suspects also had Facebook accounts in other names and used western men’s photographs as their profile pictures. SOURCE:...
by Admin | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Lagos zonal office, on Thursday, October 19, 2017, arraigned the duo of Eze Okoronkwo and Okechukwu Ariguzo before Justice Ridwan Mohammed Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a five-count charge bordering on impersonation, forgery and obtaining money under false pretense to the tune of USD13, 275 (Thirteen Thousand, Two Hundred and Seventy- five United States Dollars). The suspected fraudsters were arrested following a complaint received by the Commission from the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). The duo allegedly used forged NAFDAC, Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) documents to obtain the sum from one Yaser , an India national. The offense is contrary to Section 1(1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act No. 14 of 2006. One of the counts reads: “ That you, Okonkwo and Okechukwu Ariguzo, between the 17th day of October 2016 and 10th day of November 2016 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of USD13, 275(Thirteen Thousand, Two Hundred and Seventy Five United States Dollars) from one Mr. Yaser , an Indian national, through Ndukwe Darlington’s First Bank Dollar Account Number 2028486705 under the false pretense that the said sum represented the cost of registration of some regulated products from Indian by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) which representation you knew was false, contrary to section 1(1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act No....
by Admin | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Gunmen yesterday stormed an Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) camp in Nkiedonwhro village, Bassa Local Government Area, Plateau State, killing 29 inmates. The victims were among the over 100 villagers taking refuge at the camp, a primary school. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen defied the curfew imposed on the area, sneaked into the camp at dawn and opened fire on the innocent victims, who were asleep. Twenty-seven died immediately; two died later in hospital. The displaced persons’ homes had been razed in the series of attacks in the locality, a situation that forced them to take refuge at the public school. President Muhammadu Buhari last night ordered security agents to stop the killings. The killings in Bassa Local Government began on September 7, about 20 persons were murdered. Several other attacks followed as the gunmen attack each village every night. Governor Simon Lalong imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the local government last weekend. The victims felt secured to stay at the primary school for the fact that troops deployed in the local government to stop the killings were also camped at the school where the 29 were killed. The government and people of the state were in confusion over how people displaced from their homes and left in the custody of armed security agencies could be killed so easily. A federal lawmaker from Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency, Hon. Suleiman Kwande, called on the Federal Government to investigate the killings. Kwande, who issued a statement, said the killings should be singled out for investigation, considering the way it happened. “I call on the Federal Government to set up a committee...
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