by Admin | Oct 2, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman O. Jibrin and two others for alleged fraud. Jibrin was arraigned before Justice A. S Umar of the FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 4-count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy. Others arraigned included Rear Admiral Bala Mshelia (rtd) and Rear Admiral Shehu Ahmadu (rtd). They were docked alongside Habour Bay International Limited. According to the anti-graft agency, the naval chiefs whilst in office allegedly bought a house worth N600million from the account of Naval Engineering Services without the said purchase contract being captured in the budget. It was also alleged that, the documentation for transfer of ownership of the property was done such that a private company owned by the family of the first defendant (Vice Admiral Jubrin) became the buyer. source:...
by Admin | Oct 2, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Niger State on Saturday said it had apprehended a suspected fake army general in Minna on Monday. Commander Philip Ayuba, Commandant of NSCDC, in the state made the disclosure while presenting the suspect before newsmen in Minna. “The suspected fake army General you are seeing specialises in defrauding unemployed applicants by promising them job in either the military or paramilitary outfits in the country,’’ Ayuba said. He said the suspect, Mohammed Usman alias General Ishiaku is 41 years old and from Katcha Local Government Area of the state. Ayuba explained that the suspect was arrested by an undercover team of NSCDC in Minna metropolis after he had concluded plan to collect a balance of N450,000 bargained for a job in NSCDC. The NSCDC Commander said the suspected accomplice of the suspect, Abubakar Ibrahim, was at large. He said the suspect would be charged to court as soon as investigation was completed. The suspect, while speaking with newsmen, pleaded for forgiveness and said, “I will not do it again, it was the handiwork of the devil.” SOURCE:...
by Admin | Oct 2, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The National Judicial Council said on Friday that it had recommended to President Muhammadu Buhari, the compulsory retirement of Justice Mohammed Tsamiya from office- the Ilorin Division of the Court of Appeal. Justice Tasmiya was sanctioned over allegations that he met with a party to a case before him, Nnamdi Oji, three times and on each occasion, demanded the sum of N200m to influence the Court of Appeal panel in Owerri, which sat on election cases that arose from the 2015 general elections. In a statement by its Acting Director, Information, Mr. Soji Oye, the NJC said it also recommended the Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice I. A. Umezulike, for compulsory retirement and Justice Kabiru Auta of Kano State High Court for dismissal. The NJC recommended Auta for prosecution over an allegation that he collected N197m from a man, Alhaji Kabiru, who wrote a petition to the NJC against him. The NJC said it recommended to Governor Lawrence Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, the compulsory retirement of the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Umezulike, for delivering judgment in a case 126 days after final addresses were adopted by parties, and for other instances of abuse of office. Justice Umezulike, during his book launch, allegedly received a donation of N10m from a businessman, Prince Arthur Eze, while two cases in which Eze was said to have had “vested interest”, were in the judge’s court. It also recommended to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, of Kano State, the dismissal of Justice Kabiru Auta. Kabiru was accused of collecting about N197m from a man, Alhaji Kabiru Yakassai, under the pretext that...
by Admin | Oct 2, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A police raid nabbed 238 suspected drug dealers and dismantled 15 criminal gangs in 10 of Colombia’s 32 departments, authorities said Friday. Those captured “are not only linked to drug trafficking, but also the killing of 63 people,” police chief General Jorge Hernando Nieto told reporters. “Operation Temis II” was carried out over several hours in the departments of Antioquia, Boyaca, Caldas, Casanare, Cundinamarca, Huila, Narino, Santander, Tolima and Valle del Cauca, AFP reports. According to the authorities, who infiltrated the gangs with their agents, the suspects used minors, homeless people, cab drivers and street vendors to sell drugs. “Some of the dismantled organisations were formed by family clans who have devoted themselves to this illicit activity for generations,” authorities said. During the counternarcotics operation, authorities also found the suspects committing other crimes, such as murders, threats, extortion, robbery, illegal possession of firearms, criminal conspiracy and using minors to commit crimes. The world’s largest grower of coca, the plant from which cocaine is made, Colombia is also the largest producer of the drug, with an estimated 646 tonnes last year alone, according to the United Nations....
by Admin | Oct 1, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A housewife, Olayinka Adebayo has told an Akure Customary Court in Ondo State, that she deserted her matrimonial home for three years to avoid being used for rituals by her husband, Adeniyi. Olayinka, who made this known when she testified in a divorce petition filed by her husband, told the court that Adeniyi had once asked her to lie on a white apparel and be chanting some words. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), she recalled that she had to change her place of worship, which was the Redeemed Christian Church of God to Cherubim and Seraphim, having realised that her life recorded no positive impacts. The respondent said that she also approached a herbalist in the course of overcoming her life challenges. Adeniyi had told the court to dissolve his 15-year-old marriage to Olayinka for alleged desertion for three years, night outing, promiscuity and talkative’s trait. He noted that he would have forgiven her if the respondent had listened and corrected her perceived waywardness. In his judgement, Mr Ayodele Omotola, the President of the court, said that all efforts to resolve the lingering rifts failed and dissolved the marriage. Omotola ordered that the petitioner should be paying N10,000 to the court’s registry every month for educational and feeding need of the children. He added that both parties should be responsible for medicals and other needs of the children, saying that the respondent should give the respondent access to the...
by Admin | Oct 1, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Wife of Central Bank of Nigeria ( CBN) Governor, Mrs Margaret Emefiele, kidnapped some 24 hours before, has been released by her abductors. According to family sources she was rescued “due to the gallantry of the Armed Forces, Police and Security Forces”, in Ugoneki near Benin City and is currently recuperating in Government House, Asaba. More details to follow. Mrs. Margaret Emefiele, the wife of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), who was abducted Thursday on Benin-Agbor road, has been released by her abductors. A family source said she and other persons taken were released in the wee hours of Saturday following a massive police operation in the area. Mrs. Emefiele was on her way from Lagos to her hometown in Agbor, Delta State when her convoy was attacked by heavily armed men, who overpowered her security detail. Her abductors later established contact with her husband and demanded a ransom. The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris, had deployed helicopters along the Benin-Agbor Road in a bid to track the abductors. The kidnappers had whisked Margaret, three other women and a male driver, to an unknown location. But in a move to pile pressure on the kidnappers, the IGP also flooded the area with hundreds of police operatives and sniffer dogs. The IG Special Intelligence Monitoring Team, headed by Abba Kyari, had commenced investigation into the incident. Kyari was the officer who arrested the suspects responsible for the abduction of Prof. Kamene Okonjo, the mother of ex-Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in...
Recent Comments