by Admin | May 31, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Kannywood actress, Rabi Ismail who escaped from prison about six years ago after being sentenced to death, has been recaptured. The actress, now 46 years old, escaped from custody in Hadejia Prisons, Jigawa state, on December 16, 2011, mysteriously, without breaking walls or digging tunnels. Prison officials believed then she was aided by insiders. Francis Enobore, spokesperson for the prisons authorities, confirmed that Ismail was re-arrested through a collaboration between the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) and the State Security Service (SSS). Rabi Ismail, also known as Rabi Cecilia, was in 2005 found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced to death by a high court in Kano. Her case went up to the Supreme Court, where the sentence was confirmed in 2011. She was alleged to have murdered her boyfriend, Ibrahim Auwalu, in 2002. The actress was said to have lured Ibrahim to a picnic at Tiga Dam, where she poisoned him with chocolate and pushed him into the dam. She was initially held at the Kaduna Central Prison from where she was transferred to Hadejia prison before she escaped. In July 2011, the Supreme Court of appeal upheld the sentence of the lower and appeal courts that sentenced her to death by hanging. The actress was initially arraigned in 2002 before a Kano High Court for culpable homicide contrary to Section 221(b) of the Penal Code. The case dragged on till January 5, 2005, when Justice Haliru Mohammed Abdullahi pronounced her guilty of the charge. While delivering the lead judgment, Justice Haliru said the court was convinced beyond reasonable doubt that Rabi committed the act. Quoting Rabi’s...
by Admin | May 31, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, of the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, says it has arrested three suspects in connection with the kidnap of six students of Model College, Igbonla, Lagos. He said the suspects were arrested on Tuesday in Benin. According to Abba Kyari, an assistant commissioner of police, the three suspects arrested have been involved in various kidnap incidents within the country. “Three of the militant kidnappers, who left the creek and came to Benin to visit one of their members that was injured in recent gun battle with security agents, were arrested by IRT in Benin. “The suspects are Egelu Endurance, aka Jubby, 25, a native of Abere town in Ovia South L.G.A Edo; Stanley Yomi Irabomini, 25, aka Powei from Ovia South LGA of Edo State and Bentel Endurance, 24, also from Ovia South LGA Edo State. Mr. Kyari said the suspects have confessed to have participated in the kidnapping of prominent personalities in Lagos and Ogun state. “The suspects claimed they came to Benin to see their injured colleague and relax for a while before going back to the creek.” He said that efforts to arrest remaining gang members and rescue the school children was in progress. PREMIUM TIMES reported how the students were abducted at Igbonla Model School, near Epe, Lagos. The students were abducted at around 5 a.m. last Thursday by unknown gunmen, who arrived through a creek behind the school. The hoodlums broke through the school’s fence to gain access into the premises. The incident occurred seven months after gunmen kidnapped two teachers and four pupils of the...
by Admin | May 31, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A high court sitting in Lokoja has again adjourned the trial, Comrade Austin Okai till 21st June, 2017 for Judgement. Justice Ishaq Mohammed Sani made this known at the court 1 in Lokoja. Earlier, the amended charges of the Prosecutor was read to the court as the charges were increased from 13 to 14 taking a new twist. The defendant, Mr J.S Okutepa SAN said the 14 count charge discloses carries no offence known to law, vague and not sufficient to what constitute offences in in the sight of law are absent from the count charges. “This is a criminal offence as they claim and petition should not be written by proxy. The governor should sign the petition, submit it and come to the court of law” said Okutepa. “The criminal Prosecutor should not massage the ego of those in power and the individual (Governor Bello) who is alleged to defamed should go and complain himself to the Nigeria Police Force” noted the SAN. He said his client social media accounts were account was hacked by some top Kogi state government officials. ” the 14 count charges brought forward to this court of competent jurisdiction is not injurious known to law and it is to late for the Prosecutor to introduce it at this stage” Okutepa said. Okutepa Urged the judge to maintain the civil rights of Austin Okai and Nigerians to point out errors and ego of people in government pointing out that the charges submitted by the Prosecutor have no power to summon a witness. “Section 37 of the Constitution of the federal Republic of...
by Admin | May 31, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A court in the south-western city of Liupanshui has sentenced to 10 years in jail a former vice governor of the populous province of Sichuan for bribery. In a brief statement, the Chinese court said that Li Chengyun had taken bribes worth 6.36 million Yuan ($933,250). It was not possible to reach a legal or family representative for comment. Sichuan, famed for its spicy cuisine, has emerged as a focus of Xi Jinping’s crackdown on graft, since it was a power base for Zhou Yongkang, the country’s once powerful domestic security boss. Zhou was jailed for life in 2015 for corruption, and dozens of his associates have also been arrested, many in Sichuan, where he was Communist Party boss from 1999 to 2002. According to his official biography, Li spent his entire working life in Sichuan, where he was party chief in the provincial city of Deyang when Zhou was in charge of Sichuan. (Reuters/NAN) source: the...
by Admin | May 31, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized another property from George Turnah, a godson to former President Goodluck Jonathan. The property, which is located at Citec Estate, Gwarinpa, Abuja, is a duplex. Although the EFCC has yet to evaluate the value of the property, sources told our correspondent that such property would go for between N70m and N100m. As of Tuesday afternoon, the inscription, ‘EFCC, Keep off’ was seen across the fence and the gate of the building. The commission is still tracing Turnah’s remaining properties. Last week, the anti-graft agency seized a mansion and some other properties allegedly traced to Turnah who is standing trial for an alleged N3bn fraud. The commission also froze about seven bank accounts through which Turnah allegedly received billions of naira. Justice Ibrahim Watilat had granted the interim forfeiture order based on an application filed before the court by the EFCC’s counsel, Adebola Olatunji. Turnah, together with seven companies, were arraigned on 12 charges bordering on obtaining money by false pretences, money laundering and abuse of office to the tune of N3, 094, 268, 235.69. Meanwhile, some aggrieved youths in Bayelsa State on Tuesday staged a peaceful demonstration in Yenagoa, the state capital, in support of the EFCC. The youths, particularly commended the anti-graft agency for the arrest and detention of Turner. On Tuesday, the angry youths, under the aegis of the Concerned Citizens of Bayelsa State, led by their coordinators, Chief Harrow Zuokomor and Mr. Abule Bethel, said Bayelsa was still in shock at the magnitude of funds seized from Turner by the EFCC. The youths were armed with...
by Admin | May 31, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Federal High Court in Lagos has adjourned till July 5 for hearing in a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission by a cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Robert Azibaola. Azibaola filed the suit to challenge his alleged unlawful detention by the EFCC last year March. In the suit filed before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun, Azibaola’s lawyer, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, contended that the EFCC had no right under sections 293 and 294 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act to detain his client. Adegboruwa claimed that the EFCC detained Azibaola to make him implicate Jonathan, a move, he argued, was a violation of Section 7 of the ACJA, ‘which has outlawed the practice of arresting a citizen as ransom for the alleged offence of another citizen’. He claimed that Azibaola was being persecuted based on his relationship to Jonathan and also alleged that the EFCC had perfected a plan to keep transferring Azibaola from one state to another in order to keep renewing the remand warrant to ensure that he was perpetually kept in detention. He argued that the sections of the ACJA relied upon by the EFCC to detain Azibaola were designed for criminal offences such as murder, armed robbery, kidnapping and treasonable felony, which attracted capital punishment and for which the police would need time to await a legal advice from the office of the attorney-general. But the EFCC, which had arraigned Azibaola for an alleged scam of $40m, urged the court to dismiss the suit. The anti-graft agency alleged that Azibaola fraudulently received $40m in September 2014 from...
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