by Admin | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The document showed a breakdown of how pension funds were shared to finance pension verification teams to ‘South Africa, ‘Ghana’, and the 36 states’ of the federation, ‘zonal levels’ and others to siphon different sums of public funds into their bank accounts in the name of biometric verification. Out of the N18.4million released to Maina for a trip to South Africa, the Director -General of Budget was allocated N3,056,000 . The per diem for the trip to Ghana cost N9.1 million out of which a former Director of Defence Intelligence received N1,388,000 through his First Bank account. Two female staff of EFCC got N1,275,000 each as part of the national cake. While those who went round the 36 states, allegedly collected N160,471,200 from Maina, a few others were paid N15,477,900 for going around the six geopolitical zones of the country The report gave the details of how Maina allegedly collaborated with former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Steve Oronsaye, and two others in N2billion pension funds allegedly mismanaged for biometric contracts. The N2billion was part of the looted N17billion cash. The others are Osarenkhoe Afe and Fredrick Hamilton Global Services Limited suspected as fronts The report added: “Mr. Oronsaye and Maina engaged the services of the following individuals to assist them in looting pension funds. Osarenkhoe Afe: (charged to court together with Mr. Maina & Oronsaye): He is an IT consultant who introduced Innovative Solutions to the OHCSF for biometric enrolment project. He stated that Mr. Steven Oronsaye [former Head of Service) asked him to join the Pension Reform Committee headed by Mr....
by Admin | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday opposed an application filed by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, seeking to be joined as a defendant in a N450 million fraud charge before Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. Mrs. Alison-Madueke, who is currently in London where she is being investigated for money laundering, is seeking an opportunity to defend the allegations in a charge filed against her, Mohammed Belgore, and a former Minister of National Planning, Abubakar Sulaiman. Mr. Belgore, a governorship candidate during the 2011 Kwara State gubernatorial election, is standing trial alongside Mr. Sulaiman, for allegedly receiving N450 million on March 27, 2015 out of the $115,010,000 paid into a new generation bank by Mrs. Alison-Madueke. Moving the application on Monday, her lawyer, Onyechi Ikpeazu, pleaded with the court to allow her to defend herself in four of the counts in the interest of justice and fair hearing. Mr. Ikpeazu further submitted that the prosecution should remove his client’s name from the charge, if it would not give her an opportunity to defend herself. “It is the fundamental right of the applicant that a criminal proceeding of this nature should not go on in her absence. “We have no objection if her name is extracted from the charge and the case goes on,” he added. In his further submission, Mr. Ikpeazu cited a case involving the Federal Government and Olajide Omokore, a businessman, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court Abuja in which Mrs. Alison-Madueke was mentioned in the charge, though she was...
by Admin | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A 29-year-old man, Kehinde Ariyo, has been arrested by the Osun Police Command for allegedly raping an 85-year-old woman to coma at Ilesa town in the state. The police commissioner in the state, Mr Fimihan Adeoye, disclosed this to newsmen on Monday in Osogbo. Adeoye said the incident happened at Ogudu area in Ilesa, where the suspect forcefully had carnal knowledge of the old woman after gaining access to her residence around 11 pm on Oct. 27. He added that the woman sustained various degrees of injuries on her body, including her private organ, and eventually passed out in the process before she was resuscitated at a private hospital. According to Adeoye, the suspect lives in the same area where the victim resides and had gone on errands for the old woman several times in the past. “The woman passed out during the rape, but came back to life after some hours, the suspect was arrested the next day. “This is the height of wickedness in our society. The boy injured the woman in the process, but she has been treated “, Adeoye said. The suspect admitted having committed the act, claiming to have been drunk at the time of committing the heinous act. “Mama asked me to sleep on a couch in the passage. I was already drunk and did not know what happened afterwards,” he...
by Admin | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has prayed the Federal High Court in Lagos not to order the return of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, from the United Kingdom to Nigeria. The EFCC described Diezani’s pleas to be brought back to Nigeria as a ploy to escape justice in the UK, where, according to the EFCC, she is being investigated for several financial crimes by the Metropolitan Police. According to the commission, investigation by the Metropolitan Police in Diezani’s case had reached an advanced stage and her prosecution in the UK was imminent. The EFCC made this disclosure in a counter-affidavit it filed in opposition to Diezani’s application before Justice Rilwan Aikawa, wherein she is seeking an order compelling the Attorney General of the Federation to facilitate her return to Nigeria. In the said application, which she filed through her lawyer, Mr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, Diezani said she wished to appear before the Federal High Court in Lagos to defend a criminal charge bordering on alleged laundering of N450m, where her name was mentioned. The main defendants in the charge are a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Dele Belgore; and a former Minister of National Planning, Prof. Abubakar Suleiman. But kicking against the application, the EFCC, in a counter-affidavit deposed to by one of its operatives, Usman Zakari, explained that when it began investigation into the case involving Belgore and Suleiman sometime in 2015, Diezani spurned its invitations to explain her role and rather absconded the UK. Zakari said, “That the applicant, seeing that the investigation by the Metropolitan Police had reached advanced stage and...
by Admin | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI After a recent bombing raid that killed one of the wives of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, the Nigerian military on Wednesday said it is investigating the incident. According to reports, on October 19, fighter jets attacked what was called ” a large gathering of Boko Haram” at the Durwawa settlement, near Urga in the Konduga area of Borno State. In an emailed statement, Airforce Spokesman Air Commodore, Olatokunbo Adesanya, said the bombing killed jihadists on the ground and triggered a fire. “Efforts are ongoing to confirm the reported killing of Shekau’s wife, alongside other BHTs (Boko Haram terrorists),” he said. Shekau’s wife was identified only as Mallama Fitdasi. Mallama means “madam” in Hausa and shows a sign of honor. According to Adesanya, Fitdasi was “reported to have been representing her husband in a coordinating meeting with other terrorists at the location of the airstrikes”. Shekau is known to have four wives, including one of Muhammad Yusuf’s widows. Yusuf was the founder of Boko Haram, but after his death, Shekau took over as the leader of the group back in 2009. However, the group suffered a major split last year when some people of the Islamic State group recognized Yusuf’s son, Abu Mus’ab al-Barnawi, as the leader. Despite clashes within the group, Boko Haram’s eight-year insurgency has left at least 20,000 civilians dead in northeast Nigeria. Shekau is now considered a global terrorist and the United States has offered an up to $7 million reward for information that will bring him to justice. SOURCE: SAHARA...
by Admin | Oct 30, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A Lagos High Court in Igbosere has adjourned until November 10 for ruling on an application of suspected billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike (alias Evans), seeking to quash fresh charges against him. He has asked the court dismiss proposed twin charges of murder, attempted murder, kidnapping and attempted kidnapping, among others filed against him by the Lagos State Government. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo fixed the date following arguments from Evans and the state council. The judge also ordered that three of Evans’ alleged accomplices be moved to Kirikiri Maximum Security Prisons, Ikoyi. Justice Taiwo made the order following an application that one of the suspects requires medical attention which are better available in prison. The suspects, who are on trial on seven counts have been in police custody since their arrest, unlike Evans who was transferred from the police to prison custody following his arraignment before Justice H. Oshodi of a Lagos High Court in Ikeja. SOURCE: SAHARA...
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