by Admin | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Armed men, suspected to be cultists, have attacked a police station in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State and freed two of their colleagues in detention. It was learnt that the attackers had gained access to the police station located in Ibillo after disguising as relatives of their colleagues on February 2, 2017. They were said to have shot sporadically, killing a woman in the process. The attackers were said to have successfully freed their colleagues and run away. Confirming the report, State Commissioner of Police, Haliru Gwandu, said that the freed suspects had been arrested for alleged rape. He said, “Two rapists were arrested at Ibillo and unknown to the police, the suspects were cultists. Their members went to the police station. “But the police did not know they were there to rescue their members. There was sporadic shooting and an innocent lady was hit and killed.” Gwandu, who spoke while briefing journalists on Friday, disclosed that some of the attackers were later arrested on February 8. He also said that more policemen had been deployed in the affected police station to prevent a recurrence. “Police are still mopping up the area. The area is a border town and we have the influx of misguided elements,” the CP...
by Admin | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau (SANEB) in Johannesburg on Tuesday, February 7, 2017, arrested a 37-year-old Nigerian woman for dealing with hard drugs. She was busted after Police followed up information about drug dealers in Buccleauch. The woman identified as Clara Maduka was caught with 594 wrapped cocaine rocks at an estimated value of R90 000. Maduka appeared before the Alexandra Magistrates Court on Wednesday for dealing in drugs and was remanded in custody. Commenting after her arrest,the Acting Provincial Head of Gauteng’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, Brigadier Sekelema Lewele said that the directorate wouldn’t stop striving to arrest anyone who is dealing, manufacturing and distributing drugs in South Africa. ‘It is our mandate to get rid of the scourge of drugs within our communities. We will do so without fear or favour,’ he...
by Admin | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI An Abuja High Court has okayed a soldier, Lance Corporal Oge Etudo to die by hanging after he was found guilty of r*pe and culpable homicide. The 30 years old convicted soldier was said to have on March 27, 2014, at Dei-Dei, a suburb of the FCT, abducted, r*ped and stabbed a married woman identified as Binta Usman Kadede to death inside the bush. The soldier was previously attached to a battalion of Nigerian Army at Lungi Barracks in Abuja. He as found to have acted in breach of sections 220 and 221 of the Penal Code law. Trial Justice A.S. Adepoju who declined plea of allocutus by the defence lawyer, stressed that pictorial evidence adduced before the court showed that the defendant gruesomely murdered his victim. “I will not also show mercy to him”, the Judge who was almost moved to tears declared. Consequently, the court convicted the defendant on a two-count criminal charge that was entered against him by FCT commissioner of police. The defendant had earlier pleaded not guilty to all the charges. He equally entered a no-case-submission after the prosecution closed its case after it called four witnesses and tendered 21 exhibits. Following the dismissal of his no-case-submission, the accused soldier decided to testify for himself, maintaining that he was innocent of the charge. While denying knowledge of the crime, the defendant who was earlier dismissed from the Army, told the court that although he was at Dei-Dei on the date of the incident, he said he was only there to see a friend called Igwe to discuss his wedding plans with him....
by Admin | Feb 10, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A yet-to-be identified farmer has been reportedly killed in Orisunmibare, a disputed settlement between Ayede-Ekiti and Itaji-Ekiti in Oye local government area of Ekiti State. The killing of an Ayede indigene, Seyi Oladipo, over the land dispute had last week sparked a wild protest as the youths of the town stormed Itaji to protest his death. His assailants were said to have trailed the farmer to his farm where they inflicted several machete cuts on him before cutting off his head and hands after which they made away with severed head. A Chief in Orisunmibare it was learnt was also sustained machete injuries wounds by suspected Ayede youths who accused him of firing the shot that killed Oladipo. The Onitaji, Oba Adamo Babalola, in a telephone chat with journalists yesterday, accused Ayede people of perpetrating the attack on Orisunmibare in a bid to take over the land. Describing the victim’s killing as unfortunate, the monarch who called on the warring people to embrace peace maintained that Orisunmibare is a settlement under Itaji wondering why Ayede people want to claim the land “by all means.” According to him, “Orisunmibare is a settlement under Itaji and is more than 10 kilometers from Ayede; Ayede people just went there one morning on rampage and the scuffle led to the death of somebody from Ayede. “But yesterday, an Orisunmibare subject was killed inside his farm and he was beheaded. The Asiwaju of Orisunmibare was macheted and beaten to coma and was declared dead by Ayede youths. “The Ayede people were singing that they had killed Asiwaju Orisunmibare but he has been...
by Admin | Feb 10, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Kidnappers suspected to be militant have stormed Isheri North area of Lagos, shoot for about five hours before kidnapping one and killing five security guards. It was learnt that the abductors numbering about 11, were in the creek shooting sporadically since 7pm before they finally stormed the residence of the secretary of the Estate, Mr. Dayo Adekoya, around 11pm on Wednesday and abducted him. Meanwhile, Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday directed the State Police Command to ensure prompt arrest of kidnappers who struck on Wednesday evening in Isheri area of the State killing three security guards. The kidnappers were said to have also abducted the Secretary of the Isheri North Residents Association, Mr. Dayo Adekoya. A statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, said Governor Ambode has already directed the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni to move decisively and promptly to arrest the kidnappers. Governor Ambode, according to the statement, specifically commiserated with the families of the security guards that lost their lives to the unfortunate incident, and assured that government is on top of the situation and working with security agencies to ensure early release of the victim. The Daily Times gathered that one of the gunmen scaled through the fence of the victim’s house and opened the gate for other gang members who later gained access into the main compound. The kidnappers, after entering the compound they tried to force their way through the main door leading to the sitting room of the victim. When they could not open it, they later went behind the door...
by Admin | Feb 10, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 arraigned the quartet of Umar Audu Bida, Truth Igogori, Ifenyinwa Nwankwesiri and Ogechukwu Obaji before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 9-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of $1million (One Million US Dollars). The accused were arraigned alongside four companies: Universal Contractors, Lambda Energy Services Limited, Double Wonder Concept Limited, and ICS Energy Services Limited. Bida and his co-accused sometime in 2014 allegedly conspired to defraud one Donald Latella of North Park LLC of $1million under the pretext of supplying about two million barrels of Bonny Light Crude Oil. The offence contravenes Section 8 (b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same Act. Count 2 of the charge reads: “That you, Umaru Audu Bida, Truth Igogori, Ifenyinwa Nwankwesiri, Ogechukwu Obaji, Universal Contractors, Lambda Energy Services LTD, Double Wonder Concept Limited, and ICS Energy Services Limited and others now at large, sometime in 2014, within the Judicial Division of the Federal High Court of Nigeria attempted to obtain the sum of $1,000,000.00 (One million United States Dollars) from Donald Latella of North Park LLC under the false pretence of supplying about 2 million Barrels of Bonny Light Crude Oil which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 8 (b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same...
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