by Admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The panel constituted to investigate the electoral and other offences perpetrated during the Dec. 10 Rivers Parliamentary re-run election, has alleged that it recovered N111 million from 23 INEC officials. The Chairman of the panel, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Damian Okoro, made the allegation while presenting the team’s report to the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, in Abuja on Tuesday. He alleged that three senior electoral officers collected N20 million each out of the N360 million given to them by Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers, while the remaining officers received N15 million each. Okoro further alleged that there were some cases of misconduct on the part of some electoral officers, who were compromised in the line of duty. “By this investigation, this panel has diligently unraveled what went wrong with the re-run election in Rivers, the details of which are contained in the report. “We discovered that failure of leadership and followership rather than law enforcement was responsible for the political upheaval in the state,” he said. He added that the task given to the panel was challenging because of the tense political and security atmosphere in the state. The chairman said that lawless elements targeted political opponents of their sponsors, and law enforcement agents, especially the police. He attributed some of the violent acts to inflammatory statements by some narrow-minded politicians. “Apart from their utterances, politicians in their desperation for power, also armed thugs who unleashed terror on their opponents,” he said. He said that six police officers, who were indicted, had been tried and dismissed from the force. Speaking, the inspector-general of police, said that...
by Admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Not again! A 38-year-old trader, Hafeez Yusuf, who lives in Kareem Oyelade street, Dopemu, Lagos, has been remanded for raping a 7-year-old boy who went to his shop to buy biscuit. Yusuf reportedly lured the little boy into his inner shop and penetrated the boy via his anus. The victim eventually confided in his mother when the pain became unbearable, leading to Yusuf’s arrest. A Magistrates’ Court in Ikeja, Lagos state, ordered on Friday for the suspect to be remanded to Kirikiri Prison for raping a minor on the 13th of January. The presiding Magistrate, Davies Abegunde, refused the plea made by the accused and ordered that he be kept in prison until the next hearing, Daily post reports. The case has been adjourned to February 20th. Hope he pays for his action and his punishment is commensurate to his...
by Admin | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau (SANEB) have arrested a Nigerian drug kingpin who has been on the run since December 2016. The Nigerian man whose identity is yet to revealed had been initially asked to hand himself over after he was linked to a clandestine laboratory, which was used to manufacture Crystal Meth in Pomona. In a recent police raid, they arrested him and also seized drugs, chemicals and drug manufacturing equipment estimated to be around R3 million from his hideout. The 45-year-old who made a brief appearance at the Benoni Magistrates Court on Friday, February 3, 2017, was charged with Drugs and Drug Trafficking of Act 140 of 1992. Speaking after his arrest, the head of Hawks in Gauteng, Major-General Prince Mokotedi, vowed to continue bursting more drug lords in the country. ‘We shall continue to tear the strongholds of drug lords as we remain unambiguous in our fight against drugs from communities which is included in our mandate,’ he...
by Admin | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Ajibola Alao, 29, a member of a one-chance gang arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command, has disclosed that his failure to heed his late mother’s advice not to steal other peoples’ sweat caused his arrest. Alao was chased and arrested on Thursday afternoon during one of his routine operations in Oshodi after dispossessing their lone passenger of his two phones and the sum of N60,000:00. The suspect, in company of the driver and conductor of their operational bus, a Volkswagen Transporter, with registration number, APP 820 XE, had picked up their passenger, Asotie Benedict, at Ladipo with agreed plan to drop him at Oshodi Under Bridge. But instead, Alao and his accomplices, armed with an alternative plan did not stop at Oshodi Under Bridge for him to alight. Citing the presence of LASTMA at that Bus Stop, they pretended they ascending the bridge towards Oshodi Oke, it was at this point they dispossessed Asotie of his two mobile phones (Blackberry Passport and Samsung) and his wallet containing N60,000:00 before forcing him to alight while the vehicle was in motion. According to Asotie, 24: “After throwing me out in motion, they threw N100:00 fare beside me on the road, perhaps, for me to find my way back home. But, I didn’t give up, I chased the danfo bus…. Fortunately, I sighted RRS vehicle, Response 091 and I quickly alerted them and they chased the vehicle to a halt. They arrested Alao, who took all I had on me but the driver and the conductor abandoned their vehicle and escaped....
by Admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, who is facing trial over alleged N26million fraud, has begged the Federal High Court in Abuja to allow him to return the money to the Federal Government. Fani- Kayode The former Minister, through his lawyer, Mr Ahmed Raji, SAN, urged the court to allow him to explore out-of-court settlement deal with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which is prosecuting him on a five-count charge. Fani-Kayode was the Director of Media and Publicity in the campaign team of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan during the 2015 election. He was accused of illegally receiving N26m from the detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, before the election to organise media campaign for Jonathan. EFCC maintained the he committed an offence contrary to section 17(b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011, as amended in 2012 and punishable under Section 17(b) of the same Act. Meantime, at the resumed sitting on the matter on Monday, the defendant prayed for an adjournment to purse settlement options with the anti-graft agency. Raji, SAN, said his client was ready to restitute and save FG and himself the rigours of trial in view of the amount involved in the case. Besides, Raji said he was new on the matter and would need some time to appraise the case-file to be able to properly defend his client. “Secondly my lord, looking at the facts of the case and the money involved, I believe that there are other options we can explore. “The case involves the sum of N26 million and the law allows you to explore...
by Admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Oyo State Police command has arrested 175 suspects for various offences committed within and outside the state As a result, local rival cults that have been terrorising some communities within Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, would no longer disturb public peace as their leaders have been rounded up. The State Police Commissioner, Mr Sam Adegbuyi, who made the disclosure, told journalists at the command headquarters Eleyele Ibadan, that the miscreants who were notorious for fatal political and communal clashes, have been on the run for too long despite bounties placed on their heads. Giving account of other arrests made, he said: “54 armed robbery suspects, three kidnappers, 16 burglars, four cultists, two ritualists, (found with decomposing human skull) and two rapists, were paraded while 94 vehicles have been recovered. Mr Adegbuyi noted that the doggedness and courage of the special anti-robbery squad and the cooperation of the people, made the feat achievable. “They terrorised Ibadan metropolis precisely in Idi Aro, Beere, Mapo, idi arere and so on but the police rose to the occasion. In the process, the gang leader of this group popularly known as Ekugbemi {moshood oladokun} was arrested during a gun duel with operatives of the command.” “After several unsuccessful attempts to arrest him (Moshood) in his criminal hide out in Ibadan, he escaped to Agege and later to a riverine area of Ajah in Lagos where he was arrested.” Furthermore, he revealed that another gang leader, Adekola Ademola a.k.a ‘Omo Alaja’ was also arrested on a separate man hunt in Ibadan. For many months, some areas in Ibadan were said to have...
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