by Admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The abduction of a two-month-old baby, Kudus Adebowale, by a customer has unsettled traders at a market in the Badagry Roundabout area of Lagos State. Kudu’s mother, Mrs. Alimat Adebowale, sells biscuits in the market, while the suspected abductor was identified simply as T-girl. PUNCH Metro learnt that T-girl was well known to most of the traders in the market and had lived in the community for over four years until a few months ago when she travelled. T-girl was said to have returned to the neighbourhood last week and went to the market, where she was treated to a warm reception around 9am on Thursday. It was gathered that she approached Alimat, who was breastfeeding the baby, Kudus, and took the child under the guise of playing with him. She reportedly strapped Kudus to her back afterwards and sat on a chair behind his mother, who was busy attending to customers. “Nobody knew when she (T-girl) disappeared from the market with the baby. The mother had looked back to check on Kudus, when she discovered that she had left the market with her child. We called her number, but she didn’t pick our calls. That was when it occurred to us that she had stolen the baby. “I don’t really blame Iya Kudus. She thought the child was in a safe hand because almost everybody here knows T-girl. She would come to buy things here and play with us. She is from Ibadan (Oyo State) and had lived here for more than four years before she travelled some months ago. She came back last week,” a...
by Admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Saturday sealed off an estate belonging to the immediate past Governor of Bauchi State, Mallam Isa Yuguda. The EFCC said on its official Facebook page that the action was sequel to an order by Justice J. T. Tshoho of a Federal High Court Abuja for the interim forfeiture of the property. The commission said, “The EFCC has seized a house located at 184 Attahiru Bafarawa Close, beside Fariah suites , old GRA, Bauchi, Bauchi State belonging to a former governor of the state, Mallam Isa Yuguda, pending the conclusion of investigation against him bordering on abuse of office, money laundering and diversion of public funds. “The court had directed the Bauchi State Lands Registry to furnish the EFCC with the copies of all documents including building plan approval in respect of the property.” Yuguda, who last year, dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, served as minister of aviation under former President Olusegun Obasanjo and also served as governor for two terms on the platform of the party Source:...
by Admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC), an umbrella organization for over 150 anti-graft groups, has told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), to immediately investigate some Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) officials alleged to have been involved in bribe taking during the 2015 general elections. These include Professor Maurice Iwu, former INEC Chairman, state Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) and Administrative Secretaries. The call was made in a petition by CSNAC to the interim EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu. Signed by the coalition’s National Chairman, Mr. Olanrewaju Suraju, the petition said the group observed that the current investigation into the matter is less than far-reaching and called on the EFCC not to spare any of those involved. CSNAC recalled a report in The Nation Newspaper of January 16, 2017, which alleged that not fewer than 200 INEC officials were queried for allegedly collecting bribes during the 2015 elections. “It was reported that about N23.29billion was paid out to INEC officials in a desperate bid to change the results of the election won by President Muhammadu Buhari. “In addition to the above, it was further stated that an investigation conducted by your agency revealed that the money involved came from former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke,” CSNAC stated. The coalition added that it is aware that the INEC is currently investigating the allegations through a panel it constituted. The panel, headed by National Commissioner, Baba Shettima Arfo, CSNAC explained, has the mandate to probe and apply internal sanctions to officials found culpable and subsequently turn over such officials to the EFCC for prosecution. While CSNAC is in favor of the step,...
by Admin | Feb 3, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Three year old Oluwasemilore Adebiyi pictured above, has been kidnapped by her mother’s apprentice identified as Grace John from Benue state at her mother’s shop located at Number 1 James Oyedele street off Temidire road Moshalashi Alagbado area of Lagos state on Saturday January 28th. Narrating how she was kidnapped to LIB, her father, Adebiyi Olawunmi Festus, said Grace had resumed as an apprentice at his wife, Tobiloba Adebiyi’s bead and hat making shop last week, Monday, January 23rd. She was asked to provide a guarantor as well as a passport for documentation but the apprentice kept giving excuses. “On that Saturday January 28th, she told my wife that she wanted to go and buy gala and my daughter pleaded with her mum that she wanted to follow Aunty Grace. The mother permitted her to go. Minutes after Grace and the little girl failed to return, my wife started looking for her. She saw them on the road with one guy who she thought was Grace’s brother/guarantor and that they were coming to her shop to fill her guarantors form. When they did not return, she went back to the place where she had earlier seen them but couldn’t find them again. She started calling Grace’s number who would pick up and drop immediately until she switched off her phone” The little girls mother, Tobilola, said she had previously taken a photo of Grace with her phone but after the incident, she couldn’t find the photo again. Apparently, Grace had deleted the photo as she planned to kidnap the little girl. The matter has been reported at...
by Admin | Feb 3, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The General Court Marshal (GCM) of 7 Division sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State has sentenced a serving soldier to seven (7) years imprisonment for manslaughter for shooting and killing one Mr. Umar Alkali within the popular Monday Market in Maiduguri metropolis on 23 December 2015. The soldier (name withheld) was found guilty of manslaughter punishable under Section (105) of the Armed Forces Act CAP A20 of the Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004. The soldier’s plea that he acted in self defence, that the deceased assaulted and tried to wrestle his rifle from him before he shot and killed him to save his life and that of his compatriots was set aside on the ground of use of disproportionate force. While dismissing the initial charge of murder leveled against the soldier the GCM upheld the charge of manslaughter. The President of the Court, Brigadier General Olusegun Adeniyi while delivering the verdict gave a detailed account of all the proceedings and relevant laws that guided the court at arriving at its decision. Another soldier (name withheld) was also found guilty of one count charge of desertion punishable under section 60 of the Act. He was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment. It will be recalled that the Acting General Officer Commanding 7 Division Brigadier General Victor Ezugwu in August 2016 inaugurated a General Court Marshal with the mandate of dealing with matters that may arise from activities of troops within the Division’s area of responsibility and to ensure that troops work within the framework of their rules of engagement. While reading the rulings of the court, the...
by Admin | Feb 3, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A businessman, Chris Ifeorah, who allegedly defrauded a South African firm of $936,000, on Wednesday in Lagos got a reprieve as he was released on a N2 million bail. A Lagos State High Court sitting at Igbosere on the island which gave the ruling, also granted Ifeorah two sureties in like sum as part of the bail condition. Justice A. M. Nicol-Clay said the sureties should produce evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government. Ifeorah was on arraigned on January 18 alongside his company, Wigmore Trading Limited, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on a two-count charge of stealing and fraud to which he pleaded not guilty. The prosecution counsel, Muritala Usman, told the court that the accused committed the offences sometime in 2015 at Kellogg’s Company in South Africa. He alleged that the accused obtained some goods on credit from Kellogg’s and promised to pay back within three months. Usman said: “He became elusive after receiving the items until he was tracked down by the EFCC.” Usman had urged the court to remand the accused in custody pending the determination of the case. But counsel to the accused, B. Osakwe, urged the court to grant the accused bail on liberal terms. He said the accused’s mother was willing to stand as surety and would also produce the accused in court throughout the trial. Osakwe said: “The applicant has no criminal record and will be available to stand trial. “We are from the same village. I offer to produce my call-to-bar certificate or the Certificate of Occupancy of my own house in Okota, Lagos....
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