A new charge has been filed the Federal Government against the son of the late General Sani Abacha, Mohammed, accusing him of unlawfully receiving about N446.3billion allegedly stolen from government’s coffers between 1995 and 1998. In the nine-count charge, FG accused Mohammed of “dishonestly receiving stolen property” and “voluntarily assisted in concealing money.” The charge replaced the earlier one of 121 counts in which Mohammed was charged with Atiku Bagudu. The government has now excluded Bagudu from the fresh charge, leaving only Mohammed. According to the new charge marked CR.21-24/2008, the stolen money allegedly received by Mohammed, and which he…
Author: Wale Adebayo
Nigeria, Thursday, protested against comments credited to President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe, where he implied that corruption is synonymous to Nigerians. Mugabe had during a luncheon hosted to mark his 90th birthday in March said Zimbabweans are behaving like Nigerians who have to be bribed for every service. “Are we now like Nigeria where you have to reach into your pocket to get anything done? You see, we used to go to Nigeria and every time we went there, we had to carry extra cash in our pockets to corruptly pay for everything. You get in a plane in Nigeria…
A middle-aged man, Ismaila Musa was Thursday sentenced to 19 months in prison by a Zuba Upper Area Court for beating up a police officer. Musa was arraigned before the court on a four-count charge of screening an offender, obstructing a police officer from carrying out his work, assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest. The prosecutor, Sgt. Haruna Danlami, told the court that on April 2, a police officer was sent to Zuba fruit market, Abuja, on inquiry. When the officer got to the market, he arrested two suspects, along with the exhibit of their offence, and charged them…
The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, on Wednesday said the commission would commence its continuous voter registration in May ahead of the 2015 election. Jega said this at the opening ceremony of INEC/State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs) Experience Sharing Conference, organised by United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) in Kaduna. He said that more polling units would be created in the next year general election to decongest large polling units. “The continuous registration exercise is to ensure those that have turned 18 years between 2011 and now are registered before the 2015 general elections. “Also those that were…
The Senate on Wednesday in Abuja withdrew its earlier proposal to amend Section 9 of the 1999 Constitution to empower the President to initiate the process of drafting a new Constitution. The reversal followed the adoption of the application for withdrawal of the proposal by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Constitution Review (SCRC), Sen. Ike Ekweremadu. Ekweremadu explained that the SCRC resolved that the proposed amendment be withdrawn in view of the controversy it generated during debates on the floor of the Senate. He, however, announced that all the other proposals for amendment would still go through the voting process. “During…
The FCT chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday elected 156 party officials across the six Area Councils during its ward congress in the territory. The Chairman, Congress Committee of the FCT, Alhaji Abubakar Wurno, made this known in an interview on Wednesday in Abuja. “Twenty-six candidates emerged winners in each ward across the six area councils during the just concluded ward APC ward congress in FCT. “Those elected were the ward Chairmen, Deputy Chairmen, Assistant Deputy Chairmen, Secretaries, Organising Secretaries, Legal Advisers, Women Leaders and five delegates to the Local Government congress among others”. He said that the congress…
Deputy Whip of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rotimi Abiru has called on the Federal Government and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to call to order, the Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musliu Obanikoro. The Lagos lawmaker made the call on Thursday in reaction to the alleged illegal use of the military by Obanikoro to stop the mass housing project of Governor Raji Fashola at Ilubirin on the weird claim that the land belongs to the Federal Government. Abiru, who described the action as greedy, wicked and annoying, advised the Presidency and the PDP to as a matter…
The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was Wednesday honoured with the prestigious David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award in New York, United States. With the award, Okonjo-Iweala will be joining a list of high profile personalities such as the late Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton, Sir Richard Branson, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, Bill Gates, President of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and former World Bank president James Wolfenson, among others, that have been honoured in the past. The only other Nigerian who has previously received the award for her decade-long work…
The governor of Kogi State, Captain Idris Ichalla Wada, has granted amnesty to Mr Lasisi Yusuf, a 67 year old convict who has been on death row in Kaduna Prison for nearly 18 years, following intensive advocacy efforts made by Avocats Sans Frontieres France (ASF France), A statement issued by ASF’s Communications Officer, Esther Akpa Eleojo Esther said Mr Lasisi, a Kogi State indigene was arrested over charges of culpable homicide and was sentenced to death in 1996 by the High Court of Justice in Kogi State. He was transferred to Kaduna Prison in 1997 and had been on death…
A Zuba Upper Area Court on Thursday sentenced Godwin Samuel and Tyowase Denis, both of fruit market, Zuba, to five months imprisonment for stealing oranges, a phone and N1,000. Malam Aminu Sa’ad, the Presiding Officer, delivered the judgement after Samuel and Denis pleaded guilty to the one-count charge of theft. Sa’ad, however, gave the convicts an option of N20,000 fine each. The prosecutor, Sgt. Haruna Danlami, had earlier told the court that on April 8, the convicts went to the market and stole the items. Danlami said during police investigation, a bag of oranges and the stolen phone were found…
Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State on Thursday said that the state government would not compromise its core mandate of protecting lives and property of the people. Al-Makura made the remark when members of the Benue Committee on Conflict Resolution and Peace Building paid him a courtesy visit in Lafia. He assured that the government would never take any action that can negatively affect existing peace in the state. The governor attributed recent crises in the two states to the handiwork of ‘opportunists’. “These problems are not problems emanating from indigenes of Benue against indigenes of Nasarawa. “It is not even…
The Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, on Thursday warned against unauthorised use of siren in Anambra. Abubakar gave the warning at the maiden Anambra Security Stakeholders Summit in Awka, organised by the state government. He said that he would re-deploy the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 9, Mr Bala Nasarawa, to the state to impound unauthorised vehicles using sirens. Abubakar commended the efforts of the government in tackling security challenges in the state, adding that the effort had led to zero bank robbery in the state since 2009. He described security as a serious business, and called on the people, especially traditional rulers, to support and…
The Commissioner of Police in Rivers, Mr Tunde Ogunshakin, on Wednesday said that the spate of kidnapping in the state had reduced. Ogunshakin, who made this known at a news briefing in Port Harcourt, said most of the kidnappers had either been “arrested or dispatched” in the process of exchanging fire with the police. “Kidnapping has gone down, I can tell you; it has really gone down”, he said, and attributed feat to the strategy put in place by the command. He said that the kidnappers had their hideout and detention camps at the waterfronts where they kept their victims.…
The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to ignore calls by governors and other stakeholders of states in the North-East not to extend the emergency rule in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, describing the calls as unpatriotic. The emergency rule is expected to come to an end on April 19 with calls on the president from leaders in the region not to extend it because according to them, the killings have not stopped. IYC, in a statement signed by its spokesman, Eric Omare, also faulted the comparison drawn by the governors of the affected states between the…
It already seems like a lifetime ago that the big traditional wedding between P-Square’s Paul Okoye and his baby mama — Anita took place. However, to remind you a little of the lavish ceremony, here are more pre-wedding photos of Anita & Paul Okoye. They had their traditional marriage on March 2nd in Port Harcourt. More photos below: –
Earlier today, controversial actress and singer — Cossy tweeted she was robbed 2 days ago in Orile area of Lagos. Apparently to proof to doubting fans, who claimed she may have cooked up the story to get attention; Cossy just shared picture of her damaged car. See her tweets below: –
Mrs Felicia Sani, a delegate at the ongoing National Conference, has condemned what she called “the exposure of female bankers to prostitution through unrealisable target set for them by their employers’’. Sani, who is the President, Market Women Association, made the criticism on Wednesday in her contribution to President Goodluck Jonathan’s address at the inauguration of the conference. She said such a trend which has had a great impact on socio-economic relationships should be discouraged. “At the end of each year, banks make millions of Naira, yet they employ young girls and give them unrealisable targets. “Why will you ask…
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram Islamists stormed a packed viewing centre in Nigeria’s restive northeast and shot dead two people watching Champions League matches, police said Thursday. The centre was showing the two quarter-final matches between defending champions Bayern Munich and Manchester United, and Atletico Madrid-Barcelona, on Wednesday when it was attacked. “The gunmen came in a car and opened fire outside the viewing centre and sped off,” Yobe State police commissioner Sanusi Rufa’i told AFP of the incident in Potiskum, a hotbed of the insurgency. “One person died on the spot while another died later at the hospital.…
A pressure group within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, under the aegis of the National Coalition for Jonathan/Sambo Presidency, has asked the leadership of the party to give Jonathan an automatic ticket to contest the 2015 presidential elections. The group’s position was presented to the National Secretary of the PDP, Professor Wale Oladipo, by the national secretary of the coalition; Mr. Benjamin Irikefe, at the party headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday. Irikefe urged the PDP Board of Trustees and the National Executive Committee, to convene a special emergency meeting of the two organs and pass a resolution adopting President Jonathan…
GOVS. GODSWILL AKPABIO OF AKWA IBOM; LIYEL IMOKE OF CROSS RIVER AND IBRAHIM SHEMA OF KATSINA AFTER THEIR MEETING WITH THE PDP CHAIRMAN, ALHAJI ADAMU MUAZU IN DUTSE ON WEDNESDAY (9/4/14). The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum has taken a swipe at the All Progressives Congress (APC) for allegedly disobeying the court ruling issued against 37 defecting members of the House of Representatives. The Forum also described the persistent refusal of those members, who defected from PDP to APC to vacate their seats in the National Assembly as ordered by an Abuja Federal High Court as a clear contempt…