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  • Buhari orders shoot on sight anyone with AK-47

    Buhari orders shoot on sight anyone with AK-47

    A don, Augustine Ikelegbe has faulted the presidential order of shoot-at-sight and the imposition of no-flying-zones as a solution to the insecurity within the nation, describing it as a belated choice.

    Ikelegbe, who’s a Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Benin (UNIBEN) stated if such measures had been taken years earlier, it might have slowed down the proliferation of arms and brazen show of arms by people who will not be permitted to bear such arms.

    Prof. Ikelegbe stated this whereas delivering a lecture entitled “Proliferation of Small Arms and the Steaming Conundrum of Insecurity in Nigeria: Prospect for Management and Sustainable Security” at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in memory of the late Director-General of the Institute, Prof. Habu Galadima.

    He said efficient and instant measures ought to be taken at acceptable instances for containment of arms proliferation.

    According to him, improved sophistication within the arming and gear of the security and defence forces had been crucial in fighting insecurity. He emphasised the need to be used of improved technology such as drones against criminal herders within the ungoverned areas and in addition they need increased air assaults on bandits’ camps and kidnappers’ dens by more sophisticated aircraft.

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    He stated: “There must be re-orientation from the dominant method which has been laborious core, involving elevated deployments, armaments, and armed excessive force which has hardly successfully resolved conflicts, violence and insurgencies, to more broad, non-kinetic and peace-constructing approaches,” he stated.

    Prof. Ikelegbe added that the LEA sector has to be restructured in line with the observe of federalism, to decentralise command and management and deployment of personnel, including that Community Policing has been bandied for some time however its implementation, attain and practice remains to be very restricted and the results but to be broadly felt.

    Prof. Ikelegbe noted that good governance was essential to the efficiency of state roles in public sector administration, economy and security.

    The Vice-President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo praised the virtues of the late Director-General of the institute, including that within the short time that he piloted the affairs of the National Institute, there were tremendous transformation and innovations.

  • Protesters burn court, LG secretariat, police station in Imo community

    Protesters burn court, LG secretariat, police station in Imo community

    Angry youths of Ihitte-Uboma LGA in Imo State have taken to the streets of the Isinweke community to protest the alleged killing of an indigene of the area by a suspected policeman.

    It was gathered that the protesting youths had set on fire, the LG council headquarters in Isinweke, the Ihitte-Uboma Divisional Police Headquarters and a court building in the community.

    The protesters, based on reports stormed the LG Secretariat on Tuesday in a number of vehicles and prompted a stampede.

    Our correspondent learnt that a businessman who owns a Bet9Nija centre within the area had invited the police to arrest his salesgirl, who allowed a customer to place an N100, 000 bets on credit.

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    A source stated the salesgirl who was asthmatic was detained by the police after being allowed to fetch her inhaler at residence.

    It continued, “within the course of, a group of angry youths attacked the police and one youth was killed.

    The youths regrouped themselves and burnt the police station and different locations.”

    The Imo State Police Public Relations Officer, Orlando Ikeokwu, stated the Commissioner of Police, Narisu Muhammed, had ordered an investigation into the incidents.

  • Court orders Yahoo boy to forfeit car, laptop and cellphone to FG

    Court orders Yahoo boy to forfeit car, laptop and cellphone to FG

    A convicted internet fraudster, Akinrinmade Adeniyi, who was sentenced to three months imprisonment in Abeokuta, is to forfeit his car, a laptop and a cellphone to the Federal Government.

    The Economic and Monetary Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office, stated it secured the conviction of Adeniyi on Tuesday for impersonation.

    He was discovered guilty of the charge preferred against him by Justice Mohammed Abubakar of the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

    The convict had earlier pleaded guilty to the one-rely charge of fraudulent impersonation introduced against him by the EFCC.

    However, the court pronounced him guilty of the offence and sent him to jail.

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    Apart from the jail time period, the Court additionally ordered him to refund the sum of USD 500 to his victim.

    He was additionally asked to forfeit his Toyota Lexus ES330, one Techno K7 cellphone, and one HP Laptop to the Federal Government of Nigeria through the EFCC.

    The items had been a part of the proceeds derived from his fraudulent act, the EFCC had stated.

  • NDLEA arrests drug trafficker with three parcels of cocaine at lagos Airport

    NDLEA arrests drug trafficker with three parcels of cocaine at lagos Airport

    A suspected drug trafficker, Hassan Bishi Taiwo, has been arrested by operatives of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) command of the National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) with three parcels of cocaine hid in a false bottom created in his suitcase.

    Preliminary investigations revealed that Hassan, who was intercepted at the E-Arrival hall of the MMIA, upon arrival onboard Ethiopian airlines at 1:30 pm last Friday, had been plying the illicit trade by the Middle East routes.

    According to the commander, MMIA command of the agency, Ahmadu Garba, “The suspect came into Nigeria through Addis-Ababa, however, he actually travelled to Addis-Ababa from Abuja. Upon a radical search, we found one other ticket on him whereas our findings additionally show that he has been plying his legal trade through some Middle East countries.”

    In a related growth, operatives of the Anambra State Command of the agency have recovered fifty eight.5 grammes of cocaine and 13.9 grammes of heroin hidden in the palace of a prominent traditional ruler within the state.

    “Investigations are ongoing to unravel how the illicit drugs were hidden within the palace and palace guards are helping in tracing the vendor behind the consignment,” Muhammadu Misbahu Idris, the Anambra State commander of the NDLEA, said.

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    In the same vein, narcotic officers attached to a courier firm in Lagos have intercepted 500 grammes of unaccompanied cocaine going to the United Arab Emirates and hid contained in the partitions of packed cartons containing clothes. The operatives additionally intercepted in another courier firm one kilogramme of Cannabis concealed in cream bottles going to UAE, while 500 grammes of ketamine hidden in artefacts and going to the US was additionally recovered from the same firm in Lagos.

    Equally, 480 grammes of unaccompanied methamphetamine going to China had been recovered from the same courier company.
    Chairman/Chief Govt of the NDLEA, Mohamed Buba Marwa, has commended the commanders, males and officers concerned within the operations for his or her vigilance and charged them to proceed with the vigour.

  • kidnapping school students is a lesser evil – Sheikh Gumi

    kidnapping school students is a lesser evil – Sheikh Gumi

    Controversial Islamic Scholar, Ahmad Gumi on Monday described the kidnapping of school children by bandits as lesser evil.

    Gumi said kidnapping school students was a lesser evil when compared to the ransacking of towns and killing of its residents.

    He made the remark while featuring on News Pidgin.

    The cleric additionally said that his conferences were yielding positive results as bandits are now cautious about human lives.

    According to Gumi: “Kidnapping children from school is a lesser evil because in the end, you can negotiate and now bandits are very careful about human lives.

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    “Before, the mission of bandits was to go into a town, ransack it and kill people. By this, I can say our preaching is working and hopefully, we’re coming to an end of banditry in Zamfara and other states.

    “Bandits are more careful about lives now and just want to do sensational assaults which might bring consideration to themselves.”

    Lately, the activities of banditry has been on the rise within the Northern part of Nigeria.

    Recall that Gumi had appealed to the federal government to grant amnesty to bandits.

    The Islamic Scholar had stated amnesty to bandits would help calm down the tensed insecurity situation within the North.

    Buhari has, nevertheless, vowed not to grant amnesty to bandits.

  • Police arrest two suspects murder in connection of 18-year-old girl death in Delta

    Police arrest two suspects murder in connection of 18-year-old girl death in Delta

    The Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Ari Mohammed Ali, said the command has arrested two suspected murderers in connection with the death of an 18-year-old girl, Akpovwovwo Blessing.

    CP Ali in a statement signed and made available in news gave the names of the suspects to include, Dafe Desmond (28) and Joel Dafe Ruro.

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    The State’s Police boss said on 15/01/2021 at about 1830hrs one Akpovwovwo Ogheneovo from Ugono Village, a sub-clan in Abraka Kingdom reported at the Divisional Police Headquarters, Abraka that, “On 14/01/2021 at about 1304hrs, he received a phone call from one Chief Okponoko Umunade ‘m’ of same address that his daughter one Akpovwovwo Blessing ‘f’18yrs old died in her boyfriend’s house one Dafe Desmond ‘m’ 28yrs old of Okwijere Uruoka Abraka and the boyfriend abandoned her corpse at Government Hospital Abraka.”

    According to CP Ali, “Detectives visited the scene, corpse photographed and removed to Obiaruku General Hospital Mortuary for autopsy.

    “Foul play suspected as the said Dafe Desmond ‘m’ and one Joel Dafe Ruro ‘m’ have been arrested. Case is under investigation.”

  • Yahoo Boys’ Protest In Osun Over Incessant Arrest

    Yahoo Boys’ Protest In Osun Over Incessant Arrest

    Some suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as ‘Yahoo Boys’, on Tuesday, protested their incessant arrest by the security agencies.

    They blocked Osogbo/Ilesa expressway in the State.

    They were said to have stormed the Ilesa West Local Government Secretariat, Ilesa and made bonfire on the road, therefore halting the free flow of traffic along the busy road.

    The bonfire was made exactly at the entrance of the Ilesa Council office.

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    The protesters, it was learnt, were protesting their recent arrest by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

    They alleged that the EFCC officials recently stormed the hotel they lodged in and arrested some of their colleagues.

    It was gathered that owing to the road blockage, motorists plying the expressway were said to have been stranded.

    Some of the road users, who know the terrain, had made u-turn for other routes.

  • I was under spell, says suspect arrested for ritual mutilation of minor’s genitals

    I was under spell, says suspect arrested for ritual mutilation of minor’s genitals

    ONE of the suspects who allegedly took part in the cutting of the private parts of a six-year old girl for suspected ritual purposes in Bauchi State has said that he was charmed by his friend who is now at large to take part in the dastardly act.

    The incident was said to have occurred at about 7.20 pm on December 30, 2020.

    The suspect, Adamu Ra’uf (20), an indigene of Gandu Jama’are Local Government Area, who was arrested by the state’s police command, confessed upon interrogation that he conspired with one Abdulkadir Haladu of Chikamidari in the area to perpetrate the crime.

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    Narrating his role in the incident to newsmen at the headquarters of the Bauchi State Police Command yesterday, Rauf said: ”My friend Haladu and I took the victim to an uncompleted building where her private parts were mutilated on the instruction of a native doctor who said he would use it to make money for us.

    ”My friend used charm to lure the girl to the uncompleted building. Then he brought out a knife and asked me to hold her skirt.

    I was not aware that he had cut off her private part. What I know is that he later came into a house where we hid and showed me the part he had cut off.

    ”I told him to count me out of what had happened, but he warned that he would kill me if I told anybody about it.”

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    Explaining how he was arrested, the suspect said ”someone came to tell me that he heard that the police wanted to see me at the station. I was standing by the road side, so I climbed an okada (commercial motorcycle) to honour their invitation.”

    Asked whether he was rewarded by Haladu after carrying out the act, he said he (Haladu) did not promise him anything.

    “The only thing he did was to charm me. As a result, I saw myself obeying all his instructions. And he has been dragging me to so many places with the charm. I really regret my action,” he said.

    The sister to the victim’s father, Maryam Mohammed, who spoke to newsmen in Jama’re, said the victim was put in her care because her brother and the girl’s mother had separated.

    Maryam said she was not at home when the incident occurred, adding that the victim went to the house of another brother of hers to play.

    She said it was on her way that the victim met the suspects who sent her on an errand, adding that while she was returning, they lured her into the uncompleted building.

    ”From there, we didn’t know what happened. We only saw her coming back with bloodstains and crying. We don’t know how she managed to come back home.”

    Maryam recalled that it was one of their neighbours, a woman, who alerted them.

    She said: ”A neighbour called us that we should come and see our daughter; that something had wounded her.

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    “Some people said she was raped. But when she was taken to the hospital, they referred her to Azare medical centre.

    “While we were crying, somebody who went to the hospital told us that it was not rape; that her entire private part was mutilated.”

    Maryam, who noted that such a thing had never happened in the entire Jama’are area, stated that they were planning to enroll the victim into school this year before the ugly incident occurred.

    “We have never witnessed or heard of this kind heinous act in this community. She has a sibling who is also under my care. She is the first child of her mother,” Maryam said.

    She pleaded with the authorities to ensure that justice was done in the matter to serve as a deterrent to others.

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    She also expressed gratitude to the government for quick intervention in the matter.

    It will be recalled that the spokesman of the Bauchi State Police Command, Ahmed Wakil, in a statement made available to journalists in Bauchi, said that immediately the police received the complaint from the victim’s aunt, they swung into action and arrested one of the suspects while his accomplice was still at large.

    He recalled that when the police rushed the victim to the hospital, a medical doctor confirmed that her private part had been removed.

    He said the Commissioner of Police in the state, Lawan Jimeta, has directed that the case be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for discreet investigation.

  • Obaseki to open defence in alleged certificate forgery case January 5

    Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday ordered the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, to open his defence in the alleged certificate forgery case on January 5.

    The judge stated this after the All Progressives Congress (APC) closed its case on the matter.

    The party had called six witnesses to testify against the governor.

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    The APC and one of its chieftains, Mr. Williams Edobor, had accused Obaseki of forging his certificate obtained from the University of Ibadan.

    The plaintiffs said the governor submitted the certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of last year’s governorship election in Edo State.

    Other defendants in the suit are the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and INEC.

    Two of the witnesses – Mr. Gabriel Iduseri and Mr. Maikano Asekomhe – had claimed that Obaseki forged his certificate because of alleged discrepancies in the Certified True Copies (CTC) obtained from INEC.

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    Iduseri, however, admitted that he had never seen Obaseki’s original degree certificate.

    The APC had in July last year disqualified the governor from participating in its governorship primaries over alleged discrepancies in his certificate.

    He later joined the PDP and secured the party’s governorship ticket for the election.

    Obaseki was re-elected for another term of four-year after he defeated the APC candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, in the election held on September 19 last year.

  • Gunmen kidnap quarry Employee in Ibadan

    Gunmen kidnap quarry Employee in Ibadan

    Some gunmen have stormed a Quarry in Moniya in Ibadan to kidnap a female quarry employee on Monday.

    She had been taken to an unknown destination and instantly she had been abducted.

    Resources told News on Tuesday the gunmen stormed the website and kidnapped the victim.

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    State Commandant of Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN) also Called Amotekun, Col Olayinka Olayanju (rtd) supported the abduction of the Website employee.

    He explained, “We’ve been on their course since yesterday

    “We’re in the bush now looking for the woman.”

     

  • 17-year-old boy Expires in Ondo after smoking’colorado’

    17-year-old boy Expires in Ondo after smoking’colorado’

    A 17-year-old boy has died in Ondo State after having a psychotropic substance popularly known on the streets as colorado’.

    The boy identified as Joshua, who took the hard drug over the weekend, also gave up the ghost after being in a coma for two days.

    According to sources, the deceased who was residing in Oba-Ile, Akure South Local Government Area if the State in which the incident happened, took some portion of the material out of his friends who were already in the practice of taking hard drugs.

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    Following his eccentric behavior within minutes of accepting’colorado’, his buddies have been believed to have telephoned his allies who hurried him to the hospital at which he later gave up the ghost.

    In accordance with one of those resources,” when few moments after Joshua took a puff of colorado, his friends said he had difficulty in breathing and later he began to hallucinate.

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    “His friends were scared of his responses and they quickly called on his people.”

    ‘Colorado’ is one of the prohibited psychotropic substances that’s currently widespread among youths. The hard drug is said to be made from an artificial plant.

     

  • Court reinstates 32 Ekiti varsity Employees

    Court reinstates 32 Ekiti varsity Employees

    Court reinstates 32 Ekiti varsity Employees
    The direction December 5, 2019, disengaged over 900 of its workforce for alleged certification forgery, irregular appointment, overage, along with other allegations which contravened its terms of support.

    In a lawsuit, 32 technologists of the researchers dragged EKSU, EKSU Governing Council, also EKSU Vice-Chancellor (first to third party defendants) into the Industrial Court to seek treatment.

    They requested the court to find out whether their employment using EKSU loved statutory defense and if their disengagement was compatible with their status of occupation, which appreciated the statute.

    Amongst others, they sought a declaration of this court their disengagement as employees of EKSU” from the way that it was done was criminal, irregular, illegal and so null and void and of no effect.

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    “An arrangement for its restoration and reinstatement of their claimants for their own offices without reduction of wages, promotions, emoluments, and other allowances for these as employees of their initial respondent (EKSU).

    “Payment of the claimants’ three months wages, emoluments, and other allowances owed them ahead of the purported and criminal disengagement.”

    But counselor to the college prayed the court to not grant the petition of their 32 technologists, stating they’d been able to establish from the case which their appointments with EKSU were unlawfully determined.

    After listening to this entry of the claimants’ and defence’s adviser, the presiding judge, Justice K. D. Damulak, announced the judgment of the employees’ appointment as”unlawful, null and void.”

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  • Ogun: Two arrested for gang-raping, filming Adolescent

    Ogun: Two arrested for gang-raping, filming Adolescent

    Ogun: Two arrested for gang-raping, filming Adolescent

    The suspects, according to the command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi were arrested after the incident has been reported in Sango police station by the sufferer.

    The victim, Oyeyemi stated, had reported that the two suspects, with whom the victim lives in precisely the same compound, dragged her to the area of one of them, stripped her naked, filmed her naked before taking turns to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her.

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    The Police in Ogun State have detained the duo of Damilare Oyeniyi, 30, and Emmanuel Okori, 20, for allegedly gang-raping that a 19-year-old girl in Ota on December 12.

    The suspects, according to the command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi were arrested after the incident was reported at Sango police station by the victim.

    The sufferer, Oyeyemi said, had reported that the two suspects, with whom the victim lives in the exact same chemical, dragged her to the room of them, stripped her naked, filmed her nude before taking turns to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her.

    Together with the report, the DPO of Sango Division, CSP Godwin Idehai, was said to have detailed his men to search for the suspects, who’d bolted following the episode.

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    The investigative efforts of the detectives, Oyeyemi demonstrated, yielded the desired result since the duo were apprehended on December 16.

    They were reported to have confessed filming the sufferer’s nakedness, saying that they threatened to place the video on societal media if she tell anyone about the incident.

  • Judiciary must be independent for anti-corruption war to succeed — Analyst

    Judiciary must be independent for anti-corruption war to succeed — Analyst

    A public affairs analyst, Mr Olusegun Bamishaye, said on Saturday in Ado-Ekiti that the Judiciary must enjoy full independence for government’s anti-corruption crusade to yield good dividends.

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    Bamishaye told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that an independent judiciary, devoid of individual, government or political influence, would sustain the fight against corruption and other vices and also add value and integrity to the nation’s democracy.

    He said that the EFCC and the ICPC, two of government’s anti-corruption agencies, also deserved adequate budgetary allocations for optimum performance.

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    “Strengthening the two anti-corruption agencies will equip them with the wherewithal to achieve effective prosecution of corruption cases pending in most courts.

    “The same thing also applies to the quick dispensation of election petitions and tribunal cases from the High Courts to the Supreme Court,’’ he said.
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    Bamishaye said that the government’s anti-corruption war had highlighted some serious challenges in the capability of the courts to handle some corruption cases.

    “The present administration’s anti-corruption war, which is gradually extending to every sector of the economy, is no doubt enough reason to strengthen our judicial system.

    “The judiciary needs to be properly funded and given adequate manpower and an environment conducive to effective discharge of it functions to perform optimally

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    “This is very essential and critical in moving the nation forward politically and economically,’’ the analyst said.

    Bamishaye also urged members of the Bench to proffer viable solutions, saying that such would guard against unwarranted distractions and undue influence in the discharge of their responsibilities.

    NAN

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