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Court jails man for stealing N11,000
25 November, 2009 01:03:00 Our Reporter



An Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos yesterday sentenced one Segun Olumuyiwa, 25, to one week imprisonment for stealing.
Olumuyiwa, an applicant, pleaded guilty to the two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing.
The Prosecutor, Cpl. Oladejo Balogun, told the court that the accused, with others at large, on Nov. 22, stole N11,000, property of Mrs. Zainab Akinola.
Balogun said the offence was committed at No. 2, Solomon Durodola St. Unity Estate, Egbeda in Lagos.
He said the offence was punishable under Sections 516 and 390 (9) of Criminal Code Cap C17, Vol. 11 Laws of Lagos State 2003.
In her judgment, the Magistrate, Mrs. Maimunat Folami, said she was sentencing the accused to one week imprisonment due to his pleas and facts before the court.


http://www.champion.com.ng/index.php?news=22944

I can smell arrangee here. How can a judge say the guy should spend just one week, because he begged? A thief is a thief and should be treated as such.

Anyone with any genuine source of this Yar'ádua's demise. The story is everywhere oh!. Infact, it is beginning to gather versions !.

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Anyone with any genuine source of this Yar'ádua's demise. The story is everywhere oh!. Infact, it is beginning to gather versions !.

I have been watching CNN since morning, and there is nothing like that. I thought I will hear it like that of Abacha and Abiola. Anyone with genuine info. Please come with source please.

My guy, how you dey? When did you finally sign out?

Take am easy today oh!. Lets address issues that will benefit you, me and the rest Nairalanders.

My guy, it was not funny yesterday at all. I was online until about 3am. I was sleeping in the office throughout and the most annoying thing was that, it was as if they opened gate for customers. They came in hundreds. Na wah oh!.

Scam: EFCC Returns $9,300 To Australian Victim

By Alexandra Mede, SNR Correspondent, Abuja


Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Farida Waziri, has directed that N514, 212.10 and another $5,900 recovered from a Nigerian fraudster be returned to a victim of a romance scam, Rosalind Sumner.
The fraudster, Adewale Nurudeen, had defrauded Sumner, an Australian, of $47,816.93.
A statement by EFCC spokesman, Femi Babafemi, on Tuesday said the payment is restitution in fulfillment of a Lagos State High Court judgment of March 10, 2009.
Nurudeen was arraigned by the anti-graft commission on November 31, 2008 on 11 charges bordering on Advance Fee Fraud.
The statement explained that the N514, 212.10 was recently recovered from the convict’s bank account in Sterling Bank while a cash of $5900 was recovered from his home.
It added that the court, in its ruling, also directed that the balance of $38, 516. 93 be recovered through the sale of his car and two plots of land, while a monthly sum of $250 is paid to the victim.


http://independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=3955

This is a pure case of hunter becoming the hunted .

Thank God I am back. Nairaland I hail oh!.

I can see you guys are ignoring one scammer!. It is the right thing to do. The evidences I saw against this guy is too damning. Abeg, bros no send those mails to me oh!. I no get that kind money.

Otobroto:

Scam: EFCC Returns $9,300 To Australian Victim

By Alexandra Mede, SNR Correspondent, Abuja


Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Farida Waziri, has directed that N514, 212.10 and another $5,900 recovered from a Nigerian fraudster be returned to a victim of a romance scam, Rosalind Sumner.
The fraudster, Adewale Nurudeen, had defrauded Sumner, an Australian, of $47,816.93.
A statement by EFCC spokesman, Femi Babafemi, on Tuesday said the payment is restitution in fulfillment of a Lagos State High Court judgment of March 10, 2009.
Nurudeen was arraigned by the anti-graft commission on November 31, 2008 on 11 charges bordering on Advance Fee Fraud.
The statement explained that the N514, 212.10 was recently recovered from the convict’s bank account in Sterling Bank while a cash of $5900 was recovered from his home.
It added that the court, in its ruling, also directed that the balance of $38, 516. 93 be recovered through the sale of his car and two plots of land, while a monthly sum of $250 is paid to the victim.


http://independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=3955

Eya!. EFCC abeg, make una remain small for the guy now. At least for all the sleepless nights sake! .

There is no point begging for a thief. A thief is a thief!

Saturday, December 05, 2009

What President's Doctor Did Not Tell Nigerians, By Falomo
By Muyiwa Adeyemi, Godwin Ijediogor, Lagos and Adamu Abuh, Kano

EVEN as Nigerians are yet to be told of when President Umaru Yar'Adua will return to the country from a Saudi hospital where he is being treated for pericarditis, the controversy over his capability to continue in office rages just as it is believed in some quarters that his doctor did not disclose the president's actual ailment.

Specifically, Dr Ore Falomo, a senior medical expert and one-time personal physician to the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, believes the President is not suffering from only pericarditis, insisting that Yar'Adua's doctors should come clean by telling Nigerians the actual disease afflicting their leader.

In an exclusive interview with The Guardian, Falomo said: "The frequency of his going to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, before we came to the present situation, showed that he needed regular review and follow-up of an ailment, which the country was not told about. We know that at a time, people took him to task to disclose the nature of his illness, but government thought that was the President's personal business.

"But it cannot be his personal business, as it has now been revealed the last thing that took him to Saudi Arabia. We now know that pericarditis is the last condition that took him to Saudi Arabia, as has now been revealed by his doctor. We must be very clear on that. The doctor did not go ahead to tell us that in addition to that, the President has suffered so and so ailments. So, Nigerians were made to believe that it is only pericarditis that took the President to Saudi Arabia."

Falomo, who has managed the health of some Nigerian leaders said further: "To some of us, we know that cannot and is not true. We know that if it is the first time he is having pericarditis, he doesn't need to lose sleep over it, because he would recover from it and return to his seat.

"But when you have pericarditis on top of other debilitating situations, then the condition is grave. That is where we are, speaking as a medical person. Is it the isolated case of pericarditis or a retrogression of the health of our President that led to this pericarditis, because it is an auto-immune disease? You cannot divorce it, as if he got pericarditis overnight. No! It is very unlikely."

For Prof Auwalu Yadudu, a constitutional lawyer and law teacher at Bayero University Kano (BUK), "If indeed the President, as we are speaking, is incapacitated and due to his incapacity, governance would suffer. I think the most logical thing to do and in the interest of democracy and constitutionalism is for him to invoke Section 145 of the constitution.

"It would cultivate a good working relationship and also send the correct signal that we all would someday die and hope for orderly succession, and orderly succession does not arise even in the case of death, but in other circumstances.

"I think the party in power and the President and his advisers, if they are satisfied, because the decision is their own, that the President's condition warrants he delegate his powers to his vice, there is no reason on earth that anybody can advance why he should not."

According to him: "I had said it elsewhere that the good thing about what is happening, if there is anything good about it, is that no one is asking that the military steps in. These interactions and public debates, if conducted with decorum and respect for privacy without ill will against political opponents and not in a partisan manner, can only help the democratic process.

"So, no one should view calls that the President should invoke Section 145 as not meaning well for him. I must emphasise that the office of the President is a creation of the constitution. His powers, tenure and everything about the office of the President are creations of the constitution. So, it would not help for constitutional government if we do not act according to the terms of the constitution when the need arises and we bring in all sorts of arguments and speculations to scuttle the issue.

"Many would look at the idea of the President handing over power as un-African. But I think we are not talking about Africanness, Nigerianness and tradition. He is not a traditional ruler, who should be in office for life and who would depend for his tenure on some oracular divination or what have you. I think strictly, the President should run the office and those who advise him must do things in accordance with the constitutional provision."



http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=051209&ptitle=What%20President%27s%20Doctor%20Did%20Not%20Tell%20Nigerians,%20By%20Falomo

If indeed, the President is not drunk with power, I suggest he resigns and live longer.

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if u are 2 be d president will u resign?

I will resign and live longer. I can not continue dieing installmentally.

Be Right Back

Come to think of it, must our sick Presido go to Saudi Arabian hospitals?. Why not the best specialist hospital in the world?

I am waiting to see the end of this drama called Yar'dua's administration.

Oboma1:

I am waiting to see the end of this drama called Yar'dua's administration.

It is now evident that it is only the doctors that can released Yar'adua.

Murdered By Police
•Amnesty alleges extra-judicial killings but police slam report
By Abimbola Akosile, 12.10.2009




Amnesty International, a global human rights watchdog, yesterday accused the Nigerian Police of being responsible for hundreds of extra-judicial executions, other unlawful killings and enforced disappearances every year. It also said the majority of the killings go uninvestigated and the police officers responsible go unpunished.

However, the Police Force spokesman, DCP Emmanuel Ojukwu, has rejected the findings. In a reaction to the damning allegations, he said: “Amnesty International has an unholy penchant to denigrate police organisations in most parts of the world. It is quite obvious that the mission is to kill the Nigerian police, wipe out our record, and bury our aspirations.” According to the detailed 64-page report, which was released yesterday, Amnesty International alleged that “Police don’t only kill people by shooting them; they also torture them to death, often while they are in detention.

” The global group said one of the main problems is Nigeria Police Force Order 237 under which police officers are allowed to shoot suspects and detainees who attempt to escape or avoid arrest – whether or not they pose a threat to life. It called on the Federal Government to repeal the said Order 237 and publicly announce that the use of lethal force is only allowed when strictly unavoidable to protect life. “This simple step could make a big difference to the number of unlawful police killings we are seeing in Nigeria,” said Erwin van der Borght, Director of Amnesty International’s Africa Programme.

The report, which documented 39 cases of executions and enforced disappearances over a survey period of three years (from July 2007 to June 2009), also revealed that in June 2009, Amnesty visited the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) detention centre in Abuja, which is located in a disused abattoir outside the city. In a report backed with pictures of victims, graphs and tables of killings, the group disclosed that suspects are held in a vast warehouse previously used for slaughtering cattle. “Chains are still hanging from the ceiling. When Amnesty International delegates visited the building, about 15 people were held in cells. Amnesty International delegates counted at least 30 empty bullet cases scattered on the ground,” it said. The report, which made 59 recommendations to the Federal Government, states, National Assembly, Police Service Commission (PSC), civil society, and international bodies, was based on interviews and research carried out during the three-year survey period. Also, Amnesty’s delegates spoke to police authorities at federal and state levels, Ministry of Police Affairs, PSC, Senate Committees on Police Affairs and Judiciary, Justice and Human Rights.

The delegates also reportedly spoke to judges, magistrates, state commissioners of justice and health, public defenders, lawyers and non-governmental human rights organisations (NGOs). They also interviewed family members of people who had been extra-judicially executed by the Police. Research for the report also draws on court cases, coroner’s inquests, judicial inquests, policy documents and the reports of the Presidential Commissions on police reforms (the Dan Madami report in 2006 and the Yusuf report in 2008). “Families of the victims usually get no justice or redress. Most never even find out what happened to their loved ones. Police frequently claim that the victims of shootings were ‘armed robbers’ killed in ‘shoot-outs’ with the police or while trying to escape custody. These claims are often highly implausible,” the report stated. A particular case mentioned in the report referred to one 15-year-old Emmanuel Egbo, who was killed by a police officer in Enugu in September 2008. “According to witnesses, he was playing with other children in front of his uncle’s house when three police officers came up to them; “One officer pulled out a gun and shot the boy, claiming he was an armed robber. He was unarmed.

In August 2009, his family discovered his body had disappeared from the mortuary. As of November 2009, the body is still missing,” the report said. Amnesty International also said some police officers see the killings of “armed robbers” in detention as acceptable practice. “Unofficially, a policeman told Amnesty International that many 'armed robbers' are taken there and shot,” the report disclosed. Speaking on the contentious Order, van der Borght said: “Force Order 237 is so impermissibly broad. It simply gives police officers permission to shoot people. It is against international standards, and is being abused by police officers to commit, justify and cover up illegal killings.

” The report also revealed that enforced disappearances in Nigeria are rife. “Typically, in the first days or weeks following arrest, families are allowed to visit their relatives in detention. Later on, police tell them their loved ones have been ‘transferred to Abuja’. Other times, they simply deny any knowledge of their whereabouts; “The Nigerian government says that they do not condone extra-judicial killings. But they are not doing enough to stop them and bring the police perpetrators to justice. Even on the rare occasions when police officers implicated in an unlawful killing are prosecuted, they are often released on bail or escape custody. Some are simply transferred to other states; “Ending unlawful killings and enforced disappearances by the police will require serious legal reform and commitment and support from the Nigerian police force,” said van der Borght. According to him, “The Nigerian Police Force must introduce a new code of conduct throughout its chain of command – from the very top to the bottom. If not, the cycle of violence will simply continue.

” The report described the Nigerian Police as a system that is starved of funds, suffering from chronic lack of resources, with undertrained and unqualified staff, poor working conditions, poor distribution of budget, and poor public image. The report said in Nigeria, the Constitution guarantees the right to compensation. “However, families of victims often cannot seek remedy. Victims of extra-judicial executions and other unlawful police killings in Nigeria are usually people who live in poverty. Those who are executed unlawfully, killed, or disappear in custody are typically men aged between 15 and 45 years,” it said. It recommended that the Police must introduce a new rule of conduct, governed by a respect for human rights, throughout its chain of command, from top to the bottom. “Ending extra-judicial executions, other unlawful killings and enforced disappearances require both a change in the culture of impunity and legal reform,” the report stated.

The Federal Government was urged to amend Section 33(2)(b) of the Constitution, which provides for more grounds for lethal force more than those permitted by international human rights law. It was also asked to criminalise torture, extra-judicial executions and enforced disappearances, punishable by sanctions commensurate with the gravity of the practice. The report also recommended that a Federal Coroner’s law should be drafted, which requires an investigation to determine circumstances of unnatural, sudden or violent deaths, including all cases of death in custody. The Federal Government was also urged to abolish all court fees for cases handled on a pro-bono basis when the applicant cannot afford the fees; and to improve access to legal aid, which should include providing resources to the Legal Aid Council in order to appoint more lawyers. The National Assembly was asked to ensure that Section 33(2)(b) of the Constitution is amended, and also domestic laws and regulations governing the use of force by police, including sections of Police Force Order 237.

Legislators were also enjoined to review the Police Act and ensure that the treatment of detainees is in conformity with the Nigerian Constitution as well as with international law and standards; and also to ensure that the Police Force receives adequate resources, including funding. State governments were urged to criminalise torture, extra-judicial executions and enforced disappearances; and to establish safe and reliable mechanisms to guarantee the participation of witnesses in the legal process, and to consider the creation of a permanent and effective system for witness protection. The PSC was asked to condemn publicly all extra-judicial executions and other unlawful killings, including of suspected armed robbers, and announce that perpetrators would be brought to justice; and to ensure that appropriate disciplinary measures were taken against law enforcement officials who harass or intimidate human rights activists, lawyers or people making a complaint about police misconduct.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=161620

Pictures of Police victims

What will be said of a Police force which uses former abbattoirs for torturing people, and even their victims'corpses are later removed from the mortuary so that evidences are not there to be traced?

I can see a post that looks like this, is it true?

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I can see a post that looks like this, is it true?

Sometimes, it is good one complaints, so that knowledge is acquired.