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An Osun State High Court sitting in Iwo has sentenced five men who kidnapped the wife of the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Alhaja Muibat Salaam, to 27 years in prison. Justice Moshood Adeigbe while delivering the judgment held that the prosecutors had been able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the kidnappers met and conspired before they kidnapped their victim. The five persons convicted by the court are: Chukwudi Okereke (40); Ogbole Ochijile Elijah (25); Lucky Okonkwo (33); Kaikine Mahah (35); and Philip Nwadinnor (30). The judge ruled that each of the five convicts would spend seven years in prison for the charge of conspiracy; he sentenced them to 10 years imprisonment for the count of kidnapping; and 10 years for the charge of unlawful possession of firearms. He ruled that the jail terms would run concurrently since the charges arose from the same crime. The Speaker’s wife was kidnapped in Ejigbo, Osun State on October 9, 2012 by men armed with guns while she was returning home from work. The judge said, “The confessional statements were clear that the accused persons met at Royal Hotel in Agbor, Delta State where they planned the kidnap, perfected it in Lagos and carried it out in Ejigbo. “The exhibits also showed that the five accused persons kidnapped the PW2 (Mrs. Salaam), forced her into a trailer and dragged her into the bush on their way to Lagos before men of the Ogun State Police Command arrested them. I hold that the prosecution have established their case and therefore found the five accused persons guilty of conspiracy, kidnapping and unlawful possession of firearms.” The prosecution team led by the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adewale Afolabi, told the court that the convicts had confessed to the kidnapping in the confessional statements each of them gave to the police during investigation. However, the defence counsel, Messrs. Sam George and Fredrick Komolafe had urged the judge to temper justice with mercy because the accused persons were married men with children. But Justice Adeigbe ruled that the kidnappers deserved the full punishment of the law because kidnapping was a heartless and condemnable offence. The defence counsel vowed to appeal the judgment, saying the confessional statements were not tested. They said that the best thing was to have ordered a trial within trial to be able to authenticate the statements. source: http://www.punchng.com/news/osun-speakers-wifes-abductors-jailed-27-years-each/
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WARRI — A tricycle opera-tor, weekend, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the residence of his lover at Okpokiti Street, Warri South Local Government Area, Delta State. Vanguard understood that the deceased committed suicide because his lover left him in her house to sleep somewhere else. When Vanguard correspondent arrived the scene, neighbours were seen discussing the incident, while homicide detectives from the ‘A’ Police Division, Warri, came to remove the dangling remains to the morgue of the CentralHospital, Warri. The policemen, who declined comments later took the girlfriend away for questioning. A tenant, who pleaded anonymity, told Vanguard, “it all started last night (Saturday), when we heard the deceased and his girlfriend arguing. “I was sleeping in my room when I heard them arguing. It is like the young man wanted to spend the night with the girl, but the girl refused. “The argument got to a point and the girl told the boy that if he was going to spend the night in her house, she will not sleep in the same house with him. “The boy told the girl that if she leaves, he would kill himself. The girl, thinking that the boy was joking, told him to go ahead and kill himself, left the boy in the room and went to go and sleep in another place.” It was gathered that when the girl returned in the morning (yesterday), she discovered that the door was locked. She alerted her neighbours, who helped her to force the door open, only to see the lifeless body of her boyfriend dangling from a rope. The community people took the girl to the police station. A senior police officer at the ‘A’ Police Division stopped Vanguard from speaking with the girl, saying she was undergoing interrogation. source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/tricycle-operator-commits-suicide-lovers-home/ |
Barely one week after a court declared the parallel National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) illegal, the leadership of the group has boasted that five more governors have indicated interest to join the seven already with the group.This is coming at a time when the Baraje group has vowed to remove Alhaji Bamanga Tukur from office as national chairman of the party. Justice Elvis Chukwu of a Federal High Court in Abuja had Friday last week proclaimed the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP National Working Committee, (NWC) as the authentic national leadership of the party. Reacting to this, the group, in a statement signed by Kawu Baraje, disclosed that it would abide by the court’s judgment but would hold a meeting this week to decide another line of action. He stated: “As a group that has a lot of respect for the judiciary, we have accepted the ruling in good faith and wish to abide by it. Even so, we have directed our legal team to appeal the judgment, as a matter of urgency, as we remain convinced that we have a good case and are thus determined to ensure that Tukur and his cohorts are not allowed to hold sway as the leaders of our great party.” Baraje, who just returned from the Holy Pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, disclosed that he has convened an emergency meeting of the G7, stakeholders and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the New PDP to exhaustively discuss the new developments and chart the way forward, as there is no going back on the struggle to rescue PDP from the “hands of usurpers.” He said: “Apart from deciding on the Federal High Court ruling and the challenges facing us a group, the G7/ stakeholders/NWC meeting slated for this week is expected to deliberate on how five more governors of PDP that have indicated interest to join the Baraje leadership will be received in the fold.” The factional national chairman denied media reports of a crack in its camp and declared that his group was determined to remove the Tukur- led NWC it described as undemocratic elements. He said: “Let us reiterate that contrary to insinuations in some quarters, reflected in a section of the media, of division and disunity among our governors and National Assembly members because of our current travails, the fact remains that instead of division, our current travails have strengthen us the more and act as a unifying factor that have shown us that it is a matter of time that the undemocratic elements that have seized our party will be dislodged. “Meanwhile, we feel nothing but pity for Alhaji Tukur and his NWC, who are already gloating over their ‘victory’ over us and even had the temerity to describe us and our governors as criminals. By being so uncouth in addressing governors duly elected by Nigerians, Tukur and his disciples have once more vindicated our struggle to flush out these unholy undemocratic elements from our party. “We are confident that this is one mission, which we shall successfully accomplish, by the grace of God, not minding the use of state security agencies to harass and intimidate our people.” source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/pdp-crisis-five-govs-ready-join-us-baraje/
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Trouble appears imminent in the House of Representatives, as members get set to resume from vacation tomorrow. The bone of contention is that the Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal, must support President Goodluck Jonathan wholeheartedly or be ready to give way for a core loyalist to take over the proceedings of the House. The Presidency and Tambuwal have not been on the same page since he was accused of romancing with the opposition when he granted audience to the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by Abubakar Baraje, last month. Although supporters of the President in the House moved against what many saw as ‘an open’ endorsement of the group by the Speaker, there are allegations that a major plot is being hatched to remove Tambuwal from the exalted post. Worried by the sharp division in the House arising from the Baraje and G7 governors’ visit and the controversy generated, Tambuwal is said to have set up a ‘small peace committee’ to pacify aggrieved members and restore confidence in the leadership. However, a source close to the peace committee told Vanguard that members had been more divided than before as a result of differences among those loyal to Tambuwal and the President. It was learnt that when the two groups met to make peace, the pro- Jonathan lawmakers shocked Tambuwal’s loyalists by coming up with three stringent conditions, which the Tambuwal group rejected. The anti-Tambuwal lawmakers in the House are reported to have asked Tambuwal to allow for an independent auditing of the amount of money so far released to him since he took over as Speaker in 2011. The pro-Jonathan group also asked Tambuwal to steer clear of the Rivers State House of Assembly crisis and allow the police to re-open the state legislature for business. The group also demanded that Tambuwal should explain why members of the 7th Assembly were being paid a paltry N27 million per quarter as against the N45 million that their 6th Assembly counterparts were getting under the Dimeji Bankole leadership. They argued that they have been cheated by the leadership which reduced their pay when the Federal Government had not reduced the statutory N150 billion being paid to the National Assembly yearly. However, a staunch supporter of President Goodluck Jonathan in the House of Representatives, Mr Uzo Azubuike, has said that neither the President nor the Speaker is under any impeachment threat. Azubuike, who is the Chairman of the House Committee on Public Petition, told Vanguard exclusively that the main aim of the President’s loyalists in the House was to strengthen peace and unity as well as ensure that the PDP, which is the majority party, takes its rightful position in major decisions-making. The Aba North/Aba South Federal Constituency Representative said that as people, who believe in the unity and development of Nigeria, they had already floated a group within the PDP members known as “Unity Forum” to work for the advancement of the cause of Nigeria. Asked if all the PDP members in the House of Representatives were members of the forum, Azuibuike said that at least most of the members of the party were involved in it but did not elaborate. source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/tension-house-reps-jonathans-loyalists-list-peace-terms-tambuwal/
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Lagos — Lagos State Government has said no underage pupil would henceforth be eligible for admission into any public secondary schools in the state without completing primary six. Meantime, a standing committee to harmonise the school calendar, curriculum and time- table for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (Junior Senior Secondary JSS111) of public and private schools in the state would be set up soon. The state Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, who disclosed, weekend during a stakeholders’ session with school proprietors, affirmed that the era of admitting underage children into secondary schools in the state was over. Oladunjoye explained that the need to align the school calendar, curriculum and time- table of public schools with that of private schools became necessary in order to standardise the process. According to her: “Henceforth no pupil will be eligible for admission into any secondary schools in the state without completing primary six; the era of admitting underage pupils into secondary schools in the state has gone.” She also advised parents and guardians as a matter of fact to converse in their native language with their children and wards at home, stressing, “it is by so doing that our mother-tongue will not only be promoted but would be spoken effortlessly by the children.” source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/lagos-bars-age-students-public-schools/ |
The Ifeanyi Ubah Campaign organization has warned Governor Peter Obi not to drag the late Dim Emeka Ojukwu into the contest asserting that the late Igbo warlord would turn in his grave at the desecrations of APGA by the outgoing governor. Responding to claims that Chief Ubah dodged questions during a recent radio appearance by making it impossible for listeners to ask him questions in the audience participation programme, the Ubah Campaign accused Obi and the APGA candidate of resorting to misinformation to deceive the public. “This election will be defined by issues not by empty boasts about achievements. It will not be won by the invocation of the revered name of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu., who would be turning in his grave at the great rape carried out in the state by Peter Obi,” the Ubah campaign said in a statement issued by Ayo Akinola on behalf of the Ifeanyi Ubah Election Campaign Committee. Singling out Governor Obi’s spokesman, Val Obienyem of masterminding the alleged misinformation, the Ubah campaign said: “Val lied when he suggested that Ubah made it impossible for callers to ask him questions when he was featured on a live radio program. Ifeanyi Ubah has never shied away from being asked questions as Obienyem knows full well. He was available for questioning in Florida during the ASA-USA Conference and it is on record that he put up a stellar performance at a time when Willie Obiano had a terribly poor showing that he could not remember the name of his running mate. Ubah loves being taken on as he believes that a leader should be open to questions from his people.” Presidency engages stakeholders in sensitization talks Wednesday TO ensure a free and fair election on November, the Presidency will organise a sensitization workshop for all stakeholders in the contest on Wednesday. Organised by the office of the Presidential Adviser on Inter-Party Affairs, Senator Ben Obi, the workshop will hold at Women Development Centre, Awka, the Anambra State Capital. The event, to be chaired by General Ike Nwachukwu has Mosignor Obiora Ike as (keynote speaker and Mr Femi Falana and Dr. Udenta O Udenta as guest speakers. The 23 governorship candidates, their deputies, leaders of the participating parties and officials of INEC are also expected. source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/dont-drag-ojukwu-ifeanyi-ubah-warns-gov-obi/
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More facts emerged, at the weekend, lending credence to the claim that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) may have bought the two controversial $1.6 million (approximately N255 million) BMW bullet proof cars for the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, amid the parastatal’s precarious financial situation. Sunday Vanguard learnt that the NCAA did not have the cash backing and hence the deal with Coscharis Motors and First Bank of Nigeria to finance the purchase was negotiated on hire purchase basis. “There is no way NCAA could have raised that kind of money in one lump sum. Therefore when the pressure became unbearable that the vehicles had to be bought for the minister, the only option open to us was to explore how it could be done on hire purchase”, an NCAA source said. The source said the deal was sealed based on anticipatory payment. Explaining why the minister zeroed-in on NCAA to buy the vehicles, the source explained that it is one of the hard currency generating aviation agencies and payment for the vehicles was denominated in dollars. “NCAA is in this trouble because we are one of the hard currency generating aviation agencies. That is why the minister zeroed-in on us to buy the two cars because we were made to understand that payment had to be made in dollars,” the source said. “But it wasn’t as if the NCAA could afford to pay for the cars, being expensive as they are. We have many issues contending for funds including training of staff abroad on aircraft air worthiness and so on. “We entered into anticipating payment for the cars such that the payment is spreed over a period of time based on our projections. The source explained that it may take several months for the parastatal to fully pay for the vehicles.” Meanwhile, the exact cost of the two controversial BMW cars for the Aviation Minister, at the weekend, remained shrouded in secrecy. Experts said the cost of the two cars should not have been more than $ 400,000 including freight charges as against the $1.6 million paid by the NCAA. The insinuation was that the vehicles were grossly over-priced. Efforts to get Coscharis Motors, the BMW representative in Nigeria, to speak on the matter proved abortive as the president of the company, Dr. Cosmas Maduka, was said to be on a foreign trip to South-Africa and China. A Coscharis source said, “I am not competent to speak on the matter because the issue of armoured vehicles is strictly not for every staff, as most customers would not like people to know that their vehicles are armoured. It is usually confidential.” In the mean time, an expert argued that given the level of insecurity in the country, there was nothing wrong in armouring a vehicle for a minister especially given the part of the country the Aviation Minister comes from, saying what was worrisome was the amount being quoted for the two vehicles for Oduah. source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/deal-oduahs-1-6m-bmw-cars-sealed/
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Members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB on Friday gave the Nigeria police and other security agencies a four-day ultimatum to release over 11 of its members who were recently arrested and shot in Onitsha. Addressing journalists in the commercial city of Onitsha, the MASSOB administrator for Awka North region, Mr. Tony Nwodo said the movement has given the police just four days to release all its members arrested or charge them to court. He further called for the immediate release of the corpse of one Chimezie allegedly shot dead by a joint team of army and police at Nkwelle Ezunanka recently during a shoot-out, adding that after the expiration of the ultimatum, the movement may explore alternative avenue to seek justice. Mr. Nwodo also accused the police of torturing MASSOB members while raising the alarm over the whereabouts of over five members of the body, adding: “We are still searching for five of our members who got missing after the police shot one of us” He gave the names of the detainees as Ifeanyi Pota, Ifeanyi Agbom, Kelechi Nkwuta, Emeka Martin, Chibuike Okafor, Osita Anene and Chimezie who was shot dead during the operation. He also said John Okechukwu, Chidubem Sunday, Okafor Ede, Emeka Nwani and Greg Chimezie are still missing. The regional administrator further challenged the police and other law enforcement agencies to charge their members to court if they were found to have committed any crime, adding that they would be forced to go to court to seek redress over the alleged killing of their member. “The police should release our members within these four days we have graciously given to them. Our members are not criminals and MASSOB has stood tall in maintaining law and order in the state and Igbo land in general”, he said. He wondered why police and other security agencies could be hunting for MASSOB members, maiming and killing them without any justification. “We have taken our case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague to look into the inhuman treatment we are facing in Nigeria” he said. source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/massob-declares-war-police/
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A chieftain of All Progressive Congress, Chief Ejikeme Ogbuagu has raised the alarm over fresh plot by the presidency to unseat the Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha through the forthcoming Supreme Court ruling on the governorship election. He equally alleged that the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, who is spearheading the plot, had already drafted some prominent citizens from the state into the plot. “Already, several individuals have been smuggled into Imo State to cause confusion ahead of the Supreme Court judgment on October 31. According to him: “The recent cancellation of Okorocha’s reception in the commercial city of Aba by Abia State governor, Theodore Orji, was instigated by the presidency with a view to inciting crisis to justify the plans to demonise Okorocha”. Ogbuagu also disclosed that the presidential aide has equally enlisted the support of National Chairman of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh to use the party to achieve their aim. He informed that members of the state House of Assembly are also being pressured to move against the state governor. “It should also be noted that the same Gulak hosted PDP members of the House of Assembly months ago in Abuja in a failed attempt to impeach Okorocha”, he said source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/apc-accuses-presidency-fresh-plot-sack-okorocha/
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The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has described as hasty and unbalanced, commentaries from the opponents of the proposed national dialogue, saying that it is necessary if Nigerians must plan for their future. The chairman,who was in Yola for the Sallah festival, told Daily Sun that national dialogue was needed in a situation whereby the federating units feel that some teething issues should be tackled. The elder statesman advised Nigerians to rather avail themselves of the planned national conference, to discuss such issues that would afford them the opportunity to lay a solid future for the country, by allowing representatives of the people from the ward, local government, state to national levels to participate on the proposed national conference. According to him, every component of the nation will express their views on issues that are of national interest through their elective representatives. He said that the opponents of the proposed national dialogue,were not being patriotic and fair by trying to force Nigerians to believe that the national dialogue could disintegrate Nigeria. The elder statesman disagreed with the position of those opposing the national dialogue that it would create disunity in the country, stressing that the mischief makers were poised to create bad impression against the good intention of President Jonathan to lay a solid foundation for the future of the nation . “What do they really want? How can dialogue bring disunity. Any body who says dialogue can bring disunity really misses the point. The national dialogue should not be likened to war. Only war can bring disunity. War and dialogue don’t tally. It is better to jaw- jaw than war -war,” he said. On how best he has been able to coop with the crisis in the PDP,and still do his work as required,Tukur said this exprience as the national chairman, has not hinder him from performing the job challenges as they have rather made him to be more a determined to lead the party on his path to succeed ,maintaining that despite all odds from the opposition to change. According to him, “people like to continue the thing they are doing. It is normal. PDP has been in government for the past 14 getting to 15 years now. And to renew and keep deepening democracy there has to be change. The task of deepening democracy For reconciliation to take plac,Bamanga called on the aggrieved members of the party to embrace the new order of peace,equity and justice ,which could be attained without confrontation but change of attitude. source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/politics/national-dialogue-negotiable-bamanga-tukur/
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FROM ALOYSIUS ATTAH, OnitshaTraders and small scale industrialists lost goods and properties worth millions of naira yesterday in Onitsha following an early morning fire that gutted the polythene dealers market, Nwaizu Estate, Awada.source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/national/traders-attempt-suicide-fire-guts-onitsha-market/
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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has put the blame of the shortfall in the state budget performance on delays in the remittances of Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC). Fashola, who said this while fielding questions from journalists shortly after reviewing the third quarter budget performance of the state government, added that the state government budget recorded 70 percent performance. He said: “There is a lot of work that have been completed, but we have not paid for. The core reason for that is the revenue shortfall we have been experiencing and delay in revenue that is coming from the Federal Government. “This includes delay in the remittances of Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) allocations and lack of agreement on Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) accounts at the FAAC meetings. I think over two months now (between August and September), the FAAC payment did not come on time.” The governor pointed out that the reasons being given for the delays in federal allocations to the states raises so many fundamental questions, “saying, If we are reporting some of the excuses that we heard, 400,000 barrels of oil is being stolen. The story does not change. According to him: “Some of the questions really are: Is it a fixed amount of oil being stolen every month? Even if oil thieves do not change, is it still the same amount? We need to look at this thing more rigorously. Dwelling on the budget implementation he added that the 70 per cent performance is a slight deep in the overall aggregate of 72 per cent mid-year review to 71 per cent. He said: “It is a larger deep from 83 per cent for the second quarter, standing alone to 70 per cent for the third quarter standing alone. By and by, we focus on the positive side. “What is positive here is that what we report as budget performance is the combination of work done and payment made. “On a positive note, I am happy to report that most infrastructure projects are making progress. Roads are being completed in Epe, Ajah, Agege and Ajao. The Ajao link bridge has been completed now. We have completed the Iju road by-pass from Capitol Road. Road works are ongoing inside Ikeja GRA, already approaching completion. source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/national/fashola-blames-delay-budget-implementation-lagos-faac/
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