Crime

20 Dead Pensioners On Bauchi Govt Payroll Uncovered

December 17, 2019 2:36 pm

A committee set up by the Bauchi State Government yesterday said that it had discovered 20 dead pensioners, who are still on the government’s payroll.

Secretary of the committee set up to verify workers and pensioners without Bank Verification Numbers (BVN), Alhaji Ishiaka Tijjani, disclosed this to newsmen in Bauchi.

Tijjani said that the discovery followed the committee’s partial screening of some pensioners residing in Zaki and Katagum Local Government Councils of the state.

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He said the 20 pensioners were out of 600 pensioners screened during the partial exercise, …

Uproar In Court As Rape Case File Disappears

December 17, 2019 2:33 pm

Family members and human rights activists pursuing the prosecution of a child defilement suspect expressed disenchantment in court in Yola Tuesday, after they learnt that the file on the case could not be presented before the judge.

The case, which became a court issue last year, September 2018, has been about a 25-year-old man, Aliyu Mohammed, who is being tried for allegedly defiling a five-year-old neighbour in Yola Town, Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State.

After many court proceedings over the past 16 months, judgement on the case was fixed for Tuesday, but it had to be adjoined …

Magu Blows Hot, Sends Strong Message To Corrupt Nigerians

December 16, 2019 2:18 pm

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, says that the commission would crush corruption and corrupt individuals in Nigeria.

Magu said the fight against corruption and corrupt individuals would be more intense in 2020.

The acting Chairman spoke at the end of the year get together held at the commissioner’s office at Iyaganku through the Ibadan Zonal Head of the commission, Friday Ebelo, over the weekend.

According to Magu, the EFCC was very prepared to crush corruption and corrupt individuals in Nigeria.

He tasked officers of the commission to gear up for more …

Man Who Stole $88,000 From US Bank Caught With Social Media

December 16, 2019 10:26 am

If you’re systematically stealing money from a bank vault, it may not be a good idea to post the evidence on your social media pages.

A bank employee in Charlotte, North Carolina, allegedly stole $88,000 from the bank’s vault, according to a release from the United States Attorney’s Office Western District of North Carolina.

And he wasn’t bashful about advertising to his social media followers the life of luxury he was funding.

The release said a criminal indictment was unsealed this week in federal court following the arrest of Arlando Henderson, 29, by the FBI in San Diego. The unsealed …

Gunmen Shoots OAU Professor Dead In Edo

December 14, 2019 4:43 pm

A senior lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife, Prof. Jerome Elusiyan, was on Friday shot dead by unknown gunmen.

According to a family source, the incident happened at Iruekpen, a local government area in the Central District of Edo state where the deceased was attacked by some unidentified armed men and shot dead on the spot.

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It was learnt that Professor J.B.E ELUSIYAN was on his way back from Ekpoma where he went to invigilate medical students of the Ambrose Alli University when this …

Nissan Faces $22Million Fine For Misreporting Ghosn Pay

December 10, 2019 3:46 pm

Nissan should be fined $22 million for filing documents that under-reported the compensation of former chief Carlos Ghosn, Japanese regulators recommended Tuesday, with troubled the firm saying it would not dispute the penalty.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SESC) made the recommendation as Ghosn, who was arrested in November last year, awaits trial in Tokyo on four charges of financial misconduct.

Among the allegations against him are claims that he under-reported his compensation from 2010 to 2018, deferring some of his pay and failing to declare it to shareholders.

Ghosn denies all the charges against him and has argued there …

Gunman Kills Himself After Deadly Czech Hospital Rampage

December 10, 2019 3:44 pm

A gunman killed himself Tuesday after shooting dead six patients at a hospital in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava, in what the premier has called “an immense tragedy”.

The attacker gunned down people at close range at the trauma ward of the Faculty Hospital in Ostrava, a steel hub located some 300 kilometres (190 miles) east of Prague.

Four men and two women died during the assault, which police said lasted only a few seconds.

Two other people were seriously wounded — one is in a critical condition after being shot in the head and the other is …

Nigeria

The Uphill Task Of Securing Nigeria

December 8, 2019 5:43 am

The security of lives and welfare of citizens of a country is the most important function of government. Even the Bible says that a living dog is better than a dead lion. Once there is life, there is hope but when a man dies, his thoughts perish. No one knows the child that is bearing in his destiny the restoration of Nigeria, so the protection of every life without exception is important. This is why Section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution states that “the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government”.  The dictionary defines …

Policeman Shoots Man Dead At Bank ATM Point

December 7, 2019 11:18 am

But for the quick intervention of elders and stakeholders irate youths would have set the Njaba Divisional Police Station ablaze yesterday. This followed the shooting to death of an 18-year-old man, Awuzie Duru, by a trigger-happy policeman.

Trouble was said to have started yesterday inside the premises of the United Bank for Africa branch at Umuaka where the policeman shot the Awuzie to death for retaliating to a policeman’s slap during a brawl. One of witnesses to the incident told our correspondent that when Awuzie joined the ATM line, other persons equally queued behind him. But somewhere along the line …

Teen Admits Attempted Murder Of French Boy At London

December 6, 2019 2:37 pm

A British teenager on Friday pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a six-year-old French boy, who was thrown from the 10th floor viewing platform of London’s Tate Modern art gallery.

Jonty Bravery, 18, admitted the charge during a hearing at the Central Criminal Court. He was remanded in custody pending psychiatric reports and sentencing on February 17.

The young boy suffered a broken spine, legs and arm in the attack, which happened in front of horrified visitors to the riverside contemporary art gallery on August 4.

Bravery, who was 17 at the time of the attack, appeared in court

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Microfinance Owner Defrauds 108 Victims – EFCC

December 6, 2019 11:48 am

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Sokoto Zonal office has paraded one Aisha Kabo, for allegedly defrauded members of the public through an illegal microfinance bank.

The Zonal Head of the EFCC, Mr Abdullahi Lawal, who addressed journalists in his office on Friday said the suspect had defrauded no fewer than 108 victims within 24 hours of her operation in the state.

According to him, “we got a report from concerned Nigerians that someone was operating an illegal microfinance bank along Tamaje road, Sokoto, on 4th of December.

“We set up our team and move to the scene immediately, …

Children

Lagos Orders Release Of 11 Children From Prison Custody

December 6, 2019 7:24 am
Lagos State commissioner for justice and attorney-general, Moyosore Onigbanjo, SAN, has ordered the release of 11 children held in prison custody in the state.
Onigbanjo in a statement by the ministry’s spokesman Kayode Oyekanmi said the children’s imprisonment was contrary to the provision of Section 207 of the Lagos State Child Rights Law of 2015.

Oyekanmi disclosed that Onigbanjo got aware of the children’s ordeal after a “tip-off received from concerned members of the public on certain Correctional Centres in the state having minors in their custody.”

He said the

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