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Photos: Only Boy Captured & Released With Dapchi Schoolgirls

Posted: 22 Mar 2018 03:36 AM PDT

Here's the only boy identified as Mala who was reportedly kidnapped alongside over 100 Dapchi school girls. He was released along with the girls yesterday by the Boko Haram terrorists.

See photos of the girls at the Presidential villa, Abuja:







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Buhari Hosts Billionaires, Bill Gates & Dangote In Aso Rock

Posted: 22 Mar 2018 03:36 AM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday evening hosted American billionaire, Bill Gates and Africa's richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, to a private dinner at the State House, Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Bill Gates was in Nigeria for the wedding of Dangote's daughter, Fatima to her pilot hubby, Jamil Abubakar, son of former Inspector General of Police, M.D Abubakar.


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Nigerian Engineer Set To Wed Shot Dead In Canada (Photos)

Posted: 22 Mar 2018 03:01 AM PDT

Nnamdi Ogba, 26, was an electrical engineer who was engaged to be married. He was visiting friends in Etobicoke the night two men from another neighbourhood decided to strike a blow against the area, killing him in a random attack, police say.

After an ordinary night visiting friends, 26-year-old Nnamdi Ogba likely wanted nothing more than to return home to his fiancée. Instead, he would be gunned down on an Etobicoke street before he even reached his car.

"The only thing that led to his death was simply walking out of that building at that particular time and place," said homicide Det. Jason Shankaran. "Nnamdi was an innocent man."

Police responded to the scene at Scarlett Rd. and Scarlettwood Ct., near the Humber River, after receiving a call regarding reports of gunshots around 11 p.m. Friday. There they found Ogba, lying unresponsive on the ground, bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds to the back. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say Ogba never saw his attackers, who approached from behind. All the evidence in the case so far leads homicide investigators to believe that Ogba was an innocent casualty in a retaliation against the Scarlettwood Ct. neighbourhood as a whole — a neighbourhood Ogba didn't even live in.

On Monday, Shankaran stood sombrely at a podium in 23 Division and updated the media with surveillance clips taken of the suspects and the vehicle they arrived in. The various clips show two hooded male figures leaving their vehicle, following Ogba at a distance before converging upon him out of view of the camera and then fleeing past cameras back to their SUV.

The vehicle is believed to be a newer model Nissan Rogue.

In some clips, directly after Nnamdi has been shot, there are distant flashing lights visible. These aren't police lights; they're Nnamdi's car headlights flicking on and off. His car key was in his hand when he fell, police say.

"We do not believe Nnamdi knew his attackers, nor do we believe that his attackers had any interaction with Nnamdi prior to ambushing him from behind. He was merely visiting friends who live within the complex," Shankaran said.

"I know that the community of Scarlettwood Ct. has received its share of tragedy and also violence. I believe that the suspects are likely to have come from a different neighbourhood, considering what we see on the video. I believe that these suspects may harbour some kind of animosity towards the neighbourhood of Scarlettwood Ct., and those residents who reside in it."

The footage is grainy, but police are confident that anyone familiar with the suspects will be able to identify them. Anyone who wishes to report an anonymous tip can also call Crime Stoppers.

"He had no criminal record, and no known gang affiliation. Nnamdi was an electrical engineer. He had a fiancée. He was about to be married," Shankaran said.

"I ask that you look into your heart at this particular situation. This situation was not one gang member shooting another. It's an innocent man being gunned down walking to his car, going to see his fiancée. And for that reason, I ask for your help."

Police believe that the only motive was neighbourhood retaliation, and that who exactly died that night did not matter to the killers. If the suspects had encountered another person first, Ogba might still be alive, they said.

"I think there can only be one word to describe them and that's cowards," said Shankaran of the two men police are hoping to find.

"To feign braveness or toughness by walking up to someone and shooting them in the back — you're not so brave. You're just a coward."


Source: The Star Canada


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Female Graduate Hawking Food In Abuja To Survive (Photos)

Posted: 22 Mar 2018 03:01 AM PDT

The young lady was spotted going about her usual food hawking business at Wuse Zone 4 in Abuja and her photos have gone viral after a man captured and shared them online.

Read what the man identified as Timothy shared;

"A FEMALE GRADUATE HAWKS FOOD AT ABUJA.
While many youths are complaining of unemployment and sitting at home, a female graduate cooks and hawk the food at Abuja.

I met her near UBEC office at Wyse Zone 4 today where I went for a meeting. I bought her food and it was very delicious. I encouraged her not to give up. She says she don't want to be a burden to any one.

She wants to take care of herself and her aging parents. Her name is ChyChy and I am proud of her. She gave her permission to this photograph with me and affirmation to this post."




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Ex-NNPC Staff Sentenced To Death For Murder of His Daughter’s Boyfriend

Posted: 22 Mar 2018 01:17 AM PDT

A Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar on Wednesday sentenced a retired staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Godwin Elewana, to death by hanging.

The court found Elewana guilty of the murder of a 22-year-old young man, Douglas Ojugbo, on March 10, 2015 over suspicion that the victim was having an affair with his daughter, Mercy.

Elewana, who had been in prison custody since 2016, was arraigned on one count of murder in case no. HC/9C/2015.

The presiding judge of the court, Justice Ukpa Ebitam, said the prosecution team, led by Mr. Eneji Amajama, a Deputy Director in the Department of Public Prosecutions in the state Ministry of Justice, proved its case that the accused committed the crime.

Ebitam listed the several confessional statements, hospital reports and other exhibits presented in the course of trial as reasons the accused was convicted.

He said, "The prosecution team was able to establish ingredients of murder against the accused. On whether it was the act of the accused that caused the death of the victim, the prosecution team placed reliance mostly on the confessional statement of the accused…clearly, the statement linked the murder to the accused.

"The prosecution team also proved the second ingredient of murder which was the intentional act. To have fired the victim twice with his pump-action gun, I agree that the killing was intentional. I hereby find the accused person guilty of murder.

"Subject to Section 319 of the Criminal Code of Cross River State, any person who commits murder is sentenced to death by hanging."

Moments before the verdict was given, according to The Punch, the defence counsel, Mr. Clement Ukaegbu, had pleaded for leniency.

Ukaegbu's position was supported by another lawyer, Mr. Orchardson Umoh, who pleaded with the judge to temper justice with mercy on the grounds that the convict had a good religious standing and high integrity in the society.

Shortly after the verdict, the leader of the prosecution team, Amajama, said the law had taken its course.

He said, "I thank God that we have industrious and sound judges who still uphold the rule of law. Today, the parents of the deceased would have some respite that the law of the land took its course.

"This judgement will serve as a deterrent to others that you cannot do what is wrong and go away with it and I think that our society will be better for it.

"The accused was tried under Section 319 of the Criminal Code of Cross River State. Under this section, the judge does not have the right to give him life imprisonment or any other jail term. The judge has just done what the law stipulates."

The mother of the victim, Mrs. Maria Ojugbo, said, "I thank God for doing what should be done. It is stated in the Bible that anyone who kills by the sword, will die by the sword. Elewana had no reason whatsoever to kill my son in such a manner and conceal the act by burying him. It was Almighty God that gave approval for this judgement."

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Big Pension Thief Sentenced To 6 Years Imprisonment In Abuja

Posted: 22 Mar 2018 12:41 AM PDT

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal on Wednesday quashed the sentence of two years imprisonment with option of N750,000 fine imposed by the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on a former official of the Police Pension Office, Yakubu Yusuf, for stealing N24bn pension funds.

A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal headed by Justice Abdu Aboki, in a unanimous judgment, described the High Court's sentence as unreasonable and substituted it with a total of six years' imprisonment with an addition of N22.9bn fine.

Justice Emmanuel Agim, who delivered the lead judgment of the court, ruled that "the sentences levied" by the High Court "are clearly light and lenient ones."

The justice ruled that this allowed "the convict, who had admitted misappropriating or stealing N24bn, the option to pay the sum of N250,000 per count of offence in lieu of serving a prison term of two years for the offence," to enjoy the huge balance he had in his possession.

He added that the "amount" of the sentences "is paltry, a pittance and unreasonably low."

Justice Agim noted that it was "disproportionate to the amount stolen and therefore can comfortably and quickly be paid by the convict from the humongous amount stolen."

He added that with the sentence, the convict would be left with "a huge balance of the stolen funds in his possession and without really causing him any pain of punishment."

Justice Abubakar Talba of the Federal High Court in Gudu, Abuja, had in his judgment delivered on January 28, 2013 convicted Yusuf and sentenced him to two years imprisonment with an option of N750,000 fine.

Yusufu, had after pleading guilty to three of the counts preferred against him and others, was convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment on each count with an option of paying N250, 000 fine on each of the three counts.

Although, two years imprisonment was the maximum jail term with an option of undisclosed fine prescribed as punishment by Section 309 of the Penal Code Act, under which Yusufu and his co-defendants were charged, Justice Talba ordered that the two years imprisonment imposed on the convict should run concurrently with the option of paying the N750,000 fine.

The convict had promptly paid the fine and walked free shortly after the first judgment was delivered.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had through its private prosecutor, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), appealed against the High Court judgment.

Delivering the Court of Appeal's lead judgment on the appeal on Wednesday, Justice Agim held that the considerations of the High Court in imposing the light sentence were contrary to judicially established principles.

He noted that there was no monetary value of the properties already forfeited by the convict to justify the light sentence imposed on him by the High Court.

"I hold that the sentence of fine of N250,000 in lieu of imprisonment for a term of two years for each offence is unreasonable, unjust, unfair, irrational, arbitrary, and contrary to judicially established principles as it is not the result of a judicious and judicial exercise of the trial court's sentence discretion," he said.

He held that considering the humungous amount stolen, the nature and gravity of the offence, its destructive effect on the country, and its impact on retired police officers, the trial court ought to have imposed a severe sentence that would deter further commission of such crime and prevent the convict from retaining any part of the proceeds of the crime.

According to The Punch, in passing a fresh sentence on Yusufu on Wednesday, Justice Agim imposed two years imprisonment on the convict on each of the three counts and in addition a fine of N20bn on the first count, N1.4bn on the second count and N1.5bn on the third count.

Justice Agim held that while the monetary fines on each of the counts amounting to N22.9bn would "run cumulatively," the two years jail terms on each of the three counts would run "consecutively," giving rise to a total of six years imprisonment.

He held, "In reviewing the sentence of imprisonment with option to pay fine, as in this case, this court can vary the sentence to one of both imprisonment and fine or imprisonment without option to pay fine.

"Considering the humongous amount stolen, the nature and gravity of the crime and its destructive effect on the country and its impact on retired police officers and the grave breach of public trust, a severe sentence that would deter the further commission of such a crime and prevent the convict from retaining any part of what he stole to avoid him obtaining financial benefit from his crime should be imposed.

"The sole issue raised for determination in the appellant's (EFCC) brief is resolved in favour of the appellant.

"On the whole, this appeal succeeds as it has merit.

"I hereby quash the sentences of two years imprisonment or a fine of N250,000 for each of the offences in counts 18, 19 and 20 and substitute them with the following sentences for each count as follows:

"Count 18: The convict is sentenced to two years imprisonment and in addition a fine of N20bn.

"Count 19: The convict is sentenced to two years imprisonment and in addition a fine of N1.4bn.

"Count 20: The convict is sentenced to two years imprisonment and in addition a fine of N1.5bn.

"The prison terms shall run consecutively and the monetary fines cumulatively."

Expressing concerns over the plight of the retired police officers who must have been at the receiving end of the massive theft of the pension funds, Justice Agim noted, "The offence committed by the respondent, by its nature, involves a grave breach of trust, erodes public confidence in public governance and causes retired police officers hardship and suffering.

"The funds stolen or misappropriated by the convict are police pension funds for the payment of monthly pensions and other retirement benefits of police officers nationwide.

"The theft or misappropriation of over N24bn of that fund would make the prompt payment of monthly pensions to retired police officers very difficult, if not impossible, with attendant hardship and suffering inflicted on such retired officers who rely on their monthly pensions as their only means or source of sustenance in retirement.

"The hopeless, helpless and dehumanising conditions the retired police officers have been put into by this offence that has become habitual and widespread amongst government officials in pensions departments of government whose duties are to be in custody of pension funds and process the payment of gratuities, monthly pensions and other retirement benefits to retired public servants is obvious."

Justice Abdu Aboki, who led the three-man panel, and another member of the panel, Justice Mohammed Mustapha, agreed with the lead judgment.

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Senators’ Outrageous Monthly Running Costs

Posted: 22 Mar 2018 12:26 AM PDT

Written by Carl Umegboro 
Nigeria's parliamentary arm has seemingly remained a drain pipe that impedes economic growth in the country since the ongoing democratic experiment commenced in 1999. Comparatively, a Nigerian senator or member of the House of the Representatives earns several times more than their counterparts across the world. 

Still, corruption sways in the chambers. In fact, during the previous administrations, 'Ghana-must-go' bags with megabucks were practically turned into lobbying and legislative tools for screening, confirmation of appointees and passage of budgets. 

As a result, reckless, profit-motivated and episodic impeachment motions became the order of the day on any president in power particularly during the Olusegun Obasanjo administration which all ended in pecuniary deals. Later, it became a routine in the successive governments until the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. In effect, do-or-die politics ruled the polity as belonging to the parliament became the fastest money-making venture.

Notwithstanding the gross aberrations, the lawmakers allocated outrageous allowances to themselves. The recently exposed monthly running cost of a whopping sum of N13.5million to each senator, by Senator Shehu Sani, which if allocated to visible developmental projects across all the constituencies will no doubt boost development across the nation, remains a nightmare. It is indeed iniquitous that such amount is self-allocated and collected monthly by each of the senators separately from consolidated salaries on inconsequentialities.

Meanwhile, the people in their constituencies remain in misery, joblessness and poverty. Then, an additional N200m for constituency projects is allotted annually, yet the polity keeps appearing pitiable and abandoned. Perhaps, it should be appropriately renamed paper-projects since they are non-existent anywhere. Irrefutably, the actions fall below the bar of civility.

This perhaps accounts for the unbending attempts to intimidate the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, out of office to pave the way for a companionable new helmsman. The fundamental question for the lawmakers is: How could the Public Procurement Act they passed into law specify how projects should be bid and executed but they indiscriminately allocated public funds to themselves when the council has yet to be constituted? Or is the country comparable to George Orwell's Animal Farm where some animals are more equal than others? For example, Section 16(17) of the Public Procurement Act 2014 provides that "a contract shall be awarded to the lowest evaluated responsive bid from the bidders substantially responsive to the bid solicitation". 

By the way, how could the legislature prepare and pass its budget and also clothe itself with powers to override the President? Indeed, this is a blinder.

The recent episodes are glaringly satirical. Lawmakers fantastically misappropriate public funds that could aid to improve the economy but always shed crocodile tears over the unemployment ratio in the society. If the plight of the youths truly moves them as portrayed in the controversial Peace Corps bill, the appropriate action should be to expand the budgetary allocation specifically as an employment interventionist policy which will enable the executive to expand its workforce including the existing security agencies thereby absorbing more youths into their respective personnel. 

Unfortunately, legislature's budgets alone keep going up with outrageously masked allowances. Over the years, politicians often play on the sensibilities of the vulnerable citizens especially the youths during elections. Interestingly, the red chamber is presently populated by unique identities and many other titles who relentlessly criticise the executive every now and then. Yet, they overlooked, concealed and promoted for several years the fraudulent running costs and constituency projects sufficient to improve the society if prudently expended.

The 2018 Appropriation bill presented to the National Assembly on November 7, 2017 by the President to stimulate the economy that was critically hit by recession, sadly still hops up and down at the end of first quarter. The lawmakers work for their personal interests.The constituency projects astutely envisioned have constituted conduits to the treasury. The bicameral legislature itself is the grand drain pipe. As a developing democracy, Nigeria shouldn't have clichéd the developed system verbatim but should modify progressively.

It therefore suggests that the anti-graft agencies have a lot of work to do. No amount of propaganda should dampen the spirit from moving into action towards recovering misappropriated public funds. It is absolutely ridiculous and totally unacceptable to enthrone mediocrity and expect development. 

From 1999 when the running costs and constituency projects came into existence, it is rare to find any such projects anywhere except a few that managed to complete a borehole in one community or repaint a community market with giant signposts. It is fittingly an act of man's inhumanity to man that lawmakers freely loot public funds while the masses they use satisfactorily during elections are drying up in hunger and hardship. Egocentricity has clearly defeated the objects of constituency projects solicitously aimed at spreading rapid development to the grass roots through the representatives.

Probably, this is where Charley Boy's "OurMumuDonDo" initiative will appropriately and effectually make sense than the defunct 'resume or resign' crusade. Until the legislative arm is reformed, things may hardly fall in shape.

- by Carl Umegboro

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Only Ekweremadu Has 22 Properties? FG Moves To Seize Them

Posted: 22 Mar 2018 12:26 AM PDT

The Federal Government has applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja for an order of temporary forfeiture of about 22 properties allegedly owned by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu in Abuja, London, the United States and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

In the ex-parte application filed yesterday by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIPRPP), Ekweremadu is accused of breaching the Code of Conduct for public officers by allegedly failing to declare about 22 properties in his last assets declaration form.

The application filed pursuant to Sections 330 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act; 8 of the Recovery of Public Property (Special Provisions) Act and Section 44 (2)(k) of the Constitution, seeks mainly an order for interim forfeiture of the properties to the Federal Government.

The ex-parte application was filed for the SPIPRPP by Festus Keyamo (SAN). It prays the court for an order "temporarily attaching/forfeiting the properties listed in Schedule B hereunder to the Federal Government of Nigeria, pending the conclusion of further inquiry/investigation by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property and/or possible arraignment of the respondent (Ekeremadu)".

The grounds relied on by the applicant include that the properties listed in Schedule A hereunder were the properties declared by the Respondent in his Assets Declaration Form at the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).

It stated that investigation/inquiries have revealed that the properties listed in Schedule B also belong to the respondent and so belonged to him when he declared his assets in Schedule A.

The applicant added that the properties listed in Schedule B were not declared in Ekweremadu's assets declaration form. It added that preliminary investigation by the applicant reveals that a prima facie case of a breach of code of conduct for public officers had been made out against the respondent.

But Ekweremadu, in a statement, insisted there is no asset to forfeit to the government.

He claimed the filing of a motion for the recovery of his assets was part of the politics of the 2019 general election.

He said in the statement by his Media Adviser Uche Anichukwu: "The attention of the Office of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has been drawn to a motion ex-parte filed by Festus Keyamo Chambers on behalf of the so-called Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property for an order to temporarily forfeit assets it claimed the senator did not declare with the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB.

"Senator Ekweremadu, however, wishes to state unequivocally that he declared all his assets with the Code of Conduct Bureau as required by law.

"The so-called panel sought and obtained his Assets Declaration Forms, but could not look at them since it is clearly out on a vendetta and smear campaign championed by Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla.

"This is clearly part of the politics of 2019, and is further exposing those who colluded with the dismissed former Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Innocent Umezulike and his cronies to steal and doctor his will.

"The Senator has, nevertheless, briefed his lawyers and will meet the panel in court.

"Again, Senator Ekweremadu wishes to assure all his supporters and well-wishers that there is nothing to worry about."

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PRAYER FOR TODAY

Posted: 21 Mar 2018 10:36 PM PDT



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Photos of Dapchi School Girls Released by Boko Haram

Posted: 21 Mar 2018 10:26 AM PDT

Photos of the Dapchi schoolgirls released on Wednesday by Boko Haram terrorists have been revealed. About 101 of the girls were reportedly released by the terrorists who came in nine vehicles and dropped the schoolgirls in Dapchi, to the excitement of many. More photos...







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Fayose Reacts To Release Of 101 Dapchi Schoolgirls

Posted: 21 Mar 2018 09:56 AM PDT

Following the release of about 101 Dapchi school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram today, the Governor of Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has congratulated parents of the children. He also sympathized with parents of five of the girls that reportedly died.

The Governor however described the abduction of the girls as an indictment of the federal government and their release as "drama scripted by the government and its agents to swindle Nigerians."

Fayose, while reacting to the release of the abducted school girls, said; "This appears like an arranged abduction and an arranged release, but we thank God that the innocent girls have returned home and we condole with parents of those that died."

In a statement issued on Wednesday, by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said it was strange that the girls could be brought back to Dapchi by their abductors without the security agents knowing when they were returned and who returned them.

He said: "Curiously, the same spirit who made sure that all military checkpoints in Dapchi and other surrounding towns were removed to pave way for the abduction of the girls also made sure that the girls were returned without any security agent seeing them.


"One can only be hopeful that the real scriptwriters behind this drama will be exposed one day.


"Nigerians should recall that the Governor of Yobe state, Ibrahim Geidam said that military checkpoints were withdrawn from Dapchi and other communities a few days before the abduction of the 110 girls.

"This was also corroborated by the Amnesty International in its report that was published in the newspapers yesterday.

"Specifically, Amnesty International said that security forces failed to act on advance warnings that a convoy of Boko Haram fighters was heading to Dapchi town and that between 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm on February 19, 2018, calls were made to tell the security services that the Boko Haram insurgents were in the Dapchi area.


"No doubt, withdrawal of military checkpoints from Dapchi and other communities, few days before the 110 students were abducted and failure of the security forces to act on advance warnings exposed the conspiracy of the federal government and its agents in the abduction of the schoolgirls and other dastardly acts of the insurgents.


"Interestingly, no one was questioned up till now despite conflicting claims by the army and police as well as the damning report by the Amnesty International hat between 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm on February 19, 2018, calls were made to tell the security services that the Boko Haram insurgents were in the Dapchi area."

The governor, who reiterated his allegation that Boko Haram insurgency had become source of treasury looting said: "Those benefiting from Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) scams, payment of ransom (in dollars) to free those abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents, among others will never wish to see the end of the insurgency."
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Update On The Freed Dapchi Schoolgirls

Posted: 21 Mar 2018 06:56 AM PDT

The rescued Dapchi schoolgirls have been taken to the General Hospital in Dapchi for profiling by the military.

A parent of one of the girls, Malam Ali Abdullahi, told NAN that all the girls had all ran to their various homes after their release.

"Immediately the insurgents dropped them from the truck that they were brought in around 8 am, the girls all ran home.

"Now, the Army told us to bring them to the hospital for checkup. As you can see some of the parents are not willing to let their daughters out of their sight. But the Army is insisting."

NAN reports that vehicles have been stationed at the hospital to convey the girls to Damaturu.

Most of the girls at the hospital looked malnourished and wore Hijab.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has confirmed the release of 76 of the girls, adding that "process for the release of others is ongoing".


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Businessmen Who Are Secret Armed Robbers Arrested In Lagos

Posted: 21 Mar 2018 06:56 AM PDT

Six Ladipo Market traders have been arrested and paraded by the police for their alleged involvement in armed robbery and cultism in Lagos.

They were paraded by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Imohimi Edgal at the Police Command, Ikeja, Lagos.

The names of the suspects are;
Nwapa Chukwuebuka, 20, Oganna Effita, 22, Seth Frank, 29, Obiora Nwagbaso, 20, Chibike Ozor, 25 and Moses Ikechukwu, 25.

The traders were among other suspected criminals paraded by the police for committing various criminal offences.

The police boss said that the suspects were arrested by the operatives of Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, through intelligence gathering which led to the arrest of Chukwuebuka. He confessed and took the police to NNPC area at Ejigbo where they hid their weapons. The house was resided by one of their leaders identified as Uzor now on the run.

Edgal said that the confession led to the recovery of four short locally made pistols and live ammunitions at their armoury. He said that it also led to the arrest of other suspects at the market. They were arrested and brought to the Command at Ikeja, Lagos.

During the parade, the suspects confessed belonging to various cults and mentioned their leaders who were now on the run. CP Edgal said efforts were being made to arrest other suspects but those already arrested will be charged to court.

Edgal promised that the police will continue to do their best to reduce criminality in Lagos and asked for continued support from the public.


culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog

Photo of Christian Dapchi Girl Boko Haram Refused To Release

Posted: 21 Mar 2018 06:21 AM PDT

From the details of the girls released by federal government shortly after their abduction, Liah Sharibu is the victim being held.

It was gathered that the arrival of the insurgents sparked tension in the Dapchi town as many residents fled when they sighted the convoy of the terrorist group who arrived in trucks.

While speaking to a correspondent, a resident had said: "Boko Haram just returned the kidnapped girls this morning. They brought them back in the same set of vehicles which they used in conveying them last month. People are scared because they do not know what the insurgents are up to."
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