Month: April 2024

Azeez and his company, Ablims Limited, were convicted after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy and obtaining under false pretences, upon being arraigned by the Gombe State Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The arraignment followed a petition filed against him and his company by one Ayanbisi Ismail, where the petitioner alleged that he defrauded him of the sum of N7,183,750 and all efforts to get his money back proved abortive.

The two counts preferred against Azeez and his company state: “That you Edu Babatunde and Ablims Limited sometime in December 2022 at Gombe, Gombe State within the jurisdiction of this honourable court fraudulently obtained the sum of N7,183,750 from one Ayanbisi Ismail by falsely representing the money to be for exporting charcoal to Saudi Arabia, a representation which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320 and punishable under Section 322 of the penal Code Law.

Upon pleading guilty to the charges, prosecution counsel, A.B. Kware, asked the court to convict and sentence Azeez as charged, but counsel for the defendant, Inusa Mahammed, pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy as the defendant is a first-time offender.

In his ruling, Justice Kereng convicted and sentenced Azeez and his company, Ablims Limited to one year imprisonment with an option of N200,000 as a fine.

Recall that Naira Marley and his group have been under criticism since Mohbad’s death in September 2023 for reportedly harassing the late musician before his passing.

According to recent reports, one of Naira Marley’s boys posted hateful comments about the late singer on his Instagram profile.

Law_lee101 said in the post about how, despite Mohbad’s untimely death, his hatred for him has only increased. Not content to stop there, he explained the background to his intense emotions.

Law_lee101 claims that Portable would not have dared attack Zinoleesky on social media if Mohbad had not made any negative remarks about him.

Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, paid a visit to Suleja Medium Security Custodial Centre, on Thursday, after over 119 inmates escaped from the facility during a downpour.

The Minister visited the facility to assess the extent of damage caused by the rain on Wednesday which pulled down parts of the prison’s perimeter fencing and facilitated the escape of the inmates.

As earlier reported, the escaped inmates took advantage of the broken walls caused by the rains and escaped the prison facility on Wednesday.

It was gathered that ten of the escaped inmates have been re-arrested and returned to the facility, while a manhunt has been launched by the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) authorities together with other security agencies to smoke out the fleeing escapees from their hideouts.

During the visit on Thursday, the Minister sought to know steps being taken to arrest the fleeing inmates and bring them back to the centre.

Those in the entourage of the Minister include the Interior Ministry’s director of joint services, Peter Egbodo and other top officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) who were on hand to receive the minister and his team.

Meanwhile, more security personnel have also been drafted to the surroundings of the facility while the areas have been cordoned off.

Nigerian rapper, Erhiga Agarivbie aka Erigga has revealed  how to detect a street wife.

He took to the microblogging platform X to share his take.

The rapper noted that a man gets to know a wife who originated from the streets after observing their Asoebi girls on their wedding day.

In his words: “Na from your wife Asoebi girls you go know if your wife been dey streets ..✍🏿”

He was reacting after a group of Asoebi girls received harsh criticism from online users for wearing clothing to a wedding that showed off a good deal of their legs.

See netizens’ reactions below:

Kev.O said: “Him wife fit no dey street sef, make e be say na her friend friends just wan dress anyhow for her wedding.😂”

joshkinng asked: “😂😂😂 how you dey come up with all this talk 😭”

Coker wrote: “Make that girl come catch her sub😂”

Emi Chinonye said: “The ones with d big bumbum 😂🤣”

Correct Bro wrote: “Birds of a feather flock together.”

Rex asserted: “Na lie guy my wife get friends wey be hook up girls na only she never do for her life”

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Abdullahi Ganduje

“With the manifesto and the constitution of the APC, the party has achieved a lot at the national level under President Tinubu,” he said.
     
“It is now clear that APC is the answer to Nigeria’s problems.”

He urged Nigerians to support and pray for the administration of President Tinubu to sustain the transformation of the country.
 
While receiving those who decamped from opposition parties, Ganduje urged residents of the state to vote for APC candidates.
 
“As long as APC remains in power, the people of the state will never lack good governance,” he added.
 

He stated that there should be punishment for erring judges involved in the abuse.

In his speech titled “Repositioning the Justice System, Constitutional, Statutory and Operational Reforms for Access and Efficiency” at the National Summit on Justice in Abuja on Wednesday, April 24, Akpabio noted that it is imperative for the National Judicial Council (NJC) to exercise stringent oversight to curb the misuse of ex parte order.

He said;

“We recommend prompt and decisive punishment for erring judges who are found to be involved in this abuse. We further propose that the NJC establish clear and detailed standards governing the issuance of ex parte orders, accompanied by a defined set of sanctions for violations. These sanctions should be severe enough to deter people from future abuses.

Akpabio also said that such reforms will foster trust in the justice system and improve the overall efficiency of legal proceedings involving the government.

He added;

“This integration will not only fortify our constitution and electoral framework but will also ensure that justice both in letter and in spirit becomes more attainable for every Nigerian.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has withdrawn its application against the immediate past governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello at the Court of Appeal.

The EFCC said the notice of withdrawal is predicated on the fact that the application filed has been overtaken by the decision of the Kogi State High Court.

This was made known in a court application filed on Tuesday at the Court of Appeal Abuja judicial division by J. S. Okutepa, SAN and others on behalf of thCommissionon.

The Commissionon said the subject of the appeal had been determined by the Kogi High Court Judge, Justice Jamil J., on April 17, 2024.

The EFCC, therefore, told the court that the notice of appeal was filed out of time and now prays that the appeal be struck out as incompetent.

It said: “The appellant herein intends to and do hereby wholly withdraw her appeal against the respondent in the above mentioned appeal.

On February 8th, Bello instituted a fundamental rights enforcement suit, asking the court to declare that “the incessant harassment, threats of arrest and detention, negative press releases, malicious prosecution” of the EFCC — “without any formal invitation — is politically motivated and interference with his right to liberty, freedom of movement, and fair hearing”.

The former governor also sought an order “restraining the respondent by themselves, their agents, servants or privies from continuing to harass, threaten to arrest or detain him”.

On February 9, the Kogi High Court granted an interim injunction restraining the EFCC from “continuing to harass, threaten to arrest, detain, prosecute Bello, his former appointees, and his staff or family members, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive originating motion for the enforcement of his fundamental rights”.

On March 12, the EFCC filed an appeal against the interim injunction because the court could not stop the commission from carrying out its statutory responsibility.

The Kogi High Court delivered judgement on the substantive motion on notice on April 17. The presiding judge, Isa Jamil Abdullahi, granted an order restraining the EFCC “from continuing to harass, threaten to arrest or detain Bello.”

However, the judge directed the commission to file a charge against Bello before an appropriate court if it had reasons to do so.

Israel, whose marriage to a virgin, Sheila Courage, ended less than one year after their wedding, reacted to the doctor’s advice.

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Israel, whose marriage to a virgin, Sheila Courage, ended less than one year after their wedding, reacted to the doctor’s advice, writing: “HELLOOOOOOOOOOO.”

A woman identified as Ujunwa Okechukwu, her son and one other person were electrocuted at Mowe market in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.

About four people were also injured in the incident that occurred on Monday, April 22, following an electric spark in the market after power was restored hours after rain fell.

The spark broke out from the step-down transformer suspended on an electrical pole next to the shop where the incident happened.

The Director of Information at the Obafemi Owode Local Government, Segun Soneye, confirmed the incident to DailyTrust on Wednesday, April 24.

He explained that the woman “was burnt into ashes.”

Soneye blamed the incident on the construction of shops made of iron under the powerline by the traders. He said the chairman of the council, Lanre Ogunsola, had visited the affected shop owners and commiserated with them over the incident.

He added that the LG boss had already given shop owners a seven-day ultimatum to evacuate their make-shift shops built under the high-tension powerline to forestall the recurrence of the incident.

The council boss visited the injured victims, who were receiving treatments at Mowe Health Post, and assured them of quality medical care with all the expenses to be paid by the government.
 

Khadija Yusra, the daughter of the 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has responded to an ‘X’ user over a comment made about her husband.

The admin of the X page had described Yusra’s husband, Abdulmutalib Akintade Shittu, who is from Kwara state and is the Senior Special Assistant, Geographical Information Service to the Kwara State Governor, simply as a ‘’Yoruba man.”