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An armed group that kidnapped humanitarian workers in northeastern Nigeria five months ago has claimed it killed four hostages, international aid agency Action Against Hunger said on Friday. Six people were abducted in July near the town of Damasak, Borno state, where Islamist insurgents operate. Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), which split from the militant group Boko Haram that began its insurgency in 2009, has become the dominant jihadist group in the region. The decade-long Islamist insurgency has caused the deaths of some 30,000 people and driven 2 million to flee their homes. Action Against Hunger said one…
Boko Haram has released a video showing the execution of two soldiers and a policeman, posted online late Monday by Islamic State group (IS) propaganda agency Amaq. The video, dated Sunday, was made by a branch of Boko Haram that has sworn allegiance to IS known as the Islamic State Group in West Africa (ISWAP). The Boko Haram video release came days after the militants announced the kidnapping of 14 people including two aid workers and, according to the jihadists, six members of the security forces. It shows three men in plain clothes kneeling in a field, introducing themselves as…
Six people, including a police officer and three bystanders, were killed in a furious gunbattle Tuesday that filled the streets of Jersey City with the sound of heavy fire for hours, authorities said. The dead included the two gunmen, Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly said. The slain officer, Detective Joseph Seals, 40, was credited by his superiors with having led the department in the number of illegal guns removed from the streets in recent years, and might have been trying to stop an incident involving such weapons when he was cut down by gunfire that erupted near a cemetery,…
Police in Ebonyi have said they had uncovered a new strategy used by criminals to rob bank customers. The command’s spokesperson, Loveth Odah, made this known in Abakaliki on Thursday. Ms Odah warned members of the public, especially bank customers, to always be security conscious whenever making bank transactions. According to her, the new strategy involves trailing their victims through a female member of their syndicate who are usually monitoring financial transactions around banks’ premises. Odah said such members of the syndicate usually hang outside the banks with cellophane bag containing nails that were usually planted either at the front…
Mr Muhammed Idris on Thursday sentenced a former Abia State governor, Mr Orji Kalu, to 12 years in prison for stealing public funds while in office. Kalu, a serving senator, was jailed alongside Mr Udeh Udeogu, his Director of Finance and Accounts at Abia State Government House during Kalu’s tenure. Udeogu was sentenced to 10 years in prison. A third defendant, Kalu’s company, Slok Nigeria Limited, was ordered to be wound up and its assets forfeited to government. Kalu’s prosecution started 12 years ago, in 2007 after he left office as governor. The defendants were eventually faced with an amended…
Former Abia State Governor, Mr Orji Uzor Kalu, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, was heard asking prison warders, “Where are you taking us to?” after his sentencing. Kalu, who is Senate Chief Whip, also begged prison warders not to handcuff him in public. As Kalu and his co-defendants were being removed from the dock by prison officials, they attempted to handcuff him. The former governor, who appeared shaken, said, “Where are you taking us to now? Please, don’t handcuff me. I will follow you.” Two unidentified women were also seen weeping as Kalu was being…
Some Aba residents in Abia state have lauded the 12-year jail term handed down to ex-Governor Orji Kalu by a Federal High Court in Lagos. Mr Muhammed Idris convicted Mr Kalu on 39 counts of N7.2 billion fraud and money laundering preferred against him by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Aba is the main base of Kalu – now a senator – and some of the residents said that the judgment was a warning to political office holders to be careful. A lawyer and social critic, Mr Ukpai Ukairo, said: “The judgment is momentous and shows that you can run…
Pirates have kidnapped 19 crew members from a crude oil tanker off Nigeria in an area where acts of piracy are on the rise, an official with the ship’s operator said on Thursday. The loaded vessel, the Nave Constellation, was attacked 77 nautical miles off Bonny Island on Tuesday and 18 Indians and one Turk from the crew were seized, the official said. Seven other crew members remain on board the vessel. Neither the vessel nor the cargo were damaged, the official said. The shipping industry has warned in recent months about the increasing dangers faced by seafarers in the…
A Lagos Division of the Federal High Court, on Thursday, sentenced a serving senator and ex-governor of Abia State, Mr Orji Kalu, to 12 years in prison for N7.65 billion fraud. Mr Mohammed Idris who delivered the sentence had earlier declared him guilty of the charge in the case that had been on for 12 years. Kalu was tried alongside his company, Slok Nigeria Limited, and Mr Udeh Udeogu, who was Director of Finance and Accounts at the Abia State Government House during Kalu’s tenure as governor. In an amended 39 counts charge, they were accused by Economic and Financial…
Mr Rilwan Aikawa has ordered the temporary forfeiture of Saraki’s two properties designated as Plots No. 10 and No. 11 Abdulkadir Road, GRA, Ilorin, Kwara State. Mr Olamide Sadiq, who is an operative of EFCC, said in an affidavit filed in support of the ex parte application that the move for the forfeiture of the houses followed the findings of EFCC after investigation and “the report of a committee set up to review sales of Kwara State Government during the reign of the Governor of Kwara State in the year 2003 and 2011.” He said EFCC also received “a damning…
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