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Thursday, 07 July 2022 06:55

Buhari carpets security agencies over Kuje prison attack

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed disappointment with the Intelligence system, following the terrorists’ attack on Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje. After inspecting the attack scene on Wednesday, the president said, “I am disappointed with the intelligence system. How can terrorists organise, have weapons, attack a security installation and get away with it?” According to the presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, “Soon after he (Buhari) arrived, he was briefed about the attack by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Shuaib Belgore and the Controller General of Nigerian Correctional Service, Haliru Nababa, showing him the bombed-out section used to access first, and the…

Wednesday, 06 July 2022 03:53

Terrorists attack Buhari’s convoy, kill police chief, one other

Suspected terrorists on Tuesday, near Dutsinma, Katsina State, ambushed the convoy of vehicles conveying the Presidency’s advance team of security guards, protocol and media officers, killing two policemen in the process. The Presidency officials were travelling to Daura ahead of the trip of President Muhammadu Buhari to his hometown for Sallah. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed the attack in a statement without confirming the casualty figure. The statement titled “Gallant presidential guards repel attack on advance team ahead of President’s visit” reads: “The Presidency has described as sad and unwelcome, the shooting…

Wednesday, 06 July 2022 03:45

Bandits attack Kuje prison, Abuja

There was apprehension among residents of Kuje in the Federal Capital Territory following repeated sounds of gunshots heard in the area. There were fears among residents that the correctional center was under attack by armed men. A resident of the area, Joshua Friday, told our correspondent that the shootings went on for about 20 minutes. He said the situation caused panic in the area. He said, “Currently in Kuje and the shooting has been going on for almost 20 minutes now. I can’t tell you what is happening whether it is a robbery or not but we have been hearing…

Wednesday, 06 July 2022 03:44

Gunmen kill police officer, abduct Chinese national in Kwara

The police in Kwara State have confirmed the killing of a police inspector, Adebayo Adeforiti, and the abduction of a Chinese national by some gunmen at CGC construction company along Shao/Oloru Expressway. The kidnap occurred on July 2 at about 16:15hrs. This is contained in a statement issued by the Kwara police spokesman, Okasanmi Ajayi, on Tuesday in Ilorin. “Some armed men suspected to be kidnappers invaded the premises of CGC construction company along Shao/Oloru Expressway, shot and killed Inspector Adebayo Adeforiti attached to PMF 15, Ilorin, who was on guard duty at the company, and abducted a Chinese national…

Tuesday, 05 July 2022 06:21

Prosecutors close in on Air Peace CEO, Onyeama, as alleged co-conspirator admits guilt in $20m fraud charges in US

Ebony Mayfield, a co-conspirator in an alleged $20 million fraud involving the founder of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, has pleaded guilty, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report. Mayfield pleaded guilty to one of the eight counts filed against her by the U.S. government at the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, in Atlanta, on June 29. The fraud allegedly spearheaded by Onyema was perpetrated under the guise of obtaining credit to buy aircraft for Air Peace, a frontline Nigerian airline, in the U.S. Mayfield was accused of helping Onyema to facilitate the $20 million bank fraud between May 2016…

Tuesday, 05 July 2022 06:19

Ballot boxes, other election materials destroyed as hoodlums set fire to Enugu INEC office

A total of 748 ballot boxes have been burnt by arsonists who attacked the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Igboeze North LGA in Enugu State. National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC, Festus Okoye, revealed this yesterday in Abuja. According to Okoye, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Enugu State, Emeka Ononamadu, informed the INEC headquarters that during the attack, 748 ballot boxes, 240 voting cubicles, office furniture and other equipment were destroyed despite effort of the Enugu State Fire Service deployed from Nsukka, noting that the incident had been reported to…

Tuesday, 05 July 2022 06:18

Vandals crippling power distribution, IBEDC cries out

Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) has raised an alarm over the spate of vandalism within its network, saying the activities of vandals are beginning to cripple power distribution to its customers. A statement signed by the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the distribution company, John Ayodele, said unknown civilians and armed men in police and civil defense uniforms on June 29, carted away IBEDC 33kV underground cables at Mokola Round-about in Ibadan, Oyo State. He said, “The stolen cables fed Agodi Injection Substation, where Government House, the State Secretariat, Agodi and majority of Bodija area and thousands of other urban…

Sunday, 03 July 2022 07:06

Nigeria lost $1bn in Q1 revenue to crude oil theft

Nigeria lost $1 billion in revenue during the first quarter of this year due to crude oil theft, the petroleum regulator said on Friday, warning the practise was a threat to the economy of Africa's top producer. Nigeria loses millions of barrels of crude oil a year because of theft and vandalism including tapping of crude from a maze of pipelines owned by oil majors, underscoring how poor security causes vast financial losses for the country. Gbenga Komolafe, head of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, said of the 141 million barrels of oil produced in the first quarter of…

Sunday, 03 July 2022 07:04

Sharia Court sentences 3 Bauchi men to death by stoning for homosexuality

An Islamic sharia court in Bauchi state has sentenced three men to death by stoning after convicting them on charges of engaging in homosexuality, leader of the religious police that arrested them said on Friday. Northern Nigeria is predominantly Muslim and the states in the region use sharia courts to punish residents for crimes ranging from adultery to blasphemy. Adam Dan Kafi, head of the Hisbah religious police in the Ningi local government area of Bauchi said the three men were arrested on June 14 and charged in a sharia court. The men, including a 70-year-old, all confessed to the…

Sunday, 03 July 2022 07:02

50 kidnapped kids rescued from basement of Ondo church

Scores of children were allegedly found in an underground apartment of a church in the Valentino Area of Ondo town, Ondo State, on Friday. It was gathered that the children were allegedly kidnapped and kept in the underground apartment of the church. A source said victims were over 50 while the police had rescued them and arrested the pastor and some members of the church. In a viral video, the children were seen in a patrol vehicle of the police who took them to the police station. In the one minute, 40 seconds video, a voice was heard saying, “They…

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Saturday, 02 July 2022 07:00

Court jails serving senator for money laundering

Peter Nwaoboshi, senator representing Delta North district, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for money laundering. The senator was convicted by the Lagos division of the appeal court on Friday. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Nwaoboshi and his two firms – Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical Ltd — in 2018 before Mohammed Idris, a judge who was later elevated to the court of appeal. They were then re-arraigned before Chukwujekwu Aneke on October 5, 2018. In the two-count charge marked FHC/L/117C/18, EFCC alleged that the defendants laundered N322 million between May and June…

Friday, 01 July 2022 06:51

Ekweremadu: Prosecutor insists ‘kidney donor’ is 15 as former deputy senate president again appears in UK court

Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president, on Thursday appeared before the Uxbridge Magistrate Court, UK, for his trial on alleged organ harvesting. Last week, the London Metropolitan Police arrested and charged Ekweremadu and his wife for allegedly bringing a child to the UK for organ harvesting. The UK police had said the alleged donor, later identified as Ukpo Nwamini David, was 15 years old, but his passport data page showed he was born on October 12, 2000. According to Channels Television, during the proceedings on Thursday, Ekweremadu was in the dock where he confirmed his name and date of birth.…

Friday, 01 July 2022 06:49

Terrorists kill 10 policemen, 3 soldiers, abduct foreign nationals, others in Niger, Enugu

It was another day of massacre in Niger State on Wednesday night as gunmen invaded a mining site in Ajata Aboki, in Erena district of Shiroro Local Government Area of the State, killing three soldiers, seven mobile policemen and 15 civilians working at the site. The gunmen, who invaded the mining site in large numbers, succeeded in abducting an unspecified number of Chinese nationals who, the locals said, were the target of the gunmen. The mining site, according to a reliable source close to the community, is owned by a powerful figure in the state, and the area has remained…

Friday, 01 July 2022 06:48

Bandits levy N400m taxes on Kaduna communities to allow access to farm

A community leader from the Birnin Gwari Emirate Council in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Zubairu Abdulra’uf, has lamented how members of the communities paid N400 million to bandits to enable them to go to their farms. This is just as he said the people of the emirate had resorted to defending themselves against terrorists that had over the years taken over the area. He told journalists in Kaduna on Thursday that the constant attacks on communities had paralysed economic activities in their rural areas and made travelling in the area impossible. On payment to bandits, Abdulra’uf…

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