Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram have attacked Dabna community in Hong local government area of Adamawa state killed three, burnt houses, shops and carting away food stuff.
Community members say, the attackers came in motorbikes in early hours of Monday, shooting sporadically killing three in the proces
Community members further testified that insurgents have invaded their Communities severally to cart away food stuff each time they run short of it but have never been bloody, except this recent attack
Dabna community in Hong local government area of Adamawa state shares border with some parts of Borno state believed to be to be a Boko Haram abode
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Adamawa state, CP Afolabi Babatola has confirmed the attack which he condemned
In a statement signed by the command’s spoke person, Suprintendent Suleman Nguroje, the CP ordered the immediate investigations into the matter and asked the people to go about their normal lives as normalcy is restored in the areas
Dabna community is just few kilometers away from Garaha, home town of the Secretary to the government of the federation, Boss Mustapha.
A Magistrates court in Ogun state has ordered that Habeeb Okikiola popularly called Portable be remanded at the Ilaro Correctional Centre pending when he will perfect his bail conditions
The controversial singer was arraigned on two different charges bordering on assault, stealing and resisting arrest, leveled against him by the Commissioner of Police, Ogun State Command, Frank Mba. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Chief Magistrate Aina Soneye of the Ifo Magistrate court, while adjourning the case to the 26th of April for commencement of trial admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of Three Hundred Thousand Naira with two sureties in like sum
In the second charge, he was admitted to bail in the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Naira and two sureties in like sum.
The defendant is to fulfill his bail conditions or be remanded at Ilaro Correctional centre, Ogun state.
Mixed reactions have been trailing the conversion of Nollywood actress Mercy Aigbe from Christianity to Islam.
Aigbe made known her new faith at a Ramadan lecture and special prayers event, jointly hosted by her and hubby Kazeem Adeoti in Lagos at the weekend.
In a viral video interview, the actress also revealed her new name as Meenah.
Her words:
“Insha Allah, My new name is Hajia Meenah Mercy Adeoti. Meenah with the H,”.
The actress also hinted on plans to proceed on Holy pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Nollywood actors Adebayo Salami popularly known as Oga Bello, Fathia Balogun, Kemi Afolabi, Femi Adebayo among others graced the Ramadan lecture in honour of Mercy.
Recall Mercy Aigbe in 2022 got married to popular film marketer Kazim Adeoti Adekaz as a second wife.
The presidential campaign council of the labour party says the audio record of its candidate in the 2023 election, peter Obi with the founder of living faith church, Bishop David Oyedepo is fake and it is a desperate move by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC to discredit Peter Obi.
In a statement, the head of Obi-Datti media office, Diran Onifade, accused the ruling party of promoting religious tension in the country, saying that the”APC’s endless subterfuge must stop”.
He alleged that the ruling APC refused to back out of the desperation to grab power it exhibited before the election
The campaign council said the labour party is toeing the path of the constitution to reclaim the stolen mandate, and advised Nigerians to remain focused on the task.
However, the spokesperson of Labour Party presidential campaign council, Kenneth Okonkwo in a tweet thread on Sunday, subtly confirmed the conversation .
He said Obi was only appealing to the Bishop to assist in pushing the message of equal stake in the Nigerian project to his people and the christian community.
“Firstly, the context of the conversation was aptly put by Bishop Oyedepo when he said “All Nigerians have equal stake in this nation, nobody has the right to claim that he is dashing something to someone”.
H E @PeterObi was simply urging the Bishop to help him push this message of equal stake of all Nigerians in the Nigerian project to his people and the christiandom because the politicians of the other party is carrying on this campaign as if it is a religious war.
“To drive home this point, he informed him that he visited the traditional ruler of Offa, the Olofa of Offa, who is a Muslim, but who advised Obi to get the support of Oyedepo and be assured of his own support. No Politician has ever visited the Olofa of Offa. It is clear to everybody that the APC political party that has a Presidential Candidate, Vice Presidential Candidate, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, National Chairman of the Party all from one religion at a time the CJN is a Muslim is the Party that has declared religious war on Nigerians and we must all rise up together to fight this unconstitutional act of religious intolerance of other religions by APC.”
Okonkwo said “political criminals are trying to spin the conversation as if Obi was making a religious statement.”
Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church has also made a clarification.
He said on Sunday during a live broadcast that all political parties that took part in the just concluded general elections sought his prayers.
Oyedepo said though he prayed for them, he was not in the position to answer the prayers.
“There is no party in Nigeria that was running that didn’t come to me for prayers, not one. I can’t answer the prayer, I can only pray for you.
Whether you are a member of a church or not, without your faith Papa’s prayer won’t do nothing,” he said.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has declared a Port Harcourt, Rivers state-based popular prophetess and founder of Christ Power Adoration Ministries, Faith Ugochi and a celebrity couple: Igho Ubiribo and Danielle Simba Allen wanted for recruiting teenage girls into drug trafficking while they serve as the arrowheads of an international syndicate operating from Los Angeles, USA.
This was contained in a statement signed by the agency’s spokesman Femi Babafemi this Sunday.
Babafemi said the lid was blown off the cartel when NDLEA operatives at the NAHCO import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos intercepted a consignment of 32.70 kilograms of Loud, a strong variant of cannabis concealed in cartons of used wears on Wednesday 16th November 2022. A freight agent, Ukoh Ifeanyi Oguguo was immediately arrested while further investigations led to the arrest of four more suspects: Chikodi Favour; Obiyom Shalom Chiamaka; Nnochiri Chidinma Promise and Edward Omatseye (aka Montana).
The 15-year-old Favour was the first sales girl to be arrested at a fuel station in Ajah area of Lagos. She thereafter led the operatives to a duplex accommodation around Ikate area of Lekki, which was later discovered to be a rented apartment by the criminal group purposely for four young girls that the syndicate uses for marketing and distribution of illicit drugs.
Another girl, Shalom who is a fresh graduate of Agricultural Science from Rivers State University of Science and Technology was picked from the house alongside Favour. During their preliminary interviews, it was learnt that the syndicate rented another building used as drugs warehouse inside Richmond Estate, Lekki. By the time operatives located the house, it was discovered that other members of the syndicate had broken into the store and carted away bags of illicit substances.
However, some illicit drugs paraphernalia including sealing machine, bloating machine and packaging bags were recovered from the warehouse. A follow-up operation led to the arrest of Edward Omatseye at his residence around Lekki area. Edward confessed during interview to be working for Igho and his wife, Danielle, who are identified as the overall heads of the criminal group.
Investigation was able to establish that Favour and Shalom were recruited as salesgirls in the illicit drug trade by Prophetess Faith Ugochi of Christ Power Adoration Ministries, using her church platform to recruit teenage girls brought to her for help, on behalf of the celebrity couple: Igho Ubiribo (aka Tiny) and Danielle Simba Allen (aka Dani), who are the owners of the business, while Edward Omatseye (aka Montana) coordinates the illicit drug trade activities for them in Nigeria, with Nnochiri Chidinma Promise as representative of Ben Cargo Ltd, a freight company responsible for the shipment of illicit consignments into the country.
While Nnochiri Chidinma Promise and Edward Omatseye (aka Montana) have already been charged to court and are currently facing trial at the Federal High Court, Lagos alongside Ben Cargo Ltd, a freight company which had been linked to two previous drug seizures and also involved in the current case, several attempts to get Prophetess Faith Ugochi, Igho Ubiribo and Danielle Simba Allen submit themselves for questioning have proved abortive.
A letter of invitation sent to Prophetess Faith Ugochi of Christ Adoration Ministries, No. 27 Anozie Street, Mile 2, Diobu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State on 28th November 2022 was received and acknowledged by her mother, with whom she runs the Church. The letter was followed with a reminder on 9th January, 2023 after a long wait.
In the same vein, letters of invitation were also extended to Igho Ubiribo and Danielle Simba Allen. A reminder was also sent when the couple didn’t show any readiness to respond to the first invitation. While Prophetess Ugochi fled her home and went into hiding but continued her prophetic ministration on Facebook, the duo of Igho and Danielle initially sent a legal representation to ask for another time to honour the invitation, they have since gone incommunicado. Curiously, they hurriedly moved all funds traced to their company Lasgidi Backwood Ltd where all proceeds from the sales of illicit drugs were deposited into a private account of one Victor Imagoro.
The Agency has since blocked the sum of Eighty Million Naira (N80,000,000) traced to the account and obtained a court order to seize all properties including a fuel station linked to the suspects in Lagos and Port Harcourt.
The NDLEA has further sought and obtained an order of the Federal High Court Lagos to declare wanted the celebrity couple: Ubiribo Igho and Danielle Allen, as the arrowheads of the illicit trade as well as Prophetess Faith Ugochi, who recruits teenage girls as sales representatives for the duo. Meanwhile, the Agency in collaboration with other stakeholders including the Customs Service on Friday 31st March conducted a joint examination of two containers marked TRHU 4758549 and TRHU 6936803 where One Hundred and Forty-Three Million Eight Hundred Thousand (143,800,000 tablets) pills of Tramadol 225mg were discovered in 720 cartons weighing 10.3tons (10,386kgs). The opioid pills, which were mixed with cartons of sweet were imported from India. The interception followed credible intelligence and cooperation of sister agencies.
Similarly, officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations, DOGI, have intercepted at a courier firm a cargo of 1.5kg cocaine concealed in a carton declared to contain hair cream, shampoo, hair rollers and burners, going to London, UK.
In Kaduna, operatives on Monday 27th March raided Dan Wata village, Soba LGA where they arrested one Abdurrashid Musa, 33, with 142.8kg cannabis while the principal suspect, Ibro Danwata is still at large, while another suspect, Shamsu Abdullahi (aka Waja), 35, was also arrested the previous day during a follow up operation at Rigasa Kaduna, after he had abandoned 80,000 tablets of Diazepam weighing 13.4kg and escaped arrest earlier. No less than 63 bags of cannabis sativa weighing 600kg stored in a house at Okpe village in Akoko-Edo LGA were recovered on Friday 31st March when operatives raided the area, while a raid of a warehouse owned by one Shehi Mallam at tomatoes market, Dei Dei Abuja same day led to the seizure of 80 sacks of cannabis sativa weighing 842.4 kilograms. In Cross River, 12,000 pills of Tramadol 225mg were seized from a female passenger, Talatu Sale Adamu, 46, when NDLEA officers intercepted the commercial bus she was travelling in along Ogoja/ Katsina-Ala road on Monday 27th March.
While a suspect, Abraham Alaigwu was arrested at Slaughter, Trans/Amadi area of Port Harcourt, Rivers state with 91.7kg of cannabis on Thursday 30th March, 228kg of same substance was seized from Ayodele Osuya, 35, in a Toyota Camry car around Quarter Guard area of Akure, Ondo state.
The Republics of Cuba and Nicaragua through their Presidents have joined the growing list of countries congratulating Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on his victory in the February 25 presidential polls.
Also, the Developing Eight Organisations for Economic Cooperation (D8), has also extended felicitations to the President-elect on his electoral success.
In a congratulatory letter to Asiwaju Tinubu signed by President Maguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, the Cuban Government described his election as a reaffirmation of the will to continue to strengthen the historic relations of friendship between the two countries.
On its part, Nicaragua expressed her best wishes for Nigeria’s peace and prosperity.
“Our best wishes for peace and prosperity of Nigeria, while reiterating our unwavering commitment to continue strengthening the fraternal bonds of solidarity and brotherhood that unite our peoples and governments,” the letter signed by President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Rosario’s Murillo stated.
The D8 statement, signed by its Secretary-General, Nigerian-born Ambassador Isiaka Abdulqadir Imam, showered praises on Nigeria for its active membership of the organisation founded more than 25 years ago.
It declared, “Nigeria is a staunch member of the D8 Organisation. The country graciously hosts the D8 Health and Social Protection (D-8 HSP) in Abuja and is on track to host the D8 Centre for Small and Medium Enterprises. Nigeria is also preparing to host the first D8 Private Sector-driven Energy Forum in Lagos in mid-2023.”
Expressing the organisation’s confidence that Nigeria under the Asiwaju Tinubu-led government would be more peaceful and prosperous and emerge as an economic powerhouse in Africa and on the global stage, the D8 added: “We look forward to working with your administration to realise the aims and objectives of our organisation.”
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The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of Eze Ndigbo of Ajao estate, lagos state Frederick Nwajagu over a viral video posted on Friday where he had disclosed his intention to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB to protect lives and property of the Igbo people residing in the state .
The Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed this to AIT in a phone conversation , said a team of police officers and operatives from the department of state security effected his arrest early Saturday .
The police spokesperson had earlier reacted to the video saying that the police will not fold it’s arms and allow such incitive comments capable of creating ethnic tension in the state.
The Eze Ndigbo of Ajao estate, Frederick had shared a video on social media, threatening to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB to secure the igbo people and their property in the state threatening that the igbos in Lagos must have their own security to protect them from further attacks.
The Sokoto Division of the Court of Appeal has convicted and sentenced two Chinese nationals, Meng Wei Kun and Xu Kuai to 6 years imprisonment.
The duo were sentenced to prison on friday on two of a three count charge bordering on conspiracy, money laundering and attempted bribery to the tune of fifty Million naira brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The information which is contained in a Statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC also says that in a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Abubakar Mahmud Talba on the appeal of the EFCC against the judgment of a Federal High Court, Sokoto which discharged and acquitted the respondents, the appellate court found the respondents guilty of counts 1 and 2 and sentenced both to 3years imprisonment each of the counts, with an option of ten Million naira fine on each count.
Justice Talba held that the EFCC had proved counts 1 and 2 of the charge before the Federal High Court beyond reasonable doubt but agreed with the lower Court on count 3 and accordingly struck it out on grounds that a similar charge was pending before the Sokoto High Court.
According to Justice Talba, the respondents are charged with conspiracy and making a cash payment in excess of the threshold provided by the Money Laundering Prohibition Act 2011 (as amended in 2012) to Abdullahi Lawal, the then zonal head of EFCC Sokoto which was established beyond reasonable doubt before the lower Court but surprisingly the trial Judge summersaulted in his judgement and recanted.
Justice Talba therefore held that the appeal was immensely meritorious and convicted and sentenced the Chinese nationals to 3years on each of the two counts with an option of N10 Million fine each on each count.
He added that the respondents are Chinese and an offence of this gravity in their home country attracts death penalty but in Nigeria, they are corrupting the Country. He stressed the Courts of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will not condone corruption in any way.
Former United States president Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges even as he makes another run for the White House.
Trump said he was “completely innocent” and indicated he would not drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
The case against Trump, brought by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, is centred on a $130,000 payment to an adult film actress, Stormy Daniels, who claimed she had an affair with Trump. Trump has denied the affair. He is the first former president to ever be criminally charged.
Trump’s lawyers continued to maintain the former president’s innocence on Thursday.
They say the former President Trump has been indicted. He did not commit any crime,” the attorneys Joe Tacopina and Susan Necheles said in a statement.
Trump released a statement shortly after the news of the indictment broke, calling it a “witch-hunt,” and saying the move was an attempt by Democrats to interfere in the 2024 election.
“This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history,” Trump wrote in his statement. “The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,’ but now they’ve done the unthinkable — indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant Election Interference.”
Trump also went after District Attorney Alvin Bragg, saying he was “doing Joe Biden’s dirty work.”
The district attorney’s office requested that Trump surrender on Friday, but Trump’s lawyers replied that the timeline was too tight, saying the U.S. Secret Service needed more time to prepare, according to a law enforcement official.
Tacopina confirmed the exchange, adding that no date had been set for the former president’s surrender.
“This evening, we contacted Trump’s attorney, coordinating his surrender to the Manhattan D.A.’s Office for arraignment on a Supreme Court indictment, which remains under seal,” a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office said. “Guidance will be provided when the arraignment date is selected.”
Trump has already tried to use the charges to rally his base, calling on his followers to protest and “take back our nation.” But there’s no precedent for a presidential candidate campaigning during his own criminal trial. And while the case could stretch beyond November 2024, a conviction before then would spark a host of constitutional issues.
Despite concern that Trump’s indictment could spark protests from his supporters, a spokesperson for New York, Mayor Eric Adams said on Thursday that there were no credible threats of violence.
An NYPD spokesperson confirmed that all officers had been ordered to appear in uniform at 7 a.m. Friday.
Dozens of court and police officers swarmed lower Manhattan after the indictment was announced. A chopper hovered overhead. Outside the courthouse, a handful of pro-indictment protesters praised the grand jury’s decision.
Trump’s indictment follows the unrelated December conviction of his family business, the Trump Organization, for tax fraud in a case also prosecuted by Bragg.
The indictment of Trump stems from the 2018 federal conviction of his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations for facilitating the payment to Daniels.
That payment came during the heart of the 2016 presidential campaign. Both Cohen and federal prosecutors have said that he acted “in coordination with and at the direction of” the former president.
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