I sympathise with Nigerians… fuel price would go up by at least N40 per litre - Fayose

Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, says the price of fuel would be increased by “at least” N40 per litre.

Fayose said this on Friday in reaction to the persistent scarcity of fuel in the country.

He said the federal government monopolised the importation of petroleum products to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in order to hike fuel price.

The fierce critic of the current administration called for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari as the minister of petroleum, saying it is “obvious that the president has failed in all ramifications”.

According to him, the only way to rescue Nigeria “from being brought down completely is to vote out Buhari and his APC in 2019”.

“I warned Nigerians before President Buhari was elected and I am telling Nigerians now that the only option to rescue our country from being brought down completely is to vote out Buhari and his APC in 2019,” he said in a statement issued on his behalf by Lere Olayinka, his spokesman.

“It is sad that this Buhari’s APC government had to choose this Christmas and New Year period to ground Nigeria with the fuel scarcity that it deliberately orchestrated.

“Already, fuel is being sold officially at between N180 and N200 at petrol stations across the country.

“Like I said a few days ago, what the federal government is doing is to create scarcity so that Nigerians will be willing to buy at any price, provided the product is made available.

“It was to achieve this planned increment of petrol pump price that they restricted supply of petrol to NNPC alone.” - Cable Nigeria

My husband turned me to his ATM - Mother of four

Igando Customary Court in Lagos has dissolved the marriage between Mrs Adeola Olalere and her husband, Amidu, over constant battery.

The wife had earlier told the court that her marriage of 11 years to her husband, Amidu Olalere, had been full of bitterness resulting from constant battery.

“I have fainted seven times during frequent beating by my husband. I sometimes landed in the hospital and regained consciousness two to three days after.

“Recently, he beat me to the point that I fainted and I was hospitalised for four days.

“When I was on admission, none of his family members came to see me and we all live in a family house. My husband also refused to pay the bills.

“There was a day he dragged me outside, stripped me naked and descended on me, using me as a punching bag. He did not stop until he saw blood coming out of my body.

“He is so rough, quarrelsome and violent in nature,” the mother of four said, describing her husband as a chain smoker and alcoholic.

“Whenever he brings his friends home to smoke and I complain, he will beat the hell out of me and will not leave me until I faint,” Adeola said.

The 39-year-old trader alleged that her husband had “turned me into his Automated Teller Machine as he collects money from me to give to his friends to buy Indian hemp.

“If I refuse to give him, it is always war in the house,’’ she added.

The petitioner urged the court to terminate the marriage, and that she was no longer interested because her husband might kill her one day.

“Please, end this loveless marriage; I may not be lucky to regain consciousness next time my husband beats me to a pulp,” she said.
Aminu, however, did not deny the allegation of battery.

“I beat her regularly because she is very stubborn and does not obey my orders; anytime we have a misunderstanding and I slap her, she retaliates and that makes me get angry the more,” he said.

The respondent accused his wife of starving him of sex.

According to him, whenever he reports the wife to the mother, she will ask him how many times he will be having sex with her daughter.

“My mother-in-law would ask me not to kill her with sex, instead of admonishing her,” he said.

He said his wife was going out without permission, and that he was the one cooking and washing the children’s school uniform on such occasions.

According to him, his wife moved out of his house with the children in January to stay with her mother.

The defendant said the mother-in-law would rain curses on him whenever he called the wife to return home.

“There was a day my mother-in-law cursed me, and I also cursed her that thunder would kill her.”

The President of the court, Mr Akin Akinniyi, said while delivering judgment in the case on Friday that the petitioner was adamant despite all mediation by the court and family members.

“Since the petitioner insisted on divorce after several interventions, the court has no choice than to dissolve the union in spite of the fact that the husband claims he still loves his wife.

“The court has pronounced the marriage between Mrs Adeola Olalere and Mr Amidu dissolved today; both parties henceforth cease to be husband and wife.

“Both are free to go their separate ways without any hindrances and molestation,” Akinniyi said.

15-year-old housewife poisons husband, half brother

A 15-year-old housewife in Katsina State, Dausiya Abdulmumini, has murdered her 27-year-old husband, Saminu Usman, and her half brother, Muhammad Dasa.

Dausiya committed the crime by allegedly adding poisoned substance in the meal she served her husband.

Her sister-in-law, Shafa’atu Usman, 23, who ate three spoons of the poisoned food, survived as she was said to have been rushed to the hospital where she was treated and later discharged.

The Katsina State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Gambo Isah, confirmed the incident to Vanguard on Friday.

Isah said the incident happened in Ungwar Dan Mayaki village in Bakori Local government area of the state.

The police boss further disclosed that the husband and her half brother, Dasa, who unknowingly ate the left over of the poisoned food from the husband, could not survive it as they were said to be brought into the hospital dead.

The police spokesperson said a good Samaritan reported the case at the Bakori Divisional police station.

He explained further that it was a forceful marriage case where the housewife, Dausiya was initially in love with her husband and suddenly felt she doesn’t love him again after he had had an accident (two weeks after their wedding) leading to his deformity – limping while walking and had also lost almost all of his teeth.

Again, DSP Isah noted that she (Dausiya) was said to be carrying a pregnancy belonging to another man.

The PPRO said Dausiya is in the police custody in Bakori and would be charged for culpable homicide and other charges.

Woman gun down in Aba for resisting kidnap

A woman who was simply identified as Mrs. Ifeyinwa Morah has reportedly been shot dead by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in Aba, the commercial nerve of Abia State.

The Nation learnt that the incident happened in front of the residential quarters of late Morah, an indigene of Abatete, Idemili Local Government Area of Anambra State at about 7pm on Wednesday.

Sources around the area told our reporter that the woman was coming home from her husband’s gas plant along Aba-Umuahia-Enugu Expressway when some men wielding guns ordered her out of her car.

It was learnt that the gunmen who were already waiting for late Mrs. Morah ordered her to enter her car in an attempt to drive off with her, but she resisted them.

A security source who pleaded anonymity told our reporter that the gunmen angered by late Morah’s resistance to be taken away, shot her and later drove away with the Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) she was driving.

The source said that efforts were on to track down the gunmen as they have launched a manhunt on the hoodlums.

The family of the victim, until the time of this report is yet to be contacted for comments. But a source close to the family disclosed that the woman died few minutes after she was shot as a result of the blood she lost.

The source stated that the woman was planning to travel to the village this weekend and had just gone to the market some days before the unfortunate incident to shop few things that she would would be travelling home with.

However, residents of Aba and its environs have called on the State Commissioner of Police, the 14Brigade Commander and heads of various security agencies in the state to brace up to insecurity that is raising its ugly heads in the state in recent times.

They lamented the increase in kidnapping of persons and rate of armed robbery incidents within the city center and its environs especially within the festive period, stressing that the situation could deteriorate if not checked and nipped in the bud by the security agencies. - The Nation

EFCC Arrests 13 Suspected Internet Fraudsters

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos zonal office, has arrested 13 suspected internet fraudsters for conspiracy, possession of fraudulent documents and obtaining money under false pretense.

The suspects are- Badejo Tobi, Abiola Dimeji, Anthony Godwin, Osoba Adeboye, Adeleken Abiodun, and Awokoya Oriyomi Yusuf.
The others are- Oyatayo Ismail; Coffie Meschark, Sylvester Amaddin, Olawale Farouk, Adeniran Tolani, Taiwo Michael, and OyekanmiAyodeji.

They were arrested on Saturday, December 16, 2017, in some parts of Lagos and Ogun States, following intelligence report received by the Commission about their activities.

The suspects allegedly confessed to being involved in phishing, love scam, forgery, spoofing and business email compromise, among other offenses.

Phishing is an attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and money), often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Spoofing, on the other hand, is a type of scam where an intruder attempts to gain unauthorized access to a user's system or information by pretending to be the user. 

Some of the suspects, who live flamboyantly without any known sources of income, were said to have bought houses and exotic cars from the proceeds of their criminal activities. 

They were allegedly found to be in possession of forged contract papers of multinational oil and gas companies, banks’ instruments and forged data page of international passports of foreign nationals, among other documents.

Other items recovered from the suspects included laptops, flash drives, modems, one Range Rover SUV, one Toyota Highlander, two Toyota Corollas, and one Toyota Camry.
The suspects will soon be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded
                                                      

Wilson Uwujaren

Head, Media, & Publicity

22 December 2017

EFCC Arrests Fake Investigator Over Attempt to Defraud Gov. Al Makura

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today, December 22, arrested Mohammed Momoh, a farmer, for attempting to defraud the governor of Nasarawa State, Alhaji Tanko Al- Makura.

The suspect while posing as a “Private investigator from the Villa“ had approached the wife of the governor with a proposition to help stop a purported investigation of two accounts belonging to the governor, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. 

He claimed he came across information regarding the two accounts that had been under investigation since 2011 and also intercepted emails and gotten wind of investigation report purportedly sent to First Bank by the EFCC.

The suspect had requested for N8 million but was offered N6 million. Suspicious about the proposal, the governor’s family contacted the Commission and were asked to play along with the suspect. The suspect was arrested in a sting operation after he collected marked N2 million.

The suspect is presently in custody and would be charged to court as soon as the investigation is concluded.

In a related development, a serving Police Officer, Mohammed Nuhu Maina, has been arrested for impersonation. The suspect who claimed to be Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, attached to the Commission, had approached his victim with an offer to help him recover his money, N21m; which is subject of an investigation by the EFCC.

Maina allegedly collected several sums of money from his victim before he became suspicious. 

The suspect called the victim on December 21, 2017, and demanded more money. The victim immediately contacted the EFCC and he was accompanied by Operatives of the Commission who tracked Maina and arrested him opposite Rockview Hotel, close to the EFCC head office in Wuse 2, Abuja.

In the course of the arrest, Maina was found with EFCC Vehicle Auction Certificates, EFCC Stickers, EFCC writing pads, amongst others. Maina is currently in custody, assisting the investigation.

The EFCC has consistently warned members of the public to be wary of impostors who go about extorting unsuspecting members of the public. The Commission again implores the public to report any solicitation for gratification either by genuine or fake EFCC operatives to the nearest office of the Commission or police station.
                         

Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
December 22,  2017

Manchester City manager under police investigation

Man City boss, Pep Guardiola, has been named in a police report investigating Catalan independence.

The police report will now be passed to the investigating Supreme Court judge, Pablo Llaren.

Activists Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart have already been sent to prison, after October’s referendum was deemed illegal by Spain’s government.

They are being investigated for alleged ‘rebellion’.

Guardiola is a known supporter of the campaign for Catalonia to become an independent state and he attended a pro-independence rally in Barcelona in the summer with the president of the Catalan government, Carles Puigdemont, along with tens of thousands of demonstrators.

He told the mass crowd that he would be voting for independence on October 1 “even if the Spanish state doesn’t want it”.

However, the vote was not recognised by Madrid, Spanish police have launched investigations into high-profile figures who attempted to influence public opinion.

Santa dies during school party

A man dressed in a Father Christmas costume collapsed and died on Friday while handing out presents at a Christmas school party in Southern Italy for pupils aged around 11to13.

The Gino Rossi Vairo institute in Agropoli, a seaside town about 100 kilometres south-east of Naples, told dpa that the cause of death was not known.

The ANSA news agency named the victim as Pasquale Pagano, 45.

A local newspaper, InfoCilento it, quoted the mother of one of the pupils as saying that his face turned blue, suggesting that Pagano might have had a heart attack.

“An ambulance was called and they tried everything to save his life but there was nothing they could do for him,’’ the mother, whose name was not published, told the paper.

Motorist kills masquerade in A’Ibom

Tragedy struck Thursday evening when an unknown motorist knocked down a masquerade along and-run along Nwaniba Road, by Use Offot, Uyo.

The masquerade known as ‘ekpo’ in local parlance is reportedly died instantly while his lifeless body laid on the tarred road.

The Nation gathered that the unidentified driver was on high speed making it difficult for him to avoid another vehicle when he suddenly hit the masquerade.

A resident of the area, Ukpe Eno, said he would have been hit by the vehicle safe for the lift to the other side of the road.

He said it was unfortunate that the masquerade was taken by surprise as he could not make such a lift owing to the mask on his face.

“If not God, I too would have been a dead man by now. The vehicle was on terrific speed. The road is barely two lanes and cramping; and if you look at it well, it is not where somebody is supposed to drive at 60 kilometres per hour, but here you see people driving at 100 and 120kph.

“I think it is high time government started marking roads in the state with appropriate speed limits,” he said.

The remains of the masquerader, whose identity has yet to be ascertain, was found lying on Nwaniba Road, Uyo.

However, the Commissioner for Communications and Strategy, Mr. Charles Udoh, expressed sadness over the incident.

According to him, he had sent people to the place, where his corpse had been removed. He noted that they were still on the trail of the identity of the masquerader and his relatives.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Bala Elkana, said though he saw the masquerade lying on the ground through social media, the matter has not been formally reported. - The Nation