02/12/18

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Two fetish priests from Techiman in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana died after drinking a mixture of ogogoro (a locally-brewed gin) and herbs.
The `priests’ also took some herbs at Senease in the Berekum Municipality.
Chief Inspector Augustine Kingsley Oppong, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Police Public Relations Officer, told the Ghana News Agency.
The victims are Nana Kwaku Prince, alias Rasta, aged 44 and Nana Kwame Ofori, 40 years.
Four other victims, also from Techiman are also on admission at the Berekum Holy Family Catholic Hospital, he said.
The police added that they and Nana Ofori worked with Nana Prince at his shrine in Techiman
Nana Kwadwo Obeng, 65, the fetish priest of the Tansie shrine at Senease and leader of Fetish Priest Association in the Berekum Municipality invited Nana Prince to participate in a six days workshop organised for members of the Association at Senease.
He said Nana Prince asked permission about 0830 hrs the next day to return with his team to Techiman.
As customs demands, Nana Obeng instructed some of his subjects to serve them with the Ogogoro-herbal mixture locally referred to as ‘bitters’ before their departure.
Chief Inspector Oppong said immediately after they had drunk the bitters, all the six visitors complained of severe stomach pains and started vomiting and were rushed to the Holy Family Hospital but Nana Prince and Nana Ofori were pronounced dead on arrival.
He said the four – Kofi Isaac, Febri Kwame, Baffoe Mandela and Benjamine Jesse, aged 44, 35, 26 and 76 respectively are responding to treatment whilst the bodies of the two deceased have been deposited at the Hospital’s morgue.
Chief Inspector Oppong said Kwaku Asamoah, alias KK, Nana Obeng alias Okomfo Emmanuel, aged 65 and Kwaku Abebrese, suspects in the case are in Police in custody and assisting in Police investigation.
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The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested Mr. Kasim Lamido, the manager of Lamido Petroleum, a filling station in New Nyanya, Nasarawa State, for diverting 26,000 litres of petrol.
A statement signed by Mr Ndu Ughamadu,  NNPC spokesman on Monday in Abuja noted the arrest validated NNPC claim on petrol diversion by some marketers.
It said that the manger diverted the 26,000 litres of petrol from New Nyanya to another location in Akwanga, Nasarawa State to sell at a higher price.
According to an official of the NSCDC, Yusuf Ayinde, Chief Superintendent of the Corps,  in the statement, Lamido, took delivery of 40,000 litres of petrol meant for his station but discharged only 13, 3000 litres, from one out of the three compartments in the truck
He noted that the manger diverted the remaining 26,000 litres to a station in Akwanga where it would be sold above the N145 per litre official price.
He said that the suspect would be charged to court by the Civil Defence Corps after ongoing investigation.
“The latest arrest validates NNPC’s position that the activities of a potent petroleum products smuggling and diversion syndicate contributed immensely to the shortage being experienced in some cities.
“This posed a challenge to the efforts by the Corporation to sanitise the fuel supply and distribution chain across the country,’’ he said
The corporation in the statement further urged motorists not to engage in panic buying as it was working in collaboration with major stakeholders to eliminate the distribution hiccups that had led to the emergence of fuel queues in some parts of the country.
Motorists are advised to report any marketer selling above N145 per litre of petrol or hoarding products to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) which is statutorily empowered to deal with such issues.LR News
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The killing of four persons by gunmen and the southern leaders’ insistence on restructuring of Nigeria were some of the main stories in newspapers on Monday.
The Sun said four persons have been reported dead and one other critically injured after gunmen attacked Bakin Kogi village, Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Nine former employees of the Nigerian Telecommunications (NITEL) Limited were killed in a road accident in Kaduna State on Sunday, the Sun reported.
Punch said Southern groups, including the Ohanaeze Ndigbo; the pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, and the Ijaw Youth Council, said restructuring must be central to the plan by the North to form an alliance with zones in the South for presidency in 2019.
Leadership said a former Minister of Internal Affairs, General John Shagaya (rtd) is dead. He died yesterday at the age of 75 in a ghastly road accident along Langtang-Pankshin road in Plateau State.
Vanguard reported that there are indications that the coming on stream of the US$16 billion Egina project will enhance the revenue profile of Nigeria and other stakeholders as plans have been concluded to export one million barrels in January, 2019.
Guardian said violence continued in Benue State at the weekend as suspected Fulani herdsmen ambushed a police patrol team at Tse-Akpam Azege in Logo Local Government Area.
Daily Trust said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari ‎to quit as Minister of Petroleum Resources in view of the lingering fuel crisis in the country.
This Day reported that members of northern Nigeria’s political elite met Saturday in Abuja to deliberate the fate of the region ahead of the 2019 presidential election.
Nation said governors are yet to identify with the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) – former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s antidote to Nigeria’s leadership quandary.
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said on Sunday that it had suspended its employee, Philomina Chieshe, on account of N36m which was reported to have been swallowed by a snake in the board’s office in Makurdi, Benue State.

The JAMB Head of Information, Fabian Benjamin, told our correspondent on Sunday that the board was taking her through other disciplinary measures while security agencies were investigating the matter.

Benjamin said, “She has been suspended and she is going through all other disciplinary procedures while investigation is ongoing on the matter. Her claim was that a snake came into the office and swallowed the N36m proceeds.”

It was learnt that Chieshe explained in her statement that a “mystery snake” sneaked into JAMB accounts office and made away with the N36m cash.

The money was said to be from the purchases of scratch cards from JAMB state offices and other designated centres.

A team of auditors was said to have been dispatched to different state offices of JAMB to take inventory of sold and unsold scratch cards and recover the generated money.

The woman reportedly told the team that she could not account for N36m made in the previous years before the abolition of scratch cards.

However, in the course of interrogation, Chieshe reportedly changed the narrative, saying that it was her housemaid who connived with another woman, Joan Asen, to “spiritually steal the money” from the vault in the accounts office.

Meanwhile, it was learnt that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had begun investigation into the matter following a recommendation by the Federal Executive Council late last year that JAMB should be investigated.

The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, who briefed council about the performances of some government agencies last year had said JAMB for the first time remitted N5bn to the government’s coffers with a promise to pay the balance of N3bn compared to maximum N3m remitted yearly in the last 40 years.

Adeosun had said the disparity in the remittances of agency in the past had necessitated the decision to probe all previous heads of the two agencies.
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