07/02/18

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A Nigerian carrier, Air Peace, has signed an agreement with the Benue State Government, to operate flights to the state capital, Makurdi.

The airline’s Corporate Communications Manager, Mr Chris Iwarah, said in a statement issued in Lagos on Monday that the deal was sealed in Abuja on June 28.

Speaking at the ceremony, the Chief Operating Officer, Air Peace, Mrs Oluwatoyin Olajide, said that the airline would deliver exceptional flight experience to residents of Benue and others travelling on the Makurdi route.

Olajide said the route would be serviced by an Embraer 145 jet, under Air Peace Hopper, the airline’s subsidiary and would terminate at the Nigerian Air Force Base, Makurdi.

According to her, the operations will cover Abuja-Makurdi-Abuja and Lagos-Makurdi-Lagos.

The Chief of Staff to Benue State Governor, Mr Terwase Obunde, assured the airline of the government’s support to ensure its success on the Makurdi route.

The commissioner, who represented Gov. Samuel Ortom, said the government was grateful to the company for accepting the proposal to fly to Makurdi.

He said the government would cooperate with the airline, to ensure the launch of the route without delay.
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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd).

This is the sixth bail that will be granted to the former NSA. However, he has remained in custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).

The trial judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, during the hearing on Monday described Dasuki’s continuous detention over the last two and a half years as an aberration to the rule of law and the contrition.

She, therefore, granted the former NSA bail in the sum of N200 million and two sureties.

The sureties according to her, must not be lower than grade 16 in the civil service and where they are private citizens they must be owners of landed properties in Asokoro, Maitama, Utako or Garki area of Abuja.

Also, each surety is expected to pay a sum of N100 million as bail guarantee into the court’s litigation account.

Meanwhile, the judge took a swipe at the (DSS), stating that it cannot give itself the powers to met out punishment at a person, as only the court has the powers to do so at the end of a trial.

She, therefore, ordered that if the DSS want to interview the former NSA in the future, it must be done without detention and on a working day.

On his part, the former NSA also filed a Fundamental Right to Liberty suit, asking the court to order the DSS to release him after two and a half years in detention without trial.

He also asked the court to award him N5billion as general damages and asked it to order the DSS as well as the Attorney-General of the Federation to tender a public apology to him for a long, unlawful and illegal detention.

Justice Ojukwu, however, concluded that since bail had been granted, the court is not inclined to award damages.

The Federal Government had arrested Dasuki in 2015 over an alleged diversion of $2.1billion arms funds.

Subsequently, he was arraigned on 18 counts but his trial has since then suffered series of delays.

In May 2018, the trial suffered a fresh delay as the Federal Government filed 32 amended charges against him and three others.
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An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, on Monday, ordered the remand at Ikoyi prison of an unemployed, John Owika, for allegedly impregnating a 12-year-old girl.
The Magistrate, Mrs T. Akann, who ordered the accused to be remanded in prison, adjourned the case until July 27, to await the advice of the state Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).
Owika, who resides at Mofowoku St, Alapere, in Lagos, is facing a count charge of defilement of minor, an offence that carries a 14- year prison term on conviction.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Mr Lucky Ihiehie, told the court that the accused committed the offence at his residence sometime in April.
Ihiehie alleged that the parents of the girl noticed some sudden changes in her behavior and walking steps which made the girl’s mother confront her daughter.
“The girl’s mother said as she threatened her daughter with a cane she cried bitterly and confessed that the accused, who is their neighbour, has been sleeping with her and she has been having pains in her vagina.
“She said the girl also confessed that it all started in late April when he sent her on an errand and when she came back to deliver the message, he dragged her into his flat and removed her pants.
“The mother of the girl with tears in her eyes told the police that her daughter struggled with the man crying but all to no avail as he covered her daughters’ mouth and defiled her.
“After having his way the girl saw blood and cleaned it herself as the accused threatened to kill her if she ever told her parents.’’
The prosecutor alleged that since the first incident, the accused had slept with the girl at least 10 times and of each time, gave her between N200 and N500.
He further told the court that a pregnancy test allegedly confirmed the girl to be pregnant.
The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
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The death toll from the tanker explosion which occurred last week in Lagos has risen to 12.

The fuel-laden tanker exploded on Thursday along the Otedola Bridge axis of Berger in Lagos after its brake was said to have failed.

The State Commissioner for Health, Jide Idris told journalists on Monday that 10 bodies were recovered from the scene of the incident (as opposed to the nine initially reported).

The 10th body recovered was that of an infant, while two of the seven survivors later died in the hospital.

Idris added that others are responding to treatment.

The tragic explosion occurred when the tanker was heading out of Lagos towards the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, engulfing at least 50 vehicles. Many escaped abandoning their vehicles. Firefighters later came to the scene to battle the raging blaze.


Barely 24 hours after the incident, another crash occurred along the same bridge on Friday.

According to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), two vehicles, a commercial bus, and a Toyota Hiace colluded while driving inward Lagos.

The RRS said the incident was a result of reckless driving on the part of the commercial bus driver who was on high speed against the traffic.

“Reckless Danfo driver speeding on 1 way had a head-on collision with Toyota Hiace bus entering Lagos opposite scene of yesterday’s tanker fire,” the RRS tweeted on Friday.

Meanwhile, following the tragic incident, the Lagos State Government has announced a restriction of the movement of fuel tankers to designated trailer routes in the state. 
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Police in Maiduguri protesting

There was commotion in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital Monday as mobile police officers took to the street to protest six months unpaid allowances.

It was learnt that the officers were posted to the state in January to strengthen security of the troubled northeast state which had been bedeviled by Boko Haram insurgency for about a decade.

The officers, who were fully armed, marched in their hundreds on the Borno State Police Headquarters located on the major highway in the town. They were however prevented from gaining access into the police complex.

The protesting police officers subsequently barricaded the highway, shooting sporadically into the air and scaring motorists and commuters off.

Some of the students and workers on their way to school and office had to turn back to their homes as they could not pass through the barricade.

Some of the officers, who spoke to our correspondent, lamented that since January when they were deployed to the state on special operation, allowances had not been given to them.

They also complained that many of them were subjected to inhuman treatment as they had to sleep in the corridor of the office on returning from duty at night.

When contacted, the Borno Police Commissioner, Damian Chukwu, said he was aware of the protest.

He further said the delay in payment of the allowances may not be unconnected with the late signing of the budget.
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Operatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Nasarawa Command, have allegedly beaten up an Africa Independent Television reporter, Ibrahim Ibrahim, for allegedly taking their photographs while extorting money from commercial motorcyclists.

The incident, which occurred along Jos road by the Nasarawa State Polytechnic gate in Lafia at about 10.15am on Saturday, attracted the Emir of Lafia, Alhaji Mustapher Agwei 1, and other individuals who were passing by.

Narrating his ordeals to Northern City News shortly after the incident, Ibrahim said he took the pictures of the men while extorting the money from the motorcyclists.

He said, “I was driving when I got to a point in front of the Polytechnic where the FRSC officials usually carry out their routine checks. Right there, I saw them collecting money from okada riders who were in their numbers.”

Ibrahim explained that he was taking the pictures of the men when one of them accosted him and attempted to confiscate his camera.

He said, “I decided to take a snapshot this time around to strengthen my report because I have met them extorting money from motorists on several occasions, when suddenly one of the Road Safety officers pounced on me and began to drag my camera.”

But following his refusal to surrender his camera, Ibrahim explained that the official snatched his handset prompting the intervention of the Emir of Lafia who was passing by at the time.

“When I refused to surrender the camera, they started molesting me and in the process they snatched my phone. It took the intervention of the Emir of Lafia who stopped over when he noticed I was the one they were brutalizing,” he added.

The reporter further narrated that the angry FRSC officers insisted that he must delete their pictures or they would ask the police to arrest him.

As the issue degenerated further, Ibrahim stated that the Nasarawa State Sector Commander, Faustina Alegbe, was asked to intervene on the phone, but she too insisted that the reporter should delete the pictures and also write an apology letter for taking the pictures.

Alegbe in her reaction to the incident said Ibrahim was wrong for snapping the officers while on duty and insisted that he should write “an apology letter for breaking the law.”
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