The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has urged Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos to dismiss the no-case submission filed by a suspected internet fraudster, Ismail Mustapha, alias Mompha, who is standing trial over an alleged N32.9 billion fraud. A statement by the spokesperson of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren on Monday said Mompha was re-arraigned on Wednesday, March 4, 2020 alongside his company, Ismalob Ventures, on an amended 22-count charge of fraud. At the resumed sitting today, October 14, 2020, Mompha, through his lawyer, Gbenga Oyewole, SAN, filed a no-case submission, after the…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Federal Executive Council, FEC, on Wednesday approved N1.28 billion for the purchase and installation of security equipment at seven stations of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, along Abuja-Kaduna-Kano lines. It also approved N22 billion for the reconstruction of Apapa-Oworonsoki-Ojota Phase Section Two under Infrastructural Tax Credit Scheme. Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi stated this when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the meeting of the Council, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja on Wednesday. Recall that cases of alleged bandits’ attacks on the Abuja-Kaduna train service, have been reported in recent times. Amaechi,…
Mrs Gloria Akobundu, the National Coordinator, Africa’s Development Agency (AUDA) and New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD), has urged the National Assembly to pass the requisite law to reposition the agency. Akobundu made the call at the Joint Senate and House of Representatives Committee Legislative Round Table on the 2nd Peer Review Process of NEPAD on Wednesday in Abuja She said that the reform of NEPAD to AUDA was currently being waited to be passed for the agency to be able to carry out its mandate in a more professional and effective way. Akobundu said when the bill was passed into law,…
By Tina George, Minna The Senator representing Niger East Senatorial District, Mohammed Sani Musa has said that the reform of the Police and other security agencies in the country, if carried out would boost operatives’ efficiency in delivering better services for the people. Musa who stated this in a statement made available to newsmen in Minna also commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector General of Police for scrapping the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS). According to him, SARS had unfortunately become a virus Nigerians had to combat with due to their violations of human rights and brutality which has become…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors’ Forum on Wednesday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly, NASS, to revoke Section 4(1) of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund (Establishment) Act 2019. The section which authorises the President to deduct 0.5% of the total revenue accruing to the Federation Account for the benefit of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund. But in a communique issued at the end of a zoom meeting and signed by the Forum’s Chairman and Governor of Sokoto, Aminu Tambuwal and obtained by ASHENEWSONLINE, the Forum observed the discrepancies in S.12(2) and S.12(4) of the Act on…
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has said that renowned poet and Emeritus Professor of Literature, John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo made his mark and left this plane of existence as a colossus. In a statement by Omo-Agege’s Spokesperson, Yomi Odunuga on Tuesday, he also described his death at 85 early on Tuesday morning, as the end point of an impactful life. Senator Omo-Agege expressed appreciation to God for granting the late intellectual a peaceful exit, surrounded by his family. “Born in Kiagbodo, Delta State to an Ijaw father and Urhobo mother, the Emeritus Professor rose to become one…
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector General of Police, IGP Muhammad Adamu for being sensitive and responsive to the clarion call for the disbanding of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. In a statement by the President, Rev Dr Samson Ayokunle on Tuseday, the association also called for the reformation of all security agencies in the country. “We are aware of the circumstances that led to the agitation which included but not limited to alleged extra- judicial killings, unlawful arrests and detentions, extortion, tortures, and disappearances of detainees. “CAN acknowledges the spontaneous nature of…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), an advocacy group in Lagos, on Wednesday called on the #EndSARS protesters against police brutality to disperse since the Federal Government has disbanded the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). A statement by the Director of MURIC, Prof. Ishaq Akinola made available to ASHENEWSONLINE on Wednesday, warned hoodlums and politicians from turning the protest into their parochial agenda. Commending the efforts of the protesters, the group condemned the reported excesses of the SARS, saying “We frown at the brutal killing of young Nigerians in the hands of the police and consider these as crimes against humanity. “The…
Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokiri says the new squad, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team, named to replace the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, will simply be like the change of name from National Electricity Power Authority, NEPA, to Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Muhammad Adamu on Monday, announced the formation of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team to “fill the gaps” arising from the dissolution of SARS. However, Omokri through his Twitter handle @renoomokri said that SARS/SWAT transformation will be like NEPA/PHCN change. “The SWAT announced by the…
Stevie Wonder on Tuesday released two new singles appealing for unity amid the challenges of systemic racism and the coronavirus pandemic, and said he would donate 100 per cent of the proceeds of one of them to the non-profit Feeding America. “Where Is Our Love Song” and “Can’t Put It In the Hands of Fate,” are songs Wonder, 70, said he had started writing years ago about romantic relationships but was inspired to give them a different twist by the tumultuous events of the past year. “If I can do anything to use the gift of song to help to…