NSSEC Boss Suspended Over Corruption

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaNSSEC Boss Suspended Over Corruption

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 21, 2023

For alleged misappropriation of funds, the Executive Secretary of the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC), Prof. Benjamin Abakpa, has been suspended and was directed to hand over the affairs of the office to the most senior director in the commission. The image maker of the commission, Fatima Bappare, who confirmed this said the suspension was contained in a letter signed by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Andrew David Adejo. She said Prof....

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Ferocity Claims 214 In Three Months In Kaduna State

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaFerocity Claims 214 In Three Months In Kaduna State

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 21, 2023

No fewer than 214 persons were killed in separate violence such as terrorist attacks, communal clashes, and reprisals across the Kaduna state from January to March 2023. The figure was contained in the First Quarter 2023 Security Quarterly Report presented to the State Security Council by the Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan. The commissioner gave the breakdown of the casualties as 196 males, 14 females, and four minors, while...

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Former NPA Staff Bag 14 Years Imprisonment Over N24.3m Fraud

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaFormer NPA Staff Bag 14 Years Imprisonment Over N24.3m Fraud

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 21, 2023

Former staff of Nigeria Ports Authority, Nasiru Ogara has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment over N24.3m fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had charged Nasiru Ogara before Ikeja Special Offences Court on a four-count charge and his company, New Age Motor Waste Basket Ltd. Nwandu Ukoha to the Commission’s counsel said Ogara induced the Director of Kelly Newton Nigeria Ltd, Usman Ademoye, in 2017, to confer a benefit on him by delivering 8,000...

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INEC Denies Partisanship In Adamawa Guber Election

NewsNigeriaPoliticsINEC Denies Partisanship In Adamawa Guber Election

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 21, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission has debunked allegations that its officials, deployed to supervise the governorship rerun in Adamawa State, paid a nocturnal visit to the State Government House presumably to rig the polls for sitting Governor. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri. Barr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee of the commission made the denial in a statement on Thursday. The statement reads in part: “The attention of the Commission has been...

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Eight Abducted Female Students Escape From Kidnappers’ Den In Kaduna

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaEight Abducted Female Students Escape From Kidnappers’ Den In Kaduna

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 20, 2023

The eight abducted female students of Government Secondary School, Awon, Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State, who have spent almost 14 days in captivity in a thick forest bordering Kaduna and Niger states have escaped from their abductors’ den. But the commissioner said on Tuesday that the students escaped from the kidnapper’s den after spending almost 14 days with their captors in a thick forest bordering Kaduna and Niger states. According to Commissioner for...

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PoS Operator In Police Net Over N280m Received In Error

BusinessNewsNigeriaPoS Operator In Police Net Over N280m Received In Error

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 20, 2023

Police in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital have confirmed the arrest of a Point of Sale operator Alfa Rafiu who erroneously received N280m transferred to his account by a commercial bank in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital has been arrested by the Police. It was gathered that the suspect who resides at the Akuji compound, the Abayawo area in the Ilorin West Local Government Area of the state was arrested on Monday when he went...

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More Than 3,298 Inmates On Death Row In Nigeria-PRO NCoS

LifestyleNewsNigeriaMore Than 3,298 Inmates On Death Row In Nigeria-PRO NCoS

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 20, 2023

The Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Mr. Abubakar Umar, has disclosed that there are more than 3,298 inmates across the custodial centers in Nigeria who are on death row. Umar who made this known on Wednesday in Abuja, explained that the NCoS Act 2019 which made the Prisons Correctional Centres, the term ‘condemned criminal’ was abrogated, noted that it is stigmatizing He stated that many of the IDRs committed capital offenses...

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INEC Declares Fintiri As Governor-elect

NewsNigeriaPoliticsINEC Declares Fintiri As Governor-elect

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 19, 2023

On Tuesday, Prof. Mohammed Mele, Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the Adamawa State Governorship election declared Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the PDP as Adamawa state Governor-elect. Mele announced the result in Yola after a supplementary election conducted on 15th April 2023 said Fintiri of PDP polled 430, 821 votes to defeat Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani of APC who scored 396,788 votes and other contestants. Recall that the Independent National...

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INEC Suspends Adamawa REC Over Declaration OF Governorship Result

NewsNigeriaPoliticsINEC Suspends Adamawa REC Over Declaration OF Governorship Result

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 18, 2023

Following the declaration of Sen. Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani of APC as Governor-elect in Adamawa made by the Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Barr. Yunusa Hudu Ari, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Headquarters Abuja has suspended him from office. This is contained in a letter signed by the Secretary to the Commission, Rose Oriaran-Anthony, who directed the officer to stay away from the commission’s office in the state until further notice. It further directed...

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Governorship Declaration Fallout:  INEC National Commissioners Attacked In Adamawa

NewsNigeriaPoliticsGovernorship Declaration Fallout:  INEC National Commissioners Attacked In Adamawa

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 18, 2023

CP Vows To Arrest Culprits Some yet to be identified hoodlums have descended heavily on the INEC National Commissioner Prof Abdullahi Abdu Zuru and others, in Yola on Sunday shortly after the declaration of Governorship result by the Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Barr. Yunusa Hudu Ari. It was gathered that the hoodlums’ declaration has not gone well with them mistakenly taken Prof Abdullahi Abdu Zuru as Barr. Yunusa Hudu Ari and molested him. Recall...

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