Buhari, Tinubu Condemn Uwaila’s Rape as Police Arrest Suspect

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNigeriaBuhari, Tinubu Condemn Uwaila’s Rape as Police Arrest Suspect

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)June 3, 2020

The Killing of Miss Vera Uwaila after being raped by an unknown person(s) has sparked outrage and protests in Banin, Lagos, and Abuja. The social media has also been flooded with the hashtag #JusticeForUwa. The Protest has gotten to the number one citizen of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari, who took to his verified Twitter to condemn the killing and urged the police to bring the perpetrator(s) to justice. He tweeted, “I would like to offer my...

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FIFA Asks Leagues to Use ‘Common Sense’ Over Floyd Protests

Law & JusticeSportsWorld NewsFIFA Asks Leagues to Use ‘Common Sense’ Over Floyd Protests

PilotnewsJune 2, 2020

World soccer governing body,  FIFA,  has asked competition organisers to use “common sense” with players who display messages of protest over the death of George Floyd. Floyd, an unarmed black man,  was killed in police custody in the United States. FIFA regulations barred players from displaying any “political, religious or personal slogans, statements or images” on their kit. Since 2014, this ban had included undershirts — a response to players lifting up their shirts to...

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Bosnian Interior Minister Quits Amid Fights on Migration, Corruption

National SecurityWorld NewsBosnian Interior Minister Quits Amid Fights on Migration, Corruption

PilotnewsJune 2, 2020

Bosnian Interior Minister Fahrudin Radoncic has resigned because he is unhappy with the country’s migration policy and because there is opposition to investigating the purchase of faulty respirators for the COVID-19 outbreak. Radoncic told Klix.ba on Tuesday that top officials, including chief diplomat Bisera Turkovic, “do not understand and identify the security threat’’ that the migrants, massing in Bosnia for an attempt to cross into EU-country Croatia, pose. According to the UN refugee agency, the...

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Senate President Advocates Stiffer Penalty for Rape

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaSenate President Advocates Stiffer Penalty for Rape

PilotnewsJune 2, 2020

President of the Senate, Sen. Ahmad Lawan, has advocated for stiffer penalties for rape in Nigeria. Lawan made the call on Tuesday in his concluding remarks on motion over increasing rape cases and brutality against the girl child in the country. According to him, having stiffer penalties in Nigeria’s criminal and penal code will serve as a deterrent to perpetrators of the act. “We stand together, shoulder to shoulder on this, and I think we...

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Alleged falsehood: Court Strikes Out Suit, Discharges Dino Melaye

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaAlleged falsehood: Court Strikes Out Suit, Discharges Dino Melaye

PilotnewsJune 2, 2020

Justice   Olasumbo Goodluck of an FCT High Court, Maitama on Tuesday discharged Sen. Dino Melaye who was accused of providing false information to the police. The  Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) charged Melaye with two counts of giving false information to the police. Delivering a ruling in a no-case -submission filed Melaye, Justice  Goodluck held that on count one, there is no evidence that the defendant gave false information to any person in public service. She...

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Court Orders Release of Orji Kalu from Prison

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaPoliticsCourt Orders Release of Orji Kalu from Prison

PilotnewsJune 2, 2020

A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Tuesday, granted a motion by a former Governor of Abia,  Orji Uzor Kalu, seeking his release from the Kuje Prison custody. Justice Mohammed Liman before who the applicant’s motion was pending, granted the prayer of applicant, and ordered the release of Kalu, from prison. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kalu was sentenced to 12 years for N7.2billion fraud belonging to Abia. The verdict was handed...

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Group Asks Court to Compel DSS, IGP to Investigate Omo-Agege

Law & JusticeNigeriaPoliticsGroup Asks Court to Compel DSS, IGP to Investigate Omo-Agege

PilotnewsJune 1, 2020

The Incorporated Trustees of Empowerment for Unemployed Youths Initiative on Monday, asked the Federal High Court, Abuja to compel the Director-General,  Department of  State Services, (DSS) and the Inspector- General of Police to investigate the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege. The group wants the security agencies to investigate Omo-Agege over his alleged conviction in the United States in November 1995. A  motion ex parte filed by the group further prayed the court to order Omo-Agege...

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After 3-Days of Trailing, Police Arrest Yabatech Student Who Blackmailed Salawa Abeni

Law & JusticeLifestyleNigeriaAfter 3-Days of Trailing, Police Arrest Yabatech Student Who Blackmailed Salawa Abeni

PilotnewsJune 1, 2020

A 19-year-old National Diploma holder of Yaba College of Technology has been arrested by Officers of the Rapid Response Squad in Ogun State for allegedly blackmailing Salawa Abeni, 59, a popular Waka musician. The suspect, Olufowoke Oladunjoye Emannuel, who resides at Peace Estate, Magboro Ogun State, was arrested by policemen led by Olatunji Disu, the Commander of the Rapid Response Squad, after 3-days of monitoring him. Olufowoke, 2017/2018 Electrical Engineering student of Yabatech, confessed that...

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Citizens of Nigeria Deserve Security Guardianship

ColumnsNational SecurityNigeriaOpinionCitizens of Nigeria Deserve Security Guardianship

PilotnewsJune 1, 2020

In a 2000 paper published in the International Journal of African Studies, I presented a case for local police devolutions in Nigeria that will bring the police closer to the people.  The article argued that a colossal policing command headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria could not possibly provide adequate policing functions to the security trepidations of the citizens.  That proposition was deduced before the mayhem of the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeastern part of Nigeria...

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COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: Taraba Communities, Takum Tightens Border With Cameroon

National SecurityNewsNigeriaCOVID-19 LOCKDOWN: Taraba Communities, Takum Tightens Border With Cameroon

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)June 1, 2020

Against the backdrop of the decision taken by Taraba state government to contain possibilities of community infections of Covid-19 pandemic, local government chairmen of Takum, Ussa, Kurmi and Sardauna have imposed total lockdown to tighten their border communities with Cameroon. Local sources say that the security operatives are working with the local government chairmen to seal off entry points along the Cameroon border. In compliance with the order, the Chairman of Takum local government council,...

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