Nigerian Traviation

The Wife of the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Hadiza El-rufai has shared a throwback picture of His Excellency, Nasir El-rufai and herself while dating. 

According to her official twitter handle, My then boyfriend and I

The Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday June 24, 2020 arrested one Anthony Ojemolon for attempting to obtain money by false pretence and  impersonating officials of the Commission

Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika has expressed readiness for flight resumption even though 90 percent of strategies put in place not seen by people.

Sirika identified the Very High-Frequency Omnidirectional Range ( VOR) and other safety systems put in place assuring the readiness of the aviation.

He made this disclosure at a media conference held with the presidential task force on COVID-19 committee after a test flight from Abuja airport to Lagos airport to ensure readiness for the flight resumptions.

“90 per cent of what we do in civil aviation is not seen by people like the Very High-Frequency Omnidirectional Range ( VOR) and other safety systems put in place but aviation is ready, I don’t want to give a timeline but when we are set to open, we open.”

On palliatives for the sector, the minister said “this will be announced soon by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Ministry of Finance.

”Government is coming with the palliative very soon in conjunction with the CBN and the Ministry of Finance, by next week we will come out with the amount and palliative will be announced within the week. Within the economic sustainability plan. It will go round the entire civil aviation.”

Meanwhile, the Presidential task force on COVID-19 expressed satisfaction with the handling of the test flight from Abuja ahead of reopening aviation industry stating that the industry was ready but will not give a timeline or date for the restart.

The coordinator, PTF COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu gave his assessment when he arrived with the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika on an Aero Contractors flight from Abuja after undergoing the same process at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport.

His word: “Aviation is a highly regulated sector and this is the new normal. Things have changed and things have changed because we have a disease killing people.

“The aviation industry has shown what they have done as an industry and now it is left to Nigerians to do what they need to to be safe.

“While aviation has done tremendously well, what will protect you is yourself and we equally will make sure Nigerians can be safe when they fly.”

Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo has described the late Senator Isiaka Ajimobi as an incredible sense of humour with many superlatives.

Osinbajo made this known via his official twitter handle recently. 

Yemi also described him as an intuitive bridge builder and full of life and joy.

“In blessed memory of H.E.Senator Abiola Ajimobi.

“We lost our dear egbon, a man of many superlatives, great generosity, uncommon kindness and compassion, an incredible sense of humour, an intuitive bridge builder, and a man so full of life and joy” He said. 

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested a pastor and 11 others for various cases of rape and defilement of minors.

Speaking in Uyo during a press conference, the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, said the 33-year-old pastor, Inimfon Inyang, severally raped a 15-year-old girl at his deliverance centre.

The pastor, who allegedly lives with eight other girls aged 13 to 16 years, was said to have also attempted to rape a 21-year-old girl.

Emmanuel Otu, a 30 years old indigene of Uko Nteghe, Mbo local government area was said to have raped a 28-year-old lady at gunpoint, and robbed her of two phones valued at N42,000 and N9,000 and the sum of N32,000 cash.

Another suspect, Ime Sunday, from Ekpene Obo, Esit Eket local government area was said to have repeatedly raped his 16-year-old daughter, forcing her to abscond from the house.

Sunday was said to have persuaded his daughter to return home with a promise not to sexually assault her again but continued raping the victim after she had returned home.

Also, a 21-year-old Etebong Harrison, an indigene of Ikot Akpan Udo, Ikot Abasi local government area, was alleged to have lured a five-year-old girl to his house, and raped her.

“This press briefing aims at showcasing an appreciable milestone in the fight against rape, defilement and other gender based violence.

“The Police Command has arrested another Pastor and 11 others for rape and defilement.

“Following a complaint on 18/06/2020, 0peratives of SCIID, Uyo, arrested one Pastor Inimfon Eyo Inyang ‘m’, aged 33yrs old of Nung Atim Road, Off Idoro Road, Uyo for attempting to rape a 21-yr-old girl.

“Investigation further revealed that the said Pastor, who lives with eight other girls between the ages of 13yrs and 16yrs in his so-called deliverance centre at the said address, severally had unlawful carnal knowledge of one of the minors who is 15-yr-old.

“On 22/06/2020, operatives of Oron Division apprehended one Emmanuel Okon Otu ‘m’, aged 30yrs old of Uko Nteghe, Mbo L.G.A.

“The suspect invaded a residence at No. 4 Secretariat Road, Oron at about 1:30am of the said date, where he had an unlawful carnal knowledge of a 28-yr-old lady at gunpoint, and thereafter, robbed the victim of her Techno Spark 4 phone valued forty-two thousand naira (N42,000.00), one itel phone valued nine thousand naira (N9,000.00), one big towel valued five thousand naira (N5,000.00) and the sum of thirty-two thousand naira (N32,000.00).

“On 21/06/2020 at about 3:30pm, operatives of Esit Eket Division arrested one Ime Sunday ‘m’ of Ekpene Obo, Esit Eket L.G.A.

“Investigation revealed that the suspect in November, 2019 repeatedly raped his 16-yr-old daughter which cumulated to her escaping from her father’s home to her friend’s abode in Etinan L.G.A.

“However, the father of the victim, who persuaded her to return home with the promise that she would no longer be sexually violated, continued in same act after she returned home.

“On 13/6/2020 at about 8:00am while responding to a distress call, Operatives of ‘C’ Division arrested one Sampson Ndiana-Abasi ‘m’.

“Investigation revealed that the suspect conspired with one Blessed ‘m’ now at large and gang-raped an 11-yr-old girl.

“On 17/6/2020, Detectives of Ikot Abasi Division apprehended one Etebong Monday Harrison ‘m’, aged 21yrs of Ikot Akpan Udo, Ikot Abasi L.G.A, who lured a 5-yr-old girl to his house, and unlawfully had sexual intercourse with her.

“Following a tip-off, Operatives of ‘C’ Division apprehended one Akpan Kingsley Effiong ‘m’, aged 29yrs of No. 35 Abak Road, Uyo, who repeatedly defiled his 14yrs old daughter,” he stated.

The CP advised parents and guardians to be more cautious of who they entrust their children to, adding that some of the minors were sexually violated by their spiritual fathers or persons in authority in the course of hawking.

He further warned that any parent or guardian, whose child or ward within the stipulated age in the Child’s Rights Act found hawking, would be arrested and prosecuted in line with the 10 years imprisonment punishment prescribed by the law.

He urged the people and parents not to be dissuaded by stigmatization or threats from reporting gender-based violence and other sexual related offences to the Police.

He promised that the Command would ensure justice and the needed protection, medical attention, psychological counseling, and other supports necessary for the victims.

He explained that a Family Support unit desk had been established in all Police stations in Akwa Ibom State to handle cases of rape and gender-based violence.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has announced the appointment of Mrs. Azuka Chinelo Ogugua as the Acting Head of Public Enlightenment Department and Spokesperson for the Commission.

Mrs. Ogugua takes over from Mrs. Rasheedat Adunni Okoduwa, mni, the outgoing Director, Public Enlightenment, who retires from the services of the Commission after attaining 60 years of age stipulated for retirement.

In this new role, she will be responsible for cultivating a positive image for ICPC, managing publicity for its activities and programmes, developing anti-corruption enlightenment programmes, maintaining relationship with the media, and the implementation of other communication functions.

She is also the official Spokesperson for the Commission.

Until her current appointment, she was the Deputy Head of Education Department, in ICPC.

Ogugua is an Assistant Director with the Commission and holds an M.Sc in Public Relations/Marketing from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

She is also an associate member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) and the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM).

The Oyo State Government has strongly denied insinuations that it is responsible for the delay in burying the immediate past governor of the state, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, who died on Thursday.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the insinuations amounted to a wicked lie.

The statement read: “In view of the intense enquiries from news media organisations regarding the perceived delay in burying the late former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the Oyo State Government wishes to place on record that there is no truth in the rumour making the rounds that the burial is being delayed by the state government.

“The rumour, which is being deliberately spread to give the state government a bad name and to play undue politics with the dead, initially came by the way of social media gossip, which gained traction to attract the attention of traditional media outfits.

“Several media outfits reached out to the Media Office of the Governor of Oyo State to make enquiries on this barefaced lie on Saturday.

“Let it be stated clearly that the Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has played no role at all in causing any delay whatsoever regarding the burial of his immediate predecessor, Senator Ajimobi.

“The truth of the matter is that the family, through a proxy, approached the state government and sought approval to bury the late governor on a plot of land at Agodi GRA, which is currently under litigation.

“Incidentally, it was the same former Governor Ajimobi who instituted the legal action.

“Governor Seyi Makinde had no choice than to state the facts as they are to the emissaries and turn down the request.

“Governor Makinde, however, against the established land use rule in Oyo State, gave approval that the family can bury the late governor in his Oluyole Estate residence.

“It is to be noted that the rules guiding land use in Government Reservation Areas (GRA) forbid the burial of bodies in such locations as Oluyole Estate and Agodi GRA.

“Let us also put on record that whereas the family did not follow the laid down protocols in passing information on the sickness and eventual demise of Senator Ajimobi, Governor Makinde overlooked all that and directed the full cooperation of the government with the family on this matter.

“It can only amount to a wicked lie to insinuate that the incumbent government in Oyo State attempted to obstruct the burial of the immediate past governor”.

The presidency has dispelled speculation that President Muhammadu Buhari and national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, have fallen out over the dissolution of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling party.

It has also maintained that the dissolution of the national leadership of the party led by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was necessary to save the APC from imminent collapse.

A statement issued by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity) in Abuja on Sunday said Buhari and Tinubu are still in touch with each other and their relationship remains strong.

It accused the opposition of trying without success to break the relationship.

The statement read: “The very essence of the requests put to the Emergency National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by President Muhammadu Buhari, which were unanimously approved aim to pull back the party, faced with an existential crisis from the brink of collapse, follow the constitution and take everyone along.

“While this action has been widely accepted with great relief by lovers of democracy and the rank and file of the membership, we are concerned that political vulturism masquerading as “smart analysis” is selling the commentary that this is a Buhari-Tinubu “showdown.” Nothing can be farther from the truth.

“To put the records straight: In the formation of this great party and giving it leadership, President Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who are reckoned as the founding fathers of the APC are both inspired by democratic norms, national interest and not at all by partisan motivations. These are the qualities that have made them moved past cynical distractions.

“They are in touch with one another. Their relationship remains as strong as ever and between the two of them, only they know how they manage their enviable relationship.

“Try as hard as they could, the opposition parties have used all their intellectuals and their supporters in the media to break this relationship and have failed. And they won’t.

“For President Buhari who has received much of the cynical commentary, Nigerians know him as someone who will not do anything with bad intentions. Neither will he do anything out of partisan motivations or for himself.

“This whole exercise, that should lead to massive reform and overhaul of the leadership of the party, as he said in that brilliant speech, was ‘to save the APC from the imminent self-destruction. We have to move ahead. We have to take everyone with us and ensure that the party is run in accordance with democratic norms and with consensus. We have to work for the benefit of the country.’

“The leaders of the party, who have received two successive massive mandates to govern the country and a majority of the states should be judged by how this exercise turns out in achieving these objectives, not cursed at the mere commencement of the process.”

A Lagos based woman, Omotayo Yemisi Apelara has been convicted and sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for committing fraud.

Justice O.A Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja sentenced her for defrauding Mr. & Mrs. Okpetu Onobume Jackson to the tune of N32.9million (Thirty- Two Million Nine Hundred Thousand Naira only)

Apelara was arraigned by the Lagos Zonal office of the the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on November 25, 2013 on six-count charges bordering on obtaining money by false pretences and stealing to the tune of Thirty-two Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Naira (N32, 900. 000. 00).

One of the counts read: “That you, Omotayo Yemisi Apelara, sometime in 2008 at Alausa, Ikeja within the Ikeja Judicial Division, with intent to defraud, obtained the total sum of N18, 000, 000. 00 (Eighteen Million Naira) from Mr. & Mrs.Okpetu Onobume Jackson by falsely representing yourself as a Senior Land Officer appointed by Governor Fashola who would help them procure a piece of land located opposite Chevron Estate, Lekki Lagos , which representation you knew to be false and committed an offence contrary to Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act Cap A6, Vol 1, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.”

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges , thereby setting the stage for her trial.

In the course of the trial, the prosecution counsel, M.K. Bashir, called four witnesses and tendered several documents that were admitted in evidence by the court.

Delivering her judgment, Justice Ipaye found the defendant guilty on all counts and sentenced her to seven years imprisonment each on counts one, two and three for obtaining by false pretence and three years each on counts four, five and six bordering on stealing.

She will, however, spend 10 years in prison as the sentences run concurrently.
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A 27 years old man Ahmadu Yaro has been apprehended by men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Nasarawa State Command for allegedly defiling a three-month-old baby in Adogi village, Lafia Local Government Area of the state.

Parading the suspect, the Deputy State Commandant of the NSCDC, Mr Bisi Olugboyega, said, “We have tracked and apprehended the 27-year-old suspected rapist, Ahmadu Yaro.

“He is presently in custody for allegedly defiling a three-month-old baby in Adogi village, Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.”

According to him, the suspect has already confessed to the crime.

He said the suspect would be prosecuted when the command completes its investigation.

Olugboyega stated that the suspect was arrested on June 22, 2020, around 3.28am in Adogi.

The NSCDC deputy commandant said the suspect was apprehended two years ago by the community for a similar offence, adding that Yaro was left off the hook without the involvement of security agencies.

“The suspect is believed to be a one-man gang claiming partial mental disorder, which is not yet confirmed or established,” he added.