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C2%A0daughter-killed-one-injured-two target=_blank>Police Explain How Gunmen Kidnapped UBEC Chairman, Daughter… Killed One, Injured Two
The Kaduna State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has given details of how the Chairman Board Universal Basic Education Commissions (UBEC), Muhammed Mahmood and his daughter were kidnapped along the Kaduna-Abuja Road.
A press release sigmed by the Public Relations Officer, DSP Yakubu Abubakar Sabo, and obtained by Saharareporters on Monday, explained that armed men in military uniform intercepted Mahmood’s Land Cruiser Jeep and opened fire on the vehicles before tbey seized their victims and shot the driver dead.”Today 29/04/19, we received information through DPO Katari that at about 1530hrs, he got a distress call that armed men in military uniform intercepted a Land Cruiser Jeep with Reg. No 07E o4 FG and Toyota Sienna with Reg. No SLJ 465 TN at Kurmin Kare Village along Kaduna – Abuja Express Way, opened fire on the vehicles in the process the driver of the jeep was shot dead while the occupants; Dr. Muhammad Abubakar, who is the Chairman of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), and his daughter were kidnapped.
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“The occupants of the sienna; one Alowonle Olalere and Onuka Victor both of Ibadan Oyo State were injured and rescued to Katari Police Station. They were said to be returning from Kano where they went to shoot a film titled ‘The Last Step’.
“Combined Teams of PMF Men, Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Command, Special Forces and Operations Yaki were quickly mobilized to the area with a view to combing the bush for possible rescue of the victims and arresting the criminals. IGP’S IRT was also contacted for technical support in tracking the hoodlums. At the moment, the two vehicles were recovered to station.
“The Commissioner of Police CP Ahmad Abdur-Rahman appeals to members of the public to support the Police with relevant information that could assist in apprehending the perpetrators of this heinous act. He said the Command will not be deterred in its efforts to bring crime to the barest minimum in the State. CP Ahmad said the hoodlums are only testing our collective will and we cannot relent. Update follows in due course please.”
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target=_blank>BREAKING: UBEC Chairman Mahmood And Daughter kidnapped, Driver Shot Dead (Video)
Muhammed Mahmood, Chairman of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen along the Kaduna-Abuja Highway.
Mahmood was abducted alongside his daughter while travelling from Kaduna to Abuja on Monday afternoon.
His driver was not that lucky, as he was shot dead in the operation, which took place around Katari, a village few kilometres from Zuba, an Abuja suburb.
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target=_blank>Police Arrest Jealous Lover Who ‘Set Ex-Girlfriend’s Family Of Nine Ablaze’
Deji Adenuga, the man suspected to have set his ex-girlfriend’s family of nine ablaze In the Okitipupa Local Council Area of Ondo State, has been arrested.
Adenuga was nabbed in Ogun State following “round-the-clock investigations” by the Police.
The suspected arsonist, who is also an ex-convit, set the familiy of his former girlfriend, Titi Sunmonu, ablaze in the Igbodigo area of Ayeka in Okitipupa.
SaharaReporters had reported how the middle-aged man, who had some disagreement with her then girlfriend, brought a jerrycan laden with petroleum in the midnight, gained entrance into the building by breaking a window, and sprayed the family while they were asleep.
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A source and Police Inspector confirmed the arrest to SaharaReporters, saying fleeing Adenuga was nabbed in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.
Femi Joseph, spokesman of the Ondo State Police Command, confirmed Adenuga’s arrest to SaharaReporters, saying: “Yes, the suspect has been arrested and he is currently in our custody but we shall parade him tomorrow at the headquarters.
“He was arrested in Ijebu-Ode, under the bridge that leads to the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.”
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target=_blank>‘Boko Haram Members Earn $3,000 Daily But Nigerian Soldiers Get N1,000’
Dr. Sidi Ali Mohammed, a member of the Presidential Committee on the North East Initiative (PCNI), has disclosed Boko Haram fighters receive daily payments of $3,000 daily for their efforts in elongating the insurgency that has been raging in the North-East since 2014.
He made this disclosure at the Presentation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Sub-Sahara Africa’s Economic Outlook Report, in Abuja on Monday.
According to Mohammed, the payment makes the N1,000 daily allowance paid to Nigerian troops at the war front ridiculous.
Mohammed, who is the Head of the Humanitarian Assistance and Rehabilitation arm of the PCNI, lamented that Boko Haram has been hijacked and operates like a cartel.
“I will give you an example. The Nigerian military for example, gets N1, 000 per day for being in the North East, at the war front, as an allowance,” he said.
“The same North-East, where if you are a member of Boko Haram you get $3,000 per day as allowance. So it is lucrative. Sometimes, they even give you money upfront. So we must do something about the youth from where they are recruiting.”
On how to curb the menace of insurgency spreading across the country, particularly in the North-East, Mohammed said amnesty shouldn’t be ruled out if it would guarantee the desired peace.
“If it is amnesty that will guarantee that peace, then we have to think of it,” he said.
“Most importantly, we need to deplete the army of youth on the streets and take them away from the streets so that Boko Haram does not recruit them. Don’t forget, they Boko Haram members are being killed on daily basis but they are also recruiting on daily basis. They are getting people to recruit because it is lucrative.
“Part of the reason why this problem has refused to go away is the abundant natural resources in the Lake Chad Region. We need to think outside the box. It is now more like a cartel. When you see the type of weapons they use, it is more sophisticated than the type of weapons that our military are using.”
He further stated that the Boko Haram menace is “like a guerilla warfare”.
“As we are here discussing, if somebody here is a member of Boko Haram, he will not say anything,” he said. “He goes out there to strategise and comes back. It, therefore, means the conventional ways of fighting warfare cannot work here. It, therefore, calls for thinking outside of the box.”
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target=_blank>Seven Weeks After Losing Election, Last PDP lawmaker In Lagos Assembly Joins APC
Dapo Olorunrinu, the sole survivor of the gale of defection that swept seven Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) lawmakers in the Lagos State House of Assembly to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2017 has eventually defected to APC.
The Lagos State House of Assembly is now fully constituted by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers only.
Olorunrinu, who represented Amuwo-Odofin constituency I, lost his re-election bid to Mojisola Alli-Macaulay, the APC candidate, in the March 9 house of assembly election with just 278 votes.
However, he promised to the let the result stand without seeking legal redress
The lawmaker informed the house of his defection on Monday at the plenary through a letter titled ‘Letter of Defection from PDP to APC’ and addressed to Mudashiru Obasa, the Speaker.
The letter was read by Azeez Sanni, the Clerk of the assembly.
“I have been a young progressive-minded person and I have decided to realign with the APC based on moving trend and party to reckon with taking Lagos State to the next level,” he said in the letter.
“I will like to appreciate Mr Speaker for his continuous act of service to my constituency. This explains the magnanimity of Mr Speaker.”
Olorunrinu had earlier said that in 2015, there were eight PDP members in the house but seven defected.
“In all sincerity I make bold to say here that, I have never had any regret,” he said, adding that he was happy to still find himself in the midst of great administration.
“Sincerely, I said to myself that continuity as a young man in politics is a necessity. I said to myself that I must join the progressives’ party, which is the APC. Permit me to say this in this hallowed chamber that the PDP has been discovered by my humble self as a party that is not to be reckoned with — not to be reckoned with because it is a party that lacks structure, it is a party that lacks visions for Nigeria of tomorrow. That’s the more reason why I said to myself that we must start from here and preach the good news of APC. I want to say a very big thank you to Mr Speaker for accepting me.”
Olorunrinu apologised to the speaker for his late defection.
He said he has spoken with his constituents, stakeholders of different cadres on the decision to join the “moving train”.
Responding, Obasa welcomed Olorunrinu to the APC, saying: “I thank you for making the decision at last. We welcome you into our midst as members of APC in the House of Assembly.
“You have always been part of us, save the fact that you refused to dump the leaking umbrella but today you have decided, I welcome you on behalf of our party.
“I want to thank you for lending your voice to what have been our position from quite sometime that the best party in Nigeria today is APC, so there is nothing to gain from PDP; for realising this, I congratulate you.
“Distinguished colleagues, we are now 40 members of APC. Thank you for joining us.”
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target=_blank>FCDA: Next Level In Sharia Policing In Abuja? By Leo Igwe
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As I have earlier noted, raiding Caramelo nightclub was not about law enforcement. It was not a move to rectify an illegal use of a property or to combat noise pollution or traffic challenge in the city. The Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) used these reasons to mask their more sinister motives, and to legitimize their illegal clamp down on the operation of nightclubs and women attendees in Abuja.
Simply put, raiding Caramelo was a front to justify the execution of a religious and moral agenda that is stealthily being unveiled in the city.
As many anticipated, more raids have been carried out and more women, not men, have been arrested in Abuja. Over the weekend, at least 70 women were arrested following similar raids in the city. These women were detained at a local police station where they have allegedly been abused.
The FCDA must be taken to task on the light of recent developments. The municipal authority must be called to order and compelled to adhere to its constitutional roles and duties. The agency must make it clear if it is enforcing the law or prosecuting some moral/sharia policing agenda.
This is because Abuja is the seat of the Federal government where federal laws apply. And FCDA could not execute such operations without the implicit knowledge and endorsement by the Buhari Administration. So the raids of nightclubs and arrests of female attendees are not only municipal local issues, they have federal, constitutional dimensions that need to be addressed.
First, the FCDA need to categorically respond to these concerns: is the operation of nightclubs against the law? If yes, which section of the Nigerian law prohibits such operations and what does the provision explicitly say? Are there guidelines for the operation of nightclubs including dress codes for men and women? If yes, what are these operational guides?
Another question that the FCDA needs to urgently address is this: Is it against the law for women to attend nightclubs in Abuja? If yes, which section of the law prohibits females attending nightclubs and what does the provision state?
Otherwise, the FCDA should put an end to these reckless and irresponsible raids. The agency should stop making itself a laughing stock locally and internationally and confirming that it is an extension of the sharia policing regime!
Going by the latest reports, the arrested women would be accused of prostitution and charged to court. So for the FCDA, attending nightclub equals prostitution, right? By implication, nightclubs are brothels? I mean how will the FCDA prove in court that a woman who was arrested at the nightclub is a prostitute? Is attending or dancing at a nightclub an evidence of prostitution?So it is pertinent to highlight the twisted morality that underlies the raids on nightclubs in Abuja especially the facts that this clamp down reinforces existing power relations and privileges. These raids constitute mechanisms for witch hunting, settling scores, victimization and scapegoating the weak and vulnerable in the society, and the subjugation of women. Otherwise, how does one explain the fact that, in Abuja where many hotels operate nightclubs, the FCDA have chosen to raid some and not others? Why didn’t the FCDA first move against the nightclubs at Sheraton or at Nicon Hilton or the clubs at any other 5 star hotels in the city, which the rich and powerful attend? Why have they not arrested attendees at these places? Why did they choose to storm roadside clubs?
Now on the gender aspect. Both men and women do nightclubbing. So why arrest only women? Why create the impression that night clubbing a female affair when in actual fact it is not? Why reinforce the gender prejudice and bias that have characterized sharia enforcement in muslim majority states? This is definitely an exemplification of what applies in sharia implementing states. Men freely go about night clubbing while women do so with fear, fear of being arrested, molested and abused by only-men sharia policing units. Is this the lunacy and farce that the FCDA wants to introduce in Abuja?
The FCDA should stop raiding nightclubs and focus on their constitutional roles and duties as stipulated by the law. It should stop being a tool for the prosecution of ethno-religious agenda. The Federal Government should not turn a blind eye on the raiding activities of the FCDA including the divisive, and polarizing undercurrents. It must ensure that the rule of law not religious codes apply in the city of Abuja. Abuja is a federal, not a sharia capital. All Nigerians are equal before the law. And the FCDA must ensure that all Nigerians are treated with dignity and respects.
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target=_blank>PDP ‘Receives Briefing’ Of How INEC ‘Erased All Trails Of Atiku’s Victory Results From Server’
In a bid to reclaim what it has described the ‘stolen mandate’ of its presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of replacing all the servers at its headquarters in Abuja and all its offices in the 36 states of the federation in a bid to obliterate the authentic result of the elections.
Kola Ologbodiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, made the revelation in a statement on Monday. He said: “The PDP has been well briefed on how the INEC leadership and officials of the Buhari Presidency became jittery and resorted to the desperate measures, after they realised that the servers have information of Atiku Abubakar’s victory at the election.
“Our party also has details of how the INEC leadership and the Presidency agents procured and detailed computer experts to the commission’s offices to switch the servers, mutilate vital information in the system and attempt to erase all trails of transmitted results to the main server.“Moreover, our party has been informed about how the INEC leadership, several weeks after the election, used some compromised officials of the commission to manipulate voter registers in some states by ticking names of individuals who did not participate in the presidential election as having voted. “This is with the view to using such to cover the fictitious results it wrote for the APC. What INEC and the Buhari Presidency do not understand is that computer software and applications leave traces, signatures as well as footmark. Forensic investigation of the system will reveal the real votes transmitted from the polling centers, which show Atiku Abubakar as the winner of the election. “The PDP therefore, insists on forensic examination of all relevant documents and equipment used for the presidential election.”
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target=_blank>‘Ghanaian Doctors Better Paid Than Their Nigeria Counterparts’
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Dr Betta Edu, Director-General, Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (CRSPHCA), says medical doctors in Nigeria are lesser paid than their colleagues in some African countries.
Edu, who was reacting to comments by Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, stated that the country clearly lacks the number of medical doctors to meet with the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) recommendations.
“I want to put it clearly on record, the Minister of Labour and Productivity was wrong. By the World Health Organisation (WHO) standards, we need one doctor per 600 persons in a population,” he told NAN.
“Even if we churn out the figure we have today 10 times for the next 10 years, we are not going to arrive at what Universal Health Coverage (UHC) requires from Nigeria. It is simple mathematics and not about anybody now.
“How many doctors are practising right now in Nigeria? Just 35,000 — and most of them are in urban areas. Very few of them are practising in rural areas. How are we going to achieve UHC when we are saying that even the 35,000 doctors that are grossly inadequate can go for all we care.”
Betta said the government must improve the welfare of doctors to meet global standards, arguing that medical practitioners should be encouraged to stay in the country rather than allowed to leave.
“Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pays the house rent of its staff and children’s school fees that is the oil sector; we can do the same for our doctors to keep them to offer services,” she said.
“Beyond that, even as a nation, we should be discussing with International Labour Organisation (ILO) to see how we can prevent more people from leaving instead of saying they can go; if they go, how will the health sector in Nigeria work?
“I really don’t blame most of them and the reason is simple; other nations have the ability to pay for services. Go and ask how much they pay doctors in Ghana, convert it in dollars and compare it to what they pay doctors in Nigeria.”
The DG of CRSPHCA called on the state government to enforce the laws guiding medical practitioners to ensure all doctors are licensed and fully certified.
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target=_blank>Nurses In Calabar Beat Up Woman In Labour ‘Because She Couldn’t Afford N20,000 Bill’
A woman in the throes of labour was allegedly beaten by a team of nurses on duty for her inability to settle her N20,000 bill when she entered the hospital for prompt medical recourse.
The incident happened on April 12 at the Primary Healthcare Centre, Ekpo Abasi in Calabar, Cross-Rivers State.
The woman said the nurses thought her to be a mentally deranged person and they started beating her with sticks.
She said not until they saw the baby ‘coming’ out of her did they stop the beating and delivered her of the baby.
“They thought I was a mad woman and they started beating me, telling me to leave the hospital premises,” she said.
“I had no option but to find a means to save myself and the baby. And it was when they saw the baby coming out of me that they exclaimed ‘oh the baby is coming o, it’s like she is not a mad woman o.'”
The woman, however, said even at that, the nurses almost denied her bed but for the intervention of an empathetic woman who came to her aid in the hospital.
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Nigeria Intensifying Efforts To Rescue ‘Innocent’ Female Student Arrested With Tramadol In Saudi Arabia
The Nigerian government is stepping up its intervention in the case of Zainab Aliyu, a Nigerian student arrested and detained in Saudi Arabia for alleged drug trafficking.
Zainab, a student of Maitama Sule University, Kano, was arrested after a banned drug, tramadol, was found in her bag on arrival in the south-western Asian country; however, she insisted it was planted in her luggage by unknown persons.
The student had travelled from Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, in with her mother, Maryam Aliyu, and sister, Hajara Aliyu, but she was arrested over allegations that a bag bearing her name tag contained the unlawful substance.
She was accused of entering Saudi Arabia with an illegal dosage of Tramadol, but it has since been discovered she was a victim of a cartel that the airport in Kano that specialises in keeping hard drugs in travellers’ bags. Some members of the cartel are already in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
With claims of Zainab’s innocence mounting of late, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora Affairs, disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari had since given the directive for government intervention in the matter. “President Muhammadu Buhari gave the directive immediately the matter was brought to his attention about two weeks ago,” she said in a statement released in Abuja on Monday by her media aide, Abdur-Rahman Balogun.
“My office has been working with the AGF and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to rescue the beleaguered student. We have been working with the AGF as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in that regard.”
Dabiri-Erewa said the arrest of those who implicated Zainab has strengthened the legal case for her innocence.
Bashir Ahmad, Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, backed up Dbiri-Erewa’s claims, writing: “@MBuhari has since directed the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) to take all the necessary action to ensure Zainab Aliyu’s release and her safe return to Nigeria, Hon. @AbikeDabiri, SSA to the President on Foreign Relations and Diaspora discloses.”
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