JACK OF ALL TRADES

Why Buhari Will Keep Dasuki In Detention. Why is former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki still in detention despite court orders that he should be released? Dasuki, NSA in the former President Goodluck Jonathan administration, is standing trial for embezzlement of over $15 billion fund meant for equipment and other logistics to fight Boko Haram, the insurgent group troubling the Northeastern part of the country. The ECOWAS Court on Tuesday ordered Dasuki’s release. He went to the court after a Federal High Court’s order that he should be released was ignored. President Muhammadu Buhari’s biographer, JohnPaden, hinted that Dasuki’s release from detention may not happen soon. In Chapter 15 of the book, “Muhammadu Buhari – The challenges of Leadership in Nigeria” which focuses on ‘Military Procurement Accountability’, Paden noted that Buhari believed in confronting to the end any act of corruption that will undermine th...

EFCC Arrests Adebiyi Daramola FUTA VC And Bursar, Oresegun. EFCC QUIZZES FUTA VICE CHANCELLOR, BURSAR Professor Adebiyi Daramola, Vice Chancellor Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State and the Bursar, Emmanuel Ademola Oresegun, are being quizzed at the Iyaganku office of the EFCC in Ibadan today 5th of October, 2016 in respect of an alleged case of Abuse of Office and misappropriation of funds reported against the duo. According to the petition submitted to the Commision, it was alleged that the Vice Chancellor and the Bursar were involved in “Corruption, Fraud, Criminal Breach of Trust, Unlawful Enrichment and Conversion of millions of Naira of the University”. The Vice Chancellor allegedly drew Furniture Allowance annually instead of once in 4 years as approved and was paying himself Housing Allowance while residing in the University’s Vice Chancellor’s Quarters. The petition further alleged that he diverted funds from various unrelated subhead...

Margaret Emefiele's Kidnappers Demand N1.5billion As Ransom For Her Release. SaharaReporters can authoritatively report that the kidnappers who abducted Margaret Emefiele, wife to sitting Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele, are demanding N1.5 billion for her release. SaharaReporters learned of these developments from a source with an intimate understanding of the delicate situation. Mrs. Emefiele was abducted yesterday along the Benin-Agbor Road and her captors have been in communication with Mr. Emefiele. SaharaReporters has learned that in addition to Mrs. Emefiele, four other people were abducted including two other females, a male, and her driver. It has also been learned that Mrs. Emefiele had a four-man police detail attached to her. However, when the police were confronted with the superior firepower of the kidnappers they ran away, leaving her and the other victims in the hands of the criminals. Since her abduction, the kidnappers have been in constant communication...

Driver sentenced to death for killing female colleague       By Wahab Abdullah & Jane Echewodo LAGOS—A Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced a school bus driver, Godwin Etute, to death by hanging for the murder of a co-employee, Tolulope Adisa, with a screwdriver. The 32-year-old convict and the late Adisa were both employees of Value Land Nursery and Primary School, located at 13, Lateef Lasisi Street, Egbe, Lagos. Etute committed the offence on January 27, 2012, at 6a.m., behind Aris Hotel, Egbe, Lagos, in the Ikeja Judicial Division. Having been found culpable of the crime through a confessional statement, Etute faced a one count charge of murder contrary to Section 211 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. The convict, who had told the court that he had endured for long unbearable insults from the deceased, was said to have taken the deceased to a solitary place with the school bus, ordered her out and stabbed he...

Seven-year-old Ngozi (pseudonym) is no longer a child. Her innocence has been stolen by her 41-year-old father, Emeka Igwe, who not only raped her, but got her addicted to masturbation. It was gathered that anytime Ngozi felt sexual urge and her father was not around to stimulate her, she would invite boys into her parents’ apartment in the Federal Housing Estate, Meiran, Ojokoro, Lagos State, to “play with her private parts”. PUNCH Metro  learnt that the victim’s mother first detected the act in January, 2015, and after reporting to policemen at the Ojokoro Police Division, the case was dismissed as a family matter. The police reportedly threatened to detain her, while her husband’s family accused her of inciting her four children against their family. Emeka, a trader, allegedly continued to defile his daughter in their apartment until August, when the matter got to the attention of the estate executive. The Orlu, Imo State indigene, was apprehended and reported to ...

The police in Ogun have arrested a landlord, Joseph Olaleye, for allegedly setting his tenant’s three-year-old son, Abdullahi Razak, ablaze which led to the toddler’s death in the Owode area of the state. PUNCH Metro  learnt that 65-year-old Olaleye, who had a bungalow at Olowosatide Junction in the area, was reportedly cooking on Monday at about 12pm, when his stove caught fire. It was gathered that the landlord, in a bid to put out the fire, threw out the stove into the corridor, and the fire caught Abdullahi, who was said to be playing with other kids in the neighbourhood. Our correspondent gathered that the other tenants in the house heard the screams of the boy, and rushed him to a nearby hospital, where he later died in the afternoon. The landlord was said to have remained indoors, trying to put out the fire in his room. The matter was said to have been reported at the Sango Police Division, Ota, and the landlord was arrested. When  PUNCH Metro  got t...

A 28-year-old university graduate of Economics, Nonso Akubueze, has been arrested along with four other suspects by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for alleged drug trafficking. It was learnt that Akubueze and the other suspects – Simon Omoluonye, Obidike Onodyer, Friday Onyeabor and Emma Ifoh – were apprehended at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, with 11.5 kilogrammes of cocaine substances valued at N57m. PUNCH Metro  gathered that the suspects had smuggled the drug into the country from Brazil. Akubueze, who was found with 1.1kg of cocaine hidden in his luggage, said he had left Nigeria for Brazil with the hope of getting a good job but his expectation was dashed on getting there. He said, “I am a 2009 graduate of Economics but I have no job. I left Nigeria in search of job opportunities. My condition of living in Brazil was worse than when I was in Nigeria. It was my friend that gave me the bag containing the drug.” Omeluonye , 28, said ...

A female student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Miss Oreoluwa Adedamola, has been arrested by the men of the Ogun State Anti-Robbery Squad, for being in possession of a locally-made gun. The 20-year-old lady, who claimed to be an OND 2 Mass Communication student, was arrested on August 29 at Ifo, around 11.45pm, while travelling in a mini-truck with one Sikiru Kelani. She was among the suspects paraded by the Ogun State police commissioner, Abdulmajid Ali, on Tuesday at the state command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta. However, while speaking with our correspondent, Oreoluwa, who wept profusely, said it was Kelani that hid the gun inside her bag without her knowledge. She explained that she knew Kelani, a self-confessed member of Bucaneer confraternity, through her late boyfriend, Akeem, who was also a Marketing student at MAPOLY. She said, “On the day I was arrested, I came from Lagos to attend the candle light procession organised for my late boyfr...

Lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife branch, have lamented that the assassins of their colleague, Dr. Deji Adejobi, are yet to be arrested. Adejobi, who was a lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Economics, was reportedly trailed and shot dead by the assailants who invaded his residence close to the Tollgate area of Ile-Ife around 10pm on July 4. The lecturers, who spoke through their Chairman, Dr. Caleb Aborisade, regretted that five weeks after the assassination of Adejobi, they had no clue of who the culprits were. Aborisade, who described the incident as worrisome, insisted that the identity of the assassins was supposed to have been known by now. The ASUU chairman said, “We have waited with bated breath for some time now with the hope that those who murdered Adejobi would have been unmasked and made to face the full wrath of the law. This optimism appears dashed as we have no clue in respect of t...

There are indications that the four-man panel set up by the University of Lagos to investigate the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of a candidate by one Dr. Akin Baruwa will submit its report on Wednesday. Sources privy to the panel’s report on Monday told our correspondent that one of the findings by the committee is that Baruwa, at the time of allegedly committing the crime, handled a course at the Distance Learning Institute at UNILAG. But because he was said not to be entitled to an office, the committee is said to have discovered that another lecturer gave him the office where the student was allegedly raped. The panel, headed by the Dean of Student Affairs, Prof. Tunde Babawale, was constituted about three weeks ago after authorities at the university first denied that Baruwa was on its staff list. A source told our correspondent, “The panel has recommended that the lecturer who was assigned the office where Baruwa was said to have raped the student should b...

Amoeba entered 14-year-old Michael Riley's nose while swimming in a lake north of Houston with his cross country team on August 13, AP reports. Michael Riley Jr.’s family says he developed a headache and became disoriented after the swimming. He was taken to the hospital where he was diagnosed with Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis (men-ingo-in-Sephalite-us). The amoeba entered his nasal passages and made its way into his brain. Riley’s cousin Jennifer Hohman said in a statement that he was taken to Texas Children’s Hospital and placed in a medically induced coma until tests proved he had lost all brain function and couldn’t breathe without support. The hospital disconnected the ventilator Sunday. Hohman confirmed that he died. Michael competed in the Junior Olympics three times and was due to start high school this year.