Funke Busari Two stores housing electoral materials at the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have been burnt down in a series of arson attacks in Anambra, Enugu and Imo States. Further information has it that among the debris is fifty percent of its non-sensitive materials. This was disclosed by INEC’s National Commissioner, Festus Okoye on Monday. Festus Okoye said the attack on its Anambra office is the most devastating onslaught on its facilities so far. This development is the latest in a series of attacks on INEC offices in Nigeria’s South-East region, which occurred on Sunday night,…
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Funke Busari One of the reasons adduced by those opposing to death penalty was the argument that many innocent persons have been wrongfully convicted and executed. Even in the advanced countries DNA has exonerated many condemned criminal long after conviction or execution. But for the intervention of well meaning Nigerians, Olaide Olatunji would either died in prison or executed and his innocence may never have been proven. His journey to death row began in May 30, 1988 when he went to Niger State in search of greener pastures. Olaide was assisting his father in cattle business, but while searching for…
Funke Busari A lady Bunmi Oladuntoye who claimed to have been engaged last year August to the pilot of the ill fated NAF Beechcraft aircraft crash that killed Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 others, including her fiance, FLT Lieutenant Olufemi Taiwo Asaniyi, last night took to Twitter to applaud his virtues, his patrotism and lauded the life and times they had together. Bunmi, the Creator of Learn A Word A Day expressed that she had no iota of regret while they were together from the day Femi asked her to be his wife. Hear her, “Femi I have…
The remains of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru and ten others have been laid to rest with very senior military and government officials present to pay their last respects. General Attahiru and the others were on Friday 21st of May 2012, killed in a helicopter crash on their way to attend the pass out parade of the short service graduands in Kaduna state. President Muhammadu Buhari who was represented at the funeral described the slained officers as gallant saying their deaths will not be in vain. It was a solemn event where members of the…
Funke Busari Report says the the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, was killed in a plane crash while leaving at the Kaduna International Airport. The incident was said to have occurred at about 6:00 p.m while it was raining heavily. The plane was said to have crash-landed on the runway with the eight people on board feared dead. There is no word yet on the casually figure. We give you details as soon as we have it.
Funke Busari Again another call has gone to Nigeria Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba to revisit a complaint by one Iwanefun Oluyemi James who claimed that some policemen extorted him at gun point. This was narrated by one Tolu Babaleye on his Facebook page, although he said the incident happened somewhere along Ondo road last year, he is still of the opinion that the culprit can be brought to book. Titled ‘Attention Inspector General of Police’, the alleged victim said he was accosted by the Police who ordered him out of the vehicle and wanted to know personal…
Funke Busari Cross River State, Governor, Benedict Ayade has dumped the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC on Thursday. Governor Ayade announced his decision at the Executive Council chambers of the Governor’s office in Calabar. He made the announcement after a meeting with some APC chieftains led by the APC National Caretaker committee chairman, Governor Mai Mala Buni. Others present during his declaration are Governors Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and Hope Uzodinma of Imo State as well as the Minister for State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva.
Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN The proponents of open grazing support it with the right to freedom of movement granted under section 41 of the Constitution. This section cannot be interpreted to violate other constitutional provisions, especially section 43 that grants the right to private or public property. You cannot deploy the right to movement of person and cattle to violate the right of another citizen to own property, such as land or farmland, or else you become a trespasser. It is in this regard that I disagree with the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation, when he said that the ban on…
Funke Busari Three fleeing inmates of Imo Correctional Center have been re-arrested. Cosmas Mbamara, Okafor George Chisomo, 35 years old, and Nwankwo Levi, 35 years were among those who escaped during a jail break at Correctional Centre, in Owerri on 5th April, 2021. They were re-arrested following a sustained monitoring by detectives from Oru West Division on 18th May, 2021. Mbamara was arrested at Umuaba Village, Orlu LGA, Chisomo was nabbed at Umuaba Village, Orlu LGA and Levi was picked up from his hideout in Okigwe area of Imo State. Imo State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bala Elkana said the three…
Funke Busari, Lagos At least 206 persons who have been convicted of sexual offences have been registered on the National Sexual Offenders Register even as Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team responded to 3,831 cases of domestic violence between April 2020 to April 2021 in Lagos State. This information is according to Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo, SAN, while giving an account of the performance of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice at the 2021 Ministerial Press Briefing on Wednesday. Explaining the breakdown, the Commissioner or Justice informed that of the 3,831 reported cases of domestic violence,…