Impeccable sources told The Eagle Online that the demand was made shortly after the kidnap of Margaret on Thursday
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Also arrested are Auwalu Ahmed and Abubaka Isah, who are allegedly linked with pockets of cultivation of hard rugs in the forest area of Dakka in Bali Local Government of the State
Oriana Cannavo, Head of the Charity’s Catania branch, said with the number of Nigerians rising in Sicily, prostitution is a thriving business, though nobody knows exactly how many women end up plying their trade on the streets
Okafor said: “We received a report of the murder from the younger brother to the deceased, Okpara, who claimed that Ali was killed by a group from Amaorie, Oziza community.
His wife and daughter, who were presumed dead by the gunmen, however, survived the shooting spree, which was said to have been carried out at about 5am
During preliminary investigation, they claimed that they entered into Maiduguri through Mafa with about 200 cows for sale at the Maiduguri cattle market
Kolawole said the trial-within-trial was necessary to establish the fact of the purported statement of the accused persons tendered in court by the prosecuting counsel, N.B. Jones-Nebo
The university’s Director of Communication, Olatunji Oladejo, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan that the measure was in response to the threat by an unknown group to launch bomb attacks on its campus.
They were charged with criminal conspiracy, public disturbance and mischief by fire, punishable under sections 97, 116 and 338 of the Penal Code of Benue State, 2004
The defendants had been in prison custody since November 24, 2012
Layonu had urged the court not to admit the document because the witness was not the one that signed and therefore not the originator citing Sections 83(1) sub 1 and 4 of the Evidence Act
The Chief Accountant of the Taraba State Government House, Joel Gilenya, tendered the first set of documents, which consisted of the record of payments of the ex-governor’s salaries from May 1999 to May 2007
The Public Relations Officer of the state police command, Nta Ogbonaya, confirmed the incident to newsmen
Otunba Bolalanle, Olalekan Ojo, Y.A.H. Ruba, Adewole Oladele and A.T. Onikosi, counsel to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th defendants respectively, did not object to the request for adjournment.
The naval chiefs, whilst in office, allegedly bought a house worth N600 million from the account of Naval Engineering Services without the said purchase contract being captured in the budget.
It was also alleged that the documentation for transfer of ownership of the property was done such that a private company owned by the family of the first defendant (Vice Admiral Jubrin) became the buyer
Rev. Fr. Hygi Aghaulor, the Director of Communications of the Nnewi Catholic Diocese, told newsmen in Nnewi on Wednesday that Dim was kidnapped by suspected herdsmen on September 26
The prosecutor, Inspector Yusuf Sale, had told the court that Abdullahi trespassed into the house of Hasiya Ismail of the same address and stole N5,000
A cross section of the affected students, who pleaded anonymity, believed that it was an organised fraud perpetrated by staff of a first generation bank and the institution
Moving the motion for the amendment on the floor of the House, Awoyele explained that he was seeking to alter a section of the 1999 Constitution as amended to protect the unity of the country
The defence counsel, Hassan Fajimite, told the court that the prosecution served them with the document on September 26 and that he needed time to study it and respond accordingly