2015: Arewa youths restate opposition to Atiku, others

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum has again blamed the high level of poverty and insecurity in the North on leaders from the region who have ruled the country before and vowed to oppose any one of them who wants to contest the presidency in the 2015 election.

Security agencies monitor influx of aliens into Lagos •Army, air force ban use of military stickers

Security agencies in Lagos State are monitoring illegal aliens in the state and may soon clamp down on them. The State Police Commissioner, Mr. Umar Manko, disclosed this after the State Security Council meeting chaired by Governor Babatunde Fashola at the Lagos House, Marina.

Bamanga Tukur wins

A candidate backed by President Goodluck Jonathan won the vote to head Nigeria's ruling party on Saturday after the other candidates withdrew, strengthening Jonathan's chances of re-election should he decide to run in 2015. Alhaji Bamanga Tukur was declared winner at the People's Democratic Party (PDP) convention in the capital Abuja, winning 3185 votes, against just 12 no votes and 51 invalid votes.

Tension as robbers unleash terror on Onitsha

Armed robbers, operating on motorcycles yesterday in the commercial city of Onitsha, laid siege around banks and major business centres, dispossessing residents of their money and other valuables, while five suspected armed robbers were arrested along Atani R oad also in Onitsha.

Senator's wife kidnapped in Port Harcourt

The wife of Senator George Thompson Sekibo of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who represents Rivers East Senatorial District, has been kidnapped in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

JTF, Boko Haram in gun battle

A group suspected to members of Boko Haram launched an attack on Joint Task Force (JTF) troops in Sabon Gari in Maiduguri metropolis in the early hours of yesterday.

Luxury brands target Nigeria’s wealthy elite

Nigeria is the largest market in Africa and the Middle East for Moet Hennessy,” said the company’s Nigeria marketing manager, Tokini Peterside. “For Hennessy cognac, Nigeria ranks among the top 10 consuming countries in the world

Court dismisses Oni’s suit against Salami

The ousted Ekiti State Governor Segun Oni has lost in his bid to seek prosecution of the suspended President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Isa Ayo Salami.

LASU denies arrest of 11 students

The Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo has denied the rumours making the rounds that 11 of her students were arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) over cult-related activities.

N44m scam: EFCC grills Hembe, three House committee staff for seven hours

For about seven hours yesterday, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market and Other Institutions, Mr. Herman Hembe and three staff of the committee faced a barrage of questions from operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the alleged N44 million bribe demanded from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Student dies inside well

Management of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma in Edo State have closed down the institution following violent protests by students of the institution over the death of a female student inside a well.

Two Homosexuals Earn Two Years Imprisonment

An Upper Area Court sitting in Mararba, Nasarawa State, on Wednesday, has sentenced two men, Ifeanyi Benedict Ahah and Rabiu , both found guilty of unnatural tendencies or having intercourse with each other to two years in jail each, without bail.

The pair were sentenced yesterday by Judge Mariga Abdullahi, and ordered to pay a fine of N5,000 each at the beginning of their sentence. Just before the sentence was passed, Mr. Rabiu pleaded for leniency, saying that he is married with six children.

Ifeanyi, on his own part, pleaded the court to forgive him. He claimed to be repentant and promised not to go into the act anymore if pardoned.

The Judge , however, insisted that the law must take its course, saying that the sentence was passed in hope that it will serve as a deterrent to others involved in such unnatural acts.

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87 fake NYSC members arrested

Eighty-seven fake youth corps members were yesterday paraded in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital.
They were arrested by the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) at an illegal orientation camp in Lafia following intelligence surveillance.

Fresh N18bn Fraud Rocks Police Pension Office

Indications emerged yesterday that a fresh massive fraud of an alleged N18billion illegal transactions had been unearthed by the Pension Reform Task Force at the Police Pension Office (PPO).

2 In Police Net For Killing V.I.O Staff

The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of one Mustapha Adamu and one other for alleged involvement in the death of an officer of Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO) Jos-Akwanga road in Jema’a Local Government Area of the State.

The Command Spokesman, Aminu Lawan, told LEADERSHIP that the suspects were in custody and had since confessed to have committed the crime.

Eyewitness Bitrus Kazak told our correspondent that the suspected killers carried out the crime at Mararaban Gimi, popularly called Forest, a T-Junction on Jos–Akwanga road, though a boundary in Jema’a Local Government.

The eyewitness further said that the killers who were on a journey “were stopped by a team of vehicle inspection officers (VIO) and could not produce valid papers of the vehicle they weretraveling in, one of the V.I.O. (the victim) was instructed to hand them over to the police at a nearby post. On their way, they stabbed the VIO man”.

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JTF Kills 9 Boko Haram Members, Arrests 2 In Kano

Nine gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect were yesterday killed by soldiers in a gun duel at Tudun Wada Dakadai town in Tudun Wada local government area of Kano State.

Court fixes April 27 for judgment in Okigbo Report suit

THE Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed April 27 for judgment in a suit seeking to compel the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Attorney-General of the Federation to disclose how the $12.4 billion oil windfall that accrued to the Federal Government between 1988 and 1994 was spent.

I was never expelled from PDP —Tukur

THE chairmanship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the national convention slated for Saturday, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, in Abuja, on Wednesday, debunked the allegations that he was suspended from the party.

Ecobank donates N75m to Ogun security trust fund

AS a way of reducing the rate of crime in Ogun State, the management of Ecobank Plc has donated N75million to the state’s Security Trust Fund.

Gunmen Kill Bank Manager, Five Others In Delta

Few weeks after cult related activities claimed the lives of three persons in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, another blood bath on Sunday enveloped the entire Sapele community as six persons including a bank manager were reportedly killed by gun men.