Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS and men of the Nigeria Police Force in the early hours of Tuesday laid siege to the Abuja homes of Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu .
The team which stormed the Apo Legislative Quarters home of Ekweremadu is said to include operatives of the EFCC.
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POLICE INVITATION IS A MERE POLITICAL GAME - Saraki
Mon, 23rd Jul 2018
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has stated that the invitation to him by the Police to report to a station in Guzape over the Offa robbery investigation is a mere afterthought which is designed to achieve political purpose.
Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated that he has it on good authority that the Police had already decided on the suspects to arraign in court in Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Mohammed U.E. and that the turn around to invite him was a ploy aimed at scoring cheap political points.
" I have been reliably informed that the police invitation was planned by IG as a ploy to stop an alleged plan by some Senators and House of Representatives members from defecting from the All Progressives Congress (APC). It was also said that if I was detained between Tuesday and Wednesday, that will abort the so-called defection plan.
"While I continue to maintain that the issue of my position on the 2019 elections is not a personal decision for me alone to make, it should be noted that all these concoctions and evil plot cannot deter me. Those behind this fresh assault will fail as I have nothing to do with the robbery incident or any criminal matter for that matter.
"I am aware that following a request made by the Police on June 13, 2018 to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) of the Fedeeation had written a legal advice dated June 22, 2018, in which he stated on page 5, paragraph (f) that "For the Senate President and the Kwara State Governor, this office is unable to establish from the evidence in the interim report a nexus between the alleged office and the suspects".
"The Police have obviously corrupted and politicized their investigations into the Offa robbery incident. They have turned it into an instrument for the party in power to suppress perceived opponents, witchunt issue for blackmailing people from freely choosing which platform on which they want to pursue their ambition and a matter for harassing the people whose exit from APC would harm the chances of the party in the forthcoming elections.
" I want to make it apparent that I have no hand in either the robbery incident or any criminal acitivity. The Police in their haste to embarrass me sent the invitation to me at 8pm and requested that I report to the station by 8am tomorrow morning. This obviously demonstrated their desperation as I do not see why they are now in a hurry.
"They also stated in today's letter that because in my response of June 7, 2018 to their own letter written on June 4, 2018, I stated that I was responding simply to the contents of the letter and that the full text of the statement made by the arrested suspects which they claimed indicted me was not made available to me, they were now including the suspects statements in the current letter.
Yet, instead of including the suspects' statements, they only attached two copies of my own letter to the invitation. No suspects statement was made available.
"This plot aimed at compelling me and my associates to stay in a party where members are criminalised without just cause, where injustice is perpetrated at the highest level and where there is no respect for constitutionalism is an exercise in futility and it will fail.
"Once again, my confidence in God and our judicial system remains intact and unshaken. The truth shall also prevail in this case", he stated.
Signed:
Yusuph Olaniyonu
Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) to the Senate President
An attempt to celebrate the fourth anniversary of an attack on President Muhammadu Buhari’s convoy by his Personal Assistant , Bashir Ahmad has attracted angry remarks from Nigerians .
Ahmad had twitted a photo of the bullet ridden SUV in which the president was attacked while he was travelling as a presidential candidate four years ago.
The Nigerians who responded to the twit were particularly irked by President Buhari’s handling of rampant killings across the country .
Bashir Ahmad
@BashirAhmaad
Exactly 4 years ago, a clear assassination attempt on Muhammadu Buhari. Thank God, he came out unhurt. May Allah (SWT) continue to protect him.
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12:29 PM - Jul 23, 2018
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Fareedah Ibrahim
@fareedahibrahim
Replying to @BashirAhmaad
This is not a good time to remind us of this. He wasnt president then. He is now so we will demand security and many other things from him. Heck we can demand him to physically raise Nigeria and relocate it to Mars, its within his purview.Your tweet is insensitive to our plight.
1:48 PM - Jul 23, 2018
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May Ubeku
@Maybeks
Replying to @BashirAhmaad
Quit looking for 2019 sympathy for Buhari and focus on governance! How's Buhari's life more important than that of 100s being slaughtered daily by herdsmen crisis that you went to dig this up? By the way, he survived and became president and how well has Nigeria faired under him?
2:38 PM - Jul 23, 2018
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Abu Aminu
@Abuze
Replying to @BashirAhmaad
Alhamdulilah he came out unscathed. Now tell him what is happening on Abj-Kd expressway. Those that died & are dying are not fortunate enough to have bulletproof jeeps.
1:11 PM - Jul 23, 2018
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The immediate past Commissioner for Education in Katsina State, Prof. Halimatu Idris, was killed by unknown gunmen on Sunday evening along the Abuja-Kaduna highway.
Lamenting the loss on Sunday, Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State prayed Allah to forgive the slain professor her shortcomings and grant her family the fortitude to bear the loss.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education on Monday, officially announced the demise of the former commissioner.
In a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Salisu Kerau, the ministry said,
“Innalillahi Wa Inna ilaihi rajiun . The death has been announced of the former Commissioner of Education Katsina State, Prof . Halimatu Sadiya Idris.
“Funeral prayer is scheduled to hold at Unguwar Sarki Kaduna by 1:00pm.
“May Allah forgive all her shortcomings and grant her Aljanna.”
The management of Islamic Leadership Academy, Kuje, Abuja has named one of its girls' hostels after Barrister Firdausi Aljannah Amasa.
In 2017,the law graduate of the University of Illorin was disallowed from performing the call to bar ceremony by the Nigerian Law School for insisting on wearing her hijab during the occasion.
However, following the furore generated by the incident, the Nigerian Law School Body Of Benchers in 2018, approved the use of hijab by female Muslim lawyers during call to bar ceremonies.
The Proprietor of Islamic Leadership Academy, Kuje described Amasa's call to bar as a victory for female Muslim lawyers as regards the wearing of the hijab in Nigeria.
The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja police command has a new boss in the person of tough talking CP Bala Ciroma.
In a statement issued by the spokesman of the command, DSP Anjuguri Manza, CP Ciroma pledged to rid Abuja of criminals.
He called for the support of residents and other security outfits in the city in order to achieve the objective.
He said that residents could help the police with timely information through the following dedicated phone numbers: 08032003913, 08061581938, 07057337653, 08028940883.
A fight between two friends over a hundred naira tip given to them for catching a fleeing cow has resulted in the death of one of them.
The unfortunate incident happened last Thursday at the cattle market in Abaji, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to eyewitness accounts, the two friends had helped a cattle dealer to catch a run away cow.
An argument over who should take the N100 tip given to them for their efforts by the cattle dealer degenerated into a fight during which one fatally hit the other on the neck.
The Abaji Divisional Police Officer. CSP Tersoo Tile confirmed the incident, adding that the remains of the deceased which was deposited at Abaji General Hospital had been released to his relatives for burial.
Tile also said that the killer friend who survived jungle justice in the hands of the mob which gathered at the scene was taken to the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada for treatment.
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