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Monday, 14 March 2016
The Federal Government has commenced a new training program for officers of the Nigeria Police Force to make them more effective in discharging their obligations.
It is expected that the new training program will make the force a more potent tool in fighting corruption in line with government's criminal justice and police reform agenda.
According to a statement issued on Monday by the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the training program which commenced on March 9 is a collaborative effort between the Presidency and the Nigeria Police Force.
In the first part of the four-part training which was concluded on Friday, , twenty police officers of the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police drawn from across the country were taken through seven modules covering Strategic Leadership and Management.
Each module was designed to sharpen the skills of the senior police officers and help them to translate the strategic vision and policing agenda of the Police High Command into manageable and measurable operational directives with the goal of overall nationwide effective criminal justice administration.
A total of 100 senior police officers will be trained over the duration of the courses and at the end of the fourth course, the training program will be transferred to one of the Police training institutions along with a standardised curriculum and training manual.
The training was facilitated by Professor Olu Ogunsakin, a consultant for the Justice for All Programme of the UK Department for International Development , Professor Todd Foglesong, a Professor of Global Studies with the Munk School of Global Affairs of the University of Toronto, Professor Etannibi Alemika, a Professor of Criminology at the University of Jos, Professor Abubakar Mu’azu, a Professor of Communications at the University of Maiduguri, Mrs. Kemi Okenyodo, Executive Director of Partners West Africa – Nigeria, Mr. Fola Arthur-Worrey, most recently the Executive Director of the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, and DIG Saliu Argungu Hashimu, Deputy Inspector-General of Police on Training and Development.
Four women have been arrested by the Plateau State Police Command for stealing a one-month old baby in Jos.
Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adekunle Oladunjoye paraded the suspects Rukaya Abdulahi, Nancy Ezekiel, Tongret Amos and Jeniffer Sati Sabo at the Jos police headquaters on Monday.
“One Talatu Abdulahi of new Abuja, Dadin Kowa Jos left her one month-old baby on bed in her room and left to visit a neighbor. The mother of the baby returned to the room in ten minutes to discover her baby had disappeared from her room.
“The mother promptly reported the missing baby to the police and the police immediately sprang into action in a short while and recovered the baby from the suspects” he said
However, one of the suspects, Nancy Ezekiel said that the child was stolen with the consent of the mother who had earlier agreed to sell the baby.
“We both agreed to carry out the deal, we also vowed never to disclose the deal to anyone while the baby remained with me. I was shocked to hear the mother report her baby was stolen after she agreed to sell the baby," she said.
The mother of the stolen child, Talatu Abdullahi said the fear of her father made her agree to sell the baby.
“I decided to sell the child because my father threatened to kill me if have a child out of wedlock,” she said.
The police commissioner said that the suspects would soon be charged to court.
The trial of ex-Chief of Defense Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh at a Federal High Court in Abuja suffered a delay on Monday following the introduction of additional proofs of evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC
The trial was stalled when the defense counsel, Akin Olujimi requested for time to study the additional evidence brought by the anti-graft agency.
Despite the opposition of the prosecution counsel, the presiding judge, Justice Okon Abang ruling that the accused person could not be denied the right of defense.
"The applicant has since March 7 when he was arraigned been represented by a counsel, so he cannot in the attempt to hire another counsel halt the trial.
Today is reserved for commencement of trial and the court will not allow any flimsy motion to stop that.
However, on the issue of late service of the additional proof of evidence filed by the prosecution, the applicant may have a point there and so the application has succeeded in parts,’’ he ruled.
He went on to hold that given
the circumstance, "the application succeeds in parts to enable counsel to the applicant study the new proof of evidence before the commencement of trial.
" The matter is hereby adjourned till March 16 for day-to-day trial,’’ he said.
Badeh is accused of misappropriating N3.9 billion belonging to the Nigerian Air Force while he was the Chief of Air Staff.
NAN
Sunday, 13 March 2016
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has been told how a Bureau de change operator paid the sum of N1.5b into the account of a son of a former Minister of Finance.
The BDC operator, Salisu Umaru while giving details of the transaction to the anti graft agency said that he did not know the money which originated from the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA was to be used for.
“I was invited by EFCC and when I reported, I was shown my company’s account statement with Zenith Bank called Jabama Ada Global Nigeria Limited in which there was an inflow of N500million on 5/2/2015 and N1billion on 16/4/2015 into the account from the Office of the National Security Adviser.
“On the inflow of N500million into my company’s account on 5/2/2015, I wish to state as follows : That on the same date(5/2/2015), I paid the equivalent of US$2,380,952 to the son of the minister, being the equivalent of the said N500million at the rate of N210 per dollar.
“I do not know what he used the money for. My own business is to buy and sell dollars. It is only the minister’s son that can explain what the money was meant for. The minister’s son signed and collected the said N500million.
“On the N1billion inflow into my company’s account on 16/4/2015, I wish to say the money was disbursed as follows: $1,000,000, being the equivalent of N220million; and$327,000 (equivalent of N72,600,000) were paid cash to the son of the minister while the sum of N704,400,000 was transferred to various accounts based on the instruction of the minister’s son. He gave some of the instructions through text messages. Some of the instructions were also received from the father.
“I also want to state that I do not know what the N1 billion was meant for and what it was used for,” he said.
The Federal Government has declared that the shutdown of the national power transmission facilities in Osogbo and Ikeja Disco by some trade unionists is an economic sabotage, warning that pipeline vandals and power infrastructure saboteurs will be punished.
The Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the warning in Abuja on Sunday in a statement issued by his Special Adviser, Segun Adeyemi.
He said that repeated attacks on oil and gas pipelines and wilful shutdown of power facilities by protesters have combined to drastically reduce power generation/transmission and fuel supplies.
He warned that government would not tolerate saboteurs.
“Vandals, whatever their motives are, cannot and will not be treated with kid-gloves because their actions constitute a clear and present danger to the nation's economic, social and political well being.
“The attack on the Forcados Export Terminal that has affected gas production by oil firms and reduced gas supply to power generating plants and the shutdown of the Utorogu gas plant are totally condemnable and cannot be allowed to continue.
“Also, while this administration will not do anything to abridge the constitutional rights of any individual or group to carry out protests, it will also not tolerate a situation in which anyone will hide under the guise of legitimate protests to sabotage power infrastructure.
“The shutdown of the national transmission facility in Osogbo and the Ikeja Disco by some unionists amount to economic sabotage,” he said.
In what appears to be the much speculated end of Psquare, Peter Okoye, now known as Mr P had his first performance as a solo artist at an Abuja nightclub over the weekend.
The solo outing came in the aftermath of weeks of social media wrangling between the twin brothers and their elder brother cum manager Jude Okoye.
Mr P will also be performing solo in Dubai on April 7.
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