BEYOND THE SEARCH FOR UPRIGHT JUDGES.

On the heels of startling revelations from the presidency on how public funds were wantonly looted by some public officers in the last administration, President Muhammadu Buhari recently set up a Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption.   Its major mandate is to identify alleged treasury looters with the aim of bringing them to justice.

Beyond this, the Committee’s Chairman, Prof Itse Sagay (SAN) revealed that selected judges handling anti-corruption cases are under surveillance. The action is aimed at monitoring them on moral, professional and ethical grounds.

It is trite law that the power to prosecute criminal cases, including looting of public funds, lies with the state. This power is however expected to be exercised within the ambit of applicable criminal law and constitutional provisions of fundamental human rights.

TRAGEDY - LONE SURVIVOR OF LAGOS FIRE WHICH WIPED OUT SEVEN FAMILY MEMBERS DIES.

Eight-year-old Chidinma Onoja, the only survivor in the fire that claimed seven other members of her family Tuesday night at Lawanson, Surulere, Lagos, died yesterday. 

Efforts by doctors at Gbagada General Hospital to save her life from the severe burns sustained on her face and other parts of her body proved abortive, as she reportedly died early yesterday.

Sources at the hospital attributed her death to her rejection by two hospitals and lack of immediate treatment at Gbagada General Hospital over payment.

NEGLIGENCE OF UNILAG MEDICAL WORKERS LED TO THE DEATH OF OLUCHI ANEKWE - SISTER'S VICTIM SPEAKS.

Nkem Anekwe, the elder sister of Oluchi Anekwe, a first-class student of the University of Lagos, who was on Tuesday electrocuted by a high-tension wire, says the negligence of the UNILAG Medical Center caused the death of her younger sister.

She also said the high-tension wire, which caused the death of Oluchi also fell on her younger sister, Uju Anekwe, but she survived the encounter.

This is just as the National Association of Nigerian Students, South-West zone, said it would sue the electricity distribution company for the death.

EFCC ARREST BGL BOSS ALBERT OKUMAGBA FOR N28.9BN FRAUD.

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested the Group Managing Director of BGL Plc, a Lagos-based financial services company, Mr. Albert Okumagba, for alleged N28.9bn fraud.

An operative of the commission, who confided in our correspondent, said that those investigating the matter had been grilling the BGL boss for allegedly obtaining money by false pretences.

Though Okumagba on Thursday made a bid for his freedom but he failed to obtain an interim injunction barring the EFCC from arresting him.

GOVERNORS REJECT DEATH PENALTY FOR LOOTERS.

Many governors out rightly rejected the suggestion that looters of the nation’s resources be sentenced to death.

Organised labour- the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress-at the beginning of the week said looters should be given the death sentence in order to serve as deterrence to others.

Labour said it was only by killing looters that the anti-corruption crusade being championed by President Muhammadu Buhari could succeed.

GANG RAPE OF TEENAGER IN LAGOS - COURT GRANTS SUSPECTS N1M BAIL.. #SAYNOTORAPE

Two Lagos security guards, who allegedly gang-raped a teenage girl, are on temporary reprieve of N1 million bail on the orders of an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. The accused — Gabriel Vincent, 26, and Anthony Oguche, 25 — who reside at Akowonjo near Egbeda, a Lagos suburb, are facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, abduction and rape.

The Magistrate, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi, who granted them a bail of N500,000 each, also directed the men to produce two responsible sureties in like sum. She ordered that their files should be duplicated and sent to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

RE- DEAN FACULTY OF LAW AT UNICAL ACCUSED OF RAPING 20YR OLD 400L STUDENT. #SAYNOTORAPE.

I believe by now you all must have read the story of Prof.Ndifon the Dean of law university of calabar who was accused of raping a 400 level student of same faculty.

This post was ignited by response from people who believe that the dean is been set up, I believe its high time Nairaland and Nigerian authorities know about the man called prof Cyril ndifon the Dean Faculty of Law University of Calabar.

First if you come in contact with a law student or a friend to any body who has dealings with the faculty of law university of calabar, will strongly attest to the fact that the faculty has turned to a Red Zone for female students, this is not unconnected with the daily activities of prof Ndifon who takes delight in Raping students, what makes his worst from other lecturers is that he does not hide his acts from people..he flagrantly displays his randy tendencies from classroom to his office which is his ''Slaughter House''.

DEAN FACULTY OF LAW AT UNICAL ACCUSED OF RAPING 20YR OLD 400L STUDENT. #SAYNOTORAPE.

The Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Prof. Cyril Ndifon, has been accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old 400-level law student (name withheld) .

The mother of the victim, Mrs. Irene Akpan (not her real name), who is resident in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, told our correspondent on Monday the incident happened between 3 and 5pm on August 29 at the dean’s private office in the faculty building.

She alleged that Ndifon forcefully had sex with her daughter.

25-YR-OLD STOWAWAY FOUND IN THE TYRE COMPARTMENT OF MEDVIEW AIRLINE PLANE.

A 25-year-old man was found inside the tyre compartment of a Ghana-bound Medview Airlines plane at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, on Wednesday, it was learnt.

Eye witnesses said the stowaway was found by the pilot during his final check on the plane before its departure to Accra, Ghana.

The incident happened at the departure wing of the MMA2 at about 7.30pm. The identity of the young man could not be determined as of the time of filing this report.

I WILL NOT DECLARE MY ASSETS PUBLICLY - NYESOM WIKE - GOVERNOR OF RIVERS STATE.

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, said on Wednesday that he had declared his assets to the relevant authority in accordance to law.

Wike explained that he had by his action, fulfilled the country’s constitutional requirement, adding that declaring his assets publicly was not part of the dictates of the law.

The governor, who spoke through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Opunabo Inko-Tariah, pointed out that it was necessary for people to de-emphasise asset declaration, stressing that the sincerity behind such an exercise was crucial.

POWER FAILURE DISRUPTS SENATE'S POWER PROBE.

The ongoing probe of the power sector from 1999 till date by the Senate ad hoc committee was characterized by drama and confusion yesterday, as the proceeding was disrupted by power failure eight times.

Yesterday’s proceeding started at about 11:30a.m. and ended abruptly at 4p.m. due to about 15 minutes of power failure at intervals, for eight different times, from 2p.m. when the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows Igali, was making a submission on behalf of the various electricity companies.

The situation forced operators from the power sector to make use of their phone light and video camera light to make presentation before the committee.

SIX FAMILY MEMBERS CONSUMED BY FIRE IN LAGOS AS NEIGHBOURS ARE ACCUSED OF IGNORING CALLS FOR HELP.

Tragedy struck  yesterday after a family of seven were roasted in a fire that engulfed a building at Lawanson, Surulere, Lagos.

However, doctors at the Intensive Care Unit  of  Gbagada General Hospital are  battling to save the life of the  seventh member of the family,  eight-year-old Chidinma who sustained serious burns.

Among those who lost their lives in the inferno, whose cause could not be immediately ascertained, were Mr. Kelechi Ali, his wife, Nkiru,  Onoja, their baby boy  of about three weeks old, their son, Favour, of about three years old.

HOPES OF FINDING CHIBOK GIRLS ARE SLIM, THEY HAVE BEEN DISPERSED & MARRIED OFF - PRESIDENT BUHARI.

More than 513 days after the abduction of the Chibok Secondary School girls in Borno State, hopes of rescuing the girls en bloc vaporized as President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday, disclosed that they have been dispersed and some of them, especially Christians, married off against their faith.

President Buhari made the comments in an interview on BBC Hausa service on Tuesday.

Asked if he received any information about the whereabouts of the kidnapped Chibok girls, he said: “They (Boko Haram insurgents) have scattered them, and (they) are being guarded at dispersed locations. Most of the girls are Christians and were forced to embrace Islam. The sect’s cruel leaders have married some of the girls, obviously against their wish. Others have been left to practice their religion but their condition could hardly be ascertained.

ANOTHER ELECTROCUTION IN LAGOS - TRAILER DRIVER DIES AFTER HIS VEHICLE MADE CONTACT WITH HIGH TENSION CABLE.

Barely 24hrs after a 300L student of the University of Lagos lost her life in the school premises when she was electrocuted, a yet-to-be-identified truck driver on Wednesday morning got electrocuted after his trailer hit a high tension wire while trying to enter the Jakande Estate, in the Isolo area of Lagos.

Residents of the area, who spoke with our correspondent, said the incident happened around 8am.

Commercial activities were grounded in the area as residents, commercial motorcyclists and traders besieged the scene of the accident.

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UNILAG STUDENTS SHUT DOWN CAMPUS OVER CONTINUED LECTURES DESPITE DEATH OF STUDENT WHO WAS ELECTROCUTED.

Students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) this morning shut down their campus in protest against continued lectures despite death of a female student "Oluchi Anekwe" from a fallen high voltage cable on the campus. 

The students particularly were angered by a statement allegedly made by one lecturer identified as Mr. Ajape, who is the course adviser to the deceased. Ajape was said to have advised the rest students this morning to forget the dead and move on. One student from the department of accounting quoted Ajape saying; "She's dead and gone". The protesters said they considered the statement "reckless, insensitive and a total disregard for life". 

OBASANJO, YARADUA AND JONATHAN SPENT A WHOOPING N2.74TR ON POWER IN 16YRS.

The Senate was told, yesterday, that the Federal Government has invested a N2.74 trillion in Nigeria’s power sector over the last 16 years (1999 to date).

The investments were made during the regimes of former President Olusegun Obasanjo; his successor, late President Umaru Yar’Adua, and President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows Igali, and the Managing Director, Niger Delta Power Holding Company, NDPHC, Mr. James Olotu, disclosed this before a Senate Ad-hoc Committee probing the power sector from 1999 till date.

Furthermore, Olotu revealed that contrary to popular belief, the National Integrated Power Projects, NIPPs, which gulped about $8.23 billion or N1.64 trillion were actually being funded from the Excess Crude Account, rather than from ministerial provisions.

ARMY ARREST BOKO HARAM FUEL & DRUG SUPPLIER;.

Following the directives by the Army Headquarters to troops in the North East for a painstaking search of motorists and cargoes, troops of the 3 Division Nigerian Army have intercepted and arrested some kingpins and foot soldiers of suppliers of Boko Haram terrorists with hard drugs and other stimulants. 

A statement signed by Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman said the terrorists were arrested between Depchi and Geidam, in Geidam Local Government Area of Yobe State.

The statement added that the arrested persons were also engaged in the supply of fuel in addition to hard drugs such as Cannabis (Indian Hemp), Chlorofone substance (AKA Madaran suck and die) and Tramol, amongst others.

SOLDIERS SET TO REPLACE MILITANTS IN PROTECTING OIL PIPELINES.

The men of the Nigerian military are to take over the security of the nation’s oil pipelines.

The Acting Director, Defence Information, Col. Rabe Abubakar, who said in a statement on Tuesday, added that the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, met with the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin, on how to work out modalities to get the military to protect the strategic national assets.

He quoted the NNPC’s GMD as having said that he visited the CDS as a follow up to a proposal the corporation presented to President Muhammadu Buhari, to have the Army Corps of Engineering to maintain and secure the nation’s pipelines.

EDO STATE GOVERNOR ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE SACKS 4 COMMISSIONERS WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT.

Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has terminated the appointment of four commissioners in the State Executive Council.

According to a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the governor on Media and Public Affairs, Prince Kassim Afegbua, on Wednesday, those affected ‎included the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftancy Affairs, Chief Lucky James; and Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs. Blessing Maigida.

Others are the Commissioner for ‎Basic Education, Mr. Patrick Aguinede; and the Commissioner for Energy and Water Resources, Mr. Chris Ebare.