innosreport

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court on Thursday in Abuja will on August 27  hear a motion challenging Chief Victor Umeh-led All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA for screening governorship aspirants for the party in Anambra State. Chief Maxi Okwu led  Ibrahim Carefor, Chief Dickson Ogu, Dr Gbenga Afeni and Alhaji Abubakar Adamu to file the suit. Giving ruling in an exparte motion seeking a leave to serve the respondents the motion of notice, Justice A.R Mohammed held that the prayer of the applicants were not out of place. ``I have read the motion ex parte seeking a leave to serve the respondents a motion on notice by substituted means. ``I have gone through the affidavit, the written address and the depositions in support of the application. With regards to some of the specific depositions, the court is moved to grant a leave for the respondents to be served all the processes by substituted means. In the circumstance, the court orders that the motion on notice and all other relev

(Nigeria) The police in Enugu State on Thursday arrested four persons in connection with a shooting incident at Ogwuago near Abakpa Nike, Enugu during which two persons lost their lives. A statement from the Enugu State Police Command said the shooting took place on Wednesday and that five other persons were injured during the incident. The statement, signed the command’s spokesman, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, named the dead as Sunday Eze and Nebechi Mba, adding that their bodies had been deposited at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu mortuary. Amaraizu said the police had launched a full scale investigation into the matter to ascertain its root cause. He said the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Abubakar Mohammed, had urged members of the public to remain law-abiding as the police had beefed up security in the area.

(Nigeria) Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, Thursday, said that politicians were behind crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region. Bayelsa State chapter chairman of CLO, Mr. Nengi James,  during a visit to the state’s Federated Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ in Yenagoa, said  the ordinary folks in the region do not have the resources to engage in crude oil theft, which according to him, was highly technical and capital intensive. "I am always disappointed when people say that the common people in the Niger Delta are those involved in oil theft. This is a fallacy.  The real thieves are politicians who use the ordinary persons as fronts. It is time the security agents go for the real culprits." He advocated comprehensive life insurance for journalists, saying journalists operate under risky conditions in the country. "Journalists operate under very risky situation in the country. It is imperative that organizations and government institute compreh

(Nigeria) President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja on Thursday reaffirmed his administration’s determination to do all within its powers to facilitate and encourage the rapid diversification of Nigeria’s economy. The president stated this at an audience with the outgoing Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Nigeria, Mr. Jaroslav Siro. Jonathan declared that his administration was fully committed to moving the Nigerian economy away from dependence on crude oil exports by promoting the development of the country’s non-oil sectors. He said that in keeping with the commitment, the Federal Government was actively exploring all avenues of boosting trade and economic relations with other countries in areas not related to the oil and gas sector. "With current developments in the world, we are more interested in diversifying our economy, not in over-emphasising oil and gas exports. "Our intention is to move our country away from being a mono-product economy that depends pri

(Nigeria) A 51-year-old trader, Yetunde Sodipo, was on Monday arraigned before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate Court, Lagos for unlawfully selling late father’s house being contested in court. Sodipo, who resides at No 5, Ganiu Oduntan St., Ikorodu, is facing a three-count charge of forgery, stealing and unlawful selling a property. The Prosecutor, ASP Effiong Okon, said the accused committed the offence on May 14 at No. 41 Ondo St., Ebute Meta, where the house is located. Okon said the accused allegedly forged  the house's document of Dr John Sodipo, her father and sold the house to one Mr Tunde Kudus, at the cost of N6 million. He said Yetunde knew that the house was being contested in court in a suit no LD/1632/2010, but proceeded to sell the property. The prosecutor said the offence contravened sections 285, 312 and 363 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011. Section 312 provides that anyone found guilty of the offence is liable to15 years imprisonment. The accus

(Nigeria) The Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, says the death in Lagos of commercial motorcycle operator,  Olalekan Ajayi, will be properly investigated to ensure justice. Abubakar made the promise in a statement issued by Mr Frank Mba, the Force Public Relations Officer on Thursday. ``The Force will do its utmost best to ensure that investigation into the death is properly done and concluded in record time,’’ he said. The statement directed the commissioner of police in charge of the state to take urgent steps to ensure expeditious execution of justice on the matter. Ajayi was allegedly shot and killed on Tuesday at Ikorodu by a policeman attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, after he resisted seizure of his motorcycle. Aggrieved residents of the area took to the street on Wednesday to protest the killing. The statement said that the policeman linked with Ajayi’s death had been detained and was undergoing investigation. It condoled with the

(Nigeria) The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Dr Nasir Fagge, on Thursday vowed that ASUU would continue its on-going strike until the union's demands were met by the Federal Government. Fagge made the declaration while addressing newsmen at the University of Lagos, UNILAG, on the latest development on the strike. ``I wish to state clearly our position so far in the whole process of the negotiations with government since the strike commenced. ``We are currently calling on government to meet our demands as presented in the agreements we both signed in 2009 and then we can start talking about any other form of re-negotiation. ``A lot of people are asking us to shift grounds by accepting government’s offer of N30 billion and going back to class while we reach an agreement on when the next instalments will be paid. ``I do not see that as being acceptable to us for now because we had made that mistake before, whereby only the salary c