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(Nigeria) The Bayelsa State Police Command on Tuesday said it had recovered arms and ammunition from a passenger car in Yenagoa. Mr Asinim Butswat, the Police Public Relations Officer, made the disclosure in an interview in Yenagoa. Butswat, however, said that no arrest was made as the occupants of the car fled before they could be apprehended. ``On September 22 at 5.30 a.m, a Police patrol team flagged down a Mazda 626 Saloon Car marked YEN 415 XA with two occupants during a routine Stop and Search Operations on Ayama Road, Yenagoa. “The driver of the car zoomed off and the patrol team pursued it to the Old Assembly Quarters, Yenagoa, where the duo abandoned the car and escaped. “The car was searched and the following items were recovered: Two Lar Rifles, Breech Nos. 11H936 and 11H9876 respectively, double magazines, 74 rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition, 28 rounds of 6.62 mm live ammunition. “Others are one Magnum George F Pump action with breech No. 550 with eight live AA Cartri

The state’s appeal against Oscar Pistorius’ acquittal on a murder charge would be heard on November 3, South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeals said on Tuesday. Pistorius, who is serving a five-year sentence at the Kgosi Mampuru II prison in Pretoria, was found guilty of manslaughter for shooting dead his girlfriend on February 14, 2013. He was due to be released on parole on August  21, but the justice minister blocked his parole at the last minute after a complaint from a women's rights group. The parole is due to be considered again in two weeks. Pistorius, known widely as the Blade Runner for his use of running blades, claimed he thought Reeva Steenkamp was a burglar before he shot her through a locked toilet door at his home in Pretoria. His trial that lasted from March to October 2014 received worldwide attention. Apart from a video filmed in secret by an inmate at Kgosi Mampuru II that showed the Paralympian playing soccer with a Czech mobster in a courtyard, little

(Nigeria) Senate President Bukola Saraki on Tuesday denied the allegations of false assets declaration brought against him by the Code of Conduct Bureau. Saraki, who was arraigned before the Conduct of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja, pleaded not guilty to the 13-count charge brought against him. The Bureau had filed a 13-count charge before the tribunal against the Saraki for false declaration of assets during his tenure as governor of Kwara State in 2003. The tribunal had on Sept. 21 ordered the Inspector General of Police to arrest and produce Saraki to face justice after failing to appear before it to answer the charges. At the resumed hearing, Mr Joseph Daudu, SAN, counsel to the accused, told the tribunal that the case was adjourned for him to produce his client and not for Saraki to take plea. He said he had filed a motion challenging the jurisdiction of the tribunal because it lacked criminal jurisdiction to entertain the charges. Daudu also prayed the tribunal to entertain his

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has invoked a section of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 to convict an accused person, Uba Mohammed for refusing to appear in court after he was granted bail on June 10, 2013. The accused person is standing trial before Justice Salisu Garba of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on a two- count charge of Criminal Breach of Trust to the tune of N10 million.  The offence is punishable under Section 312 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria. In view of his failure to face trial over a period of 10 adjournments, Justice Garba revoked the bail granted the accused person and issued a bench warrant against him. At the resumed hearing on Tuesday, prosecution counsel, Takon Ndifon, prayed the court to rule over the matter in the absence of the accused person. Moving his plea, Ndifon said:  "Section 352 sub-section 4 of the Administration of the Criminal Justice A

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 arraigned a former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, his two sons - Aminu Sule Lamido and Mustapha Lamido, Aminu Abubakar and Batholomew Darlington Agoha, before Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on a 27-count amended charge bordering on corruption and money laundering. The other companies arraigned along with them were companies through which they allegedly perpetrated the fraud. The companies are Bamaina Holdings Limited, Bamaina Company Nigeria Limited, Bamaina Aluminium Limited and Speeds International Limited. Lamido and his co-accused had been arraigned before Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court, Kano State, on July 9 2015 for allegedly misappropriating funds belonging to Jigawa State. Their case was later transferred to the Federal High Court, Abuja, where Justice Gabriel Kolawole, a vacation judge, granted the accused persons bail, and adjo

(Nigeria) Abductors of former Secretary to the Federal Government, Chief Olu Falae, has reduced the ransom demanded for his release from N100 million to N90 million, an aide to the chief has said. The aide, who pleaded anonymity said on Tuesday in Akure that the abductors called the family on Monday night and agreed that they could bring N90 million if they could not afford N100 million demanded. The source, however, said that the family had only been able to raise N2 million. The septuagenarian was kidnapped in his farm on Monday by gunmen who were also was said to have wounded some of his workers. Although the Police in the state had insisted that the incident was a ‘’mere attack by some Fulani herdsmen’’, the family said the kidnappers called to demand a ransom of N100 million. "When they called us on Monday night, they said they could only reduce the ransom to N90 million, but we cannot afford that. “We begged them to take N2 million but they rejected it; they said they

(Nigeria) The Police in Lokoja, Kogi State, have arrested 56 persons suspected to be members of Boko Haram insurgents. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, made this known to newsmen in Lokoja on Tuesday. Ojukwu said that the suspects were arrested at the popular Boko Haram Junction at Angwa Tiv in Obajana village, a suburb of Lokoja. He said that the suspects were picked up from their various hideouts on September 19. Ojukwu said the police action was triggered by a gun attack on a police patrol vehicle in Obajana area by some of the suspects on September 4, saying that a police inspector was killed during the attack. He said that the junction had served as haven for criminal elements that had been killing and maiming innocent people for years, disclosing that dangerous weapons and drugs were found in their possession. The commissioner said that the suspects would be charged to court very soon. Ojukwu also showed the corpse of a robbery suspect who was f