Humanity Watch

After weeks of speculations, the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, and the Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, have dumped the All Progressives Congress for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party. Saraki announced his decision in a statement on his verified social media accounts on twitter and Facebook on Tuesday. The statement on facebook read, “I wish to inform Nigerians that, after extensive consultations, I have decided to take my leave of the All Progressives Congress…” Kwara gov defects to PDP Ahmed on his part announced his decision via a statement issued on his behalf by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communication, Dr.  Muyideen Akorede, in Ilorin. The statement read, “Following due consultations with the people and in response to calls by major stakeholder groups in the state, Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, today (Tuesday) defected to the PDP having realized that the APC can no longer serve as a platform for achieving the aspi

Ogun State Police Command says it has arrested a 45-year- old man, Julius Ochim, for allegedly impregnating his own daughter (name withheld), and the victim had a baby girl for him. The suspect was said to have been arrested following a complaint by his daughter, who reported the randy father at the Sagamu Divisional headquarters of the command. File photo The victim, according to the state Police Public Relations Officer,  Abimbola Oyeyemi, had told the police that her father had been having carnal knowledge of her for the past 8 years, shortly after the death of her mother in 2009. Oyeyemi,  a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said along the line, the victim also told the police that she got pregnant for her father and gave birth to a baby girl who is now three years old. He said,  “She further revealed that her father used to threaten her with a cultural implication of refusing to sleep with him.” Oyeyemi said when the police received the report,  the Divisional Police

Three-year-old marriage between a businesswoman, Mrs Nelly Ibegbu, and her estranged husband, Donatus, was on Tuesday dissolved by an Igando Customary Court in Lagos over infidelity. Nelly, 32, had accused 44-year-old Donald of infidelity. “Donatus receives a lot of calls from women. Most times, after receiving the calls, he will abandon whatever he is doing and rush out without telling me where he is going. “There was a day his phone rang and he was in the bathroom; I picked the call and a lady on the other end called him “honey”, thinking he was the one who picked the call. “I asked her what she wanted with my husband, and she told me Donatus never told her he was married. Whenever we walk on the road, he will look at a woman and forget himself until I call his attention,’’ she had told the court. Nelly also said that Donatus, a clearing and forwarding agent, denied her access to property they jointly owned. “After our marriage in 2015, my husband tol

A Minna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced a 32-year-old man, Tanko Mohammed, to three years’ imprisonment for parading himself as a military man and defrauding unsuspecting members of the public of N7m under the pretext of job placement in the Nigeria Army. Mohammed was docked on four-count charge of criminal breach of trust, cheating, impersonating a public servant and criminal charms. The Police Prosecutor, ASP Daniel Ikwoche, told the court that one Diko Barde had filed a petition against the accused person at the IGP monitoring unit, Minna office on July 9. Ikwoched quoted Barde as alleging that in March 2017, the accused person came to him claiming to be a soldier serving with the Nigeria Army Depot, Zaria. He said the accused told Barde that he had slots for 42 candidates to be recruited into the Nigeria Army. The prosecutor stated that each candidate was said to have paid to the accused person between N105, 000 and, N150, 000, amounting to ab

A 29-year-old man, Segla Bologna, who stole two pigs worth N70,000, on Monday appeared before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State. Bologna, whose address was unknown, was arraigned on a charge of stealing. The Prosecutor, Inspector   Akpan Ikem, told the court that the accused committed the offence on July 21, 2018 at Topo Garage in Badagry. Ikem said the stolen pigs belonged to the complainant, Mr Idowu Thomas. “The accused saw the pigs roaming on the street and he decided to steal them thinking no one would notice. He was about driving away with them in his car before he was apprehended by the owner,” he said. The offence contravenes Section 285 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State, 2011. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Jimoh Adefioye, granted the accused bail in the sum of N200,000 and a surety in like sum. He adjourned the case until Sept. 10, for further hearing. (NAN)

A Christian group, Prison Fellowship Nigeria (PFN), Niger State Chapter, is to sponsor 1,000 prisoners to register for the WAEC and NECO-organised Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations in the next five years. The Chairman of the chapter, Pastor Peter Okere, announced the gesture in Suleja, Niger, at the end of the chapter’s 2018 Week of Prayer on Sunday night. “It may interest you to know that PFN trains and enrols inmates for WAEC Senior Secondary Certificate Examination and National Examinations Council programmes. “We assisted about 100 inmates in Niger and the Federal Capital Territory to sit for the 2018 Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations. “PFN also has a mission and mandate of engaging the Christian community to pursue justice and healing to the end that offenders are transformed and relationships with the community restored. “We have achieved this through family support for stability of the spirit, soul and body of inmates. Our medical doctors, nurses an

By Josephine Ella-Ejeh Three officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ogun state, have been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on allegation of money laundering to the tune of N179.8 million. Yemi Akinwonmi, Dickson Atiba and Ogunmodede Oladayo were arraigned on Monday before Justice Sule Hassan of a Federal High Court, Lagos, over on eight counts bordering on conspiracy, benefiting from crime proceeds, receiving cash sums without going through financial institutions and accepting cash exceeding amount authorised by the law. The trio allegedly received the said money from various commercial banks sometime in March 2015, in the build-up to the year’s General Elections, the offences which   contravenes the provisions of Sections 15(2)(d), 16 (d) 1(a), 16 (1) (d),16 (d) and 18 (a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 as amended. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. After their plea, the pros

By Josephine Ella-Ejeh The Deputy Governor of Imo State, Eze Madumere, has been impeached. Channels Television reports that Madumere was impeached by 19 of the 37 members of the Imo House of Assembly. The Assembly had earlier received a report by a panel set up by the state chief judge which allegedly indicted the deputy governor of gross misconduct. Madumere has been having a political tussle  with Governor Rochas Okorocha over who succeeds him in 2019. While he  seeks to succeed Okorocha, the governor is said to be  supporting his son-in-law. The crisis, it would seem, assumed a more worrisome dimension during the APC local and state congresses in the state with Mr Okorocha and his deputy supporting separate factions. Although, the APC faction supported by Madumere and a senator, Osita Izunaso,  was initially recognised by the party's  national leadership,  the court upturned its election. Efforts by Premuim Times to reach Madumere as at press time proved aborti

Police  Arrest 5 For   Kidney-Smuggling  By Josephine Ella-Ejeh Police in Nepal have arrested five men in connection with a kidney-smuggling racket.  The suspects were allegedly luring poor people to hospitals in India to have their kidneys removed and sold, a police official said Monday. Three of  the five men, who are in their late 20s and early 40s, were arrested in Chitwan district in south-central Nepal while  one was arrested  in the capital Kathmandu and the other neighbouring Rasuwa district, a deputy superintendent of police in Chitwan  Prabhu Dhakal . “The smugglers made the victims undergo medical tests in Kathmandu and sent them to India for transplant,” Dhakal said. The suspects were fined 50,000 Nepali rupees (456 dollars) to 100,000 Nepali rupees for finding donors who were lured into smuggling with false promises, he added. The local police in Chitwan were spurred into action after a potential victim, who was taken to India for transplant, escaped a

Three Russian teenagers, who allegedly murdered their father have revealed the reason behind their action. According to Mirror UK, the teenagers,  Kristina, 19, Angelina, 18 and Maria, 17, confessed to jointly killing their heroine-addict father, Mikhail Khachaturyan, claiming they suffered years of appalling sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Kristina told police: “We hated him and we wanted just one thing to happen – either that he disappeared or that we never knew him. “We wanted him just to go away and never come back.” The sisters alleged that on the day of the attack he had threatened them with a knife in their flat near the Altufievskoe highway in Moscow. One of the sisters had grabbed the knife and stabbed him, and the others joined in the attack, say reports. The man tried to escape the flat but was attacked more and died near the elevator. Friends and neighbours claimed the father was tyrannical and that his wife — the girls’ mother — left him becau

This for Queen Idia A fashion designer,Mrs Yeside Laguda has unveiled an exquisite collection of Adire designs named after Nigeria’s past heroines. At the unveiling on Saturday night in Lagos, she called on Nigerians to patronise local fabrics not only for their aesthetic value but also for the need to grow the economy. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN)reports that the exhibition which attracted top government functionaries , prominent personalities and fashion aficionados was titled”ROOTS-A journey in history with Adire”. Some of those who graced the exhibition included the Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Hajia Aisha Abubakar ,Deputy Governor of Lagos State ,Dr Idiat Adebule and the Deputy Governor of Ogun State ,Mrs Yetunde Onanuga . Adire design for Queen Amina The Minister of Information and Culture , Alhaji Lai Mohammed,who is the designer’s father was present with his wife ,Kudirat and top socialite ,Mrs Bola Shagaya, as well as the founder of Ebony

At least 14 people were killed and over 160 injured after a large earthquake struck a popular island in Indonesia near the popular tourist destination of Bali on Sunday, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck at a depth of only 4.4 miles. Shallow earthquakes tend to do more damage than deeper ones. The powerful temblor, which was followed by two smaller earthquakes and 60 aftershocks, hit the Lombok island, with the eastern part of the island sustained more language. “People in East Lombok and Mataram felt the strong quake for 10 seconds, residents were panicking and running outside of their homes,” said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency, according to Sky News. The quake killed a 30-year-old Malaysian woman in East Lombok, and the number of causalities could rise as officials search the island, Nugroho said. Over the 162 people reported injured, 67 hospitalized are with serious injuries

The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a suspected fake currency note producer. The Command’s spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said in a statement in Enugu on Sunday that the suspect, one Collins Oputa, was nabbed on July 26, 2018. Amaraizu noted that the feat was achieved by police operatives of the Ogui Police Division of the Command. File photo “Oputa, who claimed that he is a native of Ohaji community in Imo State but residing at 4 Fatimo Close in Ijegun, Lagos State, was nabbed in Lagos. “His arrest followed a manhunt initiated based on intelligence information gathered on his alleged criminal activities of producing and giving the fake currency naira notes to his agents for circulation,’’ he said. Amaraizu said that the suspect had been helping police operatives in their investigation in relation to his alleged criminal activities with his cohorts. On his part, Oputa blamed the situation of his alleged involvement into the illicit act to Satan and pledged to quit

By Josephine Ella-Ejeh Angry youths have  attacked the  police station in Zurmi town, Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara. The irate youth from the community,  during the Saturday  evening attack, demanded that the three suspected bandits arrested by the army  and handed over to the police be released to them. Zamfara State Police Command’s  Public Relations Officer(PRO),  SP Muhammad Shehu confirmed the incident to newsmen in Gusau on Sunday. Shehu said the three suspects were among the bandits who attacked villages in Mashema District of Zurmi Local Government Area on July 24, 2018. He said  when the news of the arrest of the suspects got  into the town, some irate youths mobilised themselves to the police station and burnt  a vehicle and some motorcycles at the station. The command’s spokesman  said the Divisional Police Officer in the area and other police officers at the police station escaped with the suspects through the back fence of the station. He said

A deep 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami warning. The strong quake was centered about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north-northeast of Maumere town on the island of Flores, the USGS said, at a depth of 360 miles. Indonesia, an archipelago of thousands of islands, sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismic activity hotspot. It is frequently hit by quakes, most of them harmless. However, the archipelago remains acutely alert to tremors that might trigger tsunamis. In 2004 a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.3 undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, in western Indonesia, killed 220,000 people in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 in Indonesia. AFP

 The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has accused Governor Samuel Ortom of being involved in the killings in Benue and also impoverishing the state.  Nigerian Tribune reports that Oshiomhole told newsmen on Friday, July 27 that Ortom would not be missed because he was a pain to APC leaders due to his governing style.  The former Edo state governor accused the governor of playing the ethnic card as his people died from the hands of killers that were in his employ.   He said: “Within the last 48 hours, we have watched the unfolding events in Benue State, particularly the decision of Governor Ortom to leave the party. Ordinarily, we would not have responded, having already responded to the decision by the Publicity Secretary.  “As you all recall, Governor Ortom had said that the APC in Benue State gave him red card to leave our party and that they would not field him in the governorship election in 2018 and that because the door ha

Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria(MACBAN) has said that its leaders cannot be arrested by the Nigeria Police Force because they are not criminals.  Punch reports that the national coordinator of the group in Benue state Garus Gololo made this declaration while reacting to the call for the arrest and interrogation of its leadership by former military head of state Yakubu Gowon over killings by suspected herdsmen.  Gololo described the call by the ex-Nigerian leader as uncalled for and unbefitting of an elder statesman, noting that Gowon spoke only for the people of the Middle Belt even though the killings were more widespread.      Gololo said: “I don’t understand what Gowon meant because it is only criminals that the police can invite. If that is the case, who should be questioned in Zamfara, Borno, Rivers and Lagos where there have also been killings?  “Just yesterday, four people were killed in Zamfara, who should the police invite? To me, it is very unfo