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Alleged Boko Haram member remanded in prison

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A Lokoja Chief Magistrate Court has ordered that a suspected Boko Haram member, Mustapha Adinoyi, be remanded in prison. Mr. Adinoyi was arraigned before the court for alleged involvement in terrorist activities and illegal possession of firearms. The Chief Magistrate, Levi Animoku, described the alleged offence as “a fearful one” and declined to consider bail for the accused. He said Boko Haram activities had claimed lives of many Nigerians and that bail is not granted as a matter of course. Earlier, the prosecution led by Mohammed Abaji of the state Ministry of Justice told the court that Mr. Adinoyi was arrested following intelligence reports by a joint team of the Nigerian Army and the State security Service. Mr. Abaji said analysis of the handset and SIM card of the accused further revealed that he had several meetings with one Dauda Momoh, also known as “General”, a Boko Haram commander on the wanted list of the SSS.

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ISIS must be stopped, says Buhari UNGA

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Delivering Nigeria’s national statement during the General Debate of the 72nd  Session of United Nations General Assembly, UNGA 72, in New York, yesterday, President Buhari assured the international community of Nigeria’s firm and commitment to democracy in the country and Africa. Buhari has said that inequalities within societies and the gap between the rich and the poor nations were the root causes of instability. The President also lamented that the pressing threat to international peace was due to the accelerated nuclear weapons development. This is even as the President called for collaboration from the international community in the efforts to combat corruption and recovery of looted funds. On the need for the sustenance of international collaborative efforts in fighting international terrorism we must collectively devise strategies and mobilise the required responses to stop fleeing ISIS fighters. This will require strong UN cooperation with regional organisations, such as the African Union, The UN should continue to take primary leadership of the maintenance of international peace and security by providing to regional initiatives and peacekeeping operations authorized by the Security Council.

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Nigeria’s Chief of Justice outlines radical reforms

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The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, has outlined major reforms in the judiciary. He was speaking at an event to mark the opening of a new legal year for the judiciary and the swearing-in ceremony of new Senior Advocates in Abuja on Monday. The CJN said the number of determined cases was a positive development, despite the ”numerous challenges faced by the judiciary” during the year under review. Mr. Onnoghen condemned the attitude of some politically exposed persons who appear in court, with a large number of legal representatives, saying the development stagnates the movement of activities in court. He gave a new directive that lawyers representing anyone in court, must not exceed five at a sitting. During one of the trial sessions in June, the Senate President Mr. Saraki appeared in court with 106 lawyers. Mr. Onnoghen said the fight against corruption will continue ”more sternly within the judiciary”, adding that persons found wanting of judicial misconduct would not be spared.

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IPOB: Visit our states Northern governors tell South-east, South-south colleagues

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Governors from Nigeria’s northern region have invited their counterparts from the South-east to visit their states to interact with Igbo communities as a means of promoting peace and communal harmony among various groups in the country. The chairman of Northern Governors Forum and Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, said this after he led a delegation of five governors on a visit to Rivers, Abia and Imo states to promote peace. During the visits to Port Harcourt, Umuahia and Owerri, the Borno governor commended the host governors for the resolute manner they handled the IPOB crisis. Addressing members of the Northern community in Abia, Mr. Shettima urged them to continue respect the norms and traditions of their host communities and he added that adequate arrangements had been made by the government. In their various remarks, Governors of Abia and Imo commended the visit. They urged the federal government to promote unity by ensuring all parts of the country have a sense of belonging. They said when issues of security are on the table, political and other interests should take the back seat.

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Nnamdi Kanu brainwashed my brother says man whose relations was killed in IPOB clash

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An aggrieved man has taken to Twitter to allege that his brother died as he confronted armed soldiers in the struggle for the realisation of the Biafran State. The man, one Onyema Isaac Ugo with Twitter handle @OnyemaIsaa, claims that his relation was killed by the soldiers in Umuahia last Friday. In his social media lamentation which friends and other sympathisers reacted to, Mr. Ugo alleged that the late Kelechi was recruited into the Indigenous People of Biafra, but that he was felled by “the bullets of the army”. Ugo wrote he told Kelechi to stop this IPOB of a thing but he didn’t listen, because he has been brainwashed by NK. I don’t know if he was under a spell by IPOB. Kelechi’s mother said the late man left Anara for Umuahia last Friday morning at about 8pm; and that though his mother reportedly warned him earlier on Friday morning not to go to Umuahia that day, he refused. Explaining how his family members were informed of Kelechi’s death, Ugo said that they got the news from an unknown caller on Friday night by 9pm. Kelechi was shot by army in Nnamdi Kanu’s community.

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IPOB of using fake videos to hoodwink international community – Lai Mohammed

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The Federal Government has accused the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) of using fake videos of mass killings, harvested from other parts of Africa and doctored to look current, to mislead the international community and win their support. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this when he addressed Online Publishers in Lagos on Monday. According to the Minister, IPOB has harvested gory videos and pictures from other lands and the distant past, which they are now circulating via the Social Media, to deceive the international community into believing that the people of the South-east are being subjected to state-sponsored, ethno-religious violence. These videos, which have very high emotive quotient, are circulating on the Social Media as we speak. These videos seems to be current but actually they are fake. Either way, there is nothing like genocide anywhere in our country today. What we have in the South-east is a clampdown on a band of lawless people who have no regard for the laws of the land.

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Court remands 30 IPOB members in prison

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A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday, remanded 30 suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra in prison custody. The suspected IPOB members were arrested on Tuesday by the operatives of the Police for allegedly engaging in violent acts that breached the peace in the Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state. Nine out of the 30 persons arraigned in court were accused of killing a police sergeant identified as Steven Daniel on Wednesday during the crisis at Oyigbo. The Chief Magistrate, Amadi Amadi-Nna, further directed the court registrar to remit the case file to the Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice and adjourned the matter indefinitely. The prosecutors, decided that the charge on which they were brought to court was very heavy and weighty. The suspects, in the other hand, asked to strike out charges. However, the counsel for the suspects, Mr. Donald Loho, maintained that he would explore the necessary options to ensure the suspects were freed.

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Buhari’s minister chides Atiku: says “Money cannot buy votes in Nigeria again”

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The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has said that never again will any Nigerian politician win an election in the country by giving money to the electorate. A remark that appeared targeted at Nigeria’s former vice president, Atiku Abubakar Mr. Dalung speaking in Hausa said: “Buhari’s government is on the right track now and is working towards fulfilling it promises”. Mr. Abubakar, a billionaire member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, had accused the present administration of abandoning him despite utilising his support to come to power. The former vice president is believed to have been one of the major financiers of the APC and lost the party’s presidential primaries to Mr. Buhari in the 2015 elections. He is believed to be preparing for the 2019 elections and is seen by many as one of the few who could challenge Mr. Buhari in the elections.

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Electoral Justice in Kenya and Nigeria

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Concerning the annulment of election results by Nigerian courts: in 2007, the several questionable returns made by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were challenged in the courts. In the dissenting judgment it was found that the ballot papers used by the INEC were not marked and serialized as stipulated by law. In 2011, the results of the elections of not less 5 governors were annulled by the courts which ordered fresh elections in the affected states. Many legislators also lost their seats on grounds of electoral malfeasance. The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu has just disclosed that the courts including the Supreme Court have nullified the results of 117 elected officials who emerged in 2015 general elections due to illegal party primaries or fraudulent election results. As no democratic country in the world has ever recorded a greater number of annulments of election results it is totally misleading to give the highly erroneous impression that Nigerian judges have always upheld the results of fraudulent elections.

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Policemen cry out against suspended promotion exam

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The rank and file in the Nigeria Police have enjoined President Muhammadu Buhari to right what they see as an act of injustice against them after their promotion examination to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police they wrote in 2015 was suddenly abandoned. They said they wrote to  National Assembly and police high command on the issue in February this year, nothing concrete had been done, pleading that President Buhari should intervene. The frustrated Police men said  they were shocked when suddenly the Police command  abandoned the entire process to commence fresh recruitment of civilians for the ASP cadet, pleading that the Federal  Government should  revisit the abandoned exercise that had almost been completed.

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