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Speaking while parading the rapist with 18 others who were arrested for various crimes, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Usman Ali Abdullahi described the rising rate of rape in the state  as pathetic. CP Abdullahi said rape cases in the state have become outrageous. forcing me for sex He called on traditional rulers, religious leaders, parents, teachers among others to help reverse the trend. He said that 100 cases have already been recorded in less than one year.  Salisu Magaji, 57, the man who defiled his step daughter admitted committing the crime, saying that his dream revealed to him that he would stop womanising if he defiled the seven-month old baby. “I actually defiled the baby girl. It was not for money ritual purpose. I actually had a dream about the incidence because I womanise a lot. My wife is late. She delivered six children for me. I thought God had helped me overcome the habit of going after women until when I married this woman. So it was revealed to me...

FOLLOWING the suspension of former Senate leader, Senator Ali Mohammed Ali Ndume, APC, Borno South by the upper chamber for a period of six months, Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has led a delegation to appeal to Senate President Bukola Saraki to have a re- think on the matter. Mohammed Ndume A source told Saturday Vanguard that with the governor to the Maitama residence of Saraki were the other two Senators from Borno State, Senator Baba Kaka Garbai, APC, Borno Central who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business and Senator Abubakar Kyari, APC, Borno North who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Defence.  According to the source, also with the governor were members of the House of Representatives from Borno State, representatives of Shehu of Borno, Emir of Dikwa, Commissioners, Local Government Chairmen, Councilors, among others. The source told Saturday Vanguard that Saraki’s visitors who arrived at 9.30 pm, Thursday night, spent forty minutes with h...

Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and former governor of the state, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, have been congratulated over the inauguration of Lagos Niegbourhood Security Corps which has been on the drawing board since the tenure of Tinubu as governor of the state. In a congratulatory message to the governor, the Police Assistance Committee (PAC) commended the initiative of the establishment of the corps designed to assist and complement the efforts of the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies in the areas of the prevention and combating of crimes and ensuring the protection of lives and properties within Lagos  State through information and intelligence gathering, a similar function the PAC has been performing all over Nigeria in the past two decades. In the message signed by its Director General, Dr. Martins John Oni, the PAC expressed its readiness to always share its wealth of experience and impart its vast knowledge in community policing acquired overtime t...

Financial Crimes Commission is after him over his loyalty to President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki. He alleged that the EFCC was also after him and other senators due to their opposition to the confirmation of the Acting Chairman of EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, by the Senate. The lawmaker denied the allegation that his Bank Verification Number had been linked with 20 different company and personal bank accounts, urging the EFCC to contact the firms. It was reported on Friday that based on a petition from an undisclosed author in Delta State, the EFCC was investigating Nwaoboshi’s alleged complicity in the non-execution of N4bn contracts awarded by the government of Delta State. The EFCC was reported to also be investigating how the lawmaker operates 20 accounts in six banks with different signatories. He was alleged to have used a company to buy a 12-storey building in Apapa, Lagos, which belonged to the Delta State Government, for N805m. Nwaobosho was also accused of not dec...

A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, has said that the winner of the 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola, could not have died of natural causes. Abiola whose election was annulled by the Ibrahim Babangida-led military administration in July 1993 was arrested by the late Gen. Sani Abacha-led junta in 1994 when he declared himself the winner of the election and his resolve to reclaim his mandate. The business mogul turned politician later died in detention in controversial circumstances on July 7, 1998. But Bamaiyi, the Chief of Army Staff under the Abacha regime, has insisted in a book that was launched in Abuja on Thursday that former Head of State Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar owes the nation more explanation on the death of the late politician. “I believe only Gen. Abubakar and those he used to handle Abiola’s death can tell Nigerians how Chief M.K.O Abiola died. Abiola could not have died the way he reportedly died,” Bamaiyi declared in the book t...

THE trial of a former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Rashidi Ladoja, for alleged N4.7bn fraud continued, yesterday, with the prosecution witness narrating to the court how the ex-governor sent £600,000 to his daughter, Bimpe, in London sometime in 2007. The prosecution witness, Mr. Adewale Atanda, who was then Senior Special Executive Assistant to Ladoja, told the court that the money was part of a sum of N634m, which some stockbrokers contributed to prevent Ladoja’s impeachment. He was however impeached eventually. According to him, the ex-governor had earlier instructed the sale of some shares belonging to Oyo State Government to the said stockbrokers who later contributed N634m to fight his impeachment. The N634m, Atanda said, was part of the commission and profit realised by the stockbrokers. The witness said the N634m was delivered to him by the stockbrokers, adding that he had to first remove about N180m, which he had earlier borrowed and spent on Ladoja’s instructions during t...