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Gbenro Olajuyigbe Dear Zabaramarians, I might not know your names But I will not allow anyone to call you what you were not! Some called you forty three(43) Other said your names was seventy eight (78) Mere number, in land of your birth! Victims of Vipers in Power! Enemies did not kill you. Your nation gave you out! It wasn’t the sword of terrorist that slit your throats! It was the growth of apathy; the rise of the tribe of the terrible, who wears silence as garland of honor and loyalty to evil, as evidence of patriotism. You were victims of colluding forces of silent subjects and their wicked king, whose tender mercy is cruel! –gbenro olajuyigbe Humanity loathes death, even though it is language of future of every living thing. It becomes scary if it comes brutal. Brutal killing challenges our humanity. It calls to question our sanity as part of mankind. Death culture is spreading and scarier is that it does not shock Nigerians any longer.2020 is a gory year ma...

File Photo/: Prison The Kaduna Correctional Centre has operationalised a new set of conditions for client inmates in the facility to be accessed, with the rules described by lawyers as obnoxious, stressful and dangerous. The authorities of the Kaduna centre recently set out eight conditions that must be met as the minimum requirements for lawyers seeking interviews with client inmates in its centre. File Photo/: Prison An Assistant Superintendent Controller of the Kaduna centre, Abubakar Zain, in a letter of notice, posted to the lawyers’ platform and dated November 11, 2020, stated that henceforth, a valid, sealed and signed written application by the legal practitioners should be addressed to the Deputy Controller, Medium Security Custodial of the Kaduna centre, before visitation. The notice also stated that applications should be forwarded at least 24 hours before the visitation, and shall only be granted in respect of one case, regardless of the number of inmates answeri...

The Mumbai Police Special Squad in India on Thursday, December 3, busted a drug peddling syndicate and arrested three Nigerian nationals in the Malad and Royal Palm areas of the town. The Nigerians were found with 220 grammes of cocaine worth over Rs 22 lakhs ($29,833.32). They were arrested by the Special Squad of Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone XI along with the Bangur Nagar police. According to an official, the police, while acting on a tip-off, laid a trap at Link Road in Malad and first apprehended 38-year-old Uche James after he arrived to deliver the contraband on Wednesday, December 2. Upon search, 10.14-gramme cocaine was recovered from him. He was produced in court and remanded in police custody till December 7. Later, the police team on Thursday, December 3, brought Uche to Royal Palms in Aarey Colony Goregaon and based on information he had provided, a trap was laid to arrest his accomplices. Two other Nigerians identified as Emeka Cyprian and Chukwu Joseph ...

The second prosecution witness, Abdulrahman Arabo, in the ongoing trial of Paul Usoro (SAN), a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, for alleged N1.4bn fraud, on Wednesday, told Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how the defendant received a sum of N1.1bn from the Akwa-Ibom State government. Usoro was first arraigned on December 18, 2018, before Justice Muslim Hassan of the same court. He was later re-arraigned on March 1, 2019, on a 10-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of N1.4bn. This was contained in a statement by the spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren. One of the counts reads: “That you, Paul Usoro, SAN, Emmanuel Udom (currently constitutionally immune against criminal prosecution), Uwemedimo Thomas Nwoko (still at large), Nsikan Linus Nkan, Commissioner of Finance, Akwa Ibom State (still at large), Mfon Jacobson Udomah, Accountant-General, Akwa Ibom State (still at large) and Margaret Tho...

Hakeem Odumosu The Lagos State police command has restricted movement in Somolu, Kosofe, Epe, Ikorodu, and Ibeju-Lekki local government areas in Lagos State due to the Lagos-East by-election which will hold on Saturday. The Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said in a tweet that the restriction would be from 6 am to 6 pm. Hakeem Odumosu The tweet read, “Lagos-East senatorial election, no movement between 6 am and 6 pm on Saturday, December 5, 2020. Comply please.” Candidates from 12 political parties will be contesting in the Lagos East Senatorial by-elections while eight candidates will be contesting the Kosofe Constituency II, Lagos State House of Assembly by-elections. The contestants for the senatorial election are Muyiwa Adebanjo, Action Alliance; Ms Mercy Adeoye, African Action Congress, and John Kome, African Democratic Congress. Others are Adebowale Ogunlaru, Action Democratic Party; Adetokunbo Abiru, All Progressives Congress; Olusola Babatope, Allie...