Salami: IGP begins fresh investigation •Takes custody of authentic call logs •Oyinlola makes statement •MTN, Salami, NJC to be summoned

THE office of the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Dikko Abubakar, on Wednesday afternoon, took custody of the call logs of the suspended President of the Court of Appeal,

Justice Isa Ayo Salami and others which were released by communications firm, MTN Nigeria Ltd, to the Area "G" Command Headquarters, Ogba, Lagos State, as fresh probe deepens in the alleged manipulation of call data of those fingered in the  alleged unethical communications between jurists and politicians in the determination of Osun and Ekiti state governorship appeals.

Responding to a suit brought against it by former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and the Osun and Ekiti state chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), MTN had confessed that the call logs, which the National Judicial Council (NJC) probe panel rejected, querying its authenticity before clearing Salami and other jurists fingered in the alleged unethical communications, were released by it to the said command.

Nigerian Tribune can reveal that the fresh probe, which was at the instance of Oyinlola and the PDP, led to the police boss taking over the investigation and demanding for the call logs authenticated by MTN.

A top source disclosed that Mr Abdullahi D. Ishola of the Ogba command, last Tuesday, released the said call logs to the officers dispatched by the IGP from Abuja to Lagos, who eventually returned with the documents on Wednesday evening.

The names of the officers who made the Lagos trip were given as Umar Babangida and Musa Idi.

Oyinlola, in a petition entitled: "MTN's dangerous corporate conduct," had complained about the security implications of MTN's alleged fiddling with the call data records it earlier released to security agencies for transmission to the NJC's probe panel, with the IGP reportedly taking direct charge of the probe and said to have directed Mr Peter Gana to coordinate the investigation.

Though MTN had claimed that its storage capacity was three months, the call data in possession of the police top hierarchy covered five months, with MTN already indicating that it released them.

It was further learnt that Oyinlola had made a statement to the police on Friday, March 13, while summons were reportedly being packaged for other interested parties, including Salami, NJC and MTN, to make statements.

A source disclosed that the summons might materialise next week.

In the statement made to the police, Oyinlola accused MTN of doctoring call data records of telephone subscriber numbers: 08034004887, 08035955287, 08034010700, 08033333469, 08038305298, 08035605656, 08034303333, 08034301111, 08034030263, 08034020700, 08033235280, 08034301122, 08033246788, 08037643770 and 08033340330.

The former governor of Osun State also wanted the IGP to cause MTN to reveal the SIM registration details of subscriber numbers: 08034240000", registered in the name of Tunde Folawiyo (Lagos State governor) and 08062240104 (registered in the name of Gbadegesin Ademola).

Oyinlola claimed that contrary to MTN's claim that its system was only capable of holding three months of history call data, what the telecoms firm released to Area G Command, Ogba, Lagos, in respect of Justice Salami's call data record covered five calendar months, adding that his witness, Adeolu Oyinlola, obtained his own call data record from the same MTN which covered three months and nine days.

With the recent confirmation of the genuineness of the call logs from the said command, it was gathered that Oyinlola and PDP were preparing perjury case against the telecommunications firm.

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http://tribune.com

Bomb Blast Hit Kaduna Nigeria on Easter Day


An explosion struck a city Sunday in central Nigeria that has seen hundreds killed in religious and ethnic violence in recent years, causing unknown injuries as diplomats had warned of possible terrorist attacks over the Easter holiday, police said.

The blast struck Kaduna, the capital of Kaduna state, as churchgoers prepared to celebrate the holiday. Kaduna state police spokesman Aminu Lawan confirmed the blast, but said authorities were yet to make it to the scene.

There was initial confusion over the location of the blast. A witness said the blast occurred near All Nation Christ Assembly Church in the city. Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency, told The Associated Press that the blast happened in a local market where many eat in the city.

"There are definitely injuries," Shuaib said.

It was not immediately clear if the explosion occurred from a bomb blast or an accident.

The blast happened as the United Kingdom and the United States had warned its citizens living in the oil-rich nation that violence was likely over the Easter holiday. Nigeria's weak central government is under increasing attack from a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram.

Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language of Nigeria's north, is waging an increasingly bloody fight with security agencies and the public. More than 380 people have been killed in violence blamed on the sect this year alone, according to an AP count.

The sect, employing suicide bombers and assault-rifle shootouts, has attacked both Christians and Muslims, as well as the United Nations' headquarters in Nigeria.

The sect has rejected efforts to begin indirect peace talks with Nigeria's government. Its demands include the introduction of strict Shariah law across the country, even in Christian areas, and the release of all imprisoned followers.

Kaduna, on Nigeria's dividing line between its largely Christian south and Muslim north, was at the heart of postelection violence in April 2011. Mobs armed with machetes and poison-tipped arrows took over streets of Kaduna and the state's rural countryside after election officials declared President Goodluck Jonathan the winner. Followers of his main opponent, former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim, quickly alleged the vote had been rigged, though observers largely declared the vote fair.

Across the nation, at least 800 people died in that rioting, Human Rights Watch said. In the time since, heavily armed soldiers remain on guard on roadways throughout Kaduna. In December, an explosion at an auto parts market in Kaduna killed at least seven people. Though authorities said it came from a leaking gas cylinder, the Nigerian Red Cross later said in an internal report the blast came from a bomb.

In February, bombs exploded at two major military bases near the city, injuring an unknown number of people.

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Lost cat found after 16 years

Officials at a German animal shelter said a cat was reunited with his owner after spending 16 years living in the woods.

Bernhard Schoettel said his 19-year-old son, Kilian, found the cat while walking in the woods near Munich and brought it home, the New York Daily News reported Friday.

"My son immediately noticed that the animal was quite old," Schoettel said. "He felt sorry for it because it no longer had any front teeth. The tom was very trusting. We fed him for a few days and discovered that he was tattooed, so we took him to the animal sanctuary over the weekend."

Officials at the animal shelter said they were able to trace the cat's identification tattoo to owner Monika Moser, who said the feline went missing 16 years ago. The shelter said the cat's survival was unusual and he is now suffering from liver and thyroid problems.

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http://ascology.com

Immigrant waiter Jonathan Limani jailed after cutting off Golf Club manager Chris Varian

n Albanian immigrant who hacked a restaurant manager's head off with a cheese knife was allowed to move to Britain despite five years of violent and psychotic behaviour in Europe.

Jonathan Limani, a paranoid schizophrenic described as a 'highly dangerous individual', had been sectioned twice and was being investigated for assault when he was allowed to move to England.

The family of his victim, Chris Varian, yesterday said authorities had made a 'catalogue of errors' in letting Limani move from Sweden to become a waiter at the four-star The Oxfordshire in Thame.

Limani, 34, denied murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter  by reason of diminished responsibility at Oxford Crown Court yesterday.

Limani – who had been working at the hotel for only a fortnight – killed his boss because the 'voice of God' had told him to, a psychiatrist told the court.

Mr Varian, then 32, had gone for a break to the smoking area. Limani took a cheese knife, followed him out and stabbed him before sawing his head off. Alan Blake, prosecuting, said kitchen porter Guy Hathaway-Pearce saw 'the defendant kneeling on the ground holding Mr Varian's neck'. Mr Varian was unconscious and Limani looked 'transfixed'.

The decapitation had taken a 'certain degree of time and energy', according to the post mortem.

Limani pleaded guilty to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility, with the prosecution accepting he was suffering from an abnormality of mind at the time of the killing.

Limani had been sectioned twice and diagnosed with psychosis in Sweden and Switzerland. He was taking medication erratically. He served a year in prison in Switzerland for heroin trafficking in 2004. He was under investigation for assault in Sweden – where he claimed asylum – when he moved to Britain.

After his arrest here, he was detained in Broadmoor and diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and a personality disorder.

Yesterday, Mr Varian's father Nigel said his son's death was 'macabre' and his family suffered 'daily torture'. He demanded to know why the killer was allowed into the country.

Source...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk

A Male Commercial Sex Worker Who specialises in Sleeping With Top Government Officials.

"It was like a scene from one of those Hollywood movies. People gathered around, not believing their ears as they listened to the young man who was not the least ashamed of his trade. Ifeanyi Benedith Agah told the astounded crowd in the Upper Area Court of Maraba, Nassarawa State how he plied this trade in the suburb of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). And what is his trade? Commercial sex! BLESSING UKEMENA writes

Men are fast becoming part of commercial sex workers especially in major cities of the country. Before now it was mostly done in secret but it has now taken a new dimension with the men standing by the road side soliciting for clients.

According Ifeanyi, he used to stand the streets of Wuse Zone 4 which is acknowledged as one of the red light zones in the FCT or Jabi, a suburb of Abuja for business. He also owned up to having been into the business for about five years.



He said: I have been doing this for five years now. I was disvirgined when I was 12 years. I used to perform in cultural dances with the females in my school. One day my principal saw me, called me and told me that he liked me, that is how we started.

He was the one who initiated me into Being Intimate through the anus.

My parents were not taking good care of me. They left me in the village while they were here in Abuja. It was the principal that was taking care of me by paying my school fees and other such things"

The-17-year-old who hails from Afikpo Local Government Area in Ebonyi State, claimed that, at first his parents were not aware of his intimate activities but when they eventually found out they took him for HIV/AIDS test and it was discovered that he was HIV positive.

Agahs parents subsequently disowned him and threw him out of the house and so like most persons in the commercial sex; he claimed he went into the trade for economic reasons, adding that he joined the females to stand by the streets for clients at night.

Problem, however, started when he encountered 32-year-old Rabiu who approached him for his services on the March 11, 2012.

According to Agah, he usually charged N10,000 for each round of sex but Rabiu had pleaded with him to accept the same sum for two rounds of sex, but the client gave him only N1,000 after their time together and asked him to return the next day for the balance of N9,000.

The accused person stated that Rabiu did not live up to his promise as he gave him only N3,500 which upset him leading to an argument that landed both parties in police station where they had gone to have the issue resolved but were detained and charged to court the following day.

Speaking to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY, Agah stated that all sorts of persons patronise him for intimate gratification. Some of them are ministers but they will not tell you their full names. The good ones among them will give me up to N40,000 to N45,000 per night and the stingy ones will give N25,000 for three rounds per night

The accused who did not seem repulsed by what he has been doing, further stated, When I sleep with other men I feel like a female LovePeddler. I do not have feeling for females, only the males so they are the ones that take me out for business and treat me well.

I cannot tell them that I am HIV positive because it will spoil business for me. Some of them use condoms. Nobody apart from my parents knows that I am HIV positive. I stay with female LovePeddlers because I do not have my own place. Even the girls I live with do not know that I am HIV positive, he said.

Agah surprisingly told our correspondent that he would not advise anybody to join his trade as he insisted he was in it because of his financial difficulties, just as he said he would advise those in the cat to stop it stating: This is hand work because I need to take care of myself but I would advise others that are doing it to stop it. I am doing this because of my condition. My parents stay in Gwagwa, a suburb of the FCT, but I have not seen them in two years.

Rabiu, however, refused to make any comment as he bemoaned the possibility of going to jail having been found guilty of unnatural offences by the Upper Area Court, presided over by Judge Abdullahi Mariga. Police Prosecutor, Inspector Abu asked the court for preservation of sentence so that more investigation might be carried out as there were other developments while trial was on.

The court convicted the accused as charged and ordered that they remain in police custody till the sentence is passed. Hearing in the sentencing is scheduled for March the 21, 2012.

Source....
http://ngmix.net

A Male Commercial Sex Worker Who specialises in Sleeping With Top Government Officials.

"It was like a scene from one of those Hollywood movies. People gathered around, not believing their ears as they listened to the young man who was not the least ashamed of his trade. Ifeanyi Benedith Agah told the astounded crowd in the Upper Area Court of Maraba, Nassarawa State how he plied this trade in the suburb of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). And what is his trade? Commercial sex! BLESSING UKEMENA writes

Men are fast becoming part of commercial sex workers especially in major cities of the country. Before now it was mostly done in secret but it has now taken a new dimension with the men standing by the road side soliciting for clients.

According Ifeanyi, he used to stand the streets of Wuse Zone 4 which is acknowledged as one of the red light zones in the FCT or Jabi, a suburb of Abuja for business. He also owned up to having been into the business for about five years.



He said: I have been doing this for five years now. I was disvirgined when I was 12 years. I used to perform in cultural dances with the females in my school. One day my principal saw me, called me and told me that he liked me, that is how we started.

He was the one who initiated me into Being Intimate through the anus.

My parents were not taking good care of me. They left me in the village while they were here in Abuja. It was the principal that was taking care of me by paying my school fees and other such things"

The-17-year-old who hails from Afikpo Local Government Area in Ebonyi State, claimed that, at first his parents were not aware of his intimate activities but when they eventually found out they took him for HIV/AIDS test and it was discovered that he was HIV positive.

Agahs parents subsequently disowned him and threw him out of the house and so like most persons in the commercial sex; he claimed he went into the trade for economic reasons, adding that he joined the females to stand by the streets for clients at night.

Problem, however, started when he encountered 32-year-old Rabiu who approached him for his services on the March 11, 2012.

According to Agah, he usually charged N10,000 for each round of sex but Rabiu had pleaded with him to accept the same sum for two rounds of sex, but the client gave him only N1,000 after their time together and asked him to return the next day for the balance of N9,000.

The accused person stated that Rabiu did not live up to his promise as he gave him only N3,500 which upset him leading to an argument that landed both parties in police station where they had gone to have the issue resolved but were detained and charged to court the following day.

Speaking to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY, Agah stated that all sorts of persons patronise him for intimate gratification. Some of them are ministers but they will not tell you their full names. The good ones among them will give me up to N40,000 to N45,000 per night and the stingy ones will give N25,000 for three rounds per night

The accused who did not seem repulsed by what he has been doing, further stated, When I sleep with other men I feel like a female LovePeddler. I do not have feeling for females, only the males so they are the ones that take me out for business and treat me well.

I cannot tell them that I am HIV positive because it will spoil business for me. Some of them use condoms. Nobody apart from my parents knows that I am HIV positive. I stay with female LovePeddlers because I do not have my own place. Even the girls I live with do not know that I am HIV positive, he said.

Agah surprisingly told our correspondent that he would not advise anybody to join his trade as he insisted he was in it because of his financial difficulties, just as he said he would advise those in the cat to stop it stating: This is hand work because I need to take care of myself but I would advise others that are doing it to stop it. I am doing this because of my condition. My parents stay in Gwagwa, a suburb of the FCT, but I have not seen them in two years.

Rabiu, however, refused to make any comment as he bemoaned the possibility of going to jail having been found guilty of unnatural offences by the Upper Area Court, presided over by Judge Abdullahi Mariga. Police Prosecutor, Inspector Abu asked the court for preservation of sentence so that more investigation might be carried out as there were other developments while trial was on.

The court convicted the accused as charged and ordered that they remain in police custody till the sentence is passed. Hearing in the sentencing is scheduled for March the 21, 2012.

Source....
http://ngmix.net

Wife ripped out husband's intestine with a knife

What initially looked like a normal fight between a Nigerian couple over sex, turned bloody when the wife stabbed the husband several times, resulting in the untimely death of a 42-year-old man at Asokore Mampong in Kumasi.

Rashida Yetunde, 37, allegedly used a sharp knife to stab Maruuf Akinjobi three times in the chest, sending the stoutly-built man down, before stabbing him again on countless occasions in the abdomen when the deceased allegedly tried raping her.

The intestines of Maruuf gushed out as he bled profusely amid wailing for help in their locked room on Tuesday around 10:30p.m, the police told Daily Guide.

The suspect, after committing the heinous crime, left the man to his fate in the locked room, threw the knife into a nearby bush and fled with her five-year-old son in the dark to avert being apprehended.

Some Good Samaritans residing in the same house who heard the dying man crying for help forcibly broke into the room and quickly sent him to hospital, but he was declared dead on arrival..

Briefing Daily Guide, the Asawase District Police Commander, DSP Nana Kumi, said the stabbed man was initially sent to the police station by his helpers and he was issued with a medical form to visit the hospital for treatment but it was too late.

The police chief noted that suspect Rashida personally visited the police station around 4:00a.m on Wednesday to report that she stabbed her husband the previous night during a fight.

Aware that the man had passed away, the police decided to detain the lady to assist in investigations.

Her five-year-old son with the deceased has been given to the family of the departed husband to take care of.

DSP Kumi disclosed that Rashida, during interrogation, said she met the deceased in Benin where he proposed love to her which she agreed to in 2004.

According to her, her late husband, whilst proposing to her, said he had divorced his wife so he was single.

The suspect said some years later, she realised that her husband was befriending her friend who lived with them in the same house at Nima, adding that she also detected that the husband was also having an affair with his ex-wife who resided in Nigeria.

Rashida became angry because she thought the husband was cheating on her so she moved from the deceased's Nima house in Kumasi to live at Asokore Mampong with her five-year-old son.

On Tuesday evening, the suspect was with her son in their room at Asokore Mampong when the estranged husband visited her around 10:30p.m.

Rashida claimed the husband owed her an amount of money and therefore demanded for it.

The husband replied that he was not in the position to pay the money to her and pleaded that Rashida should allow him to travel to Nigeria on a business trip, promising to settle the debt on his return.

The suspect refused to accept her husband's plea so she held his shirt insisting that until the husband settled the debt, she would not allow him to leave the room.

Suddenly, a skirmish ensued between the couple and Rashida claimed that her husband assaulted her during the brawl until tempers were calmed down and peace was restored between the two.

About 30 minutes after the brawl, Akinjobi pleaded with his wife to have sex with him but Rashida who was still angry, stressed that she would not allow a man who had just beaten her to sleep with her.

Her refusal to go to bed with him infuriated Akinjobi, Rashida said, adding that the deceased then pushed her against a table in the room and then tried to rape her.

She said in an attempt to scare away her husband from raping her, she picked a sharp knife which she used to stab the man on the chest which dazed him and sent him to the floor. She then stabbed him several times in the stomach before fleeing.

DSP Kumi noted that after narrating her story, the police took Rashida to the crime scene and the entire room was covered with blood stains but the knife which the lady used to commit the crime could not be traced.

The police commander said when they asked Rashida about where she kept the knife; she retorted that she could not remember.

The five-year-old boy who saw where his mother threw the knife then stunned all present by leading the police to where the knife was placed.

DSP Kumi said the police would soon arraign the suspect.

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http://www.talkofnaija.com