A 35 year old Nigerian man was sentenced to death today
November 25th by a Malaysian High Court for trafficking in
251.66 gm of methapethamine.
Abuchi Ngwoke, was arrested in May 2012 at a Malaysian
airport. He had swallowed the drugs.
The High court judge described Ngwoke's testimony about
swallowing gemstones in Nigeria before traveling to
Malaysia as absurd. A date is yet to be set for his
execution.
Students of the University of Jos continued their protests
today following yesterday's chaos in the school over what
they say is a 100% increase in school fees. The protesting
students set fire in front of the school gate this afternoon,
insisting that school authority must reduce their fees.
The students say the fee was N27,800 but has now been
increased to #60,000. They also say they were forced to
pay for developmental levy which has never been used for
any development within the university. They said all effort
by the student union government to speak with the Vice
Chancellor of the university Prof. Hayward Babale Mafuyai,
was met with a brick wall as the VC refused to negotiate
with the students.
Following his refusal to speak with students, they took to
the streets to protest, blocking all roads leading to the
university of Jos thereby bringing all activities to a
standstill. All university activities was also boycotted
including the exams that was meant to start yesterday 24th
November.
The protests continued today...
Find the police press release below...
The Rivers State Police Command wishes to inform
the public that in response to two separate distress
calls, nine cultists were arrested. On 24/11/2014 at
about 02:00AM a distress call indicated planned battle
of supremacy between De-Well and Degbam cults
groups at Okwuzi Community in Onelga.
The clash was averted by the swift action of the police
where seven suspects were arrested. They are Chinazo
Amaechi, Nna Chisom, Solomon Ossai, Regimus Igwelatu,
Monday Jackson, Chinonso Fordima and Tony Amanya
while others fled.
Items recovered from them included one pump action gun,
four live cartridges, one double barrel gun, Honda jeep with
registration No. IMO WER 685 FX, Toyota Camry saloon
with registration No. RIVERS BER 407 AP, two laptop
computers and assorted charms.
The suspects on interrogation confessed to belonging to
either of the groups. In a similar response same day at
about 1:30PM information received had it that some
suspected cultist were sighted with arms around back gate
of Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port
Harcourt (RSUST) initiating new members. Team of
policemen Storm the area arrested and Joel Ozekume, a
final year student of RSUST and Princewill Brown, a
graduate of Cross River State University while others
escaped. One beretta pistol and 3 rounds of .9mm
ammunition were recovered from them.
The Command wishes to use this medium to warn
criminals and their alike to denounce or be ready to face
tough time as the Command is fully ready to take the
aggressive onslaught to their enclaves. The Command
equally wishes to assure people of its readiness of
sustained instant response to distress calls within shortest
possible time while members of the public are urged to
security conscious and report any character or move
capable of undermining the existing public peace and
security, please.
DSP. Ahmad Kidaya Muhammad
Public Relations Officer, Rivers State Police Command.
Erhiatake Ibori, one of the daughters of embattled former
Governor of Delta state James Ibori, is contesting for a seat
at the State House of Assembly, Ethiope West Constituency,
in the 2015 general assembly. She recently launched her
campaign with the release of her campaign posters.
Two female suicide bombers reportedly blew themselves up Yesterday morning at the Maiduguri Monday market in Borno
state, killing at least 30 people. The bomb explosions
happened at about 11.30am. May God help us all.
