Friday, 13 January 2017
Lagos Court Convicts Fuel Subsidy Big Suspects
The defendants were found guilty on each of the eight counts.
The third defendant, Babafemi Fakuade, was, however, discharged and acquitted.
Notorious criminals attack police, snatch deadly kidnapper
The fleeing suspected kidnapper had led a team of policemen attached to the anti-kidnapping squad of the command to the community in December to conduct a search on his apartment when some youths, suspected to be his boys, attacked the policemen openly.
The youth, according to Punch, removed a pair of handcuffs on the suspect’s hands, freed him and subsequently set ablaze a police patrol van that brought the suspect and the team to the area.
Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said three policemen were seriously injured in the attack.
He, however, said the command would not want to disclose the identities of the suspects in order not to thwart efforts at arresting other fleeing hoodlums.
Owoseni said, “Some criminal elements under the guise of community youths attacked the police team, cut the handcuffs used to chain the suspect and librated him. Three of the operatives were injured while the police vehicle used by the team was burnt. A policeman is still in a hospital.
“Three of those who perpetrated the act have been arrested, but we don’t want to reveal their identities now in order not to jeopardize our investigation.”
If we don’t tame religion, it’ll kill Nigeria – Wole Soyinka
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has warned that religion will kill Nigeria if it is not tamed.
Speaking in Abuja on Thursday at the presentation of a book, Religion and the Making of Nigeria, written by Prof. Olufemi Vaughan, the Nobel laureate imagined what the world would be if religion had never been invented and condemned killings in the name of religion saying he wondered how any rational being could attempt to justify homicide as an act of devotion.
Wole said:
If we do not tame religion in this nation, religion would kill us.
“I do not say kill religion, though, I wouldn’t mind a bit if that mission could be undertaken surgically, painlessly perhaps, under anaesthesia, effectively sprayed all over the nation or perhaps during an induced pouch of religious ecstasy.
“However, one has to be realistic. Only the religiously possessed or committed would deny the obvious.
The price that many have paid, not just within this society but by humanity in general, makes one wonder if the benefits have really been more than the losses.”
Can one think of any landscape without religious architecture?
Many Nigerians have paid the ultimate price because of religion and religion is now embedded in our society.
In this very nation, in Southern Kaduna, over 800 souls were brutally extinguished suddenly while the issue of grazing land versus farming is unquestionably part of the conflict. It is equally undeniable that religious differences have played crucial role in the conflict.
The innocent ones are the ones who often pay the ultimate price in religious crisis. Even religious leaders cannot denounce the murdering acts of religion.
Religion now induces trauma and anxiety instead of solace that it claims to give. Religion is the ironic product of human inadequacy.
There is a monster always waiting to pounce on innocent Nigerians under the name of religion,” he added.
Jealous lover to spend 12 years in jail, for attempting to kill his girlfriend (Photos)
Shuaibu, a diploma student in the Department of Tourism and Leisure Management, Adamawa State Polytechnic, jolted the public in October, 2016, when he attempted to slit the throat of his girlfriend, Sekina Ishaya.
Sekina, also a Tourism and leisure Management student, was attacked by her angry lover after seeing her allegedly with another man.
Shuaibu, Northern City News gathered, was sentenced last Wednesday to 12 years imprisonment without option of fine.
Shehu Ahmad, the Chief Magistrate of the Yola Magistrate Court, while passing his sentence, said the court found the accused guilty of an attempt to commit culpable homicide and causing grievous bodily hurt to his female lover.
The magistrate said the sentence was based on the witnesses, testimonies as well as admission of guilt by the convict, noting that the parties could file an appeal if not satisfied with his judgment.
According to Insp. Akamu, the police prosecutor, Shuaibu bagged seven years for committing grievous bodily hurt and another five years for attempted homicide, without any option of fine, bringing the sentence to 12 years.
