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  • Female banker, 27, bolts with employer’s N690,000

    Female banker, 27, bolts with employer’s N690,000

    For allegedly pilfering depositors’ money, a 27-year-old female banker, Ogunumoye Oluwaseun, was on Monday brought before an Abeokuta Chief Magistrates’ Court.

    To date, the accused had allegedly stolen N691,050, belonging to Astra Polaris Micro Finance Bank ( APMFB ), Abeokuta.

    The accused, whose address is unknown, is facing a charge of stealing.

    She denied the charge, but the Police Prosecutor Sunday Eigbejiale insisted that the accused committed the offence from May 2016 to August 2017 at Astra Polaris Micro Finance Bank, Onikolobo Branch, Abeokuta, Ogun capital.

    Eigbejiale said the accused,as a marketer, she collected money from customers and failed to remit same to the bank.

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    “The accused collected N691,050 from some customers at different times and failed to remit the money into the coffers of her employer.

    “When the theft was discovered by the bank, the accused absconded from work from Oct. 4, 2017 and all efforts to recover the money from her proved abortive,’’ the inspector said.

    The offence contravened Section 390 ( 9 ) of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun, 2006.

    In her ruling, Chief Magistrate Adeola Adelaja granted her bail in the sum of N500, 000 with two sureties in like sum.

    She adjourned the case until March 21 for hearing.

    NAN

  • 2019: We must put horse first before the cart, says Obasanjo

    2019: We must put horse first before the cart, says Obasanjo

    Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Wednesday, declared that the  way to go and make the country great again is to put the youth and women forward where they would realise their legitimate interest and power in governance.

    Obasanjo said he has unalloyed passion for greater Nigeria but added that he neither has a candidate nor is backing anyone for an elective office in 2019.

    The Ebora Owu, who is championing a Third Force – Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM),  to galvanize Nigerians  to demand a paradigm shift in the  present system of things,  noted that he would not budge in his earlier resolve  to remain an elder statesman.

    He spoke at his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when a youth group from Delta State, led a governorship aspirant, Frank Ufuoma Esanubi, to pay him a courtesy visit.

    He reiterated that the CNM would remain a socio-political movement, insisting he would cease to be a member of the Coalition if it turns partisan.

    The ex – President explained that that transitions that had taken place in the country since independence neglected the people at the grassroots.

    According to him, his letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, was not meant to belittle the office of the president or embarrass the occupant, but to articulate his position about the situations in the country and offer sincere advice.

    Obasanjo said the press statement was well thought out, and not a product of frivolity.

    “In the year 2015, I said I would no longer participate in partisan politics. And I still stand by my decision. Everybody, irrespective of his or her political affiliation is free to come here for advice, I will gladly do that. I have no candidate, whatsoever, for any political office. I just believe that things must be done differently in Nigeria to get different result.

    “If you study our transitions since the colonial era, they have all taken place without taking the people of the grassroots into consideration. So, CNM is about the people at the grassroots. It is a socio-economic movement where youth and women, especially, will be given opportunity to appreciate their interests and power. Unlike before, I believe we must put the horse before the cart.

    “If the system and the platform sync, I believe Nigeria will get there. And like I said, the moment the Coalition gets involved in candidate sponsoring or participates in partisan politics, I will opt out of it,” Obasanjo said.

    Earlier, Esanubi said his group’s visit to Obasanjo was to pay homage to him and intimate him on their resolve to heed his clarion call for Nigerians to come together under the CNM, for a better Nigeria.

     

  • Court sentences man, 24, to Three months in prison for assault

    Court sentences man, 24, to Three months in prison for assault

    An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, on Wednesday, sentenced a 24-year-old man, Segun Oluwafemi, to three months in prison for threatening and assaulting the caretaker handling his late father’s property.

    The Magistrate, Mrs Oluwayemisi Enilolobo, said Oluwafemi should spend three months at Agodi prison without an option of fine.

    Enilolobo said “this will serve as deterrent to others of your kind.”

    She said “Oluwafemi was found guilty of conducting himself in a manner likely to cause breach of peace, thereby sentenced to one month in prison.

    “He was found guilty of threatening to injure and kill Solomon Olufemi, being the caretaker to his late father’ s property with offensive weapons.”

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    Earlier, the prosecutor, Sgt .Olalekan Adegbite, had told the court that Oluwafemi threatened the caretaker with dangerous weapons.

    Adegbite said Solomon was the caretaker of Oluwafemi’s late fathers’ four bedroom flat and was in charge of sharing the rent received from the building among four siblings from different mothers.

    He said that the convict assaulted the caretaker with offensive weapons and conducted himself in a manner likely to cause breach of peace at about 3 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2017 at Ayinde Complex, Abeokuta road, Apata, Ibadan.

    He noted that the offences contravened sections 249 (d), 86 (1)and 351 of he Criminal Code Cap 38, Vol. II, Laws of Oyo state 2000.

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  • Don’t let me die now, man with kidney problem begs Nigerians

    Don’t let me die now, man with kidney problem begs Nigerians

    … needs N15m to live

    Although he is 50 years old but whoever that sees him would think he is older than that.

    With his legs swollen and in pains, Mr Clement Eromosele, lay weak, tired and looking worried on his hospital bed at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta Ogun State, where doctors are working to stabilise his health last Tuesday.

    Few days earlier, FMC had placed him on dialysis machine to clean his system. The father of five children said he had spent all his life saving and even sold properties in his determination to get solution for a condition doctors have diagnosed as kidney problem

    From his hospital bed, Eromosele told The Nation that over a year ago, he began to notice that the vigour with which he did his security job were deserting him.

    “For every little effort exerted, makes me tired and weaker,” he said.

    Initially, he thought it was a minor health issue and had treated it accordingly but his situation did not change.

    He became a regular visitor to different hospitals in bids to find solution to his health challenge until he finally got to the FMC where specialist advised that he should go for a kidney transplant in order to live.

    He said with his saving all gone into buying drugs, undergoing series of tests and relatives having done their best to assist, he would be unable to afford the treatment and drugs required which were estimated to cost about N15 million.

    Eromosele is appealing to kind – hearted Nigerians, philanthropic organizations and others to help him, and not allow the health challenge to cut short his lifespan now.

    “I want to live, work and support my family. Nigerians should help me to recover. I have spent all my savings and even borrowed from people to treat this problem. The way the doctors talking, I will need millions of naira for kidney transplant in Nigeria. Kind hearted Nigerians should come to my help and not let me die,” he pleaded.

    According to him, no amount of assistance rendered to him to regain his strength would be treated as small. He can be reached through 08033443319, 08126378123 and First Bank A/C: 3011779716.

  • Ex-students tackle Director of St. Stephen’s school, allege rape, death of six colleagues

    Ex-students tackle Director of St. Stephen’s school, allege rape, death of six colleagues

    About six years after leaving St. Stephen’s Centre International School and Children Home, Abeokuta, Ogun State, 13 of the ex – inmates returned to Abeokuta on Tuesday to narrate an alleged life of harassment, exploitation, child  labour and sexual abuse at the facility.
    The Abeokuta centre was established decades ago to serve as shelter and educational centre for children who were either orphaned or lost one of the parents to past series of violence in Kaduna, Jos and insurgency in parts of the north.
    The ex – inmates who journeyed to Abeokuta from from Kano, Jos and Kaduna under the aegis of Concerned Past Students of Stephen Children Home (CPSSCH),
    accused the Director, Rev. Isaac Oluwole Newton-Wusu of sexual  molestation, rape, child labour, intimidation and exploitation.
    Addressing journalists  at the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ogun State Council, Iwe-iroyin, Abeokuta,  the National Coordinator of CPSSCH, Mr. Ado Baggibawa claimed they also  lost six of their colleagues at the facility in just few years due to total negligence and poor health care despite funds being donated by charity foundations both home and abroad to the centre.
    He alleged that the Centre routinely exploited  their predicaments to solicit and received  donations from USA, Netherland, Australia, Canada, Poland and Nigerian Churches, but rued that the proceeds of such donations were not duly expended on them while their stay there lasted.
    Baggibawa called for an investigation into the running of the facility under the watch of the Director as well as public hearing of it at the state and National  Assemblies.
    He also  appealed to all government agencies and ministries in charge of orphanage homes and schools, Non Governmental Organisations in charge of child protection,  local and international donors to intervene and save the future of the “home and school.”
    He also called for total overhauling and restructuring of the school to enables it meet the intended goals and the law of the land.
    “We also call on the African Union, United Nations, and International human rights bodies to look into the exploitation of the funding foreign bodies who may have donated  funds with out stories and did not deliver same to the right course”
    “Finally, the press release is our only avenue to voice our concern, seek for justice and continuity of the Stephens Children Home / School in a manner that will provide sanity and true productivity. We have no strength or any ability to confront the director in anyway.
    “Therefore, we seek for the active involvement of the civil rights society organisation and relevant government authorities to come to our aid,” he said.
    Two of female ex –  students of the school, names withheld, and  who narrated their ordeal, alleged that the Director had bath with them, fondled their body when they were  13 year-old at the Junior Secondary School at the centre.
    One of the female victims of the alleged sexual abuse  disclosed that whenever she was with the Director she would ask her to go to kitchen to take food and became  unconscious afterwards, saying she would wake up to discover wetness on her private part.
    But reacting, the Director,
    Isaac Oluwole Newton-Wusu,
    when contacted on phone, described the allegations as “nonsense, blackmail, falsehood and lies” being orchestrated by people to run him down.
    Newton – Wusu said the ex – students were being sponsored by some persons desperate to remove him from office as the Director of the home, adding that the matter was reported earlier at the Police Station in Eleweran, Abeokuta,  where it was discovered to be all fabrications.
    “They are sponsored and it is a plan to remove me as the Director of the home. I can’t comment because the case is in court,” he said.
  • ‘I killed my baby to avoid burden of caring for her’

    ‘I killed my baby to avoid burden of caring for her’

    An artisan who identified Andrew Koku has revealed why he killed his six months old baby, Precious Koku, on Christmas eve.

    Andrew who resides at Ayedere community in Obada area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, said he intentionally murdered the baby to free him from an anticipated burden of caring for the neonate, should the mother flee the matrimonial home to meet her ex – husband.

    The suspect was arrested by the Police Operatives from the Adigbe Divisional Headquarters same day the crime was committed.

    It was learnt that Andrew’s wife had left the baby with him on Christmas eve while she left for her ex – husband place, but she returned to meet the lifeless body of the baby.

    And suspecting foul play, she reported the incident at the Adigbe Divisional Police Headquarters where Operatives were detailed to arrest him.

    The Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the arrest, said Andrew had confessed to committing the crime.

    “The suspect was arrested for intentionally killing his six month old baby by name Precious Koku and following a complaint from the mother of the baby, Omowumi Teleda.

    ” Omowumi lodged complaint at Adigbe Divisional Headquarters that she went out briefly to see her first child she had with her ex-husband leaving the six month old baby behind with the Father, only for her to come back and meet the dead body of the child.

    “She explained further that the baby was hail and hearty before she left home and within an hour of her outing, the baby has dropped dead. This made her to strongly suspect her husband who happened to be the only person with the baby.

    “Upon her complaint, the DPO Adigbe Division CSP Sunday Oladipo detailed Police Detectives to the scene where the suspect was arrested on the 24th of December.

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    “On interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime but claimed to be suspecting that his wife wanted to leave him for her ex-husband and that if that should happened, he will not be able to take care of the baby and that was the reason why he decided to eliminate the child,” Abimbola stated.

    According to him, the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has directed that Andrew be transferred to Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for proper investigation and prosecution.

  • FRSC advises motorists to register their vehicles

    FRSC advises motorists to register their vehicles

    The Federal Road Safety Corps ( FRSC ) has advised motorists to ensure proper registration of their vehicles to enhance identification in case of emergency.

    Mr Clement Oladele, the Ogun Sector Commander of the corps, gave the advice in Abeokuta on Friday during the handing over of a missing vehicle number plate to the owner.

    Oladele said that the owner of the number plate was tracked through the FRSC’s National Vehicle Identification Scheme Data Base.

    “A driver who had picked a fallen vehicle rear bumper with a number plate attached, contacted the FRSC Command in Ogun State on possibility of locating and returning same to the rightful owner.

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    “After a search on the national vehicle identification scheme, the owner of the vehicle was contacted on phone and he confirmed the loss from his vehicle.

    “After due diligence and all security checks, the recovered number plate was handed over to the rightful owner.

    “It is important to highlight that it is in the interest of motorists to ensure that their vehicles are properly registered, ‘’ he said.

    Oladele advised motorists to drive cautiously, obey traffic regulations and follow instructions by the FRSC patrol teams and other traffic agencies.

    NAN

  • Buhari urges religious leaders to fight corruption

    Buhari urges religious leaders to fight corruption

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday charged religious leaders to use their exalted position to assist the on – going crusade against corruption in the country when ministering to followers.

    Buhari said the battle to rid the nation of corruption and corrupt practices should not be left for the administration alone, adding that with the collective support of majority of Nigerians, the menace could be fought to a standstill.

    The President who spoke at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, during the 55th anniversary Conference of the League of Imams and Alfas of Yoruba land, Edo and Delta States, was represented by his Special Adviser on Political Affable, Babafemi Ojudu.

    At the event which was also used to install former Minister of Steel and ex – Secretary to the Ogun State Government, Alh. Tunji Sarafa, as the new Baba Adini of Yoruba land, Edo and Delta States, the President lauded the body for praying fervently for his recovery during the long period he was ill, urging them to continue to pray for him and the unity of the country.

    Buhari said it also was heartwarming to know the Registrar of Joint Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Isiaq Oloyede, is one of them and has represented the religion of Islam and the organization well in the manner he had demonstrated accountability, transparency and commitment.

    He said since the birth of JAMB body has remitted to the coffers of the federal government what Oloyede had paid as the Registrar of the examination body.

    Also, Governor Ibikunle Amosun who declared the conference open urged Muslim Imams and Alfas to continue to work for the peace and unity of the country.

    Amosun said Islam is a religion of peace and advised adherents, particularly the elders and leaders in the faith, to inculcate this into the youths so that they do not conduct themselves in manner that could convey erroneous impressions about the religion.

    The Governor noted that there was the overriding need for Nigerians, notwithstanding their different geographical locations, creeds and ethnic nationalities to live in unity so that genuine growth and development can take place in the country.

    He noted that no people or nation can achieve anything worthwhile in an environment of chaos, hence the need for every citizen to work for the peace of Nigeria.

    “Nothing good can come from an atmosphere of violence, rancour and in atmosphere where people don’t love or tolerate one another. We have to do more in working for the unity of Nigeria,” Amosun said.

    On the new Baba Adini, Tunji Sarafa, Amosun said the office is a “big burden” and prayed that the almighty Allah would grant him the strength and wisdom to succeed.

    In his welcome address, the President – General of League of Imams and Alfas in Yoruba land, Edo and Delta States, Sheikh Muhammed  Jamiu Bello, called for the continued unity of the body and Nigeria.

  • Ogun to spend N203.3m to control gully erosion

    Ogun to spend N203.3m to control gully erosion

    The Ogun Government says it will spend N203.3 million to control gully erosion in 2018.

    Mr Bolaji Oyeleye, the State Commissioner for Environment, disclosed this on Monday, while defending the ministry’s 2018 budget proposal before the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation at the assembly complex, Abeokuta.

    Oyeleye noted that the money would be spent on execution of designs already prepared for amelioration and rehabilitation of some already environmentally-degraded areas in the state.

    Represented by Mr Kunle Osota, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, the commissioner added that N203.3 million was to prevent degradation and arrest gully formation that could cause damage to the ecosystem.

    Oyeleye said N87.9 million had been earmarked for the rehabilitation and repair of water ways across the state.

    Read also: Ogun to spend N30.7bn on roads in 2018

    He added that the ministry had proposed N25 million on repairing and rehabilitation of existing markets and parks across the state.

    ‘‘The ministry will embark on beautification and landscaping at various locations such as Totoro, Ago-Oba roundabout, Ijaiye roundabout, Ake roundabout and Sagamu /Ikenne roundabout.

    “In 2018, we want to acquire 12 Mercedes-Benz Compactor Trucks , 18 Global Power Push Mower, four tricycle Tip Loaders for effective evacuation of refuse across the state,’’ he said.

    He said the ministry had proposed N4.5 billion as capital expenditure, while recurrent expenditure would gulp N625 million with N665 million as expected revenue.

    NAN

  • Ogun to spend N30.7bn on roads in 2018

    Ogun to spend N30.7bn on roads in 2018

    Ogun Government says it will spend N30.7 billion on the construction of roads across the state in 2018.

    The state’s Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr Olamilekan Adegbite, stated this on Monday while defending the ministry’s 2018 budget before members of the House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation, in Abeokuta.

    Adegbite said that part of the amount would be used to settle the bill of contractors of ongoing road projects in major towns of the state, adding that some roads would be constructed through direct labour.

    He disclosed that N5 billion had been budgeted for continuous maintenance and repairs of new roads in the state.

    He explained that the main objective of the 2018 budget was the completion of the 20 ongoing road projects, covering about 357.11kilometres across the state.

    “The government will construct additional 500 kilometres of durable asphalt roads in major towns of the state.

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    “I want to apologise for the delay in the work done on Ijebu bridge; initially funds were very tight but I can tell you categorically that contractors have gone back to site on the bridge.

    “Also, the Sagamu-Ogijo road, contractors are also on site and work has commenced on the road.

    “The government has commenced the process of the establishment of one asphalt plant in the state,” he said.

    The commissioner said that the ministry had proposed N38.9 billion as capital expenditure for 2018, saying that N445 million was earmarked for recurrent expenditure.

    He said that N345 million was expected revenue for the ministry.

    The Chairman of the committee, Mr Olusola Bankole, advised the ministry to ensure that there were good road network across the state.

    Bankole urged the ministry to liaise with the Federal government to fix major roads in the state.

    Other lawmakers who spoke decried the deplorable state of Lagos-Abeokuta, Sagamu-Ogijo and Owode-Ilaro and Emuren road, and called on the ministry to find a lasting solution to the roads.

    NAN