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  • Applicant arraigned for allegedly beating up police officer

    A 31-year-old applicant, Adamu Hassan, was yesterday arraigned at a Daura Road Chief Magistrates’ Court, Kaduna, for allegedly beating up a police officer, Sgt. Victoria Danjuma.

    He was, however, granted N200,000 bail.

    Magistrate Zainab Mohammed ordered the defendant to produce one surety.

    The case was adjourned till May 24 for hearing.

    The defendant, who lives at Shagari Low Cost Housing Estate, Kaduna, pleaded not guilty to a two-count charge of criminal intimidation and assault.

    Prosecutor Sunday Baba told the court that the accused on April 24, assaulted the police officer at Ungwar Sarki, Kaduna.

    He said while the police officer was performing her duty at FCMB, near Ugwan Sarki, Kaduna, the defendant assaulted her.

    Baba said the defendant during an argument with the officer, slapped her, beat her up and pushed her down.

    He said the offences contravened sections 377 and 239 of the Penal Code Laws of Kaduna State, 2017.

  • Applicant in court for alleged sexual assault

    A 38-year-old applicant, Tony Allan, has been arraigned at an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly sexually assaulting a neighbour’s daughter.

    The defendant, who lives at 9, Ali Street, Olowora, Ogba, Lagos, was arraigned for sexual assault.

    The prosecutor, Raphael Donny, told the court that the offence was committed on October 23 at the defendant’s home.

    He alleged that the defendant lured the 14-year-old girl into his room on the pretext of sending her on an errand.

    “The defendant fingered the girl until she started bleeding. He told her not to tell anyone,’’ Donny said.

    He added that when the girl could not bear the pains anymore, she told her mother and the case was reported at the police station.

    The offence contravenes Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The defendant pleaded not guilty.

    The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Folakemi Davies – Abegunde, granted the defendant bail at N500,000 with two sureties.

    She adjourned the case till December 18 for mention.

  • Applicant remanded for ‘attacking’ man with cutlass

    A 28-year-old applicant, Idris Mohammed, has been remanded in Keffi prison for allegedly attacking Ali Gambo with a cutlass and inflicting an injury on his back.

    The judge, Yakubu Ishaku, remanded Mohammed after he pleaded not guilty to a  two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and extortion.

    Ishaku adjourned the case till September 6 for hearing.

    The prosecutor, Mr. Frank Swem, told the court that on August 11, about 11:15 a.m., Gambo came to the Divisional Police Station at Masaka and reported the matter.

    He said the defendant on the day at Masaka market conspired with two others at large to commit the crime.

    The defendant and his accomplices, he said, attacked the complainant with a cutlass and collected N40,500 from him.

    The prosecutor said the act contravened sections 97 and 292 of the Penal Code.

    He opposed bail for the defendant, saying the complainant was badly injured and was receiving treatment.

  • Police arraign applicant for theft

    Police arraign applicant for theft

    The police on Tuesday arraigned an applicant, Jimoh Ibrahim, in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for sneaking into a retailing shop to steal goods while the shop owner was sleeping.

    Ibrahim, 32, of no fixed address, was charged with theft contrary to Sections 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

    He pleaded not guilty to the charge and was granted bail by Magistrate T.O Shomade in the sum of N10, 000 with two sureties in like sum.

    Shomade adjourned the case till Jan.27, for mention.

    The Prosecutor, Insp. Akeem Raji, had told the court that Ibrahim committed the offences on Dec. 30 at Aina Street, Ojota, Lagos.

    Raji said that the accused unlawfully entered the shop of one Olubunmi Oyedele and stole her goods.

    He said that the accused sneaked into the shop and packed some of her clothes and shoes into a ‘Ghana must go’ sack.

    “The accused entered the complainant’s shop while she was sleeping and stole her goods.

    “A neighbour, who sighted the accused when he sneaked into the complainant’s shop, raised alarm when she saw the accused sneaking out with a sack of the stolen items.

    “The accused was arrested and the stolen items were recovered,’’ he said.

     

  • Applicant wins bank’s star prize

    The management of Fidelity Bank Plc in Jos, the Plateau State capital, has presented a cheque of N500,000 to the winner of its August Costumer Reward Prize, Ogbona Chris Anthony, an applicant.

    The Jos branch Manager of the bank, Mr. Stephen Uchendu said: “The presentation of the award is part of the monthly reward the bank gives to its loyal consumers. This category of award is called Rain Support Promo; it is for tenants, who have no houses of their own, and the amount won is to help such customer pay his rent, hence we call it Rain Support Promo.

    “All customers who have such account must have N20,000 in his account to qualify for the draw, the draw runs ones in each month and we use the first Monday of each month to present the award. The winner that is claiming this cheque of N500,000 is the lucky one for the month of August raffle draw.’’

    The prize winner said, “I never believed this was real; I used to be a strong critic of all these promos, but with this presentation, I’m now convinced that they are real. As an applicant, you can imagine what impact this amount will have in my life; as an Igbo man I am going to start business with this money.”

  • Applicant arraigned for alleged fake naira notes

    An applicant, Chikezie Chukwu, has been arraigned for allegedly being in possession of fake naira notes and stealing N70,000.

    Chukwu, 20, was arraigned in an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos on a four-count charge of obtaining under false pretence, stealing and being in possession of fake notes.

    The Investigating Police Officer, Adewunmi Oderinmade, told the court that the offence was committed on August 22 at 2nd junction Road, Ikotun.

    Oderinmade told the court that Chukwu purchased goods valued at N70,000 from one Esther Ojetokun and paid her with fake naira notes.

    The accused, he said, could not give satisfactory reasons about the fake notes in his possession after his arrest.

    The offence, he said, contravened Sections 285, 312, 370 and 409 of the Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.

    Chukwu pleaded not guilty.

    Magistrate M.O Olajuwon granted the accused N50,000 bail with one surety in the like sum. He adjourned the case till September 28.

  • Applicants lament screening test

    The first post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), under Prof Abdulganiyu Ambali as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), was held penultimate Monday. The results were released a few hours after the exercise.

    Thousands of applicants besieged the computer-based test (CBT) centre, the venue of the test, to participate in the process.

    For the first time, the university lowered its cut-off mark to 180, which gave many candidates the opportunity to write the entrance test after paying between N2,000 and N4,000 for the exercise.

    The Students’ Union Government (SUG) members were on hand to ensure the success of the process. The union officials were led by the President, Hameed Lawal.

    The candidates moved into the CBT centre in batches to write the test. Abdulazeez Popoola, an applicant from Abeokuta, said: “Majority of the questions I answered were basically on Biology, which I never did in UTME. I had expected the school to give us a test based on the subjects we did in UTME. This is not the best way to test candidates’ ability.”

    CAMPUSLIFE gathered that a large number of candidates got less than 50 per cent pass mark, a failure which many of the applicants attributed to the format the university used in testing them. Many of the candidates, who wanted to study social science courses, complained that they were tested in science-based subjects than general questions.

    Meanwhile, the university is yet to set its cut-off mark for the post-UTME.