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  • Man, wife, baby die in ‘Xmas fire

    A man, his wife and baby have died in a Christmas Day fire at 27 Mabel Street, off Etete Road, Benin.

    Eyewitnesses said the fire started about 2 am and the family of three died before help could get to them.

    The landlord, Mr. Egberamwen Nosakhare, said he saw smoke coming from one of the tenant’s room.

    “I forced the door opened and saw flames from the gas cooker, but there was nothing I could do. I was helpless and could not go in. The family died in the fire.”

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    A tenant, Mrs. Osayande Joseph, said she ran into her room to pick up her child and ran through the back door into the bush because there was flame everywhere.

    Another tenant, Okhuoghae Osawaru, said: “The affected family was inside the house when the fire started. The man is hardworking; he just returned from outstation to celebrate Christmas with his wife and baby. He is hardworking, humble and nice. It is a pity that this happened on Christmas day.”

    Names of the victims could not be ascertained last night.

  • ‘Man steals’ N1m goods

    A 43-year-old man, Abdulkabir Anifowose, was yesterday brought before an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court for allegedly staling his employer’s goods worth over N1million.

    Prosecutor Lucky Ihiehie alleged that Anifowose on August 10 at Bola Onasanya Street, Ramat, Ogudu, broke into his employer’s shop and stole items.

    He said the accused stole three air conditioners, a washing machine, three tyres, a bath tube and a bicycle, all valued at N1, 030, 000.

    Ihiehie said Mr. Samuel Oriowo, the complainant, reported the matter at Ogudu Police Station on August 12.

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    He said the offence contravened Section 287 (7) of the Criminal Law of Lagos, 2015.

    Anifowose pleaded not guilty.

    Magistrate E. Kubeinje granted him N250,000 bail, with two sureties in the like sum.

    The case continues on January 21.

     

  • Man remanded for alleged rape

    A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kano yesterday ordered that a 30-year-old man, Nura Bala, be remanded in prison for the alleged rape of a 22-year-old woman.

    The accused, who lives at Dorayi Quarters in Kano is facing a one-count charge of rape. Bala, however, pleaded not guilty.

    Chief Magistrate Muhammad Jibril ordered that the accused be remanded in prison and adjourned the case till December 27 for further mention.

    Prosecutor Pogu Lale had told the court that Fatima Salisu of Gwazaye Quarters, Kano, reported the case at Dorayi Babba Police Station on November 8.

    He said on November 6, about 7:30 pm, the accused deceived the complainant’s 22-year-old daughter on the pretext of marrying her.

    The prosecutor alleged that the accused lured the victim to an isolated area at Gwazaye Quarters, Kano, and forcefully had unlawful sexual intercourse with her.

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    “Some days after the incident, the victim became mentally unstable and is receiving treatment at Dorayi Rehabilitation Centre, Kano,’’ he said.

  • Man, 69, blind, homeless cries for help

    Until 27 years ago, Idris Jimoh Ajibaye, 69, was very independent; he could feed his family of five, pay school fees and even drive his family on outings in his 504 Peugeot car. But all these came to a stop when he suddenly lost his sight.

    Was he sick? This reporter asked when the former tipper truck driver visited The Nation on Tuesday to tell his sad story and ask for assistance to rent a house as he doesn’t have a place to live in anymore.

    Hear him: “I was not born blind. In 1991, after breakfast, I went to the motor park to take my tipper out for work, but as soon as I entered the tipper and switched on the engine , my sight left me. I was supposed to go and load sharp sand, I had not gotten to the place but I just couldn’t see anymore.

    “I never had any problems with my sight until that fateful morning. After losing my sight , I started visiting  hospitals, herbalists, mosques and churches to see if I could get it back until the right was restored one and I started  to  drive again. But on  August 17, 1999,  I lost the right eye  again and I became completely blind till today.”

    He said on the day he lost  his sight the  second time, he had delivered sand to the TeslimBalogun Stadium  three times and was preparing for his fourth trip when he noticed that he couldn’t see anymore.

    ”I used to have two tippers, and a car. I bought my first tipper in 1986 and the second in 1993, but right now, I don’t have anything. The plate numbers of my tippers were LA 249 BE and 012304AH. The person I gave them to manage didn’t use them well. He kept telling me stories till I sold them off.“

    He continued: “After I went blind again, I began to spend money until I spent all I had on trying to find a solution to my blindness. Soon, I couldn’t take up my responsibilities anymore. I began to live on what people give to me.”

    More tragedy struck him when his wife died from tuberculosis in 2007 shortly after his only son died. Ajibaye was sent away from the house he used to live in and his friend who gave him a room after his eviction also told him that he needed the place as soon as possible.

    What this means is that he may soon be sent out to the streets.

    He is calling on well-meaning Nigerians to assist him with another home. “I have written to AsiwajuBola Ahmed Tinubu, Babatunde RajiFashola and even Governor AkinwunmiAmbode since my predicament began because I supplied almost all the sand used in building Alausa in 1975, but I haven’t heard anything from them. I don’t think they even saw the letters.”

    Crying, Ajibaye said if he had built a house before now, he wouldn’t be  begging  as one of his two daughters who is married, along with her husband, tries to feed him once a day.

    ”My daughter is not working and I cannot burden her husband with all the responsibility. If I had a male child, who was alive, I would have pleaded with him to take me in or rent a place for me. They feed me but they cannot pay the rent. I need help to get another house. I used to pay my rent with the help of people but they couldn’t meet up with the payment anymore.

    Donations can be made to First Bank account 3061524502 with account name IdrisJimohAjibaye.

  • FDI increases to $208.7m in Q2, says MAN

    • India is Nigeria’s export destination

    The manufacturing sector’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) increased to $208.7 million in the second quarter of 2018, from $141.42 million in corresponding period of 2017. This indicated $67.3 million or 47.6 per cent increase over the period.

    Making this known in a report made available to The Nation, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) stated that the investment also increased by $64.83 million or 45 per cent when compared with $144.0 million recorded in the preceding quarter.

    MAN Director-General Mr. Segun Ajayi-Kadir, said the manufacturing sector’s performance in the first half of 2018 was strongly influenced by macroeconomic developments in the period under review.

    “Generally, macro-economic indices slightly improved in the period given the deceleration in inflation rate, growing external reserves, stable forex and the steady high crude oil price in the international market,” he said.

    Ajayi-Kadir, however, said consumption continued to dampen due to high commodity prices strongly induced by unfavorable exchange rate parity, its impact on cost of production and the general consumer real disposable income.

    “Moreover, over-regulation and the attendant multiple charges, and non-synchronic commercial policies affected activities in the sector negatively within the review period,” he added.

    He canvassed, among others, the resuscitation of domestic refining  of crude oil  in the country; ensuring the operation of Independent Power Producers  (IPP) for on/off grid power generation and  the Micro  Grid Initiative; re-classifying the manufacturing sector into strategic gas users from  the current commercial gas users classification.

    He also recommended the rehabilitation of existing key road network across the country; accelerate further commitment to the development of the rail way system; engage in Public Private Partnership (PPP) programme through the establishment of concession agreements under Built-Operate-Transfer (BOT) in road construction, maintenance, rail construction and maintenance with credible organisations.

    On forex, Ajayi-Kadir called on government to entrench better exchange rate management, advising that forex allocation should tilt more to the industrial sector including the Sm,all and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

    He called for the recapitalisation of Bank of Industry (BoI), full operationalisation of the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) and the intensification of the implementation of the Moveable Collateral Registry and Credit Reporting System.

    The MAN boss, however, decried the low patronage of indigenous products. asking the Federal Government to enforce the Executive Orders 003 and 005 which make it mandatory for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to patronise made-in-Nigeria goods.

    Overall, MAN gave kudos to the economy, noting that Nigeria’s external reserves rose to $47.63 billion in the second quarter of 2018, from $30.29 billion in the corresponding period of 2017, indicating $17.34 billion or 57.2 per cent increase over the period.

    MAN also said external reserves increased by $4.48 billion or 10.4 per cent compared with $43.15 billion recorded in the preceding quarter. The external reserves covered approximately seven months imports in the second quarter of 2018.

    The MAN DG, however, regretted that the nation’s public debt profiles maintained upward trend in the second quarter of 2018, with external debt surging to $22.08 billion in the second quarter of 2018, from $15.05 billion in the corresponding quarter of 2017. This indicated a $7.03 billion or 46.7 per cent increase.

    Domestic debt stood at N15.63 trillion in the second quarter of 2018, up by N3.6 trillion or 30.0 per cent from N12.03 trillion recorded in the corresponding quarter of 2017, and  N3.05 trillion or 24.2 per cent of N12.58 trillion recorded in  the preceding quarter.

    MAN also  observed that FDI declined to $0.261 billion in the second quarter of 2018 by   $0.013 billion or 4.7 per cent from $0.274 billion recorded in the corresponding quarter of 2017.

    On trade, Ajayi-Kadir said Nigeria’s total merchandise trade in the second quarter of 2018 stood at N6.57 trillion, down from N7.21 trillion recorded in the first quarter of 2018.

    According to him, export trade recorded N4.4 trillion in the second quarter of 2018, representing 4.9 per cent contraction over N4.7 trillion of first quarter.

    While import trade stood at N2.11 trillion in the second quarter of 2018, representing 13.3 per cent decline from N2.52 trillion of the first quarter of the year, Nigeria’s balance of trade recorded a surplus of N2.36 trillion in the second quarter of 2018.

    This indicated an increase of N1.85 trillion over N506.51 billion recorded in the corresponding quarter of 2017, and declined by N0.18 trillion from N2.18 trillion recorded in the preceding quarter.

    The MAN boss observed that India maintained dominance amongst Nigeria’s export destination countries in the second quarter of 2018, with an export trade valued at N722.58 billion. While The Netherlands came second with export worth N457.6 billion, Spain came third with Nigeria’s export worth N426.07 billion in the quarter.

    On imports, he revealed that China ranked first amongst Nigeria’s import countries, with import trade value of N531.55 billion, while The Netherlands was second with imports worth N181.00 billion. Belgium was in the third place, with imports worth N170.0 billion in the second quarter of 2018.

     

  • Man gets five-month jail term for stealing iron rods

    A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court in the FCT yesterday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Ibrahim Hanuna, to five months’ imprisonment for stealing iron rods from a construction site.

    The judge, Alhaji Inuwa Maiwada, however, gave Hanuna an option of a N6, 000 fine.

    Maiwada warned the convict to desist from crime.

    Hanuna, of Jabi Garage, Abuja, had pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of criminal trespass and stealing and prayed for leniency.

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    The prosecuting counsel, Mrs Ukagha Ijeoma, told the court that Suleiman Usman of the National Health Insurance Service, Utako, Abuja, reported the matter at the Utako Police Station on December 4.

    Ijeoma said on the same date, the convict criminally trespassed into the NHIS construction site at Jabi, without their consent.

    She told the court that the convict stole two iron rods, value yet unknown, from the site but he was caught immediately and handed over to the police.

    The prosecutor said the offences contravened sections 348 and 289 of the Penal Code and that the convict confessed to the crime.

     

  • Man, 57, remanded for allegedly defiling girl, 5

    Senior Magistrates’ Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has ordered the remand in prison custody of a 57-year-old man, Okosimeka Jamabo, for allegedly defiling a five-year-old girl.

    Jamabo, a grandfather and landlord to the victim’s grandmother, allegedly had carnal knowledge of the girl at his home in Borokiri Sandfield on October 3, about noon.

    The victim’s grandmother (complainant) kept the girl in the suspect’s custody when she was going to the market, but before she returned, the suspect defiled her.

    The charge was read to him, but he was not allowed to take a plea.

    Jamabo’s lawyer, C.A. Orukwala, applied for his bail, but the prosecutor, Police Inspector Godwin Nwinam, objected to the bail on the grounds that the case was about a capital offence and the court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the matter.

    He said the offence contravened Section 218 of the Criminal Code Cap 37 Vol. I Laws of Rivers State Nigeria, 1999.

    Magistrate Gomba Osaro rejected the bail application and ordered that the bail be sought at the high court.

    She said the suspect should be remanded in prison custody and the case file be forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for legal advice.

    Osaro adjourned the matter till December 20 for DPP’s advice.

     

     

  • Uniformed men beat up man, wife, daughter in Yaba

    Uniformed men yesterday at Iwaya in Yaba, Lagos Mainland, allegedly beat up a couple and their daughter.

    The Nation learnt that the uniformed beat up Taiwo John, his wife, Omonike  and their daughter because he allegedly blocked their path.

    It was gathered that about 30 uniformed men invaded the community over land dispute. They had no name tags on their uniforms.

    The land dispute, sources said, was still in court.

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    Taiwo told The Nation that he was standing in front of his house when the incident happened.

    “I was standing in front of my house at Idowu Ogunde Street this morning (yesterday) when I saw about nine uniformed men coming. One of them said I was standing on their way and about three of them beat me up. I could not fight them because they had guns. They also beat up my wife and our 20-year-old daughter. Neighbours and the landlord association rescued us,” he said.

    He implored the government to rescue the community “because these uniformed men have been parading our area with guns for the past 10 days.”

  • Man ‘defiles’ speech-impaired teenager

    The police in Lagos have arrested 40-year-old Mukaila Aliu for alleged sexual assault on a speech-impaired teenager.

    Aliu, a resident of 17, Peluola Street, Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos, was arrested on November 19, a year after committing the alleged offence.

    The suspect was said to have been on the run since November 10 last year when he allegedly lured the victim under the guise that he wanted to buy noodles for her.

    The 16-year-old victim was said to have followed Aliu to an abandoned shop on Oshodi Road where he allegedly raped her.

    Passersby reportedly caught him in the act, but the suspect fled and had remained in hiding until November 19, when he was seen demanding levy from a property developer, claiming to be an ‘Omo onile’ (child of owner of land).

    The Nation learnt that unfortunately for him, a worker at the site recognised him and alerted the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Makinde Police Station, Mafoluku, Oshodi, who arrested him and handed him over to the Gender Section of the command for investigation.

    Confirming the incident, police spokesman Chike Oti said the suspect would be arraigned at a Family Court tomorrow.

    He said the command also nabbed a 56-year-old guard, Bello, who allegedly defiled his daughter every night and forced her to drink contraceptives.

    Oti said: “The guard used to work at a school in Lagos. I will not give his name and that of the school for the sake of the minor.

    “But the suspect was reported by the school authorities that he had been having sex with his daughter, who lived with him in a room given to him by the school management.

    “According to the minor, her father sleeps with her every night. Thereafter he gives her contraceptives to prevent her from becoming pregnant.

    “We also arrested Chika Okafor, 39, a resident of 3/16, Oketa Street, Mende, Maryland who on October 17, raped a 15-year-old girl and shaved her pubic hair.

    “The teenager ran from home because her mother threatened to beat her up for losing an important item. The suspect carried her in his car and took her to a beer parlour where he convinced her to take alcoholic drinks.

    “Being her first time to indulge in such habit, the girl became drunk after guzzling several bottles of alcoholic drinks. Seeing the condition of the minor, he took her to a hotel at Oshodi.

    “At that point, the little girl, whom he had undressed, told him to let her be because she was a virgin, but he shaved her pubic hair, defiled her and kept the pubic hair.

    “The following morning, the suspect took her to his friend’s home in Maryland, Lagos and had sex with her again. He thereafter took the minor in his car and dropped her at the nearest location to her parents’ house.

    “The girl narrated her ordeal to her mum and she petitioned Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal, who ordered a manhunt for the suspect. He was arrested on November 24 by detectives attached to the Gender Unit of the command. The suspects will be arraigned at the Family Court tomorrow.”

  • Man allegedly kills daughter in Benue

    •’God ordered me to sacrifice her’

    The police in Benue State have arrested a man, John Depuun, who allegedly killed his nine-month-old daughter.

    The incident occurred on Wednesday at Mbagur, Shangev- Tiev in Konshisha Local Government.

    Police spokesman Moses Yamu confirmed the incident.

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    He said: “The man has been arrested. Investigation is on to unravel the motive behind the killing.”

    The Nation learnt that the man used a sharp knife to kill his daughter, cutting her neck.

    He reportedly claimed that God in a dream ordered him to do so.

    According to the suspect, God instructed him to use his daughter for sacrifice.