The Police yesterday paraded 19 suspects in Jer, Kaduna State, for their alleged involvement in kidnapping, robbery, car snatching and other crimes.
Four of the suspects – Bature Adamu, Buhari Abubakar, Sani Nasiru and Samaila Yahaya – operate on the Jere-Abuja and Jere-Kaduna highway in military uniforms.
The police said that they usually stop commuters, kidnap them and rape them.
Another suspect, 79-year-old Abdulrashid Riba said he supplies firearms to kidnappers.
Riba claimed that the kidnappers give him returns after their operations.
Other suspects are Saidu Ibrahim, Kabiru Abubakar, Sani Umar, Sani Nasiru, Ibrahim Sulaiman, Yahaya Abdullahi, Bello Anji, Ahmed Abubakar, Adamu Lawan, Audu Lawan, Usman Mohammed, Ahmadu Abdullahi, Yahuza Yahuba, Abubakar Abba and Adamu Haruna.
Items recovered include eight AK 47, 320 7.56mm AK 47 ammunition, 16 live cartridges, 1 GPMG ammunition with magazine, two pairs of military uniforms, charms and car breaking/unlocking tool.
Force Spokesman Jimoh Moshood, a chief superintendent (CSP) said: “They are a vicious gang, which obtains suspected fake military uniforms to perpetrate their activities.
“They come in the middle of the road, stop unsuspected commuters, rob them, kidnap them and sometimes rape them.
“Riba, who is also known as Baba Wakili, is a notorious supplier of firearms and ammunition to the kidnappers.
“He admitted to selling more than five AK 47 to different kidnap gangs and most often, they come back to give him returns which is sometimes in millions of naira.”
The police decried increasing use of fake military uniforms to commit crimes.
Moshood said: “We have increasing use of suspected fake military uniforms by some of these kidnappers and robbers and we are investigating the source.
“We are working with relevant agencies to ensure that we get to the source and anybody arrested would be prosecuted.
“The Intelligence Response Tea, led by ACP Abba Kyari, has investigated further and we have arrested Jibril, who is responsible for supplying military uniforms to the kidnappers”.
On the high rate of illegal firearms, the spokesman said: “You must know that some of the suspects don’t buy these firearms, they make them too for several purposes.
“We are mopping up firearms from wrong hands and in the last two weeks, we have mopped up more than 100 illegal firearms from wrong hands and we would continue to do that to prevent the hoodlums from unleashing terror on Nigerians.
“The display of some of the locally-made guns goes to show that the criminals go beyond buying some of these weapons to making them.
“Our success is increasing and we believe that with funding, we would do more because we are above the criminals and the crimes”, Moshood added.
The police in Abuja yesterday paraded a former personnel of the Department of State Service (DSS), and ten others, for alleged kidnapping and robbery.
The suspects were arrested after they kidnapped Managing Director of Nigeria Paper Mills, Jebba and Chairman, Gateway Insurance, Alhaji Isa Salami.
The victim was rescued from the kidnappers’ hideout, a two-bedroom apartment in the remote side of Suleja, Niger State.
Those paraded are Kelvin Emeka, Ndubushi Prince Uzor, Abdulraheed Maigari, Sunday Travnor, Zayor Alfred, Avah Joseph, Gabriel Friday, Rajab Baba Ishiaka, Ali Sani, Nuhu Sule and Mohammed Abubakar.
Items recovered from them included one AK 47 rifle, three AK 47 magazines, 90 rounds of 7.62 live ammunition, two pistols, 14 rounds of 9mm live ammunition and two bedroom flats at different locations in Suleja.
The police said the former DSS personnel was dismissed for his alleged involvement in a N310 million foreign exchange scandal, belonging to the Senate President Bukola Saraki.
Force spokesman Jimoh Moshood said operatives of IGP’s Intelligence Response team, together with the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of FCT Police Command, swung into action following Salami’s kidnap.
“Kelvin Eemeka, 28, is the overall gang leader. He was earlier charged to Gwagwalada High Court in October 2016, with three others, for kidnapping and robbery. They were released in August, less than eight weeks after their arraignment.
“Ndubisi Prince Ozor, the second-in-command, was also charged for robbery in November 2016 and was released in January.
“Abdulrasheed Maigari, 35, native of Donga council in Taraba State, a 2006 Political Science graduate of Bayero University, Kano, recruited into DSS as a Graduate Officer, dismissed and charged to court for stealing N310 million with some dismissed Army officers in Abuja.
“He was also released and he immediately joined the gang. He rose to become the coordinator and rented the two houses where victims are kept,” Moshood said.
Others paraded are Sunday Tyavnor, the arms dealer who sold the AK 47 Rifle for N470,000 and the two pistols for N60,000 each. He was arrested in Nasarawa State.
“Mohammed Abubakar, 21, native of Mokwa council in Niger State, supplier of pre-registered sim cards to the kidnappers”.
Other members of the gang were guards responsible for guarding and securing victims from escaping.
Moshood said the suspects will be prosecuted after investigation.
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command yesterday paraded some suspected murderers .
Among them was Henry Silas, who allegedly killed the Head of Department of Pathology at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), Dr. Ivy Umanah.
At a media briefing at the police headquarters in Uyo, the state capital, Police Commissioner Murtala Mani said Silas (28), a native of Ikot Akpanwa village in Ika Local Government Area, allegedly used a vehicle iron (car shaft) to hit Dr. Umanah on her head, causing her instant death.
The police chief said the late pathologist gave the suspect a tilling job to do in her apartment.
He said Dr. Festus Abasiubong introduced Silas to the UUTH doctor after completing a designing work at Dr. Abasiubong’s home at Ikot Ntuen village on Abak Road in 2015.
Mani said: “Silas confessed to the crime – that he killed Dr. Umanah with an object, a car shaft, which he picked by the side of her vehicle, which was parked in the compound of the deceased’s house.
“The suspect said he was not sent by anyone to kill the deceased, that the killing was as a result of the disagreement he had with her over the payment of N100,000 for the work he did in her house: tilling and Plaster of Paris (P.O.P) work.
“He also stated that Dr. Abasiubong did not send him for the killing, though it was Dr. Abasiubong who introduced him to the deceased to work for her.”
The police chief said a team of officers from the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), led by Julian Igbudu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), arrested the suspect in Aba, Abia State.
Items belonging to the deceased, which the police allegedly recovered from Silas’ home, include: two car keys, three First Bank and GT Bank ATM cards.
Mani said: “When the house and premises of Silas was searched, the plasma television of the deceased was recovered in his room at 124 Aka Road, Uyo. The cell phone of the deceased has not yet been recovered though he claimed that he lost it inside a tricycle he entered.”
The police commissioner also said another suspect, Glory Bassey (28), killed her 75-year-old father, Bassey Udo, for allegedly being a wizard.
He said the suspect, who is from Itu Local Government Area, broke into her father’s home and hit him to death.
Another suspect, Uwem Akpanebe (17), allegedly killed Mrs. Josephine George with a machete.
Mani said Akpanebe, who is from Essien Udim Local Government Area, is a nephew to the deceased.
The police chief said Akpanebe allegedly killed the woman because he felt Mrs Akpanebe wanted to use him for money ritual.
The suspects spoke separately with our correspondent, confessing to the killings.
Silas said: “I was pleading with the deceased to pay me. But she started complaining about the work, that she did not like the design. The deceased gave me a slap and banged the door on me.
“I got angry and I picked a rod kept outside the compound. I waited for her to come out. When she came out and saw that I was holding a big rod, she became afraid and ran to the parlour.
“I chased her and, in the process, she fell down. I hit her hard on the head with the rod.”
Bassey said: “I had two husbands and five children and all died mysteriously. My brother went mad before he died and my mother had seven strange sicknesses before she died. My father had strange powers and had killed all the children before their birth.
“Five of my children died in my stomach at the point of their birth and were evacuated through surgical operations. I confronted my father about my predicament but he started flogging me while raining abuses on me. I then retaliated by whipping him back only to be told after a day that he had died.”
Akpanebe said: “I was arrested because I killed my mother’s sister. I was told that she wanted to use me for money ritual. I used a machete to kill her.”
The Oyo State Police Command has arrested four persons for allegedly duping a car dealer in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, with a fake bank credit alert of N1.4million the Friday before last.
Briefing journalists while parading the suspects at the Eleyele Police Headquarters in Ibadan, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Leye Oyebade, said that the car was said to have been advertised on Cheki.com by a car dealer, Mr. Segun Okeowo, who is based in Ibadan.
Oyebade gave the names of the suspects as Kingsley Thomas, 25, Ifeanyichukwu Nwaegerue, 30, Ikechukwu Egbere, 28, and Uchena Agba, 27.
The police boss said: “Two among the suspects, who were based in Port Harcourt in Rivers State, signified interest in buying the car on September 15, last month. The car, Toyota Corolla saloon car, which was purportedly stolen through the means by the suspects in Ibadan, was recovered from the accused in Port Harcourt.
“Having completed negotiation, the suspects sent a manipulated false credit alert of N1.4million to the bank account of the unsuspecting auto dealer, who thereafter released and caused the car to be delivered to the supposed genuine buyer at Port Harcourt.
“It, however, dawned on the complainant that he had been defrauded when he went to the bank for confirmation and was astonished to hear that no such money was paid. Consequently, upon the complaint, the command’s Special Monitoring Unit set in motion machinery to arrest the culprits.
“On September 25, 2015, two of the suspects swallowed the bait set by detectives, walked into the dragnet and were rounded up somewhere in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The arrest and subsequent confession of the duo led to the arrest of other members of the gang, who were picked up at different locations in Rivers and Abia States.”
The second group of the suspects comprised six persons who were alleged to have vandalised and stolen giant generators installed by telecommunication service providers to power their masts.
They reportedly committed the offence last Tuesday. Items recovered from them included five giant generators, a half engine and one small welding machine at Okebola area of Ibadan.
The third set of the accused consisted of two persons, Akpan Nyanya, 45, and Ebere Akagba, 43, who were alleged to have trailed one Ambali Lawal from a commercial bank in Iwo Road, Ibadan, where he had gone to collect N500,000. He was waylaid at Olubodun Street in Academy axis of Iwo Road by the two-man robbery gang operating on a motorcycle.
“The armed hoodlums fired some gunshots to subdue their victim, but the alarm raised by the victim and sympathisers attracted the attention of a police patrol team from the Alakia/Adelubi Division. The prompt response of the policemen led to the arrest of the bandits,” said the police chief.
Items said to have been recovered from the suspects included one English-made Barreta pistol, three live ammunition, seven expended 9mm ammunition and shells, and one Honda motorcycle with registration number NRK 475 QC.
Fourteen persons who specialised in stealing generators installed at telecommunications mast by service providers have been arrested by the police in Edo State.
The suspects were apprehended after 32 year-old Chibuzor Ekeze was arrested while taking two stolen generators out of the state.
Chibuzor, who claimed to be invited to Edo State to participate in the crime, was caught in the bush after his gang members ran away and he didn’t know where to go.
Speaking to newsmen, Chibuzor said his brother invited him to Benin and that his role was to watch. He said: “I don’t know much about it. I was told to come to Benin by my brother. I didn’t know what was going on. I was surprised when they were doing the job. We took only two generators and I don’t know anything about buying stolen generator.”
The leader of the gang, who gave his name as Ofuneme, begged God to ask the police for forgiveness. He said: “We used to sell the generators for N300,000. We just carry the generators. If we got there and nobody is watching, we will take the generators and sometimes tie the security up.”
A buyer of the stolen generators, Nonso Okolie, aged 43, said he didn’t know the generators were stolen. “They told me they were given permission to sell and I bought from them. I will call somebody and the person will give me N50,000.”
Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, listed items recovered from the suspects to include two 20KVA Mikano generators, one 100KVA generator, 16 network batteries and a lorry marked AWK 530 XA.
Ezike said several generators stolen by the suspects have been recovered across the country.
Financial constraints may force Nigeria to participate in only 10 sports at the All Africa Games in September. Secretary of Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), Tunde Popoola who dished out the information said past performance will be used as yardstick for deciding the sports to be dropped
“We would have loved to participate in all the sports chosen but paucity of purse will not allow that so we are likely to drop some sports. On the yardstick to be used to determine the sports to drop, we shall look at your past performance at the last Games and then performance in the last two Games,” he said
Nigeria it would be recalled had originally planned to participate in 21 sports at the Games billed for September 4-9.
The sports are athletics, basketball, badminton, boxing, beach volleyball, cycling, football, gymnastics and handball.
Others include judo, karate, table tennis, Para-athletics, power lifting, taekwondo, tennis, rugby, swimming, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling.
Nigeria finished 3rd at the last Games in Maputo clinching a total of 98 medals, 31 Gold, 28 Silver and 39 Bronze.
Like in the past, three former governors were paraded in court last week for alleged corruption and money laundering. Nearly 10 years ago, some former governors were in the same boat. Not all the cases have been decided.Will things be different this time around? Should specialised courts or tribunals be created to handle these cases? Some think so, writes Eric Ikhilae.
• Lamido
The nation has witnessed it all before – the arraignment of former governors for alleged embezzlement and related offences. Last week, two former governors were taken to court for alleged corruption, provoking comments on what will become of their cases since similar cases in the past either ended dramatically or are still pending in court.
How will the cases of former Imo, Adamawa and Jigawa states governors Ikedi Ohakim, Murtala Nyako and Sule Lamido, who were arraigned last week but pleaded not guilty, end?
Corruption, experts say, has thrived due to the unwillingness of past administrations to confront it headlong.
The situation is made worse where identified cases of corruption are either not punished or culprits are given a slap on the wrist, a practice that has nurtured the vice to its pandemic height. The situation is not also helped where corruption cases taken to court linger for years, and, in the process, evidences are either contaminated or destroyed, thereby allowing culprits to walk away free.
• Nyako
Many have argued that, while it is impossible to eradicate corruption in every society, the vice could be reduced significantly in a country where the leadership do not condone acts of corruption (no matter the status of the culprit) combined with an effectual criminal justice system.
With the resolve of the government, led by President Muhammadu Buhari, to confront corruption headlong, the next step is to position the criminal justice system to effectively play its part.
Every criminal justice system consists of three core elements; the first being the investigative process (involving the investigating agencies), the second is the trial process (the court system), while the third is the prison system.
The officials mostly fingered for the frequent failure recorded in the prosecution of corruption cases are the investigative agencies and the court system, who are blamed for poor investigation and delayed trial. Instances abound where cases of corruption failed to yield conviction at trial, owing to weak evidences from poor quality of investigation.
• Ohakim
Often times, the investigating agencies – the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), among others – blame their inability to provide iron-cast evidence to paucity of funds, as was the case under the immediate past administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.
It has also been argued, however, that where such agencies were well-funded in the past, some of the funds were mostly misapplied, thereby denying the agencies the capacity to acquire the requisite tools and training for their personnel.
Today, most investigative agencies, particularly the NPF, do not have a functional forensic laboratory, and, as such, cannot conduct scientific investigation. This is despite the huge sums it has received over the years as budgetary allocations. Police investigators rely on confessional statements (which are mostly induced) and circumstantial evidence to secure conviction in criminal cases.
A former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloma Mukhtar, was once compelled to express her displeasure over this practice, which she argued also accounted for congestion in the prisons.
Speaking at the event marking the commencement of the 2013/2014 legal year in September 2013, Justice Muktar noted: “It is common knowledge that our security agencies usually rush to the courts with suspects before looking for evidence to prosecute them.
“The persistent use of the ‘Holden Charge’ by these agencies to detain awaiting trial suspects is a major contributor to the high number of cases pending in our courts.
”This procedure is a far cry from what obtains in other democracies, where discrete surveillance is placed on crime suspects who are painstakingly stalked by security agents, until such a time when enough evidence would have been obtained for their arrest, arraignment and prosecution.
“But in Nigeria, suspects are promptly arrested and often times arraigned in court, even when no evidence for prosecution has been gathered. The backlash from such failure of proper investigation by our security agencies is the resultant hike in the number of cases pending in the courts.”
The court system is not any better. Cases linger for years due to archaic procedural rules and practices that allow for undue delay. Aside that, court rules allow for the hearing of any application once filed, makes provision for interlocutory appeal that results in the stay of proceedings at trial court. Some practices by trial judges also aid delay. Some judges still adjourn cases solely for mention.
Where most courts claim to have spent huge sums in procuring Information and Communications Technology (ICT) tools, they still operate manually. From the Supreme Court, through the Court of Appeal, the Federal High Court to the various state High Courts, processes are still filed manually, while hearing notices and other information are passed to parties manually, in spite of the requirement that lawyers, in every case, include his/her contact information, including e-mail address on every process filed.
Again, Justice Mukhtar also, in the speech she delivered at the same event, expressed displeasure over the delay and the slow pace of the process of justice administration in the country.
She attributed this to archaic judicial practices, noting that the process of interlocutory appeals aggravates the situation to the extent that, by the time the Supreme Court decides that hearing be continued in trial court, most of the witnesses might have died or alive but senile, with documents no longer traceable.
She advocated an overhaul of the criminal laws, which she described as “archaic and culturally irrelevant. She observed that “to exhaust complete remedy in a case today, that is from trial court to Supreme Court, could take up to 20 years with the original litigants dead and substituted and, in some cases, the substitutes also dead and substituted.”
Justice Muktar’s successor, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, argued that the failure to ensure a functional justice administration system accounted for the growing impunity in the land.
He noted that, despite that the world accepts the intangible, yet, strong link between law and order, and development of the society, Nigeria struggles to provide an efficient, fair and effective system of justice that is able to ensure that everyone, regardless of station or status, can access quality justice that is administered quickly.
“The reality paints a sobering picture. The number of cases pending before the courts has reached critical proportions and we must use all appropriate means to stop it from spiraling out of control. At the Supreme Court, there were over 800 appeals filed in 2014 alone with another 10 appeals filed already in 2015 alone. The court registry is burdened with over 5000 appeals, and the panel of Justices are still hearing appeals filed in 2005.
“As of the third quarter of 2014, there were 38, 307 cases pending in the Federal Courts alone. If one considers the number of cases pending in State High Courts and other courts of record, you will all agree with me that the situation is indeed disturbing and sobering,” Justice Mohammed said.
As a way out, many have argued that a combination of effects on the part of the investigating and prosecuting agencies on the one hand, and the Judiciary, on the other, will help record the desired success in this administration’s resolve to fight corruption.
Justice Mukhtar provided similar argument in 2012 while speaking at the event marking the commencement of 2012/2013 legal year, when she contended that “the administration of justice is not confined to the courts; it encompasses officers of the law and others whose duties are necessary to ensure that the courts function effectively.
“The constitution provides that the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, as the Chief law officer of the federation, has the power to institute, undertake, take-over, continue or discontinue criminal proceedings before the courts of law in Nigeria in respect of offences created under any Act of the National Assembly.
“It therefore, follows that the courts cannot on their own, prosecute criminal cases. There must be the willingness of all prosecuting agencies to prosecute cases brought before our courts, especially high profile cases of corruption and all others.”
The expectation that the nation’s criminal justice system operates effectively to deter, and in most cases punish acts of corruption has led many to suggest the creation of a separate court or tribunal to try corruption cases speedily as is the case with the National Industrial Court (NIC), with exclusive jurisdiction on labour-related disputes and the Election Tribunals, with sole jurisdiction on election disputes.
This suggestion has, however, ignited debate as to whether it was necessary or not the country needs a special court for corruption cases before to address the delay currently associated with the trial of corruption cases.
While those in favour of the creation of a separate court argue that it will aid prompt determination of such cases, those against called for the review of existing court rules and practice procedures as a better and cheaper way out.
• Magaji
Senior lawyers, including Sebastine Hon, Joseph Nwobike, Mahmud Magaji and Ade Adedeji (all Senior Advocates of Nigeria), also expressed divergent views on the issue. While Hon and Magaji are in support of the creation of a separate court to handle corruption cases, Nwobike and Adedeji do not.
Hon supported the creation of separate courts manned by High Court judges or persons of equal standing in law to handle corruption cases. He advocated that such courts should also be superior courts of record.
“If we can have the National Industrial Court, specifically for industrial/employment related matters, the Federal High Court for federal related causes, by and large, and then, we also have the Election Tribunals to handle election matters, there is nothing stopping us from having a specialised court to handle corruption cases.
• Adedeji
This is because corruption is hydra-headed and monstrous. It is better we take it serious. And that will, to a very reasonable extent, eradicate the delays experienced when these matters go to the regular courts, which handle other matters. They have the discretion to adjourn cases at will.
“In addition, the Constitution should also be amended to provide timeline within which such criminal trials should be conducted and concluded. This should apply to the trial court and the appellate courts, as is the case with election petitions.
“Now, it is difficult for you, in election matters to exceed the 300 days provided in election matters. You have 180 days allocated to proceedings at the tribunal, 60 days at the Court of Appeal and another 60 days at the Supreme Court. So, what stops us from also having such constitutional arrangement in for corruption matters? I support the call for specialsed courts for corruption cases and the amendment of the Constitution to allow timelines for the trial of corruption cases,” Hon said.
Magaji also said he subscribes to have a separate court or an anti-corruption tribunal. He advocated that such a court or tribunal should be headed by Justices, particularly retired Justices of the Supreme Court.
“If we do not have separate court, there will be the problem of overlapping of jurisdiction. The best thing is for us to create anti-corruption tribunal that will have similar powers with those of the state High Court, and appeals can go from there to the Court of Appeal, and then, the Supreme Court.
“This will allow prompt determination of these cases. For instance, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has up to 20 cases on its list every day. The situation is made difficult when there are a number of Senior Advocates in court, whose cases, by tradition, are taken first.
“But when you have a separate court, whose e responsibility is to hear just corruption cases, proceeding in such cases will move fast. We can start by way of tribunals, before the Constitution is amended to allow for the creation of such a specialised court,” Magaji said.
Nwobike argued that the creation of special court for corruption cases will not serve any useful purpose. He contended that while creation of specialised courts for corruption is not prudent, the country should be vary in its quest for speedy justice in order not to sacrifice justice at the altar of speed.
“What I also know is that the various courts, that is the Federal High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court have developed practice directions aimed at ensuring that criminal and corruption related cases are speedily determined. That, to me, is sufficient.
“We cannot afford to create special court for everything. Experience has shown that it is the same manpower, the same judges, the same lawyers and the same litigants will attend the specialised court. So, this attitude, responsible for delays in the regular courts, will also affect the specialised court.
“There is no justification for the creation of special courts. What I will suggest is that the various practice directions and others measures to aid speedy administration of justice should be given due attention at all levels.
“We must remember that when we talk about speed in the determination of criminal cases, we have to be very careful so that we do not sacrifice justice at the altar of speed. If we emphasise speed as against justice, the court may end up convicting innocent people and, in the process, let criminals go scot-free. That is not the intention of the law and criminal justice system,”Nwobike said.
Adedeji also disagreed with the argument that the country needs to have a different court to corruption cases. He argued that the country currently has enough courts to dispense justice in most of these cases.
“The problem has to do with abuse of processes by counsel. There is need for effective and more pragmatic rules to ensure that cases are expeditiously determined. So, in my view, it all comes down to abuse of processes. If a specialised court is provided to try some of these cases, we will still have the same problem.
“Essentially, it comes down to deliberate abuse of court processes, coupled with the fact that we need to be more aggressive in ensuring frequent reforms of our rules. In my view, a combination of these processes (preventing process abuse and ensuring frequent reform of court’s rules) will deal with these issues we are complaining about,” Adedeji said.
Despite the lack of consensus yet on the desirability or otherwise of a specialised court for corruption cases, the position remains that the current arrangement needs to be tinkered with for corruption cases to be determined expeditiously.
Home-Based Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi is set to bring changes in his starting line-up in today’s African Nations Championship (CHAN) third place game against Zimbabwe’s Brave Warriors.
In his Friday evening warm-up session with his players, Heartland FC of Owerri first choice shot stopper, Daniel Akpeyi looks set to replace not too impressive Chigozie Agbim in goal against Zimbabwe.
Also Bayelsa United defender, Ikechukwu Gabriel could replace injured Kunle Odunlami in defence, as he was seen pairing up with Azubuike Egwuekwe.
Meanwhile, injured Sunshine Stars of Akure midfielder, Ikenna Hillary did not train in the last training session confirming fears that he was yet to recover from the injury he sustained earlier in the tournament.
