PEPC Plans To Consolidate Atiku, Obi, APM’s Petitions
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The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has hinted of plan to consolidate the three remaining petitions challenging the outcome of the last presidential election.
The petitions are those filed by presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) Atiku Abubakar, the PDP; Peter Obi and LP and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).
At the resumption of the pre-hearing session in the petition by Atiku and the PDP on Saturday, Justice Tsammani asked lawyers in the case to address the court on whether the surviving petitions should be consolidated as provided in Paragraph 50 of the First Schedule to the Electoral Act 2022.
Tinubu Mourns Balogun
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The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Saturday, rued the exit of the late founder of First City Monument Bank, Otunba Subomi Balogun, who he described as a giant among men for his trailblazing role in Nigerian investment banking.
The consummate banker and philanthropist, renowned for his royal and sartorial elegance, died in London on Friday, according to his family.
In a condolence message issued in Abuja by his media officer, Tunde Rahman, the President-elect mourned his transition.
Tinubu said his death would create a vacuum that will be difficult to fill in the banking industry and among his Ijebu people, where he was a symbol of unity and traditional values.
Four Ekiti kidnappers in police net
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The Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State Command, Dare Ogundare, on Friday, paraded 16 suspects arrested for various criminal activities.
Four of them were nabbed over alleged kidnapping in the Oke Ako area of the state and parts of Kwara State.
Ogundare, who assured that the command would continue to fight crime, said the suspects would be charged at the completion of investigations.
The CP said the police in Ekiti, in conjunction with the Kogi State Police Command, arrested one Abu Hassan, popularly known as Danger, and Abubakar Sodiq, who were notorious kidnappers that had been terrorising residents around Iyemero/Oke-Ako/Irele/Ipao-Ekiti areas of Ekiti.
The police boss said the kidnap victims in the Oke Aki axis identified Danger.
One locally-made single-barrelled gun and two live cartridges were recovered from the suspects. An effort is ongoing for the possible arrest of other fleeing suspects,” he added.
The commissioner noted that men of the command also arrested one Umar Hassan and Yusuf Lawal for allegedly invading the Ayenco area, Eda-Ile Ekiti, and kidnapping one Mary Olajumoke, who was released after a ransom was paid.
EFCC arrests 26 suspected internet fraudsters in Abuja
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The Abuja Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has apprehended 26 suspected internet fraudsters in Kubwa, Abuja.
The EFCC said the significant breakthrough in its fight against cybercrime was made in its latest operation in a statement on its official Facebook page.
According to the statement, the suspects are Favour Obinna, Chinaza Onuigbo, Abdulrahman Ibrahim, Suleiman Daude, Ali Daude, Godwin Ifeanyi, Victor Ageme, Enoch Alfa, Wisdom Ndubuisi, Matthew Gideon, Stanly Kosi, Japhet Akogun, James Efegha and Christopher Enaho.
Others, the statement said were Daniel Benjamin, Idris Salvation, Idris Victor, Ikechukwu Ephraim Idris, Abdullahi Sani, Jeremiah Yacim, Chindu Chukwuma, Mohammed Daude Hamisu, Tochukwu Trust, Theophilus Marshal, Sani Solomon and Chukwu Nnaemeka Oscar.
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