Gombe Renaissance Initiative holds Inaugural Meeting By Muhammad Ibrahim Gombe Renaissance Initiative (GRI), a fledgling organization comprising of bonafide indegines of Gombe State has, on Sunday, 25th June, 2017, held its inaugural meeting to mark the beginning of a new dawn in terms of youth empowerment, promotion of education and rendering selfless services to the less privileged. In a widely attended meeting comprising of virtually all members of the newly-formed association, the President of the organization, Salisu Abubakar Aliyu, emphatically connoted that GRI is a registered non-partisan and non-governmental organization with the cardinal aim of paying back to Gombe, what Gombe State and its good citizens have given to them. "GRI is the brain-child of the bonafide indigenes of Gombe State who are driven by sheer altruism, after carefully studying the pervasive socio-economic challenges facing Gombe State. Therefore, as a means of contributing our own quota to the...
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Six arrested for Kaduna-Abuja Road kidnapping
Six notorious kidnappers terrorizing Kaduna – Abuja highway have been arrested. TheKaduna State internal security outfit, Operation Yaki, announced the success in Kaduna today. The suspects were picked up on Thursday 15th and Friday 16th June 2017 by Operation Yaki Surveillance Patrol Teams in a joint operation with the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Teams (IRT) and with the support from the Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU). The arrest of the kidnappers is sequel to the massive deployment of more police assets and patrol vehicles in the area in the last one week. These efforts led to the arrests of the suspects including the leader of the gang, Adamu Mamman, a 35-year old of Amana village in Igabi Local Government Area, Ali Rabo, also known as Blakky, of Liman Ibada village in Chikun Local Government Area and Awwalu Ahmad, aka Mota, of Rijana village in Kachia Local Government Area who is the main informant of this gang of kidnappers along the Abuja – ...
Funny things I did to arrest Evans, kidnap kingpin – Kyari, IRT boss
Kyari told our correspondent on the phone that to avoid any delay due to the usual chaotic traffic situation on Lagos roads, he had to quickly jump on a commercial motorcycle from his Ikeja GRA location to Magodo GRA Phase II to arrest Evans, who he had earlier been informed by his men already deployed in the area, was making frantic preparations to leave his mansion very soon. He added that in the early hours of Sunday, “At about 1.30am, Evans and some of his gang members went out to a club around Ikeja and returned at 5.10am. So, we were very sure Sunday would be our day.So, I decided to go and cleanup myself and have a little rest before I returned to Magodo. I was still resting when my guys called that the target was set; that it appeared he wanted to go out. So, I had to take Okada from where I was, to meet up. “You won’t believe this, but it’s the truth. Do you know that when my surveillance team alerted me of the suspect’s presence at his Magodo mansion, I had no other option...
HAVE MERCY ON US, EVANS WIFE, UCHENNA BEGS NIGERIANS
…I didn’t know he was into crime• …He took part in our daily prayers and always prayed Psalm 23• …His wealth should be sold off and given to his victims• …I didn’t know he was this rich, the highest he gave to me was N200,000• …Please, forgive him for the sake of myself and the children• By Emma Nnadozie, Crime Editor• The call was a surprise. And in the words of our Crime Editor, Emma Nnadozie “it was shocking but revealing and even pathetic.” The caller had said “hold on for Evans’ wife.” The female voice quickly pleaded to Mr. Nnadozie to call her back as she did not have enough credit. Nnadozie returned the call from Ghana and the caller told her story. Excerpts: My name is Uchenna Precious Onwuamadike, the wife of the Chikwudubem Onwuamadike who you call Evans. I am 31 years old. I got married to Evans at the age of 17 at Oraifite, Anambra state in 2004. He met me whi...
EFCC Docks Whistle-Blowers Over False Information
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 arraigned the duo of Buhari. Fannami and Ba-Kura Abdullahi on two separate one count charge before Justice M. T Salihu of the Federal High Court Maiduguri, for allegedly giving false information to the agency under the whistle blowing policy. Fannamit had misled the EFCC with the information about illegally acquired monies purportedly buried at the residence of one Ba’a Lawan but the information turned out to be false after the execution of a search warrant. The charge reads, “That you, Buhari Fannami on or about the 8th day of May, 2017 at Maiduguri, Borno State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did make statement to Officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission under the Whistle Blowing policy to the effect that large sums of money being the proceeds of crime were buried in the residence Ba’a Lawan at Pompomari Layout along Pompomari Bypass, Maiduguri which information/statement...
Photo News: Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo Received Daily Times Heroes Award.
Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo of Gombe State has on Tuesday evening the 16th of May 2017 received the daily times heroes award at the international conference centre Abuja. Governor Dankwambo received the "Governor of the decade Award" See pictures below.
EFCC Has Arraigned An Accountant At Tertiary Education Trust Fund ( TETFund).
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a principal accountant at Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund. Auwal Ibrahim, the director of Works at the Federal College of Education, Gombe, Wali Usman and one Yunusa Yakubu and his companies Lubell Nigeria Limited and Archfirst Nigeria limited. They were arraigned before Justice Sa’ad Muhammad of the Gombe State High Court on 17 count charge bordering on conspiracy, contract scam, abuse of office and diversion of public funds. The accused persons were invited to EFCC Gombe Zonal office, following a petition by concerned staff of the Gombe State University, alleging that contract from TETfund were strictly awarded to cronies of the management staff of the university. They further alleged that the suspects connived with TETfund officials to inflate contracts for their personal benefit. When the EFCC Operatives swung into action, it was discovered that Mr Ibrahim received various sum of money on the contract exec...