A Federal Capital Territory High Court on Monday, ordered Nollywood actress Halima Abubakar to pay the fine of N10m for publishing libelous statements against the Senior Pastor and General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman.
The Court also restrained the actress from further publishing defamatory statements against the cleric.
According to a certified true copy of the judgement, Apostle Suleman accused the actress of publishing derogatory comments against him on her Instagram page, which were in turn published by several blogs and newspapers.
The cleric stated that Abubakar accused him of being a womaniser and diabolical, among others, adding that the statements were falsely and maliciously written and published to the general public.
In his judgment, Justice Enobie Obanor noted that Abubakar was allowed to defend herself in the matter but failed to do so.
Apart from the N10m fine, the judge also ordered Abubakar to publish a retraction of her defamatory statements on her Instagram handle.
The judge also ordered that the actress pay for the deleting of all links and reportage of the said defamatory comments on all platforms on the internet.
Court Slams Nollywood Actress, Halima Abubakar With N10m Fine For Defaming Apostle Suleiman is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
The Assembly impeached the deputy governor on Monday after it adopted the report of a seven-member probe panel set up to probe allegations of gross misconduct against him.
The Edo State House of Assembly has impeached the state’s deputy governor, Philip Shaibu.
The Assembly impeached the deputy governor on Monday after it adopted the report of a seven-member probe panel set up to probe allegations of gross misconduct against him.
The Assembly had accused Shaibu of leaking the state government’s secrets and committing perjury.
It also described Shaibu’s alleged offences as impeachable.
This comes amid a prolonged rift between Governor Godwin Obaseki and the deputy governor.
The Assembly made the allegation last Wednesday stating its case at the inaugural sitting of the seven-man panel set up by the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, to probe the deputy governor.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced the investigation of 14 suspected oil thieves in Rivers State.
The EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, said in a statement on Monday in Abuja that the suspects were arrested alongside a Motor Fishing Trawler Hawwau Tanko by the Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB), Formoso, Brass, Bayelsa State.
He said: “The suspects and vessel were arrested over alleged illegal dealing in petroleum products by the detachment of 5 BN Nigerian Army on February 27.
“They were arrested around Fish Town Rivers, Southern Ijaw Bayelsa, while on board Motor Fishing Trawler (MFT) Hawwau Tanko laden with about 10,000 litres of illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil, (AGO).”
“The Commanding Officer, FOB, Formoso, Navy Captain Murtala Rogo, said the Motor Fishing Trawler was arrested over alleged involvement in illegal bunkering.”
He listed the suspects as Kolapo Gafar, the captain of the vessel, Monday Aresonor, Rasheed Rafiu, Kubi Wowo, and Emmanuel Odey.
Others are Kolapo Abdullahi, Sunday Obasan, Kolapo Wasiu, Ilojiole Emeka, Owoseni Ehuwa, John Olowokere, Chima Edwin, John Akpan and Ijoade Tayo.
EFCC Quizzes 14 Suspected Oil Thieves in Port Harcourt
Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 commenced investigation of 14 suspected oil thieves alongside a Motor Fishing Trawler ,MFT, Hawwau Tanko, handed over to the Commission by the Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base, Fob, Formoso, Brass, Bayelsa State.
The suspects and vessel were arrested for alleged illegal dealing in petroleum products by the detachment of 5 BN Nigerian Army on February 27, 2024 around Fish Town Rivers, Southern Ijaw Bayelsa State while on board Motor Fishing Trawler (MFT) Hawwau Tanko , laden with about 10,000 litres of illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil, (AGO).
The Commanding officer, Forward Operating Base, FOB, Formoso, Navy Captain Murtala Aminu Rogo disclosed that Motor Fishing Trawler (MFT) Hawwau Tanko was arrested on February 27, 2024 around Fish Town Rivers, Southern Ijaw, Bayelsa State for alleged involvement in illegal bunkering.
Speaking through Navy Commander M. A Gada, Rago said the Nigerian Navy will not relent in its effort towards policing and enforcing all maritime laws to get rid of crude oil theft, illegal oil bunkering activities and other crimes in the Nigerian maritime domain.
The suspects include: Kolapo Gafar, the captain of the vessel, Monday Aresonor, Rasheed Rafiu, Kubi . E. Wowo, Emmanuel Odey, Kolapo Abdullahi, Sunday Obasan, Kolapo Wasiu, Ilojiole Emeka, Owoseni Ehuwa, John Olowokere, Chima Edwin, John Akpan and Ijoade Tayo.
According to him, “the activity of the 14 suspected oil thieves and MFT Hawwau Tanko is an act of economic sabotage which the Nigerian Navy has sworn not to condone”.
Zonal Commander of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt Command, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, ACE 1, Ahmed Muhammed Ghali, assured the Navy and the entire public that the suspects and the exhibits will be subjected to further investigation and possible prosecution.
Ghali disclosed this through Assistant Superintendent of the EFCC, ASE 1 Salim Abubakar Sadiq who received the suspects and the vessel on behalf of the EFCC. He further commended the Navy for its collaboration with the EFCC and the good working relationship both agencies have enjoyed over the years.
“We will do everything within our powers to ensure that the activities of illegal oil bunkering are completely brought to the barest minimum and that the oil thieves are brought to face the wrath of the law”.
Mohammed Sheriff, counsel for the detained President, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Bodejo, on Monday, said his client was yet to make valid statements in the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA)’s custody.
Sheriff, who is one of the team of lawyers representing Bodejo before Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, stated this in reaction to a newspaper publication linking Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State with his current travail.
The lawyer gave the clarification in a press release he signed and made available to newsmen in Abuja.
It would be recalled that, in the media report titled: “How Nasarawa gov pressurised me to establish militia group, Miyetti Allah leader tells investigators” and published on Sunday, Bodejo was alleged to have accused Gov. Sule.of being behind the establishment of the ethnic militia group, Kungiya Zaman Lafiya.
Bodejo, who is facing a three-count terrorism charge, was reported to have alleged in his confessional statement that the governor pressurised him to form the militia group.
But reacting, Sheriff said their attention had been drawn to the publication “which unfortunately has been lifted and reproduced by many online media.
“We hereby make this rebuttal to the statement regarding the alleged creation of ethnic militia by Bello Badejo being circulated by some sections of the media.
“The publication purports to be quoting our client Abdullahi Bello Bodejo in a supposed extra-judicial statement to investigators.
“We refute such publication as unreliable and such should be discountenanced by all.”
According to him, we have been in constant touch with Abdullahi Bello Bodejo who is in the custody of Defence Intelligence Agency and can confirm that he was yet to make any valid statement to the Defence Intelligence Agency.
“We are therefore shocked as to the source of the purported statement credited to him.
“We urge a fair and unbiased approach to this matter, where all relevant facts are carefully examined, and legal procedures are followed diligently.
“We trust that all concerned will uphold the principles of justice and act in accordance with the law.
“We hasten to call on members of the public to disregard statements that do not emanate from fair and accurate report of judicial proceedings in public interest.
“The matter is sub judice, It’s important to avoid making comments that could potentially influence ongoing legal proceedings or misrepresent the facts,” he concluded.
Bodejo, who was arrested on Jan. 23 in Malia, Nasarawa State and kept in the custody of DIA, was arraigned before Justice Ekwo on March 22.
His arrest was predicated on the alleged raising up an armed militia in detriment of the nation’s unity contrary to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The offence was said to be punishable under Section 29 of the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.
He, however, pleaded not guilty to all the counts and the matter fixed for May 27, May 28, May 29 and May 30 for trial.
Miyetti Allah Leader Denies Implicating Nasarawa Governor In Detention is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
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A British man who stabbed his wife to death and then cut her body into more than 200 pieces has been jailed for life in the UK.
The man named Nicholas Metson was today told he will have to serve a minimum of 19 years and 316 days behind bars before consideration for parole, after a judge heard how he dumped wife Holly Bramley’s remains in a ‘bag for life’ and other carrier bags in a river.
The court heard Metson, 28, had joked to police that his wife ‘might be hiding under the bed’ when officers responded to a concern for welfare call about her as the couple’s 16-month marriage splintered.
On Friday the Mail revealed how in the run-up to the March 2023 murder, Metson had punished the ‘beautiful and kind’ 26-year-old by killing her pets in gruesome fashion.
A source said the killer once dumped Ms Bramley’s new puppy in a washing machine, leaving her to discover the dead dog inside with the drum still spinning.
On other occasions, Ms Bramley confided that her partner had killed her hamsters by putting them in a food blender and the microwave oven, and once fled to a police station with her pet rabbits to escape him.
During the conclusion of a sentencing hearing this morning, His Honour Judge Simon Hirst said it was an aggravating feature that Metson never gave a reason for how and why he had killed his wife.
‘Holly’s family and friends will never know how and why she was killed,’ the judge said, adding that the fact Ms Bramley was cut in to 224 parts was also an aggravating feature and could not be explained by Metson’s autism.
‘That number of parts was far from necessary to remove Holly’s parts from your flat,’ Judge Hirst added.
The court heard Ms Bramley was stabbed four times after being grabbed by Metson and placed in a headlock.
Judge Hirst said it was clear a bite mark on Metson’s arm – which he showed to police to support a false claim that he had been the victim of domestic abuse – was caused by his victim as she desperately fought his vice-like grip as she was knifed in the bedroom.
She was dismembered in the bathroom ‘with a number of tools’, the judge said.
The court heard Metson kept the body at the couple’s 14th-floor tower block flat in Lincoln for almost a week, before paying school friend Joshua Hancock £100 to help him dispose of the remains.
Judge Hirst said the pair drove with bags full of remains to the village of Bassingham, ten miles away, where they were dumped into the River Witham.
Victim impact statements read out at Lincoln Crown Court by Ms. Bramley’s mother and siblings indicated Ms. Bramley, a triplet, had been subjected to ‘coercive control and manipulation’ by the ‘evil monster’ and their marriage had ‘broken down irretrievably’.
The Judge said it was clear from family statements that Ms Bramley, one of 13 siblings, was a ‘beautiful and kind’ young woman whose murder had left a ‘void’ for her loved ones.
The court heard that while officers were searching for Ms. Bramley, they noticed a strong smell of ammonia and bleach at the couple’s flat, bloodstained sheets in the bathtub, and a towel on the kitchen floor.
‘At one point Mr Metson joked she might be hiding under the bed,’ said prosecutor Gordon Aspden KC.
Early the following morning, CCTV from the tower block captured Metson using a shopping trolley to transport carrier bags down to this car via the lift.
Later that day, a walker ‘made a grim discovery’ when he noticed plastic bags and a ‘Bag For Life’ floating in the River Witham at Bassingham, one of which contained a severed hand.
By then, Metson had been searching online to find out ‘What benefits do I get if my wife has died?’ and ‘Can someone haunt me after they die?’
Mr Aspden said Miss Bramley’s injuries went far beyond what was necessary to dismember her body. ‘In short, after murdering Holly he destroyed her,’ Mr Aspden added.
Metson pleaded guilty to murder last month. He had previously admitted conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by disposing of Ms Bramley’s body on 25 March.
Hancock, also 28, of Waddington, Lincolnshire, pleaded guilty to obstructing a coroner in the execution of his duty by helping to dispose of Ms Bramley’s body.
He said he was unaware Metson had murdered Ms Bramley but helped to dispose of her body parts after being offered cash.
Hancock also admitted two unrelated charges of attempted communication with a child and possessing drugs.
Judge Hirst said Hancock had been ‘motivated by money’ as he jailed him for three years and three months. The judge said it was an aggravating feature that not all of Ms Bramley’s body parts had been recovered.
In a statement released through police after the case, Ms Bramley’s family said she ‘loved to sing, dance, had a passion for animals and was rarely seen without a smile on her face.’
They added that her ‘vibrant spirit and infectious laughter filled our lives with joy’ and described how Ms Bramley ‘wanted nothing more than to become a mother’ one day.
But they said meeting Metson was the ‘beginning of a rocky road’ of domestic abuse which ‘we never managed to save her from’ and said they wanted to use their loss to call for others in a similar situation to seek help.
They added: ‘We, as a family, are asking and encouraging anyone living with domestic abuse to seek support and tell someone.
‘There are services out there who can help victims find the happiness and freedom they deserve.
‘We miss Holly so much our hearts are broken. But, if anything, we need her death to highlight that domestic abuse is NOT OK. ‘
The Nigerian Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun has written to the Controller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service to place Mrs. Okoli Chioma Egodi on the watchlist.
Chioma Okoli is being prosecuted by the Nigeria Police Force and Erisco Foods Limited over a review of one of the company’s products that she did on Facebook.
SaharaReporters in January reported that policemen on the alleged orders of Egbetokun invaded Okoli’s residence in Lagos State in an attempt to arrest her.
The newspaper had reported that the police team from Abuja who claimed to be acting on the orders of the Inspector General of Police moved to re-arrest Okoli without serving any court order authorising them to do so.
Meanwhile, despite outcry from well-meaning Nigerians, civil society organisations including the global human rights body, Amnesty International, demanding an immediate end to the harassment and intimidation of Mrs Okoli, the Inspector General of Police, in a letter to the Immigration Controller General, Kemi Nandap, requested that she should be placed on watchlist and denied exit out of the country.
The letter which was sighted by SaharaReporters has reference number OB:3380/IGP.SEC/MU/T.6/ABJ/VOL.3/111. The letter dated April 2, 2024 is titled: “Watch Listing of Mrs. Okoli Chioma Egodi; age 37 years old,”
In the letter exclusively obtained from a highly placed source in the IGP Monitoring Unit in Abuja signed by A.A. Elleman DCP, Head, IGP Monitoring Unit of Force Headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force, the police boss urged the NIS to arrest her if seen and inform the IGP Monitoring Unit.
It noted that Okoli is being investigated for a case of “criminal conspiracy, de-marketing, blackmail, attempted extortion, and cyberbullying”.
Part of the letter reads: “This office is investigating a Case of Criminal Conspiracy, De Marketing, Blackmail, attempted Extortion, and Cyber Bullying reported to the Inspector-General of Police against the above-mentioned person whose photographs are attached herewith and the need to request for your agency’s cooperation has become imperative.
“In view of this, you are kindly requested to watch list and deny her exit out of the Country, and if seen arrest and inform the IGP Monitoring Unit, Force Headquarters, Abuja through phone numbers 07036799008 or 07034779065 or the nearest Police Station.
“While anticipating your usual cooperation, kindly accept the assurances and esteem regards of the Inspector-General of Police, please.”
