8 more Nigerians face execution in Indonesia – Diaspora Group

By Prisca Sam-Duru
AGROUP, United Nigerians In Diaspora, UNID, has called on the Federal Government to prevail on the Indonesian government to stay action on its plans to execute eight more Nigerian citizens for drug related offences.

Briefing newsmen in Lagos, the group’s president, Mr. Paschal Okolie, condemned what it described as the poor attitude of the government towards the recent execution of four Nigerians in Indonesia.

His words: ”Considering that the next batch of execution will take place in no distant time in Indonesia, we urge the good people of Nigeria and our government to rise up with the entire world to stop further executions of Nigerians. Enough of the killings. Nigeria should leverage on the strong bilateral relationship it has with Indonesia and negotiate to stop the execution of the eight waiting to be killed. In as much as we totally condemn drug trafficking and wish to sensitise intending traffickers on the consequences that awaits offenders, we also condemn capital punishment especially since it has not been able to quell the issue of drug trafficking in Indonesia.”

Robber arrested after returning to complain that the gold chain he stole was fake

A dumb criminal, Daniel Sion Palmer, who attacked and dispossessed a tourist of his valuables has been arrested after he went back to complain that the gold chain he stole was fake.

The 26-year-old Palmer was accused of stealing jewelry from a tourist in Miami Beach, Florida, but he was furious about the quality of the goods and returned to the victim to complain.

According to South Beach Police, Palmer allegedly pointed a gun at a tourist from New York, grabbed his gold chain and took off but apparently not satisfied with his newly stolen jewels, he went back to his victim just to say that the necklace was a fake.

The victim was then able to flag down a police officer and pointed out Palmer who was driving a Mercedes.

Stealing From The Dead Female banker docked for defrauding late Emir of Kano of N17m

A female banker and former account officer to the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, Amina Magaji, and two of her male partners in crime, Haruna Bulama Namadi and Muhammed Abdullahi who is currently at large, have been dragged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), before Justice Faruk Lawan of the Kano State High Court, on the allegation of defrauding the late Emir of over N17 million using fake cheques and forging the monarch's signature.

In its investigations, the anti-graft agency discovered that Magaji who managed the Emir's accounts, had a domiciled account in an old generation banks since 2011 but after the demise of the Emir in 2014, she reactivated the account which had been dormant for forty seven years and started using fake cheques to withdraw monies in bits to the tune of N17, 060,000 with the help of Namadi who was at the time a driver with the bank.

Goodluck Jonathan President fires Executive Secretary of Petroleum Equalization Fund

President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF), Sharon Adefunke Kasali.

The President has also approved the appointment of Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Asabe Asmau Ahmed as the new Executive Secretary of PEF.

This was disclosed via a statement released on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 by Jonathan’s media aide, Reuben Abati.

The statement reads:

“President Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mrs. Asabe Asmau Ahmed (left) as Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF).”

“Mrs. Ahmed, who is currently the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, takes over from Mrs. Sharon Adefunke Kasali (right) who has been Executive Secretary of PEF since 2007.”

D'banj Superstar heads back to court on May 7 over debt case

On Thursday, May 7, 2015 superstar D'banj will be heading back to court.

This will be the second hearing of the debt allegation suit against him by Henry Ojogho who claims that the DB records artiste has refused to pay him the loan of N60m he gave him in January 2013.

Mr. Ojogho also claims that D'banj issued him two cheques as payment of the loan that later bounced when he took them to the bank.

D'Banj was absent at court during the first hearing.

Nigeria Elections 2015 ‘Jonathan lost because of hate campaign against Buhari,’ PDP says

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the hate campaign launched by the party against President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari was one of the reasons why President Goodluck Jonathan lost the March 28 election.

The statement was made by PDP National Publicity Secretary,Olisa Metuh on Monday, May 4, 2015, during a news conference in Abuja.

Metuh also accused Jonathan’s campaign team of excluding the NWC from its operations.

“We (NWC members) did not lead the party to failure. We were not involved in the campaigns and our advice was ignored. If we had handled the campaign, Mr. President would have won the election. We cannot be held responsible when our advice was ignored,” he said.