Crime
Senate Invites CBN Chief Emefiele and FIRS Chair Nami Over Subsidy Payments

Nigeria’s House of Representatives has invited the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, and the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami, to appear before it for questioning over issues in the payment of subsidy on petroleum products from 2013 to date.
The House ad-hoc committee investigating oil subsidy payments issued the summon following failure of the duo to appear before it at the National Assembly, Abuja on Thursday.
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Members of the Committee were angry that the CBN Governor could send a Deputy Director, Hussein Kagara while the FIRS chairman sent his special assistant, Gabriel Ogunjemiluri to the investigative hearing.
Moving the motion for the summon, a member of the committee, Hon. Mark said the absence Emefiele and Nami showed they were less concerned about a serious national matter like fuel subsidy payments that gulps the country the trillions of naira in a year.
Gbillah said: “N6.7 trillion in less than a year is being expended on subsidy. We could expect that the CBN Governor would come here personally to address such an issue and the FIRS chairman as well.
“I guess they believe this issue is not important enough for them to be here. So, Mr. chairman in my own opinion, I don’t think we should bother hearing any of the representatives of these two agencies that are here today. We would like the CBN Governor and FIRS Chairman to be here in person before this honourable committee of the House to address this critical issue.
Another member, Hon. Abdul Ganiyu-Olododo wondered why the FIRS Chairman would send his personal staff to appear before the parliament on such a critical issue and the CBN Governor would be represented by someone who is not even a director, saying it was an insult to Nigerians whom the lawmakers represent.
Kagara, had earlier told lawmakers that he could only answer questions relating to technical issues of subsidy payments, when the Chairman of the Adhoc committee, Hon. Ibrahim Aliyu sought his competence on the subject matter of the probe.
He also said the CBN cannot print the documents requested by the committee because they were too voluminous, adding that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has 200 accounts domiciled with the apex bank.
“In one of your requests, you asked us to produce all the accounts of NNPC that are domicile with the CBN, NNPC has close to 200 accounts with CBN and they are voluminous.”
Ruling, the Committee Chairman said both Emefiele and Nami should before the parliament unfailingly on August 18.
Crime
Police Foil Cult Initiation in Anambra, Arrest Six Suspects

The Anambra State Police Command has foiled a cult initiation ceremony in Nawfia, Njikoka Local Government Area of the state.
Spokesperson for the Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Awka.
According to Ikenga, the operation was carried out by police operatives around 9:30am on June 15, leading to the arrest of six suspects at the scene.
Recovered during the raid were one Jojef pump action gun, two cartridges, and a golden-coloured Lexus SUV with registration number ATN 202 AE. Other items found include two cutlasses, two scissors, a cap bearing the inscription of the Supreme Vikings Confraternity, charms, and substances suspected to be hard drugs.
“They are currently undergoing police interrogation to get more insight into their modus operandi, after which the case will be charged to court on the conclusion of the investigations,” Ikenga stated.
The police spokesperson reassured residents of the command’s unwavering commitment to fighting cultism and other related crimes across the state.
Crime
Court remands 2 over alleged attempted murder

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Wednesday, remanded two persons, Olaitan Fasasi and Kehinde Tobiloba in a correctional facility over alleged attempted murder.
Fasasi, 40, and Tobiloba, 26, whose addresses were not provided, are being charged with conspiracy, attempted murder and membership of a secret society.
The Magistrate, Mr L.A Owolabi, did not take the plea of the defendants for want of jurisdiction.
Owolabi directed the police to forward the case file to the Director of Public Prosecution for legal advice.
He thereafter adjourned the case until May 31 for mention.
The Prosecutor, Josephine Ikhayere, told the court that the defendants committed the offences at about 5.02p.m on Feb. 15, at Mushin, Lagos.
She said that Fasasi, Tobiloba and others now at large, attempted to commit murder by shooting at a resident, Alfred Ademola.
“They armed themselves with a locally made gun. They belong to Eiye Confraternity, a group proscribed by law,”, she said.
Ikhayere said that the offences contravened Sections 230(1) and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2012.
He said that the actions of the defendants also contravened Section 2(3)(a)(b)(c)(d) of the unlawful societies and Cultism Law of Lagos State Law.
Crime
Man jailed 3 months for stealing mobile phone

An Area Court in Jos, on Tuesday, sentenced one Jeptha John, to three months imprisonment for stealing a Redmi mobile phone valued at N165, 000.
The judge, Shawomi Bokkos, sentenced the John after he pleaded guilty to the offence.
The judge, however, gave the convict an option to pay N20, 000 fine and N50, 000 restitution to the complainant.
Bokkos said that if the convict defaulted in paying the restitution, three months should be added to his sentence to make it six months imprisonment.
Earlier, the police prosecutor, Insp Monday Dabit, told the court that the case was reported at the B Division Police Station, Jos, on Dec. 1, 2024, by Ms Nerat Danjuma.
He said that the complainant alleged that the defendant trespassed into her house and stole her mobile phone valued at N165, 000.
The prosecutor further told the court that the offence contravened the Plateau State Penal Code, Law of Northern Nigeria.
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