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Police Arrests Two Islamic Clerics In Lagos
31 Jul 12, 09:47 AM, Africa/Lagos
Police detectives attached to the Lagos Special Fraud Unit (SFU) have arrested two ‘Muslim clerics’ for allegedly defrauding local and foreign businessmen of N10 million.
The suspects Fatai Bamidele and Lateef Ahmed, allegedly paraded themselves as Muslim clerics to defraud innocent members of the public of their money.They were said to have allegedly operated a shrine in Ilorin in Kwara State and they took victims to the shrine where they were made to take an oath not to reveal what had happened to them to others.
Parading the suspects before newsmen in Lagos yesterday, Commissioner of Police in charge of SFU, Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin, said the fraudsters were arrested based on a petition by some victims about their criminal activities. The petitioner, according to him, alleged that sometime in October 2011, one Lawal Suleiman collected his goods (fireworks) valued at N13, 320, 750.00 with the promise to pay as soon as the goods were delivered. The goods were delivered successfully but the suspect refused to pay, he said.
He said Fatai Bamidele, 34 years old from Kwara, claimed to be a Muslim cleric who normally assists Lawal Suleiman in his spiritual life. “Lawal Suleiman came to him to seek special assistance concerning the bad dream he had and also that he needed more power and more money”, he added.
He said Lawal opted for daily contribution and at the end of it all about N10 million was allegedly obtained from him so far before the police swooped on them.
The commissioner said it was discovered during investigation that of the N10 million Lateef gave his colleague in crime, Bamidele, N2.5 million while he took the remaining N7.5 million.
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Nigerian President sends Petroleum bill to lawmakers
19 Jul 12, 12:49 PM, Africa/Lagos
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President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday sent the Petroleum Industry Bill to the National Assembly for debate, the Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, said.
“I am happy to announce to you that this (Wednesday) morning, Mr. President forwarded the Petroleum Industry Bill to the National Assembly,” Reuters quoted her as saying at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The long-delayed bill could be one of the most important pieces of legislation in the history of Nigeria, changing everything from fiscal terms to the make-up of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
Several drafts had been drawn up in recent years but were scrapped or re-written because government, lawmakers and foreign oil companies could not agree on the details.
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday last week approved the PIB prepared by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Alison-Madueke confirmed this to State House correspondents at the end of the council’s weekly meeting.
She said the bill, which is an aggregate of about 16 laws in the oil and gas industry, would go a long way in making the nation’s petroleum industry the preferred destination of oil and gas investors.
She said that one of the highlights of the new bill was the unbundling of the NNPC to give room for vibrant successor companies.
Some of the companies to be unbundled from the NNPC, according to her, are the National Oil Company, National Gas Company and National Asset Management Corporation, which will now be private sector-driven.
Alison-Madueke said that new agencies, such as the National Frontiers Exploration Services, Host Community Fund and Regulatory Inspectorate for the downstream sector, would also emerge as unique departments reporting directly to the minister.
She said, “The new bill looks at new areas that are quite critical and first of all they are the inspectorate, the regulatory agencies for the oil and gas sector to ensure that they are independent and that they can actually do the regulation.
“We also looked, of course, at the unbundling of the NNPC, which has been very critical; created out of the old NNPC a National Oil Company, which will be independent. It will be a registered company, which will have shareholding and it will be ceded acreages and will also, as we face and implement the PIB, take over current infrastructure in the oil and gas sector like refineries, depots and certain downstream entities as well as production sharing contracts.”
The minister also said, “We created an Asset Management Corporation as a holding company, which will operate an asset management company that will be a competitive private sector- driven company, and it will hold what is today the joint company hydro carbon assets of the nation.
“We expect, of course that as time goes on, the company will operate essentially along the line of private sector to give the federation the right returns on investments in the hydro carbon sector. We looked at a couple of new agencies as well; the National Frontiers Exploration Services unit that will reside in the new Petroleum Policy Bureau, which will be a technical arm of the minister’s secretariat.”
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Chelsea confirms Victor Moses interest
19 Jul 12, 12:34 PM, Africa/Lagos
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Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo has confirmed the Blues' interest in Wigan striker Victor Moses but admitted a deal is yet to be agreed.
Latics owner Dave Whelan claimed on Wednesday that the north west club had rejected a third attempted deal from Chelsea as their £5million bid fell short of Wigan's valuation for the 21-year-old forward.
Di Matteo, who is with Chelsea on their pre-season tour in the United States, told SkySports.com: "(It's) something that the clubs are discussing but at the moment he is a Wigan player.
"He had a good season last season, he is young and an interesting prospect."
Moses, who scored six goals last season, only has one year remaining on his contract and has not yet signed a new deal to keep him at the DW Stadium.
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17 arrested for attacking youths, raping of five
19 Jul 12, 12:28 PM, Africa/Lagos
The attorney general for the State of Mexico, Alfredo Castillo, said 11 of the gang members were identified by some of the victims. In interrogation videos played for reporters, three of the suspects confessed that they sexually abused the women and girls because fellow attackers told them to.
Two of the suspects were local police officers and another had served in the military, Castillo said, speaking two days after authorities announced the arrest of a man who was described as not directly involved in the assault on the camp-out but who allegedly provided information to the assailants.
President Felipe Calderon met with parents and lawyers of the victims Wednesday to discuss the crime, which highlighted the increasing dangers of outdoors activities around the capital.
Sponsored by a church group, 90 youths were camping Friday at an eco-park on the eastern outskirts of Mexico City when a group of armed men stormed into the hilly area. The attackers went on an hours-long rampage of beatings, robberies and rapes at the site close to the lower flanks of the Popocatepetl volcano.
The episode and a similar mass robbery and rape attack in February at a spot nearby have reduced city residents' trust in the serenity of the wooded hills around the city and interrupted a decades-old tradition of outdoors activities in the pine and fir forests.
Prosecutors have said the latest attack was not related to organized crime or drug gangs. Common criminals, robbers and rapists have been targeting hikers and campers on the city's outskirts.
Mexico's equivalent of the Boy Scouts said Tuesday that it is recommending scouts not go on hikes in small groups and avoid about 11 wooded areas on the outskirts of Mexico City. No scouts were involved in the attack.
The Scouts Association of Mexico said future hikes should ask for police protection if necessary. The group's statement said it coordinated a recent hike with local police departments.
Gerardo Catano, who leads tours and a mountain rescue group in the township of Tlamanalco on the slopes of the volcanos that ring Mexico City, said the number of hikers and campers has fallen about 90 percent in the wake of the most recent attack.
Catano said he has been robbed three times while leading groups through the mountains. He said the attackers were armed with pistols and shotguns, but he agreed with prosecutors that the robbers probably don't belong to sophisticated crime gangs or drug cartels.
"The organized criminals, they go after other targets" with more money, Catano said. "They are probably people from the (mountain) communities themselves."
Organized or not, Catano said the problem has gotten worse, with bands of attackers growing bolder and picking on larger groups, calmly spending hours humiliating their victims.
He recalled that in one of the attacks in which a group he led was robbed, "they took their time to threaten us and even ate our food in front of us. They had all the time in the world to do what they wanted."
In another large-scale attack, an armed band robbed a group of about 120 hikers in February, and reportedly raped two.
"You can't go up alone anymore, and it's even more dangerous if you have a woman with you," Catano said.
He and other guides have called on local authorities to deploy horse-mounted police patrols, and suggested officials station officers at some of the better-known trailheads and forest clearings.
