Michael Ojuroye Initiative (Ngo)

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  21st Sept. 2013  An Investigative Police Officer, Insp Joseph Edo, has told a Lagos High Court in Igbosere that statements were voluntarily obtained from the suspected killers of Miss Cynthia Osokogu in an open room. The accused, Okwumo Nwabufo 33; Olisaeloka Ezike, 23; Orji Osita, 33; and Ezike Nonso, 25, were charged to court by  Lagos State. Led-in-evidence by the Attorney-General of Lagos State, Mr Ade Ipaye, yesterday, at the trial within trial, Edo explained that the statements were voluntarily obtained during investigation of  Cynthia’s murder. The accused  allegedly chained and strangled 25-year-old Osokogu to death at Cosmilla Hotel, FESTAC Town, Lagos, on July 22, 2012. Edo, after being reminded that he is on oath, told the court how he knew the first and second defendants, saying “I know the first and second defendant in the murder case of one Miss Cynthia Osokogu which I am investigating.” He added: “On April 20th, after thei...

BY:  GBENRO ADEOYE   21st Sept. 2013 Chief Bode George, former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party  – South and convicted chairman of Nigeria Port Authority, tells GBENRO ADEOYE why he will keep on fighting until he shakes off the ex-convict tag Are you a thief?  I can refer you to the judgement because it’s already in the public view. At least, the judge was honest enough to say ‘no kobo was missing’. It was the greatest convoluted conspiracy that I have ever seen in my life. But you know, as a Christian, if you have belief in God and your faith is very strong, you don’t get shaken. First of all, if we split contract, it would be for whose benefit? I'm not a contractor; the company did not belong to anybody on the board, so in whose interest? Two, nobody brought a contractor, whether they executed the job, whether they were paid the money, we just finished and the rest was left to the management. Whether they even awarded the contract, I d...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  21st Sept. 2013 Operatives of State Security Service Friday stormed an uncompleted building in Apo Area of Abuja occupied by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect. In the resultant battle, 12 members of the sect were arrested while several others were injured. This is coming on the heels of a fresh Boko Haram attack in Borno State, leading to the death of 22 people in Bulabulin Ngaura Village located on Damboa-Maiduguri Highway in in Konduga Local Government Area. The sect also entered Buni Yadi in Yobe State yesterday, killing three people and setting on fire several public buildings. On the same day, the Borno State House of Assembly passed a vote of no confidence on the federal government over the Boko Haram crisis. But last night, one of the people injured in the uncompleted building during the clash in Abuja, Mallam Ibrahim Mohammed from Zamfara State denied being a Boko Haram member. Mohammed who spoke through an interpreter on his hospital bed at ...