IBAN HAS CALLED ON NYESOM WIKE TO RETRACT REMARKS HE MADE ABOUT CHANNELS TV HOST SEUN OKINBALOYE AND ISSUE A PUBLIC APOLOGY.(PHOTO).

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 Independent Broadcast Association of Nigeria (IBAN) has called on FCT Minister Nyesom Wike to retract remarks he made about Channels TV host Seun Okinbaloye and issue a public apology. The association, which represents independent broadcast stations in Nigeria, warned it could boycott all media engagements involving the minister if he fails to comply. In a statement signed by IBAN chairman Ahmed Ramalan and acting general secretary Fidelis Duker, the group expressed concern over comments Wike made during a live television interview. During the media chat, the minister reacted to Okinbaloye’s analysis on democracy, saying: “If there was any way to break the screen, I would have shot him.” Although Wike later clarified that the comment was not meant literally, IBAN said such statements are inappropriate for a public official. The association warned that remarks suggesting violence could be interpreted as intimidation and contribute to a hostile environment for journalists. It also h...

KWARA COURT REMANDS UNILORIN,KWARA POLY STUDENTS OVER LOVE SCAM.{PHOTO}.#PRESS RELEASE.



Kwara Court Remands Unilorin, Kwara Poly Students over Love Scam


The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, June 28, 2021 arraigned one Ganiyy Rasak, a 300Level student of the University of Ilorin and one Olakunle Adebisi, an ND II student of the Kwara State Polytechnic on one count separate charge bordering on love scam before Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin.


The charge against Ganiyy reads: "That you,  Ganiyy Rasaq Olarewaju (Richard Hadden), sometime in May, 2021 in Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did attempt to cheat by personation when you pretended to be one Richard Hadden, a white female with a gmail account haddenrichard56@gmail.com and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 95 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal Code. "


Particulars of the charge against Olakunle read: “That you, Olakunle Adebisi, sometime in May, 2021 in Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did attempt to cheat by personation when you pretended to be one Anny Banana, a white female with a gmail account annybanana346@gmail.com and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 95 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the Penal Code."


The defendants pleaded guilty.


Upon their plea, counsel to the EFCC, Sesan Ola led Dagogo Urowayino and Shetima Yusuf (both operatives of the Commission) to review the facts of the case against Rasak and Adebisi, respectively.


The two prosecution witnesses narrated how the defendants were arrested and tendered several fraudulent messages printed from their emails. The documents and the defendants’ phones were later admitted in evidence.


Consequently, Justice Abdulgafar fixed Thursday, July 1, 2021 for judgement and ordered that Adebisi be remanded in a Correctional facility while Rasaq was remanded in EFCC custody.

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