Popular Ponmo Seller Murdered In Ekiti, Four Suspects Nabbed By Police

Shefiat Usani, a popular ponmo seller who lives at Okesoro Area in Iyin Ekiti, Ekiti State was gruesomely murdered by a man suspected to be a herbalist in the early hours of Monday in her house.

According to an eye witness, her suspected murderers (two male and two females with little kids) have also since been arrested and transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department, CID, Headquarters in Ado Ekiti from Iyin Ekiti Police Station where they were earlier detained.

At the time the PMParrot arrived Iyin Ekiti Police Station where the four suspects were initially detained after their arrest, a crowd of the Igbira people had gathered there creating scene and demanding that the Police should release the main suspect who killed their Igbira Sister to them.

While the melee lasted, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in-charge of Iyin Ekiti and his men had an hectic time controlling the crowd that thronged the police station.

The DPO and his men were later supported when an unnamed Assistant Commissioner of Police arrived the police station with more reinforcement of patrol teams.

As at the time of filing this report, efforts were still being made to reach out to Mr Sunday Abutu the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Ekiti State to be able to get further update on the matter.

(PM Parrot)

Court sentences four persons to death by hanging for murder in Ekiti

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has sentenced four persons to death by hanging for killing one Samuel Oloyede.

Before his death in 2017, Oloyede owned a brothel in Odo-Owa in Ijero local government area of the state where a misunderstanding broke out between the deceased and accused persons on payments and sharing formula.

The accused are, Rashidat Abdul (f) 37, Oluwatosin Akarakiri(m)32, Abdulrasheed Mutairu(m) 22 and Iyoriochile Eromoina(f) 18.

While passing the death pronouncement on the accused persons on Monday, Justice Oluwatoyin Abodunde said the prosecution team proved beyond a reasonable doubt the offence against them.

According to her, “I am persuaded that in the instant case, the prosecution has proved the ingredients of murder beyond a reasonable doubt by convincing and compelling qualitative unbroken circumstantial evidence and I so hold.

“Therefore, for causing the death of Samuel Oloyede(70), in contravention of section 316 of the Criminal Code, Cap C 16, Laws of Ekiti State, Nigeria and by the provisions of Sec. 301 (2)(2) of the Ekiti State of Nigeria, Criminal Justice Law,2014, the sentence of the court upon the four accused persons, is that you be hanged by the neck until you be dead and may God have mercy on your souls.”

According to the charge sheet, the act was committed on or about 5th of April, 2017 at Odo Owa Ekiti, in Ijero Local government area of Ekiti State when they conspired to murder Samuel Oloyede contrary to Section 516A and 316  of the Criminal Code, Cap.C16, laws of Ekiti State of Nigeria 2012.

The prosecutor, Oluwatoyin Marqus called 12 witnesses including the IPO and the medical personnel who conducted a postmortem examination on the cause of the deceased death while exhibit tendered includes statements of the accused, statements of the witnesses, photographs of the deceased dead body and medical report.

They were first arraigned on 12th February 2018 when the charge was read and interpreted to them but pleaded not guilty.

According to the witnesses, the deceased was a pensioner who operated a brothel in his personal house as a means of livelihood where all the accused persons also lived.

They testified further that the accused persons vacated the premises living the deceased missing and later found his dead body on the 4th day under the heap of clothes with his hands tied.

The accused persons spoke in their own defence through their lawyer, Chris Omokhafe and called no witnesses.

(Nigeria Tribune)

Former Kano Commissioner, Ibrahim Khaleel Inuwa is Dead

Former Kano State Commissioner for Rural and Community Development, Engr Ibrahim Khaleel Inuwa, is dead.

It was learned Inuwa, who is the former President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, died on Monday at his Kano residence.

In a post on Facebook on Monday, President of the NSE, Engr Babagana Mohammed, described Inuwa’s death as a great loss to the society.

“It is with a heavy heart but with total submission to the will of the Almighty Allah that I officially announce the painful demise of one of our revered past Presidents, Engr. Ibrahim Khaleel Inuwa, (President of NSE, 1989 – 1990).

“Engr Inuwa passed on peacefully earlier today at his residence in Sharada NNDC Estate, Kano.

“I have conveyed heartfelt condolences to the immediate family of the deceased.”

The former Commissioner for Animal Health and Forestry was the 16th President of the NSE and the first person from the Northern part of Nigeria to head the engineering body

How FG Can Reopen Schools, Varsities Within Four Weeks - Afe Babalola

The founder, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola, has advised the Federal Government against waiting till all towns and villages in the country are free from COVID-19 before reopening schools.

Babalola, who said “only the Almighty God Himself can determine when the current coronavirus pandemic will be eradicated globally,” added that “the daily increase in the number of patients does not suggest that COVID-19 will soon come to an end."

The ABUAD founder, who, in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Monday, said schools nationwide were “hurriedly” closed down by government fiat on March 23 when some pupils and students were either writing examinations or embarking on final-year examinations, offered advice on how the Federal Government could reopen the schools and universities within four weeks in phases.

Babalola listed the conditions under which “private institutions should be allowed to resume academic activities within four weeks”.

These, he said, included that “the school must establish that it has residential accommodation for all students including most, if not all the staff.

"Parents shall give written undertakings supported with medical certificates that the student is fit/healthy to resume academic work.

“There shall be about three running water tanks at the gate where students will wash their hands with soap. There shall be portable sanitisers. Each student must be armed with the portable sanitiser. There shall be infrared thermometers at the gate where students, staff and anybody coming into the university shall be tested by a nurse or medical personnel.

“The university must have in place the following testing machines: Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR Machine) and Serological Test Machine.

"Each school must have in place a building specially designed to accommodate any student who is suspected to have any type of infectious disease ranging from cough, chickenpox, measles, diarrhea etc other than COVID-19.”

He added that each university must have two functional fumigation machines and “ensure all hostels, classrooms, cafeteria, conference halls, and sports facilities shall be fumigated before resumption”.

Babalola also advised that the schools must have testing kits as “the students must undergo test fortnightly in addition to the provision for face masks which shall be used by students and staff in classrooms, conference halls and everywhere on the campus”.

He also advised staggered resumption, saying, the final-year students forced to go home while preparing for their final examination should resume first, take their examination and vacate the university within two to three weeks. Thereafter, the next level of students that will resume shall be new students who will undergo the same set of tests like those of final year students”.

As stated by the ABUAD founder, the prescriptions for private universities shall also apply to public universities with some variations.

Ekiti Discharges Five Recovered COVID-19 Patients

The Ekiti State Government has discharged five recovered COVID—19 patients after successfully managing them.

In a tweet on Monday, the Ekiti State COVID-19 Task Force noted that they were discharged after their results tested negative to the virus.

With this development, the tweet further noted, Ekiti State now has five active cases of COVID-19 as of 8:30 pm, May 11, 2020.

Of the infected number – 15 –one death has been recorded so far in the Southwest state with nine discharged, the statement added.

Nigeria records 242 new COVID-19 cases, total now 4,641

Nigeria has recorded 242 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing its total infections to 4,641.

In a tweet late Monday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported 88 new cases in Lagos, 64 in Kano, 49 in Katsina and 13 in Kaduna.

According to the health agency, Ogun state had nine cases, Gombe six, Adamawa four, and the FCT three.

Six other states – Ondo, Oyo, Rivers, Zamfara, Borno, and Bauchi – reported one case each.