TODDLER DIES IN ATTACK IN CHURCH

November 14, 2016

    

A Indonesian toddler died Monday from injuries sustained in a suspected extremist attack on a church, with a group of militants who support the Islamic State group detained over the assault.

Two-year-old Intan Olivia Marbun was among four small children hurt when an attacker wearing a T-shirt with the word “jihad” on it threw Molotov cocktails at the place of worship on Borneo island from a motorbike on Sunday.

The youngsters, aged between two and four, had been playing in the car park of the church in the city of Samarinda at the time of the attack.

Local police spokesman Fajar Setiawan told AFP Marbun suffered extensive burn injuries and respiratory problems, adding: “Unfortunately the doctors could not save the victim… she died early this morning.”

The other children suffered less serious injuries and were still being treated in hospital but would likely be discharged soon, the spokesman said.

Police arrested the suspected attacker, an Islamist militant previously jailed over a parcel bomb plot in 2011, shortly after the assault.

On Monday they detained five more people as part of their investigation, with national police chief Tito Karnavian describing them as “old players” who also had links to the 2011 plot.

All those detained — including the attacker — were allegedly part of the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah group, a local militant outfit that supports IS.

“Their aim is to incite violence, I urge people to remain calm,” said Karnavian.

Sunday’s attack was just the latest on a church in recent months. In August, an Indonesian teenager who was obsessed with IS stabbed a priest in a church in the city of Medan on Sumatra island and tried to detonate a homemade bomb.

Indonesia, which has the world’s biggest Muslim population, has long struggled with Islamic militancy and suffered a string of extremist attacks in the 2000s, including the 2002 Bali bombings that left 202 people dead.

A sustained crackdown had weakened the most dangerous networks but IS has proved a potent new rallying cry for the country’s radicals.

A suicide bombing and gun attack in the Indonesian capital Jakarta in January, claimed by IS, killed four attackers and four civilians.

Religious minorities have also increasingly come under attack in recent times as the influence of hardliners has grown, with Christians, Buddhists and Muslim minorities targeted.

D’Banj Allegedly Gets Married Secretly In Lagos + See Photos Of The Pretty Bride

D'banji and Lineo

Reports making the rounds  have it that Nigeria’s Kokomaster, D’Banj has secretly married his sweetheart, Didi Lineo Kilgrow on Saturday, July 2nd 2016 in a private wedding at a registry in Lagos.This according to an exclusive by Stella Dimoko Korkus blog

Lineo fondly called Didi is the step sister of MTV Base Africa‘s ‘The Bigger Friday Show’co-host Samantha Walsh.

SDK reports that the small get-together was an intimate registry wedding with only about 25 people in attendance. D’Banj and Lineo are said to have carried out their traditional  wedding in June at the bride’s hometown in Jos.

The guests were cajoled into thinking they were attending a birthday party for D’Banj’s father only to get to the venue and realize that it was a wedding in which things were kept extremely ‘hush-hush’.

Sources disclose that Lineo and the Emergency singer started dating in 2015 and D’Banj popped the question about four months ago. Lineo has been described as a“very nice girl,very humble,very down to earth and blew away the Kokomaster’s heart” by D’banj’s close friends.

BREAKING: Customers Panic As CBN Takes Over Skye Bank, Sacks Directors

There was panic among customers of Skye Bank following news that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has taken over the Board and management of the bank.

The Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, who announced the take-over at a news conference, which was held at the CBN head office in Lagos, said the bank had failed to meet the regulator’s minimum key liquidity and capital adequacy ratios.

Emefiele said the apex bank had appointed a new board and management for the bank following the resignation of the Chairman, Chief Tunde Ayeni, and Management Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Timothy Oguntayo.

He said the bank’s outgoing board and management had consistently failed to turn the fortunes of the bank around despite consistent warnings from the CBN.

In place of the outgoing board and management, Emefiele said the CBN had appointed Alhaji MK Ahmad as the new chairman, while Mr. Tokunbo Abiru is the new MD/CEO.

The governor said the CBN had removed and replaced all the non-executive directors and two longest-serving directors of Skye Bank.

The CBN boss urged shareholders and customers of the bank to remain calm, stressing that the bank was not in distress.

“I maintain that Skye Bank is not in distress. We have only taken this unavoidable decision to ensure that depositors’ funds are not eroded,” he said.

[PHOTOS] Diezani’s Billionaire Ally, Jide Omokore Arraigned By EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), today, arraigned Jide Omokore, an oil magnate and ally of Former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison- Madueke, at the Federal High Court Abuja on money laundering charges.

He was arraigned alongside Andrew Yakubu, a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC before Justice Binta Nyako on four counts of Money Laundering.

Other defendants to the charge are: Victor Briggs, Abiye Membere, David Mbanefo, Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Limited.

They pleaded not guilty.

Stella Oduah Reacts To Allegations That She Stashed N2.5bn In Her Housemaid’s Account

stella Oduah

Former minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, has reacted to reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was on her trail for allegedly stashing nearly N2.5 billion in a bank account she set up using the identity of her domestic aide.

Oduah who said on Monday that she received the reports while relaxing in her country home in Anambra State, challenged those who published the allegations to publish proofs that substantiate her guilt.

In a statement, signed by Francisca Onyeisi, head of communications, the former minister said that if the reports were true, she would have been arrested long before now, especially at a time when the EFCC is “freezing accounts and going after opposition governors who enjoy same level of immunity as the president.”

Oduah, urged his supporters and the general public to ignore the reports, saying she had “made a mark in oil and gas and Agricultural businesses before joining politics.”

Sahara Reporters, had on Sunday reported EFCC sources as revealing to it how Oduah used the name and pictures of the unnamed maid to set up the account.

Sahara Reporters quoted one of the EFCC source as saying, “Senator Oduah apparently opened the account with her housemaid’s name, image, and details without the housemaid knowing about it”.

The said account, the report claims, was still active as at last week.

Oduah was removed from office in February 2014 after she was found to have received armoured BMW cars, worth N255million, from an agency she supervised.

EFCC Traces Illegal Transfer Of N216m From CBN To Fake Account

THE Economic and Financial and Crimes Commission (EFCC) is currently investigating the successful transfer of N216.66 million by a syndicate from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) account of the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) into an illegal account opened in the name of a company using the Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos branch of a new generation bank.

In addition to probing the account, EFCC will also investigate the role of the Police High Command in the matter.

According to reports, the real owner of the Ibadan based company, Citadel Concepts Limited, whose company name was used to open the illegal account, sent a petition to the Police which was treated lightly before he forwarded a petition to the office of Vice President, Professor Yemi Osibanjo who directed EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, to look into the matter.

A source at the commission confirmed that several people connected with the opening and operation of the account have been interrogated, even though investigation is ongoing.

Another source said many officials of these organisations were quizzed while forensic analysis of specimen of signatures used in opening the account has been carried out.

The role of the police in an earlier petition to the office of the Inspector General of Police is also under scrutiny as a result of allegations made against the police in the cause of investigations by the commission.

For instance, part of the document submitted to the EFFC for investigation was to unravel why the police declined requests for the release of the case file to the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution and the trial of the petitioner for false information under the penal code.

The anti graft agency would also unravel how far the police has gone in the arrest and interrogation of some highly placed people mentioned in the petition sent to it.
(Daily Sun)

N4.9bn Fraud: Court Grants Fani-Kayode, Nenadi Usman N250m Bail

Federal High Court in Lagos has granted bail in the sum of N250m to former spokesperson of the PDP Presidential campaign organization, Femi Fani-Kayode.

Fani-Kayode, who is being tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for an alleged fraud of N4.9bn, was granted bail by Justice Muslim Hassam.

Former Minister of Finance, Nenadi Usman and one Danjuma Yusuf were also granted bail in like sum

Part of the bail conditions requires them to provide two sureties in like sum and they must be land property owners.

The judge also ordered them to deposit their passport in the custody of the court pending the outcome of the case and ruled that sureties must present evidence of tax clearance in the state.