The Netherlands Police has arrested Kingsley Kuku, a former aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, over child pornography.
According to SaharaReporters, Kuku was arrested on Wednesday at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, while on his way to London, United Kingdom.
It was gathered that Kuku is being interrogated by Dutch authorities for allegedly circulating child pornographic materials in 2018.
“His warrant was executed over child pornography complaints. He was arrested on his way to London four days ago.
“He has been fighting his extradition after his arrest at Schiphol. He was coming from Accra, Ghana with a layover at Schiphol. He reportedly circulated child pornography in 2018,” a source told SaharaReporters.
Kuku was elected as a member of the Ondo State House of Assembly and became the Chairman of the House Committee for a period of four years.
In January 2011, President Jonathan appointed Kuku as his Special Adviser on the Niger Delta and Chairman, Niger Delta Presidential Amnesty Programme.
As the Chairman of the Amnesty Programme for ex-agitators in the oil-bearing communities in the Niger Delta, Kuku oversaw the disarmament and demobilisation of 30,000 ex-agitators.
Identities Of Travellers Killed By Gunmen In Plateau On Saturday Revealed
Various reactions have continued to trail the gruesome murder of some innocent travellers on Saturday in the Rukuba area of Plateau State.
As earlier reported by this news medium, not less than 22 persons were murdered in cold blood following an attack by bandits along Rukuba Road in Jos North LGA, Plateau state.
The gunmen who attacked the travellers also injured fourteen others while a total of 34 others are still missing.
The travellers were part of worshippers who were on their way to Ondo state after attending the annual zikr prayer in Bauchi, when they were attacked.
While the State Governor, Simon Lalong has declared a curfew in the affected areas, the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has also deployed a special team of Police operatives to restore calm in the area.
But in a fresh development, a report monitored by our correspondent on HumAngle has revealed the names of the travellers who were unfortunately killed during the attack on Saturday.
Below is the full list of the people killed during the attack:
6. Mallam Salihu Halilu
7. Mallam Muhammadu
8. Mallam Bello Ori
9. Mallam Abdulkarim
10. Hadimin Mallam Musa Shehu
11. Alhaji Muhammadu Lawal
12. Alhaji Rugga
13. Baa Alhaji Bayo
14. Gambo Alhaji Baido
15. Alhaji Usman Lolo Shagari
16. Mallam Maude Alhaji Baido
17. Ibrahim Haruna
18. Mallam Muhammad II
19. Salihu Hunter
20. Yakubu Mallam Bello
21. Mallam Isyaku
22. Four unidentified others.
Meanwhile, gunmen suspected to be bandits have kidnapped the son of Alhaji Abubakar Maikano, a top aide and Administrative Officer to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Recall that this is coming months after yet to be arrested burglars attacked the official residence of Maikano inside the Presidential Villa.
According to Sahara Reporters, Sanusi Maikano was kidnapped on Saturday around 8:30 pm after returning from his farmhouse.
Fish Out Perpetrators Of Gruesome Massacre Of Twenty-Two Jos Travellers, Buhari Orders Security Agencies
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered security agencies to fish out the perpetrators of the gruesome massacre of twenty-two persons travelling along Rukuba Road in Jos, the Plateau state capital.
In a statement on Saturday by the presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, the President ordered the police and other security agencies to bring the killers to justice in line with his commitment to protect all Nigerians.
It was earlier reported that the travellers were killed while fourteen others got injured on Saturday following an attack by gunmen suspected to be bandits.
The travellers were said to be part of Muslim worshippers who were on their way to Ondo state after attending the annual zikr prayer in Bauchi.
Confirming the incident, the Plateau State Police spokesperson, Ubah Ogaba said 21 victims were rescued while six suspects have been arrested in connection with the development.
But according to Presidency, President Buhari has condemned the attack on the travellers and expressed sadness over the murder of the twenty-two travellers.
Buhari, however, offered condolences to the families of the victims, and prayed that God will give them the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable loss.
The statement titled ‘Presidency Strongly Condemns Hoodlum Attacks on Travellers’ read: “It is widely known that Plateau State has been one of the states affected by herder-farmer clashes, which have, in a significant way, been curtailed following the intense peace-building efforts of the administration of Governor Simon Lalong.
“However, to be clear, this is not an agriculturalist-on-pastoralist confrontation – but rather a direct, brazen and wickedly motivated attack on members of a community exercising their rights to travel freely and to follow the faith of their choosing.
“With the evident preparedness of their attackers, it is clear this was a well-conceived and prearranged assault on a known target, location and religious persuasion of the travellers not an opportunist ambush.
“These kinds of attacks on our country’s citizens are unacceptable, heinous, and stand in complete contradiction to the teachings of the great religions of our nation.
“The Presidency stands steadfast with both Christians and Muslims at this time in condemnation of this latest attack and expects and insists that justice is swiftly – but fairly – delivered to the perpetrators.”
The Presidency commended the ongoing efforts by the Governors of Plateau, Bauchi, and Ondo; the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Sa’ad Abubakar III, and Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi as well as a number of notable Christian and Muslim leaders for intensifying efforts to calm down the situation.
Another Chibok Schoolgirl Escapes, Handed Over To Zulum In Gwoza
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State on Saturday received another Chibok schoolgirl who presented herself to the Nigerian Army.
Society gazette reports that the schoolgirl, Hassana Adamu, alongside her two children, was handed over to Governor Zulum by the Commander, 26 Taskforce Brigade, Brigadier General DR Dantani, in Gwoza.
Hassana was one of over 200 schoolgirls abducted at a Government Secondary School in Chibok on April 14, 2014, by Boko Haram insurgents.
She is the second Chibok schoolgirl to be received by the Borno State Government within two weeks.
Babagana Zulum received the Chibok Schoolgirl
Recall that another Chibok schoolgirl, Ruth Ngladar Pogu and a man said to be her husband, had presented themselves to the Nigerian Army on July 28 at a location in Bama.
Diogo Jota opened the scoring (26); Second-half goals from sub Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah rounded off a perfect start for Jurgen Klopp; Salah has now scored for a fifth successive PL opening weekend
Liverpool made a fast start to their Premier League campaign, racing out of the blocks with a comfortable 3-0 victory at Norwich.
It had been a good weekend for the newly-promoted sides with wins for Brentford and Watford, but Norwich could not make it a clean sweep as Jurgen Klopp’s side, who handed the returning Virgil van Dijk his first competitive start in 10 months, clicked into gear.
Diogo Jota sent the Reds on their way in the 26th minute before second-half goals from substitute Roberto Firmino (65) and Mohamed Salah (74), who has now scored for a fifth successive opening weekend to a Premier League season, sealed a comprehensive opening win.
Mohamed Salah has scored on the opening weekend for a 5th successive PL season, the 1st player to do so
For Norwich, it was a difficult start to their return to the top flight and despite some positive moments during the game, things won’t be getting any easier for Daniel Farke and his side as they head to defending champions Manchester City next weekend.
Liverpool are back in action on Saturday when they host Burnley at Anfield; kick-off 12.30pm. Norwich are also in action next Saturday when they travel to champions Manchester City; kick-off 3pm.
22 Killed, 14 Injured In Fresh Plateau Attack– Police
Plateau State Police Command has confirmed that 22 persons are killed and 14 injured in an attack that occurred on Saturday in skirmishes, the Rukuba road hot neighbourhood of Jos North LGA of Plateau State.
Plateau Police Command in a statement issued in Jos on Saturday said at about 0928hrs, the Command received a distress call that a group of attackers suspected to be Irigwe youths and their sympathisers along Rukuba Road of Jos North LGA attacked a convoy of five buses with Muslim faithful who were coming back from the Annual Zikr prayer in Bauchi State and were heading to Ikare in Ondo State.
According to the statement from the command, upon receipt of the report, a team of Police personnel, the military and other sister agencies were immediately mobilised to the scene where twenty-one (21) victims were rescued and six suspects arrested.
Unfortunately, twenty-two (22) persons were killed and Fourteen injured in the attack.
The Commissioner of Police, Plateau State Command, CP Edward Egbuka along with the GOC 3-Division, Major General Ibrahim Ali, also visited the scene and ordered for a discreet investigation to fish out other perpetrators of this barbaric act at large.
“Normalcy has returned to the area.”
The State Commissioner of Police Edward Egbuka warned that those that perpetrated the dastardly act & others that incited it, will be made to face the full wrath of the law.
The Police Command urges the public to remain calm and to furnish the Police with useful information that will aid the investigation.
President Muhammadu Buhari Doesn’t Bear His Father’s Real Name — US Professor Makes Shocking Revelation
An associate professor in the United States, Farooq Kperogi, has claimed that the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, does not bear the real names of his father.
The social critics noted that President Buhari’s surname is not his father’s real name but a name derived from a particular town.
Kperogi added that Muhammadu Buhari’s father is called Adamu Bafallaje (or Bafalle in Hausa).
He wrote, “Muhammadu Buhari’s very name is wrapped in a curious omission. In most parts of the world, people’s last names are usually either their family name or their father’s first name. Not for Buhari.”
”Muhammadu (which his teachers spelled as “Mohamed” when he was in secondary school) is his first given name and Buhari is his middle name, not his surname. He was named after a prolific ninth-century Persian Hadith compiler by the name of Muhammad al-Bukhari who was born in a city called Bukhara in what is now Uzbekistan.”
“Bukhari isn’t a personal given name; it’s a demonym, that is, a name given to people who come from a particular place, such as Nigerian, Briton, American, Lagosian, New Yorker, etc. Bukhari simply means a native of the city of Bukhara in Uzbekistan, a West Asian nation that used to be a part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).”
“In Muslim and Middle Eastern linguistic traditions, the letter “i” is usually added to the end of the names of villages, towns, cities, and countries to form demonyms. That’s why someone from Pakistan is called a Pakistani, someone from Israel is called an Israeli, someone from the UAE is called an Emirati, and so on. If the demonym of Bukhara were to be given in Hausa, it would be Danbuhara. In Yoruba, it would be Omobuhara. In my native Baatonu, it would be Buharagi. (My last name, Kperogi, is a demonym, and it means someone from Kperu, the short form of my hometown’s name, Senru Kperu, but which Yoruba people call Okuta).”
“So how did Muhammadu Buhari come to be known by his names? Because of the immense reverence that Muhammad al-Bukhari enjoys among Sunni Muslims, Muslims have historically honoured him by naming their children after him, so instead of just calling them Bukhari (which they may not be since they may not be natives of Bukhara in Uzbekistan), they typically combine the man’s first and last names: Muhammad Bukhari.
”Most Nigerian languages, including Hausa, don’t have the phoneme “a,” which sounds almost exactly like the sound you produce when you are discharging mucus from your throat. The closest phonemic approximation of that sound is “h,” which explains why “Bukhari” is rendered as “Buhari” in many African languages”
“Our Muhammadu Buhari doesn’t bear his father’s name even though he is so proud of his paternal ancestry that he gratuitously flaunts it. For instance, in his October 18, 1961 “Application to sit for RNA Qualifying Examination,” he called attention to his ethnic identity even when it wasn’t warranted. “I have the honour to apply for regular service in the Royal Nigeria Army. My name is Muhammadu Buhari and I am a Fulani. I am eighteen years old and I am in Form Six at the Provincial Secondary School Katsina,” he wrote.
“Buhari’s father who gave him the Fulani bloodline he brandishes (his mother is Kanuri) was called Adamu Bafallaje (or Bafalle in Hausa). Buhari’s older brother who died in a car crash in the late 1980s and whose Buhari-lookalike son, Fatuhu Muhammad, represents the Daura/Sandamu/MaiAdua federal constituency in the House of Representative was called Mamman Danbafalle. (Danbafalle means son of Bafalle in Hausa, and Mamman is the Hausa domestication of Muhammad. It’s common in Muslim families to have many siblings named Muhammad, but they’re often differentiated with their middle names).”
Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike has said that he is not aware of Ex-VP, Atiku Abubakar’s 2023 Presidential ambition.
Speaking during a recent interview on AIT, Wike disclosed that the is not aware that Atiku will be contesting the 2023 Presidential elections because the PDP is yet to zone the position.
“I’m not aware of Atiku’s move because the PDP has not yet zoned the presidency.”
Wike also weighed in on the recent crisis rocking the party adding that that it was not out of place for a political party to have internal problems.
“I use to be afraid of possibility of an implosion and that could have been the end of the party. But what I saw on Monday gave me a lot of confidence for the first time.”
He, however praised the Governors of the party for coming together to map out a solution to the issue.
The Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government has again rejected the proposal of State Governors for the total removal of fuel subsidy.
Recall that the Federal Government had first, on May 21, rejected the governors’ recommendation of shooting petrol price up to between ₦380 and ₦ 408.5 per litre and removing fuel subsidy.
The governors’ advice was based on the report of its committee chaired by the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, seeking the full deregulation of the oil sector.
Reacting, the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, had in a statement, said the current petrol price of between ₦162 and ₦165 per litre would stay.
Sylva said the current price would be retained until the ongoing negotiations with the organised labour were concluded.
“The current price of petrol will be retained in the month of June until the ongoing engagement with organised labour is concluded.
“This clarification becomes necessary in the light of recent reports regarding the resolution of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum to increase the pump price of petrol,” he had said.
But oil marketers under the aegis of Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria, on Friday, asked the federal government to end fuel subsidy in line with the state governors’ recommendation.
The President of PETROAN, Dr Billy Gillis-Harry, said: “When it (fuel subsidy) is stopped, the prices of petroleum products will be determined by market forces and this will create competition and lead to an increase in product availability.”
However, the Special Assistant on Media to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Garba-Deen Muhammad insisted that no decision on the adjustment of petrol price would be reached until the ongoing negotiations with the organised labour were concluded.
He told PUNCH that, “The truth is that the key component for us to make the decision is basically for us to have a consensus with labour. So regardless of what the governors or anybody else is saying, labour is the key partner in this project.
“The negotiations with labour officials are ongoing. A decision will not be reached until the negotiations are over. So anybody can say what they want.”
He added, “The fact is that the labour represents the Nigerian people and the government is working with the Nigerian people. So it is a cardinal objective that the labour is carried along.”
Asked when the negotiations would be concluded, Muhammad said that those not depend solely on the federal government.
“People can make their analyses and arrive at whatever proposals, but at the end of the day, a consensus has to be reached and in that consensus, the labour is a major voice and key partner,” he said
Pelumi Olajenbesi, the lawyer to the 12 detained aides of Sunday Igboho, has said his clients will soon be released from the Department of Service (DSS) custody.
Recall that the 12 aides have been in DSS custody for about 50 days for failing to perfect their bail and regain freedom.
One of the conditions for their bail was that the 12 aides should have 24 sureties after they were earlier asked to produce four sureties.
Speaking with the PUNCH on Friday, Olajengbesi said the requirement for 24 sureties had been met as required by the court.
He disclosed that the bail office of the Federal High Court in Abuja said it needed to write letters to the offices of the 24 sureties to get more confirmation.
He, however, appealed to the court to quickly confirm the authenticity of the sureties so the detained persons could regain freedom.
“We have the 24 sureties already as required by the court, but the challenge is the bail office insisted that it needs to write letters to all the offices of the sureties to confirm the sureties,” he said.
It would be recalled that the 12 aides were arrested by DSS operatives during a raid on Igboho’s Ibadan residence on July 1, 2021, and subsequently brought to Abuja.
The aides had approached the court through their lawyer to seek their release in line with their fundamental human rights.
The presiding judge, Justice Obiora Egwuatu, had on August 4, 2021, admitted the 12 applicants to bail.
However, their bail perfection suffered a setback last week as the Federal High Court in Abuja demanded 24 sureties, a development that was in contrast to four sureties earlier demanded by the court.
