Naija Blog (Classic Men Entertainment)

3 May, 2013 Local       Alleged mastermind of the Christmas Day bomb blast that killed about 44 persons and wounded 75 others at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church at Madalla, Niger  State, in 2011, Kabiru Umar, a.k.a Kabiru Sokoto, Thursrday, begged a Federal High Court in Abuja to release him on bail pending the determination of the charge against him. Sokoto made the plea on a day he accused authorities of the Kuje Prison where he was  remanded on April 19, by Justice Adeniyi Ademola,  of denying him access to his lawyer. The accused person, who is answering to a two-count terrorism charge that was preferred against him by the Federal Government, told the court that he was kept incommunicado at the prison, a situation, he said, has hampered his ability to package his defence. Consequently, Justice Ademola, yesterday, ordered his immediate transfer to the custody of the Department of State Security, DSS, pending hearing on his bail application which was fixed f

      Nigeria’s drug czar, the NDLEA on Friday confirmed the arrest of a 26-year-old man in possession of a French-made pistol during the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The suspect, said to be from Awka, was arrested during a routine stop-and-search at Akenfa, a suburb of Yenagoa. Mr Frank Hannachu, the Commander of the NDLEA in Bayelsa, told newsmen that the suspect was arrested in a commercial bus conveying candidates for the examination to Bayelsa. “The bus stopped for routine checks; the suspect was found with one French-made pistol with eight rounds of live ammunition. “When he was interrogated, the suspect said he was coming from Awka to write the examination and that he was a member of a cult gang. “He has been handed over to the police where he is being detained at the state police command headquarters for further investigations,” Hannachu said. The NDLEA boss also said that between January and April, the agency had seized