...towards a better life for the people ** ONLINE | www.vanguardngr.com VOL. 25: NO. 62252 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014 N150 MORTGAGE BANKS: From left: CEO/Execu- SYNAGOGUE tive Secretary, Mortgage Ex- Bayelsa Gov Banks Association of BUILDING: Nigeria (MBAN), Kayode Omotosho; MD/ CEO, TrustBond Mort- Alamieyeseigha's Coroner gage Bank, Adeniyi Akinlusi and MD, Impe- rial Homes Mortgage inquest Bank, Ben Akaneme at son dies in Dubai the launching, in Lagos, of the first mortgage begins bank syndication of real 7 estate development in 10 Nigeria. We'll wipe out BokoBy Adekunle Aliyu, Ben Agande, Favour Nnabugwu, with agency report AOUNDÉ— Y CAMEROON’S Haram — Cameroon President Mr Paul Biya vowed, yesterday, that his government would go •Their activities'll be drastically curtailed — GEJ after the Islamist group Boko Haram “until it is totally wiped out”. His • Meets foreign ministers of neighbouring countries Nigerian counterpart, President Goodluck •Multi-National Joint Task Force to be deployed next month in Borno Jonathan, on his part, was confident that the ac- tivities of insurgents and other cross-border crimi- nals will soon be drasti- Continues from page 16 COLUMNISTS: What exactly is ‘clueless' about Goodluck Jonathan? (2) •P.17 Does America underrate her women? •P.51 Mr & Mrs ACCESS BANK—From left: Mr. Obinna Nwosu, Group Deputy Managing Director, Access Bank Plc; with Herbert Wigwe, Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Access Bank Plc and Mr. Gbenga Oyebode, Chairman of Access Bank Plc, at the bank's Extra-Ordinary General Meeting in Lagos, yesterday. Photo: Akeem Salau. FG backs tech OKEY WALI: More start-ups with groups, individuals Power demand immediate brokers in N1.5bn 9 South-South release 12 states See Inside C M Y K 2—Vanguard, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014 C M Y K Vanguard, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014—3 C M Y K 4—Vanguard, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014 C M Y K Vanguard, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014—5 C M Y K 6—Vanguard, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014 C M Y K Vanguard, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014—7 Alamieyeseigha's son dies in Dubai zPresident Jonathan assures family of govt's support By Samuel Oyadongha ENAGOA—THE first Ycivilian governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha’s son, Oyamuyefa Alamieyeseigha, is dead. ARRESTED: The suspects and (INSET) the recovered car. Though the cause of the death of the 32-year-old could not be ascertained at press time, it was learned that he was found ‘We sell stolen vehicles in dead outside his family's apartment in Dubai, the from the Mobile policemen and Parading the suspects before United Arab Emirates, in Benin Republic’ a Toyota land Cruiser Prado journalists at the command’s the early hours of Saturday. SUV, with registration number headquarters, Ikeja, the A source said Oyamuyefa AAA 690 BH. command’s boss, Mr. Cornelus might have been strangled By Evelyn Usman following their arrest by Also recovered were motor Aderanti, explained that the to death and his body & Esther Onyegbula operatives of Special Anti- parts, which the suspects suspects stormed a residence at dumped in front of his Robbery Squad, SARS. intended to replace the Eletu Ogabi area of Victoria family house. self-confessed leader of a Recovered from the suspects engraved parts of the stolen Island last Thursday, and Meanwhile, President Arobbery gang, yesterday, were two AK 47 rifles snatched vehicles with. snatched a Prado jeep. Goodluck Jonathan, in a gave an account of how statement by his Special members of his gang Adviser, Media & Publicity, overpowered three mobile Jilted man attempts to set lover's house ablaze Dr. Reuben Abati, assured policemen during an operation the Alamieyeseigha family in Ajah area of Lagos two By Onozure Dania count charge of breach of handed him over to the police. that Federal Government months ago and snatched their & Hope Ofobike public peace and attempted The defendant claimed that would work to unravel the service rifles. arson preferred against him by Saga refused to sleep with him circumstances surrounding The gang leader, a Beninoise, AGOS—A man, Sunday the police, was docked before after collecting his money for the death. who identified himself as LIshiaku, who was jilted by Magistrate Abegunde Davis. the three years they were Vanguard learned that Bernard Bongi, also disclosed his lover was, yesterday, The defendant, an indigene together. the deceased was the that members of his gang arraigned before an Ijeshatedo of Borno State, was alleged to The complainant, on her part, fourth of five children of the usually snatched vehicles from Chief Magistrate’s Court over have carried a keg of petrol said she did not consider former governor. victims in Nigeria and export alleged attempt to set his to the house of the said lover, Ishiaku as her lover and was The family, in a statement same to Benin Republic where lover’s apartment ablaze for Kadijat Saga, a Togolese, at only accommodating him in by Prince Opukiri Ere, said they were sold to ready buyers. refusing to sleep with him 14, Bamishile Street, Idi- her house without attaching a delegation, comprising Bongi and eight suspected during their three-year Araba, with the intention to anything to their relationship. members and associates, members of his gang met their relationship. burn her property before She said she was surprised had left for Dubai. waterloo last Thursday, Ishiaku, who is facing a two- neighbours intervened and when her neighbour called her The family thanked the on phone to inform her that the government and Nigerians defendant broke into her room for their support. DISCO staff, 19 others nabbed over stolen cables with the intention of setting it According to Dr. Reuben ablaze. Abati, “the President By Ola Ajayi plate AV 577 KWL, conveying Ogbomoso and Oyo towns, Ishiaku pleaded not guilty to received with shock and some cables and other electrical adding that they would take the charges, even as the immense sadness, the BADAN—AS Nigerians appliances. the stolen goats to Mile 12 in complainant informed the court news of the death of Mr. Ilament erratic power supply “When the driver of the said Lagos State for sale to Asun that she would want to settle the Oyamuyefa across the country, Oyo State vehicle, one Amaechi Obi of (roasted goat) merchants. matter out of court. Alamieyeseigha in Dubai at Police Command has arrested Salvation Army, Oke Padre, the weekend. 20 suspects, including a staff of Ibadan, was questioned about Suspect remanded in “On behalf of his family Ibadan Electricity Distribution the items, he claimed to have and the Federal Centre, IBDEC, Mr. bought them from a contractor. prison over drug trafficking Government, President Olanrewaju Isaiah, for selling “When the contractor was Jonathan extends heartfelt stolen cables and other electrical picked, they confessed to have By Innocent Anaba October 24, when the facts of the condolences to materials at Salvation Road, stolen the cables from Eruwa.” case will be reviewed, and her Oyamuyefa’s father, Chief Oke Padre, Ibadan. On what pushed him into Federal High Court sentence pronounced. Diepreye Alamieyeseigha The command also recovered selling the company’s cables Asitting in Lagos, Prosecutor, Mr. Ernest Agwu and his entire family on the from rustlers 17 goats, stolen in and other property, the suspect, yesterday, ordered the remand had earlier told the court that the untimely loss of a very dear Ogbomosho and Oyo towns in who said he was a worker on at the Kirikiri female prisons, accused was arrested on July 21 son in the prime of his life. the state. contract, confessed that he 32-year-old woman, Ifeoma at the MMI Airport, Lagos, “The President and the Although the IBDEC staff actually stole the cables with Eze, who was arraigned before during the outward clearance of First Lady, Dame Patience claimed it was his first time of the intention of selling them the court over an alleged illicit passengers on a flight to China. Jonathan, share their pain selling the company's property, to his customer at Salvation drug deal. The prosecutor said the the and grief over the death of there were indications that he Army. Trial judge, Justice substance was concealed in a Oyamuyefa in had been vandalizing same for The command also recovered Chukwujekwu Aneke, gave the large envelop, carefully tucked circumstances that are still some time. 17 goats from goat rustlers and order after she pleaded guilty in the luggage of the accused, unclear. The Commissioner of Police, 41 exotic cars stolen at to a one-count charge of adding that the offence “President Jonathan Mr. Kola Shodipo, said of the gunpoints in different parts of trafficking about 6.200 grams contravenes the provisions of assures Chief arrest: “On October 6, the patrol the state within the last three of Indian hemp. sections 11 (c) of the NDLEA Act Alamieyeseigha and his team attached to Ile-Ido weeks. The accused was arraigned Cap N30, Laws of the family of the full support of division, while on visibility One of the suspected goat by National Drug Law Federation, 2004. the Federal Government as patrol at Akinbiyi village, along rustlers, Mr. Tunde Kazeem, Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. After Eze's plea, the prosecutor they strive to unravel the Ido-Eruwa Road, intercepted a said he and his gang members The court ordered the remand made an oral application for the true circumstances of the Passat saloon car with number usually stole goats in of the accused in custody until remand of the accused. young man’s death.” C M Y K 8 — Vanguard, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014 By Ikechukwu Nnochiri EKITI CRISIS: NJC adjourns BUJA—THE National A Judicial Council, NJC, will today, continue hearing on circumstances that led to the sitting till today Ekiti, to allow for resumption “The NBA demands that the barricade of the High Court of work by the Courts.