Fashola: Chike Ibezim under lawful custody says NPF - ITREALMS

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The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has confirmed to be in custody of Mr. Chike Ibezim in a lawful custody based on a court order due to cyberbullying, reports ITREALMS.

The Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, Abuja, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a press statement available to ITREALMS that NPF wishes to address recent concerns and malicious reports surrounding the detention of Mr. Chike Ibezim.

Evans intact in Police custody – Force Hqtrs

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The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) headquarters has said that the notorious billionaire kidnapping kingpin, Chukwudumeje 'Evans' Onwuamadike, is still very much in its custody, reports ITRealms.

This is coming against report by SUN Newspapers that Evans vanished from Police custody and his whereabouts unknown.

Reacting to media reports that Evans has vanished from Police custody and his whereabouts unknown, the Nigeria Police said it was unfounded, insisting that Evans is intact in Police custody.

The Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, Abuja, CSP Jimoh Moshood, in a press statement made available to ITRealms, said that investigations into all the crimes Evans committed which include several kidnappings, armed robbery and murder are ongoing.

“The Police have made significant progress in the investigations of these crimes,” he said.

The public, Moshood said, should disregard and discountenance all media reports in the social and print media that Evans, has vanished or released and all criminal charges against him dropped as untrue and absolutely false.

“Evans is in Police custody and would be arraigned in court along with other members of his gang on completion of investigation,” he assured.

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IPv4 depletion hits America - ARIN

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The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) proclaimed its pool for the Internet Protocol version Four (IPv4) has been depleted in the America, which means there is no more IPv4 in its custody for offering, reports ITRealms.

President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), ARIN, Mr. John Curran, revealed this to ITRealms, saying that the American registry has at 24 September 2015, exhausted its stock.

ARIN, he said, issued the final IPv4 addresses in its free pool on Thursday, September 24, this year, although it would continue to process and approve requests for IPv4 address blocks.

“Those approved requests may be fulfilled via the Wait List for Unmet IPv4 Requests, or through the IPv4 Transfer Market,” he said

Mr. Curran also said that exhaustion of the ARIN free pool does trigger changes in ARIN's Specified Transfer policy (NRPM 8.3) and Inter-RIR Transfer policy (NRPM 8.4). 

In both cases, he told ITRealms, these changes impact organizations that have been the source entity in a specified transfer within the last twelve months.

"The source entity (-ies within the ARIN Region {8.4}) will be ineligible to receive any further IPv4 address allocations or assignments from ARIN for a period of 12 months after a transfer approval, or until the exhaustion of ARIN's IPv4 space, whichever occurs first," he said.

Curran further explained that with effective Thursday, September 24, 2015, because exhaustion of the ARIN IPv4 free pool has occurred for the first time, there is no longer a restriction on how often organizations may request transfers to specified recipients. 

In the future, he pointed out that any IPv4 address space that ARIN receives from IANA, or recovers from revocations or returns from organizations, will be used to satisfy approved requests on the Waiting List for Unmet Requests.

“If we are able to fully satisfy all of the requests on the waiting list, any remaining IPv4 addresses would be placed into the ARIN free pool of IPv4 addresses to satisfy future requests,” he said, even as ARIN encourages customers with questions about IPv4 availability to contact them via hostmaster@arin.net.

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2 ex-MTN employees in EFCC net over N1bn housing scam

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Two former MTN employees alongside their accomplices are now cooling off in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged swindling of N1bn belonging to MTN Employees Multipurpose Cooperative Society (MEMCOS), reports DigitalSENSE Business News.

Also DigitalSENSE Business News gathered that these men, Messrs Victor Akintunde and  Gani O. Mustapha and their companies Primavera Engineering and Construction Limited, and Mabo Dredging Limited as well as a contractor, Mutairu Babatunde were on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 arraigned before justice Lawal Akapo of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja  on a 17-count charge bordering on conspiracy, obtaining money by false pretense, forgery, and issuance of dud cheque.

Sources at EFCC told DigitalSENSE Business News  that Akintunde and Mustapha, former executive members of MTN Employees Multipurpose Cooperative Society (MEMCOS), ran into trouble when they could not account for more than N1,000,000,000.00 (One Billion Naira), being money contributed by members of MEMCOS who purposed to own houses in the ambitious "Yellow Estate" proposed to them by the executive members.

MEMCOS  was allegedly set up in order to build housing estate for the contributors but unfortunately after over N1,000,000,000 was contributed, the contributors received neither houses nor refund of their money.  Akintunde and Mustapha allegedly connived with Babatunde, a purported contractor and converted the money into their personal use.

One of the charges read: "You Victor Akintunde, Gani O. Mustapha, Mutairu Babatunde, Primavera Engineering and Construction Limited and Mabo Dredging Limited on or about 8th April, 2008 at Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division with intent to defraud, conspired to steal the sum of N77,000,000 (Seventy Seven Million Naira) property of MEMCOS being outstanding refund for 5 hectares out of 13 hectares of land you bought for the society from Mutairu Baba Egbe Family that you claimed had defective title and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 390(9) of the Criminal Code Cap C17 Vol2, Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2003".

Another count read: "Mutairu Babatunde and Primavera Engineering and Construction Limited on or about 8th April, 2008 at Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division with intent to defraud, stole the sum of N516,697,340 (Five Hundred and Sixteen Million, Six Hundred and Ninety Seven Thousand, Three hundred and Forty Naira Only) property of MTN Employees Multipurpose Cooperative Society (MEMCOS) being sum that you fraudulently claimed you used to compensate early settlers in 26 hectares of land amounting 321 plots of land you bought for the society from Jagun Opolu Family and  thereby committed an offence contrary to section 390(9) of the Criminal Code Cap C17 Vol2, Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2003".

DigitalSENSE Business News  gathered that all the accused persons pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to them.

Counsel to the third accused person (Babatunde), moved a bail application for his client which was opposed by the prosecuting counsel,  Emmanuel Jackson. According to Jackson, it took over one year for the third accused person to appear before the court, even after he was ordered by the court  to make himself available.

Jackson requested the court to give him a short date in order to provide further and better counter affidavit with strong evidence for the court to deny the third accused person bail.

Justice Akapo upheld the prosecution’s argument and remanded the third accused person in Kirikiri maximum prison, Lagos, pending hearing of bail application.

DigitalSENSE Business News  further gathered that the case was adjourned to December 16th, 2014.

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