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stealing laptops' By Itodo Oaniel Sule & Hussein Vahaya AN Abuja Magistrate Court on Thursday sentenced a 20-year-old applicant to three months imprisonment for stealing laptops and oiher items from Canopy Market at Wuse Zone 3, Abuja. Bright Madaki of no fIXed address was convicted for criminal trespass, house breaking and theft, offences contrary to Sections 348,
347 and 287 of the Penal Code. Prosecutor Udeh David told the court that on May 14, one Mohammed lbnihim and Husseini Abdulkadir, reported to the police that their shops were broken into and five laptops, two bags and a decoder stolen. The prosecutor said during police investigation, the accused was arrested and some of the stolen items recovered from him.
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When the charges were read to the accused, he pleaded guilty ' and begged for leniency, saying the devil pushed him into crime. Magistrate Aminu Eri sentenced the accused to three months imprisonments or to pay N3,000 as fine. The magistrate atso ruled that the convict should pay N70,000 to the nominal complainant as compensation.
THE FCT Agric and Rural Development Secretariat have denied aUegations . !hat .their officials diverted 'fertilizers 'meant for farmers in the 2011 farming season. A statement from secretariat's Spokesman, Abuo Francis Ojie, stated that the attention of the' Secretary, FCT Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat, Mallam Hamza Adamu Buwai, has been drawn to a news story in a national newspaper aUeging that a"Group petitions FCDA over fertilizer". The statement read that the
launching of the 2011 farming season, sales of fertilizers and other agric inputs that took place on May 31 at Abaji was done with the reserve of2010 fertilizers. During ~at event, according to the statement, each of the six area councils of the FCT was aUocated . 300' metric tons of fertilizers for onward distribution to farmers in their domains. "Furthermore. the secretariat carried out public sales affertilizers in all the agro service centres in the FCT;' he added. The described the publication as malicious and untrue. adding that such petition was never received at the Secretariat.
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MEOlA Trust Limited in coUaboration with Water Support Charity Organization Saturday commis. sianed three boreholes in some rural communities of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Speaking during the commissioning. Administrative Secretary of Media Trust's Corporate Social Responsibility Scheme, Mallam Imam Shuaib, said the projects are mean t to provide water to vulnerable people in Villages where there are no good sources of water for domestic and other uses. He said the ges ture is in line with Media Trust's mission to affect the live of the common- man positively, adoing that the partnership between the company and Water Support Organization will promote co rporate social responsibility and improve welfare services at grassroots levels. He listed Jiwa, Gish iri and Bwari as communities that have so rar benefitted from the current scheme, adding that the organizations have stepped up efforts to complete borehole projects in some orphanages in Niger and Bauchi states. In her remark, President of Water Support Group, Miss Fatima Bukar Ali, said they we nt into partnership with the media outfit in order to provide clean water to people who need it most in Africa and developing countries around the world. Responding, Sarkin Jiwa, Alhaji Idris Musa, expressed satisfaction at the gesture and commended the two organi zations for Sinking a borehole in his community,