12- VanguIlYcl11iURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2012
NEWS 419: Pastor bags 5yrs j ail BY AUSTIN OGWUDA
J\ SABA-AN AsabaJ-b.ued pastor. Joshua Egwu. has been convicted on a two·count charge of conspiracy and advance fee fraud (41 9) for obtaining the sum of N700,OOO from one Benedict Obidtnma under false pretence, by an Asaba Magistrate Court, Della State. Pastor E!gwu was senteoced to five years In prisoo with hard labour. He was sentenced to three years on the first count and two years on the second count. Both sentences are to run COIlcurrently. Chief Magistrate S . Local Organising Committee, LOC Chairman, 2Q14 World IlrmnIn!/ Ehikwe also sentenced , Sir JtrllliiU11 Arcbihong; Governor U,..,!llmoke 01 Cross Rlt-er Siale and his accomplice, one during the pnsen tation 01 the oflicial documents lor lb e bosUng 01 Ekene Uona. to the same CaJabar. fiveyearsunprisonment,
Amaechl tasks FG, N'Assembly on flood In N-Delta
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Growe !I Au lcialton, Mr. Eki AUinza, yesterday, descnbed this year as a muster yeat< follo - g the flood thai sacked comm uruties in the stat' a nd ether parts of conn ry, wa. that it coul lead t) food crisis acr ISS th'~ country next y r AJre dy, Ddt and
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State 15 also on the verge 01 being sacked by the surging Forcados River_ Akainza told Vang uard, in Yenagoa, thaI several farmJands had been wiped out by the surging flood . Describing this year's flood as the worsl in the last 48 years, the cassa· va g lowers association
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BYJIMITOTA ONOVUME ORT HAR· COU RT -GOVERNOR Chibutke Arnaechi of Rivers State, has called on the Federal Government and National Assembly to come up with measures that would permanenUy end the perenrua.l flood and other enVIronmental challenges in the Niger Del-
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drain. The magnitude of this year's flood could plunge the country into food crisis Slnce we do nol have strategic lood reserves to IDltigate this type of natural disaster. ~ He noted with sadness that the fertilizers they bought recently to boost their output had all gone with the flood .
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Speaking when the Senate Committee on Environment and Ecolo·
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visit in Government House, Pcrt Harcourt, Amaechi called (or tbe speedy passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, nollng thai it would address the challenges 10 the region. He said : "We allirnow that derivation funds are pa.ld to the states, but all of us must work togett>er and ensure that the problems faced by these communities are addressed ~shouiddosometlUng
fast to help our people."
Fuel subsidy: Oil finn 's top management ... swears in new Head of arraigned for alleged bribe BYINNOCE!NT gos, lor alleged bribe ol- grated Oil And Gas Ud, Service
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boss, said: "We are in lor a hard time next year as virtually all the farmlands across U1e country had been washed away by flood . "1b further compound our woes, we were caught napping by the flood as all that we had laboured for this year had gone down the
for luring the Vlct:Lm. who was a bosom friend to him Prosecution called two witnesses and tendered SIX exhibits to prove its case. The charge agamst the convict read : 'That you, Ekene Ilona (Melody) and Pastor Joshua Egwu. 00 or about September 15,2011, at Asaba, Wlthin lheAsaba maglSterial dlstnct, did by false pretence, obtain the sum of N700,OOO from one Ben· edict Obidinma by presenting a proposal for the supply of blue gas, a proposal you knew to be (a1se and thereby com· mllted an offence pun· ishable under seclton .1901 the crimtnal code cap C21 volume I, laws of Delta Stale of Nigeria,2006."
National PreSident of NM-\. Dr. Osallon Enab· ulelt" yesterday, during a VISit to Oc.od victims at Etsako We:t and Elsako 'n T<'o! Le. I'J G ,'"ern Alee N
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190 Marine Road, Apa. pa, Lagos, In the Lagos Maqtslrate D15lnct, con· spired with others (now at large) and oltered Nl.5 million to members of the Presidential Committee for the perform· ance of their duties, an oOence punishable under Section63(llta)(b) of the Cnminal Law of lagos State of Nigeria, 2011Police Prosecutor, Mr Etfiong Asuquo, of Special Fraud Urnt, Ikoyi, Lagos, lold the court, yesterday, that the alleged bdbe was offered to members of the Presi· dentJal Committee, namely, Alalade Abioye, Buhari Garuyu, ani Dluwasola and Ch ukwuJeII:wuAkabue'"!!' " 'n Ih
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chi of RIvers State has appointed Mr. Samuel LongJohn as the new Head of Service in the state. Swearing in the new Head of Service at Government House, Port
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Harcoun, the governor urged civil servants to pal'tner his administra· tion to promote good goveroance and accountability. The governor. who said that part 01 Ius resolve was to build an etlioent and eIfective civil servIce in the slate commended the outgone Head 01 Service, Mrs Ether Anucha