The Kogi State Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Josiah Joe Majebi, established an anti-fraud system to clean up the state judiciary, particularly the High Court of Justice. As a result, the state judiciary has discovered the syndicate responsible for issuing fake enrolment orders.

This action, which was in line with the state’s Council of Judges’ vision, has already started to produce exceptional results as previously hidden dealings in the high court system are revealed.

Justice Majebi has ordered that the police look into the perpetrators after learning that a syndicate was responsible for issuing court Enrolment Orders to the general public.

According to preliminary investigations, Court Enrolment Orders were being issued without going through the required procedure of a formal request to the court for the issuance of the same by recipients.

As per the Chief Registrar of the

High Court, Jubril Oladimeji Ibrahim, the crime—which may have been ongoing for some time—was discovered thanks to the diligent work of the Chief Judge’s keen detective apparatus, which was used to look for suspicious activity involving the state’s administration of justice among the system’s users and the general public.

He claimed that the public and institution staff were unaware of the deployment of the mechanisms.

Investigations have shown that the syndicate, which has been predominately operating in Lokoja, the state capital, has its tentacles spread throughout the state and specializes in forging and issuing documents that are purportedly issued by the court.

He claimed that the breakthrough came about as a result of the Chief Judge’s quick response to the heinous act and the necessary steps that were taken to prosecute those responsible.

According to the CR, this prompted the invitation of Tenimu Muhammed, a former president of the Upper Area Court I, Lokoja, who is now an assistant director in his office. He is currently being tried for misconduct before the state’s Judicial Service Commission. He is said to have granted and approved an enrolled order that was made without any formalities or applications.

Police have detained and are looking into two additional High Court employees, Abdullahi Adams and Umar Muhammed.

Following this development, the Chief Judge issued a warning to all members of the judicial branch of government, stressing the importance of the Council of Judges’ mission to restore the institution’s integrity and sanctity and urging them to refrain from any actions that might damage their reputations or those of the judiciary.

On Wednesday, April 19, a building collapsed in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), causing TWO people to perish.

Six construction workers were trapped when an adjacent fence collapsed onto the building, which was still under construction.

Eyewitnesses claim that the building’s foundation was drilled too closely to the homes nearby, which damaged the neighbouring building’s fence and caused it to collapse.

Adebayo Amiola, Head of Operations, FCT Fire Service, confirmed eyewitness accounts by telling reporters at the scene that there was no retaining wall around the building that might have prevented the incident.

Four of the six trapped individuals were found alive, while two others suffered fatal injuries. The building was under construction, and men working on the site were injured when the nearby fence to the main building fell.

Amiola claimed that because there was no retaining wall added while the building’s future location was being excavated, the nearby wall collapsed onto the workers.

He claimed that the injured people had been taken to the General Hospital in Asokoro for medical care.

A previous order had stopped work at the location until the necessary precautions were taken, according to Mukhtar Usman Galadima, director of the Federal Capital Territory Development Authority’s (FCDA) Department of Development Control.

Even stopping the work here, the Department of Development Control has exercised all of its authority. The developer, perhaps acting on the advice of his engineer, did not heed the warning, and this incident ensued.

“Because when performing this type of activity, you must shore it up and maintain the wall to prevent collapse. Until this incident occurred this morning, we were unaware that work had resumed.

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At the scene were members of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), FCT Fire Service, and National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), among others.

Three people were killed on Thursday, February 2, when a three-story building still under construction in the FCT’s Gwarimpa neighbourhood collapsed.

Subsequently, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) cancelled the allocation for the land where the building was being built.

Additionally, a shopping mall building collapsed in 2022, killing at least two people in the Kubwa neighbourhood of the FCT.

Fire completely destroyed the Oyo State Broadcasting Corporation.

According to reports, the studio area is where the fire began.

A source said that the state fire service had been invited and that actions were being taken to maintain control of the situation.

More is coming…