Metro

Customers and bank workers exchange blows over BVN registration

Published

11 years ago

26th June 2015

In the huge rush to beat the Bank Verification Number enrollment deadline which is June 30th, 2015 however, customers of an old generation bank engaged in a brawl with members of staff of the bank in the banking hall in Enugu State.

Customers were gripped by fear over the reports that their bank accounts will be frozen if they don’t enroll before the deadline.

The insistence on the BVN by bank cashiers before attending to customers also increased such fear.

The development led to an unusually large turnout of customers at banking halls in the Coal City and this has been happening since the beginning of the week.

However, the matter took a different turn at an old generation bank, located in the Independence Layout area of Enugu on Thursday.

Trouble started when security personnel and operations staff of the financial institution asked some customers to go outside the banking hall to wait their turn.

About 100 customers, who had been at the bank since 6am, had trooped into the banking hall when the doors were opened by 8am.

In a bid to maintain order, the bank officials asked the first 10 among the customers to fill the BVN forms and join about 30 others who did not complete the registration the previous day.

The other customers were told to leave the banking hall, and wait outside.

But the directive did not go down well with the customers, who protested, causing commotion in the banking hall.

The situation degenerated into a full blown fight when some customers violently resisted an attempt by the bank officials to lead them out of the banking hall.

In the ensuing fracas, a young man engaged an armed riot policeman, who was attached to the bank, in a fight, while another customer exchanged blows with a bank worker.

The situation further escalated as some customers, who wanted to capitalise on the confusion to move to the front of the queue, were physically resisted by those who were already there.

Normalcy eventually returned after other bank security personnel, who were outside, stormed the banking hall to overpower the violent customers.

The branch manager of the bank later announced that the bank would open on Saturday to continue the enrollment.

The branch manager, who did not disclose her name, complained that the customers had waited until the last minute before coming to enroll for the BVN.

– Punch

Metro

Bauchi man, 27, allegedly k!lls 13-year-old pregnant girlfriend

Published

4 years ago

14th August 2022

Usman Oladuntoye

A 27-year-old man, Munkaila Ado, has been arrested for the alleged m*rder of one Safiya Danladi, a 13-year-old girl, in Pali community of Alkaleri local government area of Bauchi State.

Until her death, Safiya was carrying a four-month-old pregnancy for Munkaila, who was her boyfriend, Leadership reported.

Munkaila was hellbent on getting the pregnancy aborted afterwhich Safiya was secretly taken to Gombe State for abortion, it was reported.

Munkaila later opted to k!ll his lover after an unsuccessful arrangement to abort the four-month-old pregnancy in the neighbouring Gombe State.

However, a statement by the Bauchi State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, said: “The suspect (Munkaila) confessed that the missing girl was his girlfriend who was four-month pregnant to the knowledge of her mother but unknown to the father Alhaji Danladi Mohammed.”

The Police spokesperson added that Munkaila conspired with the mother of the 13-year-old girl and another accomplice by name Mu’azu and they “took the victim to Gombe to procure an abortion, thereafter on reaching Gombe the victim was led to one Hajiya Amina Abubakar ‘f’ 50-yr-old house in Jekada Fari behind Specialist Hospital Gombe where the victim was administered with some substances to cause the abortion.”

He said while returning home in Bauchi State, Munkaila and Muazu strangulated Safiya to death. They thereafter burnt the corpse and bury her in a shallow grave.

SP Wakil stated that the duo will be charged to court on two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide as well as violation of human right and dignity of the girl-child.

Metro

Photos: Terrorists Release More Abuja-Kaduna Train Attack Victims

Published

4 years ago

10th August 2022

Usman Oladuntoye

The terrorists who attacked the Abuja-Kaduna train passengers on March 28, 2022, have released another seven hostages, including a family of six and an older woman.

The Publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald and Media Consultant to Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, said the seven were released following the intervention of his principal.

Metro

Nigerian Military arrests Owo Church attackers

Published

4 years ago

9th August 2022

Usman Oladuntoye

The Defence Headquarters said it has arrested the terrorists behind the attack on the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State.

The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, who made the disclosure during a parley with media executives at the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, said the criminals were arrested in collaboration with other security agencies.

Terrorists attacked the Catholic Church during a Sunday Mass and opened fire on the worshippers, resulting in the death of over 30 persons.

The incident happened on June 5.