Category: Crime

Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, Nigerian scammer also known as Hushpuppi has pleaded guilty to fraud in an American court. United States Department of Justice (DoJ) in a statement on Wednesday said court documents show that Abbas, a 37-year-old Nigerian national, pleaded guilty on April 20. A version of Hushpuppi’s plea agreement filed late Tuesday outlines his role in a school finance scheme, as well as several other cyber and business email compromise schemes that cumulatively caused more than $24 million in losses. Acting United States Attorney Tracy L. Wilkison said Hushpuppi…

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The video of a 9-year-old girl caught on closed-circuit television, setting fire to the multi-million naira shopping centre, Ebeano Supermarket Lokogoma, in the Federal Capital Territory, has gone viral. The supermarket was engulfed by fire on July 17, which lasted more than one day. The FCT Fire Service spokesman, Ibrahim Muhammad, had stated that many FCT fire stations, including Nji, Games Village, Garki and Asokoro, were involved in fighting the inferno. In the footage, the suspect, who has been identified, was seen walking into the supermarket along with two suspected…

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Yobe Police Command has arrested four suspects in connection with the killing of Hassan Abubakar, an employee of Damaturu branch of a new generation Bank. The command’s spokesman, ASP Dungus Abdulkarim, disclosed this in a statement in Damaturu on Monday. Abdulkarim named one Umar Shaibu, 21; Tajjuddeen Taufiq, 20; Ismail Mohammed, 17; and Bulama Modu, 17, all residents of Damaturu as the suspects arrested by the police. He said they were apprehended during a sting operations carried out by detectives of ‘B’ Divisional Police Headquarters. “On July 23, 2021 at…

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Nigerian army officers in Borno State with code name, Operation Hadin Kai have arrested a man who claims to be a police officer in possession of illegal ammunition. The suspect who gave his name as Ebenezer Odeh, was intercepted at a checkpoint by troops from 154 task battalion Ngamdu, along Maiduguri-Damaturu highway on Sunday. DY Chiwar, the commander of the battalion, was said to have ordered Odeh’s arrest, after noticing suspicious movement. “The suspect with NPF No: 456647, boarded a Borno Express bus to Nigeria’s capital, Abuja when they arrived…

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Unknown gunmen on Wednesday night in an attack in Enugu left no fewer than four policemen and some unidentified persons dead. The attack occurred at a checkpoint in Obeagu-Amechi community in Enugu South Local Government Area. Apart from security operatives, it was learnt that some residents and passers-by, who ran into the incident, were either killed or wounded by stray bullets in the gun duel between policemen and the gunmen. Sources said there were casualties on both sides, even as a patrol van belonging to the police was razed. It…

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In two separate attacks in Governor Samuel Ortom’s local council, Guma in Benue State, thirteen persons, including a three-month-old baby, have been feared killed . It was gathered that the Tuesday attack came barely 24 hours after suspected herdsmen killed eight persons, including two aid workers, in the same local council. Local sources told revealed that gunmen attacked a bus loaded with mourners – who were returning from a burial at Umenger – around Torkula village, resulting in the death of three persons. Two victims, who were shot, were reportedly…

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