Category: Crime

How 21-year-old UNILAG student stabbed Super TV CEO to death

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A 21 year-old undergraduate of the University of Lagos, Chidinma has been arrested by the men of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly killing the Chief Executive Officer, Super TV, Usifo Ataga, in Lekki area of the state. Chidinma, a 300-level student of Mass Communication was arrested at her parents’ residence in the Yaba area of the state on Wednesday night. She allegedly stabbed the victim, while they were in a room, and made away with his belongings, among is an ATM card, in which she withdrew the sum…

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EFCC re-arraigns FIRS directors over N4.5bn fraud

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Three directors and some other officials of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, (FIRS) have been re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over allegations of N4.5 billion fraud. The officials are Peter Hena, a former Coordinating Director; Mohammed Bello Auta (Director of Finance) and Amina Sidi (Finance and Account Department). Others are Umar Aliyu Aduka (Internal Audit), Mbura Mustapha (Deputy Manager), Obi Okeke Malachy (Services Group), Obaje Napoleon Adofu (Head of Budget), Udo-Inyang Effiong Alfred (Officer II) and Benjamin Jiya (Assistant Director). EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, who disclosed…

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Man arrested for defiling maid, 2-year-old biological daughter

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Kingsley Achugbu, a 35 year-old man has been arrested by officers of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly raping his housemaid and his 2-year-old biological daughter. The case was said to have been reported by the housemaid at the FESTAC Division of the command in company with a child rights activist, Justina Nelson of Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Peoples Network. The minor, who was molested by her father, has been taken to the hospital for medical examination to aid further investigation, police said. It was further stated that…

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Farouk Lawan jailed seven years for taking $500,000 bribe

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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Apo, Abuja, has sentenced a former federal lawmaker, Farouk Lawan, to seven years imprisonment for taking bribes while serving as the chairman of the defunct House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating the fraud around fuel subsidy regime in 2012. The trial judge, Angela Otaluka, handed down the verdict in a hours-long verdict on Tuesday. Lawan was the chairman of the house of representatives ad hoc committee probing the multi-billion naira fuel subsidy fraud in 2012. He was accused of demanding $3 million…

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Medical doctor arrested for selling drugged cookies online

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A 26 year-old medical doctor, Jane Chioma Ofoma, who is a graduate of medicine from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and recently completed her housemanship at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital has been arrested in Auchi, Edo State. Chioma was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), for allegedly operating an online catering service, Omachi’s kitchen, through which she sells drugged cookies and biscuits. Following intelligence and surveillance, narcotic officers of the Edo State Command of the Agency on Saturday, June 19, 2021, stormed her…

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Suspected bandit in possession of military kits arrested by the Nigerian Army

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The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu said in a statement that, the Nigerian Army troops operating along Mokwa-Jebba road, intercepted and arrested a fleeing bandit in a vehicle travelling from Zuru to Ibadan during a stop and search operation on Sunday. Nwachukwu said the vigilant troops spotted an occupant of the vehicle, who claimed to be Sgt. Aminu Sule. He said the suspect was found to be in possession of a pair of camouflage, military boots, knife and substance suspected to be charms. He said on further interrogation,…

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15 victims escape bandits’ den after drunken guard sleeps off

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About 15 persons abducted by bandits in Tegina town of Niger State, fortunately escaped from their abductors on Sunday, when the stationed guard mounting the house they were kept, slept off. The 15 were among the adults abducted together with 156 pupils of the Salihu Tanko Islamic School more than two weeks ago but were said to be separated from the children before been taken to a forest in Zamfara State. According to reports, the 15 victims managed to open the door of the house in which they were locked in…

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NDLEA arrests officer, wife for selling illicit drugs

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A serving officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has been arrested for his involvement in the selling of assorted illicit drugs to students of a federal university and cultists in Ogun state. Its Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said that the drug dealer who served in the Lagos state Command of the security agency was arrested on Wednesday, June 15. This, he said, was after days of…

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16-year-old girl fakes own kidnap, collects N500,000 ransom

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Ekiti State Police command has arrested a 16-year-old girl, Abimbola Suluka alongside her boyfriend, Oluwaseun Olajide for allegedly kidnapping herself to raise the sum of N500,000. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Sunday Abutu in a statement issued on Saturday, June 19th, said they were arrested on Thursday in a hotel in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital where they lodged. Abimbola is alleged to have conspired with her 25-year-old boyfriend and two of his friends to stage the abduction so as to raise money and relocate from the state following…

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Bank PHB’s former MD, Atuche jailed for N25.7bn fraud, wife acquitted

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Mr. Francis Atuche, the former Managing Director of Bank PHB who is standing trial for stealing the sum of N25.7 billion belonging to the bank, was found guilty of theft and sentenced to six years imprisonment on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. His former Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Ugo Anyanwu, was also sentenced to four years imprisonment by Justice Lateefat Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja. Atuche’s wife, Elizabeth, also standing trial with him, was however discharge of the cases of conspiracy and stealing brought against them in…

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