Category: Crime

A robbery attack was botched yesterday by men of the Lagos State Neighbourhood Corps on Friday, which led to the arrest of two suspects – Kenechukwu  Chukwuka and Adam Isiak. According to the report, some suspects pretending to be passengers, boarded a BRT bus from Tollgate, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State, en route to Oshodi around 7.30am. The assailants suddenly brought out weapons on reaching Ijaiye area and started beating up the passengers. It was gathered that the driver quickly drove to a halt and raised the alarm which caught the…

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Unknown gunmen, on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 kidnapped one of the justices of the Benin Court of Appeal, Justice Chioma Nwabuzor, after killing the police orderly attached to her. The incident was said to have occurred along the Benin Agbor Expressway while in company of her driver and her orderly who died during the attack, while the driver escaped death, but with injuries. DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, the Edo State Police Command spokesman said that the incident occurred at about 11.30 a.m., along the Benin-Agbor expressway, at Christ Chosen Church of…

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Cree Torrential rain that fell on Monday morning in Koton-Karfi, Kogi Local Government council of Kogi State, according to reports, is responsible for the escape of about 228 prisoners from the medium federal prison after the collapse of some parts of the building while many houses were submerged by the flood. The rain which started at about 2:00 a.m. on Monday, wreaked havoc, leading to the destruction of some parts of the prison building, which paved the way for the inmates to escape. According to one of the residents, it…

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Joseph Oyeniran, a Nigerian mentioned by the US Federal Bureau of Intelligence(FBI) as one of the internet fraudsters on its suspect list has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for cheating and impersonation by Kwara State High Court in Ilorin. According to Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar who sentenced the convict, he said that pieces of evidence presented before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were overwhelming and uncontroverted. The judge held that the testimonies of the prosecution witness, the pleas of the defendant and documents presented were…

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EndSAS activist, Segun Awosanya, took a swipe at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over the failure of the anti-graft body to go after All Progressives Congress chieftain, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu despite picture evidence of bullion vans laden with cash allegedly at Tinubu’s Bourdillon, Ikoyi home. It was the EFCC post on Twitter that triggered the response of the social media activist, Awosanya alias Segalink. The EFCC tweeted, “Section 7(1) of the EFCC Establishment Act, 2004 gives us the power to investigate properties of any person if it appears…

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United Bank for Africa(UBA) recently had its server hacked by fraudsters, and lost the sum of N752m depositors money belonging to Flour Mills Nigeria Limited. According to an auditor of the Bank, Mr. Ojo Oladimeji, he narrated to the Federal High Court in Lagos how the bank’s server was hacked, and N752m was transferred to 20 different accounts between June 24 and July 3, 2019. The auditor testified against an alleged Internet fraudster, Ola Lawal, alias Lawal Roland, who is being prosecuted for the alleged hacking of UBA’s server by…

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Nnaji Nwabueze, a suspect and private gardener of a businessman based in Enugu is in trouble for issuing threat messages to members of the public, in a bid to extort money from them. He has been arrested by the Police Command in Enugu State, after threatening to kidnap and also murder his boss if he fails to pay a certain amount of money. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu in a statement on Saturday in Enugu, said that the suspect demanded money from such people via text messages…

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Due to the escapades of randy some lecturers, Nigerian universities caught global attention yesterday. The focus on the nation’s universities was triggered by yesterday’s release by BBC African Eye, of a video allegedly showing academics propositioning undercover female reporters. Wearing a secret camera, a reporter, Kiki Mordi, had allegedly visited Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu, a lecturer of the Department of European Languages and Integrated Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos (UNILAG), posing as a 17-year-old admission seeker. The clip went on to show the lecturer allegedly making sexual overtures to…

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After his arrest on August 6, 2019 at Dulles, Virginia in the United States of America by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Obinwanne Okeke a.k.a Invictus Obi is again facing another battle as a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture to the Federal Government of the sum of N280,555,010 linked to him. The ruling by Justice Rilwan Aikawa came after an ex-parte application filed on Monday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against Okeke after the said amount was traced to…

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A suspect named Victor Remi is singing like a bird after his arrest by operatives of the Rapid Respond Squad of the Lagos State Police Command, for robbing a computer dealer of three Apple laptops worth N1.5m. Remi, a South African returnee and his accomplice, Ekeh Maxwell, a musician were said to have disguised as buyers to dispossess computer dealer of his laptops using gun and knife. The suspects got the contact of their victim on Twitter, sent a message to him and requested two Apple MacBook Pro – 2018 edition…

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