Category: Crime

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced the Managing Director of Integrated Microfinance Bank Limited, Simon Akinteye, to 32 years imprisonment over $166 million fraud. Trial judge, Justice Cecilia Olatoregun, sentenced the banker after his lawyer, A. O. Sherrif, had pleaded with the judge to temper justice with mercy. Justice Olatoregun had, on February 4, convicted Akinteye on the eight counts charge levelled against him by the office of Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP, of the Federal Ministry of Justice. The court, meanwhile, acquitted and discharged his deputy,…

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Over offences bordering on impersonation and fraudulently sharing pornographic and indecent pictures, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal Office, yesterday secured the conviction of Osikoya Gbolahan and Rabiu Daniel EFCC’s acting spokesperson, Tony Orilade, said in a statement yesterday in Abuja. They were arraigned before Justice Watilat Ibrahim of a Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State on December 10, 2018. The charge against Osikoya read: “That you, Osikoya Gbolahon (aka Mary; aka Lisa Burkholder) sometimes in 2018, at Awa-Ijebu knowingly sent pornographic and indecent pictures…

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Two men, Lateef Ajetomobi, 43, and Saraju Yekini 33, were on Monday arraigned in an Osogbo Chief Magistrates ‘ Court for allegedly stealing 2,514 chickens. The police charged Ajetomobi and Yekini with three counts of theft, conspiracy and deceit. The Prosecutor, Insp Joshua Oladoye, told the court that the defendants committed the offence between May 2018 and August 2018, at Olu farm limited, Osogbo. Oladoye alleged that the defendants and others at large, stole 2,514 chickens valued at N3 million, belonging to one Akosu Samuel. He said the defendants worked…

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Four officers of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (NDLEA), were murdered by unknown gunmen less than three weeks after Ondo State Command of the agency, swooped on illicit drugs and their dealers in the state. The unfortunate attack occurred on Sunday while the NDLEA officers, five in number, were at their duty post along Ikaro Road checkpoint, lfon, Ose Local Government Area of the state, which is also notorious for Indian hemp plantation and related businesses. According to reports, the gunmen, numbering three, stormed the checkpoint on motorcycle, attacked…

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A nineteen-year-old housewife, Mary Adeniyi, has allegedly stabbed her husband, Solomon Nduka, to death at their house on Sagamu Road in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the lady killed her 30-year-old husband after a fierce argument about alleged infidelity. It was learnt that the couple had a four-month-old child together before tragedy struck on Friday, February 15, 2019. The deceased, a casual worker, was said to have been rushed to a hospital where he was confirmed dead by the doctor. A source said the couple…

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The attack on the convoy of Borno State governor in northeast Nigeria, has been claimed by a Boko Haram splinter group loyal to the Islamic State, Islamic State West Africa Province. The state is one epicentre of insurgency that started in 2009 and is home to Chibok where over 200 girls were kidnapped from their school hostels a little less than five years ago. ISWAP said on Amaq News Agency that it killed 42 people in the attack carried out on Tuesday evening when the governor was returning from a campaign…

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Operatives of the Osun State Police Command have arrested a 29-year-old man, Rasaq Iyanda, for allegedly removing the pants of his co-tenant’s teenage daughter while she was sleeping. The incident, according to the police, occured on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, around 2am at the Dalegan Compound, Osogbo. The father of the victim, simply identified as Mr Raheem, while narrating how the incident happened, said the teenager chose to sleep outside the room because of heat. He said the girl’s cry woke the occupants of the house and on getting to…

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Delta state police command has apprehended a child trafficking syndicate under the watch of a retired Director of Child Services in Delta State Ministry of Women Affairs, Asaba, Delta State, Mr. Collins Ogbor, for stealing and selling a boy, one of twins, for N850,000 to a couple in Benin City, Edo State. Mr. Ogbor’s duty before retirement, among others, was to enforce and protect the rights of children. The four-man gang includes the Matron of Deliverance Orphanage, Ozoro, Madam Christiana and her two daughters, one of who was running an…

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In a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, dated January 14, 2019, a middle-aged man, Mr Onyenankeya Uzoma, has accused his nephew of fraud running into N43.7m and $1,000 (about N400,000). He said the nephew, one Okoro, exploited the involvement of his wife in fatal road accident to swindle him out of the sums of money under the guise that she was safe. It was learnt that the woman was not found at the scene of the crash, raising doubts about whether she was alive or dead. Uzoma…

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The chairman of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Saheed Arogundade, was yesterday sentenced to death by hanging by Justice Olabisi Akinlade of Lagos High Court, Ikeja, for killing a police officer, Gbenga Oladipupo. The judge found Arogundade guilty of murder, in the incident that took place at Gbara junction, Ayetoro, Ajegunle, Lagos on April 10, 2010. Lagos State government had sometime in November 2011 arraigned Arogundade alongside Mustapha Layeni, Adebayo Abdullahi, Seyi Pabiekun, Sikiru Rufai and Yusuf Arogundade. The six were arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy…

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