Category: Crime

  The interim forfeiture of $2.04m and seven properties connected to former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele has been ordered by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Thursday. Justice Akintayo Aluko made the order following an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which is investigating alleged fraudulent activities linked to Emefiele. The properties in question include prime real estate in Lekki and Ikoyi, Lagos, as well as a large industrial complex under construction in Agbor, Delta State. Justice Aluko stated that…

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Ola Olukoyede, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has said that the fifty billion naira, (N50bn), given to Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND was not a donation from the commission, but part of the recovered proceeds of crime remitted to the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The commission stated this in a statement obtained from its official Facebook handle. According to the commission: “The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, wishes to clarify the reports in a section of the media today, August 14, 2024, purporting…

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A crossdresser was found dead on the Katampe-Mabushi expressway in Abuja, yesterday. Police have commenced investigation into the mysterious death of the individual, whose identity remained unknown at press time. He was discovered lying motionless in female clothing, prompting a distress call to the FCT police Command Control Room at 7:40 a.m. According to Josephine Adeh, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, preliminary investigations revealed no means of identification on the deceased, who was subsequently taken to Maitama District Hospital, where doctors confirmed the death. She said: “In response to…

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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted consignments of illicit drugs concealed in tins of baby food cans and cloths. The illicit drugs concealed in tins of baby food cans and cloths going to the United States and United Kingdom were intercepted at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, and a courier firm in Lagos. A press statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi said no less than 36 parcels of a strong strain of cannabis concealed in six cartons of tins of baby…

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A pastor, Desmond Eke, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment by Justice T. N . Nzeukwu of the Imo State High Court, for raping his church member’s wife. Eke, the founder of Deliverance Ministry of the Good Shepherd, Umuehieta Avu, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State was found guilty of taking advantage of the woman who had vested so much trust in him. The convict was tried on three counts that bordered on raping the victim who is also a member of his church and administering a…

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Two students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic and Resign Regal Academy, Timothy Oluwabukola and Anthony Odemerho, who allegedly hacked MTN Nigeria Communication computers and stole airtime and data valued at N1.9bn have been granted N50m bail each by a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday. Justice Akintayo Aluko granted them bail after hearing two separate bail applications filed by the defendants. In addition to the bail sum, Aluko ordered the defendants to provide two sureties each, one of whom must be a civil servant in the federal or Lagos State…

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An intelligence report about a building that serves as a birth house in Rumuokwurusi town in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, where newborn babies were allegedly sold, has led to the arrest of one Happiness Monday who sold her new born baby for N400,000, alongside the midwife. The Rivers State Police Command boss, CP Olatunji Disu, directed the Commander of the Monitoring Squad, CSP Grace Wonwu, to unearth the baby sale gang. Police sources hinted that when the policemen arrived at the house on July 6, 2024, a…

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