Category: Crime

In a statement tagged “EFCC Arrests Pastor for N1.3 Billion Fake Grants, Money Laundering” posted on its verified X handle, @officialEFCC, on Monday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it will arraign the General Overseer of Faith on the Rock Ministry International, Nasarawa State, Apostle Theophilus Ebonyi, whom it reportedly arrested for allegedly defrauding church members and other Nigerians as soon it concludes its investigation. The statement said the pastor was arrested for allegedly using fake grants from the Ford Foundation to the tune of #1,319,040,274.31. However, Ebonyi,…

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Daredevil kidnappers have reportedly abducted 14 Abuja-bound travellers in two different luxury buses at Inyenle Eteke, Ogugu, Olalamaboro Local Government area of Kogi State. Kogi State Police Command has launched a manhunt for the kidnappers. It was gathered that a social media influencer, Chude Nnamdi, who broke the news on his verified X (formerly Twitter) handle, chude_, on Sunday, disclosed that the two buses belong to God Is Good and ABC Transport. Nnamdi tweeted that his wife was sadly in one of the hijacked buses but could not ascertain the…

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Two men were arrested by the operatives from the Okokomaiko Divisional Police headquarters, on Saturday, after intercepting a Volkswagen LT bus at the Afromedia area alleged to be conveying some cartons of expired drugs. It was gathered that 70 cartons of Feed Fine Cyproheptadine Caplets 4g, all with 2016 as the expiry date, were found inside the bus. This was confirmed in a statement made on X formerly Twitter by the Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, on his X page on Sunday. The statement confirmed that the two…

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Oba Adebayo Fatoba, the Alara of Ara in the Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State, has narrated how he managed to escape from gunmen who attacked and killed two of his colleagues last Monday. Fatoba, along with two other monarchs from the state – Onimojo of Imojo Ekiti in Oye LG and the Elesun of Esun Ekiti in Ajoni, Ikole Local Government of Ekiti State, were attacked by the gunmen while returning from a meeting. The other two monarchs were killed by the assailants while Fatoba was lucky to…

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Pupils and teachers of Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti, who were abducted last week, regained their freedom in the early hours of Sunday. Families of the abductees in Ekiti on Sunday said that they disregarded the government’s warning because they feared the victims might be killed or harmed if they failed to pay the ransom. Some parents and other relatives of the victims, said the kidnappers freed the abductees after collecting N15m and other items including fried rice,  malt drinks, energy drinks, and cigarettes. Although the Proprietor of…

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The palace of Olukoro of Koro in Ekiti local government area of Kwara State was on Thursday night invaded by gunmen who killed the traditional ruler of the community, General Segun Aremu (rtd). The gunmen also whisked away the wife of the monarch and two others. The state government has confirmed the killing of the monarch and the abduction of three others including his wife. “Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has condemned the killing of Olukoro of Koro in Ekiti Local Government, HRH retd General Segun Aremu. “The monarch was…

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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, has revealed that the anti-graft agency traced the sum of N7bn, suspected to be proceeds of money laundering, to a religious organisation. He said another religious group was found to be laundering money for terrorists. The EFCC chairman made the revelation on Wednesday at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, during a one-day dialogue on “Youth, Religion, and the Fight against Corruption.” He said some of the religious organisations, institutions, sects, and bodies in the country had been found to…

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N100m ransom has been demanded by the abductors of five pupils of Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti, and four teachers who were taken away on Monday. The principal of the secondary section of the school, Boje Olanireti, confirmed the ransom demand, in an interview with  The PUNCH on Tuesday. The abduction epidemic has continued to defy the efforts of the security agencies as cases of kidnappings were being recorded in various parts of the country daily. On Monday, gunmen killed two Ekiti monarchs-the Onimojo of Imojo, Oba Olatunde…

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James Emmanuel, a 35-year-old man has been remanded in prison custody by an Ondo State Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Akure, on Thursday, for allegedly raping a 55-year-old woman, Mrs Deborah Abiodun, to death. James was arrested by the state police command for allegedly killing the woman who was his co-worker at the Oke-Odu Area, of Akure on January 17, 2024. It was gathered that James, after allegedly raping the woman to death, hit her head with stone and dumped her corpse inside a waste pit. The defendant was later…

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