Category: Crime

General Overseer of Seraphic and Sabbath Assembly, Lagos, High Priest Nnodu Azuka Kenrick, a student of Emmanuel College of Theology, Samonda, Ibadan, Udezuka Udoka and their freight agent, Oyoyo Mary Obasi have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over attempt to export 283 parcels of skunk weighing 14.90 kilograms and 204 grams of methamphetamine concealed in four 25-litre kegs of palm oil for export to Dubai through the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos to…

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Kidnappers of the Cross River State Commissioner of Women Affairs, Prof Gertrude Njar, have demanded N150 million for her release, after spending 8 days in captivity. This is according to an update shared by Agba Jalingo, on his official Facebook page. The commissioner was abducted within the Mayne Avenue-Atamunu area of Calabar South in the early hours of February 1. The Cross River State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Eric Anderson, while announcing the unfortunate incident to journalists, said the police and the Permanent Secretary, Special Duties, Dr Alfred Mboto,…

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Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, the Senator representing Delta North in the National Assembly, who has been on the run for months after the Court of Appeal, Lagos, convicted and sentenced him to seven years imprisonment for money laundering, is finally in prison custody.  The lawmaker, who was intercepted by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, at a hospital in Lagos on February 6, 2023, was finally remanded in Ikoyi prison, Lagos, yesterday, to serve his prison term. The Court of Appeal had in a judgement on July 1,…

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One Kolawole Erinle involved in a cybercrime has allegedly defrauded Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in the United States of $1.4m, A Federal Bureau of Investigation’s agent, Mr Ayotunde Solademi, on Tuesday made this known to an Ikeja Special Offences Court. The witness, a Foreign Service national investigator for the FBI, Office of the Legal Attaché in the US Consulate in Nigeria, said the university became a victim of spoofing, a form of cybercrime attack that targets businesses using forged sender addresses. Erinle is standing trial alongside his…

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A trans-border drug cartel has been busted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, five leaders of the syndicates operating in parts of the world we’re arrested in a special operation that lasted weeks. During the raids at which different quantities of skunk, methamphetamine and ephedrine as well as air compressors used to conceal and distribute them globally were recovered. The special operation came on the heels of a warning by the Chairman/Chief Executive of the Agency, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa, retd, that drug barons and…

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An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced one Adam Farouk, a cleric, has bagged eight times life in prison for molesting and sexually violating eight pupils. The cleric was convicted and sentenced for defiling the pupils aged between six and 11 in his class. Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt the ingredients of the eight-count charge bordering on sexual assault by penetration brought against the cleric. Soladoye described the cleric as morally deficient and an embarrassment to the Islamic faith, noting…

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Hussaina Imam, a cashier with the Kano State Sharia Court Division, alongside 14 others, including judges, registrars and financial registrars, were on Wednesday arraigned before the court and remanded in a custodial centre over allegations of theft, forgery, criminal conspiracy and breach of trust. When the case came up before Chief Magistrate Mustapha Datti, the Principal State Counsel, Kano State Ministry of Justice, Zaharaddeen Mata, prayed the court to grant him leave to read the first information report to the defendants. The report read, “On August 20, 2021, an official…

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Another Tramadol cartel has been busted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the weekend in Lagos, with the seizure of millions of opioids pills and bottles worth over N5billion from their warehouse in Amuwo Odofin area of the state and arrested two of the kingpins. The anti-narcotics officers of the agency also uncovered and dismantled a clandestine skuchies laboratory in Sagamu, Ogun State where several equipment and illicit substances used to mass produce the dangerous new psychoactive substance were recovered on Saturday January 14, 2023.…

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Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command on Tuesday arrested a 17-year-old boy, Noble Uzuchi, and Chigozie Ogbonna, 29, for allegedly working for a baby factory. Also arrested were two female suspects, Favour Bright, 30; and Peace Alikoi, 40, the alleged leader of the syndicate. The four suspects reportedly operated in Obio/Akpor and Ikwerre local government areas of the state. Also, the police said 10 pregnant girls were rescued. The police spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko, in a statement in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, said the feat followed a tip-off which the…

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