Category: Crime

A Lokoja- born musician, Samuel Onojah, and two others have been convicted and sentenced by Justice Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, to 20 years imprisonment for offences bordering on cybercrime. Onojah was convicted on Monday, September 12, 2022 alongside Victor Kadiyamo and Jejelowo Segun, after pleading guilty to separate counts of internet fraud. They were arraigned in court by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The charge against Samuel read in part, “That you, Samuel Onojah, sometime in…

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Priest house of Saint Barnabas Cathedral, Anglican Communion at Sabo Oke in Ilorin, Kwara State was invaded by armed robbers and items worth millions of naira were stolen The victim of the attack, Reverend Isaiah Afolayan said the hoodlums, armed with sharp objects, broke into his apartment, located on the top floor of the two-storey building, threatening to kill his family members if they refused to cooperate with them. He also said his laptop, fairly used MacBook Pro, worth N1.3 million, a TV set and his phone were stolen. “We…

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A 25-year-old pregnant woman, Favour Haruna, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, with 82 pinches of methamphetamine as well as various quantities of Loud, Arizona, Colorado variants of cannabis and codeine-based cough syrup in Auchi, Edo State. The NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, who highlighted other arrests made by the agency last week in a statement on Sunday, said a Brazilian returnee, Okolie Nwabueze, was also nabbed for importing 92 wraps of cocaine into the country through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Nwabueze, a father of…

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Sulaiman Dosunmu, a 41-year-old Nigerian man, has pleaded guilty to his involvement in $7 million bank fraud before the United States District Judge, Noel L. Hillman in Camden federal court on Tuesday. The resident of Darby, Pennsylvania admitted his role in a bank conspiracy targeted at 12 different financial institutions in southern New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania. Attorney announced. US attorney Philip R. Sellinger, according to the US Department of Justice, said Dosunmu participated in the fraudulent activities between 2016 and 2020. The bank fraud conspiracy charge carries a maximum…

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A medical doctor, Abass Adebowale, has been arrested by the Edo State Police Command for allegedly injecting a cab driver, Emmanuel Agbovinuere, to death in the Benin City area of the state. Adebowale, after perpetrating the crime, allegedly dumped Agbovinuere’s corpse in a bush, and stole the victim’s Toyota Voltron car. He was said to have driven the car to the Osogbo area of Osun State where policemen arrested him on Monday. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Chidi Nwabuzor, at the police command’s headquarters in Benin City, Edo State,…

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The Odun State Police command has arrested a murder suspect, Wahab Hammed, 28, who confessed that he conspired with his friend, Adegoke Ayobami, 31, to kill one Oguntade Wasiu because the deceased was making more money than the two of them. During the parade of suspects by Osun State Police Command at its headquarters in Osogbo, Hammed said he and Ayobami were friends to the deceased and also engaged in Internet fraud, which fetched Wasiu more money than the two of them. His words: “I am a tailor by profession…

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Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have rescued fifteen children from the residence of one Maureen Wechinwu, who claimed to be a Reverend Sister, in Aluu Community, Ikwerre Local Government Area of the State. During the parade of suspects by the State Commissioner of Police, Friday Eboka, it was revealed that the children rescued from the suspected trafficker were aged between seven and nine years. The CP said preliminary investigations have shown that the children were picked from different parts of the South-South states and were being sold out…

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