…the state’s Anti-Corruption Agency confirmed the arrest of the serving and retired civil servants The Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency says it has arrested some serving and retired civil servants in the state over a fraudulent contract worth N4.8billion, awarded in 2018. The agency’s chairman, Justice Eni Esan (retired), in a statement, on Wednesday, said the
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…Chidinma Ojuwku, a 300-level student of Mass Communication Department, University of Lagos, is standing trial for alleged murder More trouble for murder suspect, Chidinma Ojukwu as a prosecution witness, DSP Olusegun Bamidele, on Thursday told the Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos State, how Miss Ojuwku, allegedly transferred N5m from the
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Operatives of Gombe State Police Command have arrested Mohammed Aminu, resident of Tudun Wada quarters, Gombe and Salisu Sa’idu, while attempting to collect their balance of N300,000 ransom from the victim’s family. The Public Relations Officer,(PPRO) Gombe State Command, Mahid Abubakar(ASP) revealed this while parading the suspects. He said that the arrest was effected after
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…as more eyewitness account unfold likely motive A likely motive for Sunday’s gun attack on Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, representing Anambra South senatorial district in the National Assembly has emerged. Further investigation by this reporter revealed from bystanders that witnessed the ugly incident first hand gave a more lucid purpose for bloody attack which left no
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Two internet fraudsters have been convicted and sentenced to five years, six months imprisonment by Justice Nasiru U. Sadiq of the Kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna, for internet-related offences and cheating. The fraudsters: Peter Uzorchukwu Sharon (a.k.a Drew Mason) and Peter Prince John, were jailed on Monday, September 12, 2022 after pleading guilty to one-count separate
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency seized no fewer than 286 assets and 600 bank accounts of drug barons between January 2021 and August 2022. NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a document made available to one of our correspondents on Tuesday, said the assets consisted of 249 exotic cars and 37 mansions.
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Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested forty suspected internet fraudsters in some parts of Lagos State. The suspects are: Doroye Olumide Joseph, Ajayi Oluwaseyi Emmanuel, Olalekan Olaniyi Akonji , Oluwadare Samuel Olawale, Oloyede Olakunle, Okon Ayomide Cornelius, Omokaro Ailele Jeffery, Oyedokun Opeyemi Abdulrazaq, Olowofela Temidayo,
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…Attorney-General of the Federation stated that Kyari allegedly disguised his ownership of some of the properties There appears to be more trouble for embattled former commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, as the Federal Government said it has uncovered more 14 assets, including shopping malls, residential estate, polo playground, lands and farmland belonging to the
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 41 suspected internet fraudsters in Awka, Anambra State. The suspects were arrested after intelligence revealed their alleged involvement in cybercrime and other related activities. Sixteen of the suspects were arrested at Umuodu Tansi Road in Awka; while the remaining 25 were arrested at Umudu Okpuno village
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A self-acclaimed Police Community Relations Committee member, Musa Araokanm, has been arrested by operatives of Ogun State Police Command for allegedly defrauding the public. THE DAILY VENDOR learnt that Araokanm had allegedly collected the sum of N1.4m from one Halimot Olorunlomeru under the pretence that he would assist her to get a car and motorcycles
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A 17-year-old girl simply identified as Binla has alleged that a policeman stripped her and her friend, took their nude videos and raped them, after accusing them of stealing his N500,000 in Port Harcourt. The teenager claimed that the officer, Salihu Kazeem, took her and her friend into a room in his house and sprayed teargas
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The presidential panel that probed former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has revealed that 14 fraud cases involving N118 billion and $309 million were abandoned by the anti-graft commission under his watch, In July 2020, as acting chairman of the EFCC, Magu was arrested, detained, and suspended. He was
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The Eastern Security Network known as “Ebubeagu”, Ebonyi State branch, has on Monday arrested seven armed robbery suspects in the state. The armed robbery suspects were arrested for alleged theft of tricycles, drugs dealings and other crimes. According to the Commissioner for Internal Security and Border Peace, Chief Stanley Okoro-Emegha, said that they were arrested
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Mr Dari Bayero, lead counsel in the “secret trial” of Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife Zeenat, on Wednesday prayed the Kaduna High Court to sentence the defendants. Bayero told reporters shortly after Justice Gideon Kurada, adjourned the case until May 25, that he had asked the court to overrule the defence and sentence Zakzaky,
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday played an audio recording of some evidence at the resumed trial of the former Senator representing the Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The commission first arraigned the former federal lawmaker for an alleged $25,000 bribery in 2019. Sani was
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