68-year-old Linus Onuzulike has been arrested by men of the Anambra State Police Command for allegedly defiling a 7-year-old girl in Abagana in Njikoka Local Government. The suspect was paraded alongside fifteen others for different offenses at the Police Command’s headquarters over the weekend. Police spokesperson, Haruna Mohammed, also confirmed the arrest of a 24-year-old
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Two siblings identified as Ifezue Chiamaka and Ifezue Emeka were on Wednesday, 3rd February, 2021, arraigned at Enugu State Magistrate Court for the murder of a make-up artist, Ijeoma Nweke. The crime was committed in 2020. According to reports, Chiamaka conspired with her brother to kill Ijeoma for allegedly ‘having an affair with her boyfriend’.
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Faisal Maina, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), has fled to the United States of America (USA), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said. The EFCC’s Counsel, Mohammed Abubakar, on Thursday, told Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Abubakar said from the information at
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday quizzed a former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, over alleged illegal financial dealings. The EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, who confirmed the development to journalists, said Yari was quizzed by the commission’s operatives in Lagos. He, however, said the ex-governor was allowed
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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will today arraign Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu before the Federal High Court in Abuja. The senator will be docked before Justice Inyang Ekwo on N7.1 billion money launderingrelated charges. Chief Kalu, who governed Abia State from 1999 to 2007, was earlier found guilty and sentenced to a
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the arrest of the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Gusau, Prof Magaji Garba in connection with an alleged N260 million contract scam. The anti-graft agency’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the arrest on Monday but did not give further details. The professor was detained by the agency
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A gun making factory has been uncovered in Uyanga, in the Akampa Local Government Area of Cross River State. The factory was uncovered by the Cross River State Government security outfit, Operation Akpakwu in the town about 58 kilometres away from Calabar, the state capital. According to reports, pistols and other locally-made guns, known as
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 30 suspects for various internet-related offences in Enugu. The agency stated that the young men were arrested at Thinkers Corner Extension following a tip-off on alleged criminal activities which targeted mostly foreigners. Items recovered from the suspects include cash, five cars, laptops and mobile
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested three Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based suspected internet fraudsters and 14 others in Lagos. The EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, who disclosed this in a statement in Lagos, said the suspects were arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday at Jakande and Osapa London
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction and sentencing of Abioye Eluwole, managing director of Bytofel Trust and Securities Limited to 77 years in prison for a N62 million fraud. Eluwole, who was arrested in December 2018 for stealing various units of shares of different companies belonging to Okeke Donatus Ojumba,
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Police operatives in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday arrested six members of the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) in Abuja for alleged involvement in a violent protest. The spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, Mariam Yusuf, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, said the Shiites members destroyed public property and
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The appellate division of a Kano High Court has on Thursday discharged and acquitted a minor, Umar Farouq, who was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for blasphemy. The same court in Kano hearing the case of a singer, Yahaya Sharif Aminu, who was also accused of blasphemy, has set aside the judgement of the Sharia
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The Anambra state police command has arrested an armed robbery syndicate that terrorizes residents of the state. A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, Mohammed Haruna, states that on January 18, operatives attached to B’ Division Awka responded to a distress call of a robbery incident at Maja Awka and arrested
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The killer of the seventeen year old girl, Aisha Kabir has been arrested by police operatives in Kano State The Police Public Relations Officer PPRO of the command, Abdulahi Haruna(DSP) revealed this fact in a press statement. He said that father of the victim Kabiru Jafaru of Gimawa Village, Doguwa LGA of Kano State, that
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The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Monday, struck out the money laundering case brought against Abdullahi Babalele, son-in-law to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar. It would be recalled that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned Babalele on two counts of money laundering in August 2019. Babalele was accused of procuring Bashir Mohammed
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