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                                               Justice M. L. Owolabi of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Iyagunku, today, December 7, 2018 convicted and sentenced one Gafar Saka to one year imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretence contrary to Section 419 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap 38, Laws of the Oyo State 2000. The sentence takes effect from the day of his arrest. Gafar who was re-arraigned today by the Ibadan office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Co mmission, EFCC, on a one count amended charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretence pleaded guilty and entered into a plea bargain. He was therefore, convicted accordingly. He also refunded the said plots of land to the complainant.  The amended information that earned the convict the jail term reads, “that you Gafar Saka between the 26th of November, and 14th December, 2016 at Ibadan within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with the intent to defraud, obtained the sum of N4

                                       A former Director General of the National Biotechnology Development Agency, NABDA, Professor Lucy Ogbadu and nine other officials, including the Bayelsa State's Director of the Agency, Josiah Bitrus Habu, were on Thursday, 6 December, 2018 arraigned by the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt's Office. They were arraigned before Justice A.O. Awogboro of the Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Other suspects docked were Beatrice Alphine Ogoh; Habu Esther Josiah; Alphine Ogoh; Ebinbin Ajagun; Gloria Ishaya; Yerima Joseph Ephraim, Nathan Danladi and Prof. Godwin Haruna Ogbadu. Three companies docked alongside the suspects are: Jiniya Nig. Limited, Garkuwa Jobs Enterprises and Alton Integrated Services Limited, They were arraigned on a 49- count charge bordering on conspiracy, diversion of funds, money laundering and obtaining under false pretence to the tune

                              The trial of Victoria Adelana, a civil engineer, who is standing trial for a N5 million fraud, before Justice D.Z. Senchi of a Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Jabi, has taken a new twist as the trial judge withdrew from the case accusing the defendant of embarrassing him with several calls, “asking for help” in the matter. Adelana, who is accused of defrauding Chinenye Ike in a land scam, was arraign ed in May 2016, and pleaded “not guilty” to the charge. She later jumped bail, and had to be declared wanted, before operatives of the EFCC arrested her on February 10, 2018 and brought her to court to face her trial. Justice Senchi thereafter revoked the bail earlier granted her and ordered that she be remanded in Suleja prison. The trial had continued on February 20, 2018 with prosecuting counsel, Diane Nkwap, calling her first witness, Frank Kamalu, who told the court how the defendant collected the money to buy a plot of lan

Operatives of the IGP Intelligence Response Team, IRT, has handed over three suspected Advance Fee fraudsters to the Ibadan office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for further investigation. The suspects who are between 22 and 29 years of age includes: Ebenezer Adeniyi Oluwafemi, Kolade Samuel Sogo, and Olwagbenga Majeed Ejikunke. They were arrested Tuesday 4th, December, 2018 in Ilesha, Os un State following series of intelligence gathered by the operatives. Preliminary investigations further revealed that the suspects allegedly got involved in different romance scam posing as female foreigners to fleece unsuspecting victims on the social media. At the point of arrest, varied fetish materials, two laptops, and five different brands of telephones were recovered from them. Several documents containing false pretences were also recovered from the suspects.                                     According to the Head, Ibadan Office, Abdulra

                                                                          A fuel tanker crushed a commercial motorcyclist, simply identified as Kayode, to death, at Oma Junction, Alagbaka area of Akure, Ondo State capital on Friday.   The incident happened when the fuel tanker which was heading towards Yeoma Plaza was stopped by the traffic warden on duty. The tanker driver lost control of the vehicle and rammed into the motorcyclist who was approaching the junction, killing him on the spot.    "The tanker was stopped by the traffic warden but the driver claimed he lost control of the vehicle and rammed to the bike man and crushed him. The tanker first dragged the cyclist forward and eventually crushed him before stopping. We tried to rescue him but it was too late because the vehicle was on him.”                                                             The younger brother of the deceased escaped unhurt from the accident but lamented that Kayod

                        The Lagos State Police Command has deployed additional five hundred policemen to various routes on the Lagos Island with special focus on Apogbon, TBS, Eko Hotels and environs . This was done to boost the number of personnel already at various points in the area. The deployment  was necessitated by the following events coming up on the Island which includes: The Experience, Adekunle Gold Concert and the Davido Concert. Also factored in the strategy are people who would be embarking on religious pilgrimage to RCCG Holy Ghost Congress at Redeem Camp and Shiloh at the Winners' Chapel. Expectedly, the aforementioned events will lead to surge in vehicular and human traffic thereby bringing additional pressure to the already strained traffic situation in the commercial city resulting in gridlock. To ameliorate the foreseen situation, the state Commissioner of Police, CP Edgal Imohimi directed that five hundred policemen be posted to  Lagos Island to boost

                                            The CIA staff, Kharar, India on Wednesday, arrested a Nigerian national, Nasa Ulagba, near Shivjot Enclave and seized half a kg of heroin from his possession. According to the police, the value of the heroin in the international market is estimated to be Rs 2.5 crore. ASI Deepak Singh was patrolling near Shivjot Enclave when he noticed a Nigerian national coming out of the park.  ''When he saw the police, he tried to escape from the spot. The police became suspicious and caught hold of him. On enquiry, he told the police his name and said he was staying in Tamil Nadu and had come here. '' The police called Kharar DSP Deep Kamal Singh to the spot and during his search, half a kg of heroin and a computerised weighing machine were recovered from him. He was arrested and a case under the NDPS Act registered against him. During interrogation, he confessed that he used to bring heroin from Delhi and sell it to students in

Some Nigerians soldiers and civilians were involved in a serious accident in Abia State on Thursday.    One of the injured soldiers, Agudu Samuel, a Commander with the Nigerian Army said they are currently receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Center, Umuahia.   "Sorry to inform you that i was involved in a very serious accident yesterday with my colleagues & the civilians that were traveling towards Aba from Umuahia." he wrote.

                                           A 16-year-old boy has died after he was electrocuted by his headphones that were plugged into his phone while it was charging Mohammed Aidil Azzahar Zaharin was listening to music with his headphones plugged into his charging phone. He fell asleep in the process and was found the next day by his mother. At first, his mother thought he was still asleep so she left him there and left for work. She returned early from work and saw him still unconscious and cold on the floor. She tried to wake him up but unable to do so, she called medics who declared him dead. It was then confirmed that the boy, from Malaysia, did not have any other injuries or bruises on his body other than bleeding and burns on his left ear, and the autopsy later showed that the cause of death was electrocution. The victim’s brother also said that he felt a small electric shock when he touched the headphone cable. Photos of the boy have spread online as a w

The father of late Ozigie Betty Nwovueze, 32, who was killed by her boyfriend in Wimpy area of Rumuepricom,  Port Harcourt has insisted that the suspect must marry her corpse.    Prince Uwabie also known as J-Boy, 34, who is said to have a history of physically abusing the deceased, beat her on December 2nd until she slumped and died in his house. He hurriedly dug a grave inside his one room apartment and buried her. Read previous story  Here         The father of the deceased, Mr.Wilfred Nwovueze, insists the J-BOY, must marry the corpse of his daugther and perform the full traditional  marriage rites as the customs and tradition of Ndele people in Emohua local Government area.   Nwovueze told Journalists  on Thursday, December 6, that the marriage is in line with a compulsory traditional rites of Ndele people in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State where the deceased hailed from. He, therefore, pleaded with security agencies to ensure that justice is d

A woman has been charged with sexual assault and domestic abuse after she battered her boyfriend because he refused to perform oral sex on her. Amy Nicole Parrino, 43, punched and hit her boyfriend with a belt on Sunday night at his home in Missouri. She also pushed him to the ground and sat naked on his face before telling him to "eat my p****", according to court documents. Parrino hit him 20 to 25 times with an "open and closed fist" before she attacked him with a belt, cell phone and brass plate, the documents said. Officers responding to the incident on Sunday around 9.45pm said the boyfriend had two cuts on his arms and another to the bridge of his nose as well as red marks on his chest. He told police he didn’t want to do anything sexual with Parrino and had told her to "leave him alone" but she wouldn't oblige. The boyfriend told police he struggled to breathe and was "scared to death" at one point during the atta

                                      The Forte Oil filling Station along  Airport   Road in Lagos is currently on fire. Reports of the  fire   incident close to Arik office is currently trending on social media with photos and videos while commuters are advised to use alternate routes.

                                      A 16-year-old secondary school student in Ekiti state has died following serious injuries he sustained when himself and his fellow classmate were testing the superiority of their charms on Thursday, December 6th. According to reports, the deceased, Mathew Favour and the culprit, Kehinde Timilehin, both students of Ado Grammar School in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, were said to have engaged in a dispute over the ownership of a ball before it degenerated into an argument over who had more portent charms. Eyewitnesses say the deceased initiated the test for superiority of charms when he rushed to his home and brought a small axe and a knife wrapped in a white and red scarf  and dared his colleague to fight with him. The colleague overpowered him and in the process, stabbed him in the chest with his knife. Favour, an indigene of Ebira in Kogi state, was rushed to the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital where he died. Speaking on the in

                                            Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the founder of Chinese telecoms giant, Huawei, has been arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the United States. Meng Wanzhou, who is Huawei's chief financial officer was arrested in Vancouver on Saturday, December 1, 2018. She is now facing extradition to the U.S. on suspicion she violated U.S. sanctions against Iran, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported on Wednesday. Details of the arrest have not been released but the U.S. has been investigating Huawei over possible violation of sanctions against Iran. This comes after Reuters reported in April that the U.S. authorities have been probing Huawei since at least 2016 for allegedly shipping U.S.-origin products to Iran and other countries in violation of U.S. export and sanctions laws. Meng, who is the daughter of the company founder Ren Zhengfei , is expected to appear for a court hearing this Friday, a Canadian Justice Department s

A former Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu, is seeking to quash money laundering charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as he files a “no-case” submission before Justice A.R. Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja. In the no-case submission dated November 6th 2018, and filed through his counsel, Anone Usman, Yakubu aked the court to strike out the charges against him, and discharge and acquit him, arguing that “the evidence led by the prosecution’s seven witnesses did not establish a case” against him, necessitating him to defend himself. Recall that a special operation conducted by EFCC operatives on 3rd February, 2017 on a building belonging to Yakubu in Kaduna state, yielded the recovery of a staggering sum of $9,772,800 (Nine Million, Seven Hundred and Seven Two Thousand, Eight Hundred United States Dollars) and another sum of £74,000 (Seventy Four Thousa

The Rivers State Police Command has arrested one Prince Owabie from Rumueperikom community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the State for allegedly killing and burying his pregnant girlfriend inside his apartment. Owabie is alleged to have killed Better Ozige Nwabueze and buried her inside his one-room apartment around Wimpy Junction, by Ikwerre Road in Port Harcourt. The incident occurred on Sunday, but the suspect was arrested on Tuesday, by policemen following a tip-off. It was gathered that the suspect popularly called J-Boy, had confessed to some of his friends about his deed and they alerted the police who moved in and arrested the suspect. A at the time of the report, the body of the slain pregnant lady has not been exhumed from the suspect’s apartment. Meanwhile, J-Boy has been moved to the State Criminal Investigative and Intelligence Department (SCIID). More photos below...                                                                      

                                     A police officer attached to the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team, Idowu Haruna, has told Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court, of how alleged billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike alias Evans, shot the Chairman of the Young Shall Grow motors, Obianuju Vincent and killed two of his escorts while attempting to kidnap the transcorp executive. At the resumed hearing of the case yesterday December 5th, Haruna told the court that Evans and his gang members turned co-defendants namely Joseph Ikenna Emeka, 29, Chiemeka Arinze, 39, Udeme Frank Upong , 43, attacked Obianuju on August 27th 2013 at Third Avenue, Festac Town. While being led in evidence by the state counsel, Adebayo Haroun, Haruna said “I recognise the defendants as those who attempted to kidnap the chairman of Young Shall Grow motors, Chief Obianuju Vincent,  sometime in 2013. The YSG chairman was returning from a game

                                 Chioma Agwuegbo, the founder of Tech Her Nigeria has expressed concern after visiting the site where a 7-storey building collapsed and trapped people in Port Harcourt. Chioma revealed that the officials on ground aren't doing enough to see if they can rescue more trapped people. She said that of the three excavators on site, only one is in use. She also added that they haven't gotten to the ground floor yet even though 13 days have passed since the building collapsed. She tweeted: Just leaving the site where the building collapsed in PH. 13 days after and they're not yet at the ground floor yet. Only one excavator is in use. Officials on ground seem quicker to stop people from filming than getting anything done. No urgency. None. She added: There were at least three other excavators on site, but only one was in use. The pace of work I saw? Laughable. But the joke is on us. Our lives don't matter. My thoughts and

                                   King Mavis Amarchi, a young lady residing in Lagos who almost committed suicide in Lekki yesterday December 5th, has taken to her Facebook page to narrate how God saved her from ending her life. According to Amarchi, she has been battling depression for six months and had no longing to continue living. On several occassions, she had attempted to take her life by way of overdosing on drugs or cutting herself but her mother always came through to rescue her. Read her story below.. 5-12-19 was the day I gave up on life. I gave up on my mom, my brother, and my friends. I was tired of Life, Family, Everything. I have tried overdosing myself with series of drugs twice, but God will always send my mom to my rescue. I have been battling with depression for the past 6months. At first I tried cutting myself with blades to feel better, it helped a bit tho. One, two, three till it became a habit. Yesterday I took the worst step of my life, I

                              A 22-year-old man,  Huzaifa Hussaini Usman has been charged by the police in Abuja for allegedly killing his own father. The deceased, Alhaji Hussaini Usman, a businessman and contractor, was allegedly strangled to death in his residence at Abdulkareem Adisa Estate, Apo, Abuja on October 28. Police investigators have reportedly concluded after over a month of investigation that the deceased’s last son, Huzaifa Hussaini Usman, was the main suspect in the murder. According to initial reports circulated on October 28, armed robbers invaded the house of the deceased and strangled him. According to a report by Daily Trust, a neighbour of the deceased was said to have explained that after the morning prayers, the people present at the mosque reportedly heard some noises coming from the deceased’s house and put a call across to him but that he didn’t answer. They were said to have finally gotten access to the house after calling the wife of the d

                                      CrossRiverWatch publisher, Mr. Agba Jalingo and News Editor, Mr. Jonathan Ugbal, escaped what seems to be a kidnap or robbery attempt at Amadik community, Arondinzogu in Imo State while traveling to Lagos by road. According to Mr. Jalingo who took to Facebook to narrate their ordeal, it was a near death experience. His post below:  “I woke up this I morning in Calabar to find out that flight ticket to Lagos from Calabar was 68k. I was angry with Air Peace and decided to put one of our cars on the road and hit Lagos. I called Jonathan Ugbal to come drive. We had a smooth journey until we got to Imo state and things changed. “About 3pm. A Toyota Highlander SUV that was speeding after us appeared by the passenger side and there were three guys inside. Two flashed AK47 rifles at us and commanded us to stop or they shoot. Jonathan Ugbal was driving. I encouraged him not to stop. “Don’t stop! I screamed. Reverse and let’s run.