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Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has traced N223million in illicit transactions in the bank account of arrested Ekiti-based internet fraudster, Ajayi Gbenga Festus. Friday Ebelo who is the head of the Ibadan Zonal Head of the anti-graft agency, made this known during a press conference at its Iyaganku, Ibadan zonal office […]
Continue ReadingThe Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has cried out over the abduction of two of its members sent to deliver ransom to kidnappers keeping the two children of a Kaduna-based bishop hostage. The Kaduna CAN Chairman, Rev. Joseph Hayab, while speaking in Kaduna, alleged that the kidnappers abducted its members and also failed to release […]
Continue ReadingThe Chief Medical Director of the Irrua Specialist Hospital, Edo State, Prof. Sylvanus Okogbenin, was kidnapped by gunmen on Monday after killing two policemen attached to him. Prof. Sylvanus Okogbenin was said to be travelling to Benin. This is coming on the heel of a similar abduction of two Assistant Directors of the hospital last […]
Continue ReadingTwenty three Nigerians would be executed at anytime in Saudi Arabia, for drug-related offences. They were convicted for contravening the narcotic and psychotropic substances that are punishable by death. This is coming few weeks after the Saudi authorities executed Kudirat Afolabi for drug trafficking and Saheed Sobade, another Nigerian, reportedly nabbed with 1,183 grams of […]
Continue Reading47-year old Nigerian, Ayodeji Temitayo Fatunmbi, has been sentenced to 46 months imprisonment in the United States for his involvement in a health care fraud. According to the US Department of Justice, Fatunmbi was found guilty of a Durable Medical Equipment scheme in which more than $8m was fraudulently billed to medicare for DME that […]
Continue ReadingUnited States agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has published the names and aliases of 78 Nigerian-born alleged fraudsters who were arrested during a bust of an 80-man Internet crime syndicate across the United States. Below are the names, as published by the American domestic intelligence and security service. 1. Valentine Iro (aka Iro […]
Continue ReadingA mother of three, Mrs Bukola Olanrewaju, has been allegedly raped and strangled to death at the Olorunda area of Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Thursday. One neighbour of the deceased, whose belonging was said to have been found at the scene of the killing is being suspected, even as he had disappeared […]
Continue ReadingThe Lagos State Police Command via its Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana has promised to investigate the alleged extortion of a motorist by some of its officers. Punch Metro reports that the command said it was already in contact with the victim and that action would be taken. The motorist had gone on the social […]
Continue ReadingA Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ebute Metta, Lagos State, on Thursday ordered that four men of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS), who allegedly killed two unsuspected robbers in Iba axis of the state, be remanded in prison, pending legal advice. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Alex Komolafe, who did not take the pleas of […]
Continue ReadingThe Lagos State Police Command responded to the viral video on social media showing some Police Officers shooting dead two unarmed suspects who were arrested and already in their custody. According to the state PPRO, Bala Elkana, their action is against the code of professional conduct and laws guiding how suspects in Police custody should […]
Continue ReadingNigeria police officers have re-arrested the alleged Taraba kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Wadume, two weeks after he escaped from the custody of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT). Some IRT operatives once came under attack from soldiers attached to Battalion 93, Takum, Taraba State, as they conveyed Wadume from the scene of his arrest. Recall that three […]
Continue ReadingAn Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, on Monday ordered that a 23-year-old man, Israel Adesanya, who pleaded guilty to breaking into a house and stealing biscuits, and recharge cards, be remanded in prison, pending sentencing. Magistrate T.A. Ojo ordered that Adesanya, who resides at Baruwa Ipaja, Lagos, should be remanded in the Kirikiri Prisons, Lagos, […]
Continue ReadingUnited States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested Nigerian entrepreneur, Obinwanne Okeke for alleged conspiracy to commit fraud running into the sum of 12 million US dollars. This was disclosed in an affidavit deposed to by a special agent employed by the United States Department of Justice, Marshall Ward. The affidavit was attached to […]
Continue ReadingLagos-Abeokuta Expressway was shut down on Sunday as Hausa and Yoruba traders clashed at Oke-Odo Market on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. At least one person was seriously injured in the clash. As a result of the clash, vehicles heading to Lagos from Sango in Ogun State, and those moving to Abule-Egba from Oshodi and other parts of […]
Continue ReadingA lady was found strangled to death with a piece of cloth hanged around her neck at a hotel in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, two weeks after a lady was also killed in a similar crime scene. The incident occurred on August 13 as confirmed by River State police command’s spokesperson, Nnamdi Omoni. Tweeting about the […]
Continue ReadingGbolade Ibukun Ejemai, a young Nigerian medical doctor, has allegedly been stabbed to death by a lady from Ukraine with the support of her father. The Nigerian doctor was allegedly stabbed by a lady identified as Victoria Popravko after which her father hit him on the head with a hammer in Ukraine. According to reports, […]
Continue ReadingA bridegroom named David Jiet Chawul died on Monday evening, two days after his wedding with his bride which came up on Saturday 10th, August, 2019. He committed suicide when his newly wedded wife was said to have confessed that she was pregnant for another man. Mr. Chawul from Agaar community of Rumbek, a biological […]
Continue ReadingA 35-year-old man died in mysterious circumstances while having sex with a 50-year-old widow in a maize plantation in Sachangwan-Chebyakwai, near Eldoret International Airport in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya, on Monday. The deceased identified as Julius Kiptoo is said to have been on a drinking spree until late night at a local bar on Sunday […]
Continue ReadingUnknown gunmen have kidnapped Reverend Elisha Noma of the Nagarta Baptist Church in Angwan Makiri, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The kidnappers are reportedly demanding ransom be paid within 5 days or he will be killed. The amount they are demanding is not known yet. The cleric’s son, Emmanuel Elisha, made this known […]
Continue Reading46-year-old and rich banker has committed suicide by drinking a poisonous substance inside his room in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. The banker, Onyechere Ibeakanma, who was married with one daughter, allegedly took his own life on Friday, August 9, 2019, after leaving a note for his wife, Cecilia, who was out shopping. In the note, […]
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