by Admin | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today Wednesday 1st February 2016 arraigned one Prince Spencer Adikibi, before Justice U.N. Agomoh of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt on a 2 count charge bordering on forgery. The complainant, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited alleged that sometimes in 2008 the defendant, a former staff of MTN, a Based Transceiver Station (BTS) land acquisition officer in Port Harcourt allegedly forged and signed a renewal of Tenancy Mast Space Document to one Allwell Onyeotito, the landlord of the said property where MTN Mast was erected. According to investigation, the lease was meant for 10 years which was paid for by MTN but the defendant in a bid to defraud the complainant, forged and utter the company’s documents, thereby shortening the period of the contract to Five Years and diverted the balance of the funds for his personal use. Count one reads: “that you Prince Spencer Adikibi on or about the 1st of April, 2008 at Port Harcourt within the Jurisdiction of this honourable Court did forge a document titled “ RENEWAL OF TENANCY OF MAST SPACE OF OUR MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION FACILITY ON YOUR PROPERTY” purporting same to have been signed and issued by MTN Nigeria Communication Limited with the intent that it may be acted upon as genuine and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1) (c) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, Cap M17 of the Revised Edition (Laws of the Federation of Nigeria) 2007 and Punishable under Section 1 (2) of the same Act. The defendant pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to him....
by Admin | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI This is quite sad! For six hours, 19-year-old Rilwanu Akintunde was beaten up, handcuffed and locked inside a teargassed room for allegedly stealing N90,000. The teenager’s torturers were his mother, Mrs. Akintunde, her brother Kayode and a policeman identified as Titus. Rilwanu, alias Rado, denied collecting the money said to belong to his mother, a hawker. But his attackers didn’t believe him. Unable to bear the torture, the teenager passed out and was rushed to Beachland Hospital, Arepo, where he was confirmed dead on Sunday evening. His torturers secretly buried him at his mother’s site at Sotel, not knowing their action would draw the wrath of residents of Oriola Street, Ibafo and environs. Youths in the area went berserk after discovering that the money for which Rilwanu was tortured to death was later found in his mother’s closet. Wielding cutlasses, bottles, sticks and fire, the mob, it was gathered, stormed Kayode’s residence; chased the tenants away and vandalised his property. Inscriptions, such as “Rado was a good son born by a stupid mother” were seen on walls of the building, with roofs, doors and windows destroyed. When The Nation visited the community, residents were clamouring for justice to the culprits. It was gathered Kayode and his police friend, Titus, had fled the neighbourhood. The deceased’s mother and Kayode’s wife were arrested by policemen from Ibafo Division, who visited the place. According to residents, Rilwanu’s killers might have had another motive for their action because the teenager was neither a thief nor troublesome. His friends, it was gathered, produced an obituary for him, which they pasted not far...
by Admin | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI An Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a 40-year-old teacher, Sampson Eyo, who allegedly raped his nine-year-old pupil. The Chief Magistrate, Mr. Taiwo Oladiran, directed that the accused should be remanded at the Agodi Prisons custody pending the advice of the Oyo State Director of Public Prosecutions. Consequently, the court did not take the plea of the accused. Eyo, a teacher in a nursery and primary school, Bashorun, Ibadan, was arraigned on one count. The prosecutor, Sgt. James Oriola, told the court that the accused had unlawful carnal knowledge of the pupil between September 2016 and Jan. 19, 2017. Oriola said, “Eyo, being the class teacher of the girl and also her lesson teacher, lured the girl after lesson period and had carnal knowledge of her.’’ He said that the accused committed the offence at 4:00p.m. at the school premises. Oriola said that the offence contravened Section 218 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Oyo State, 2000. Section 218 stipulates 14 years imprisonment for offender. The case was adjourned to Feb. 27 for...
by Admin | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arraigned a 41-year-old banker in Abuja for allegedly forging the signatures of a bank customer with the intention to defraud him of over N30 million. Remilekun Momoh, an accountant with Unity Bank, Abuja, was arraigned before Justice Bello Kawu of the FCT High Court, Kubwa on a 15-count-charge, bordering on forgery and fraud. Momoh pleaded not guilty to the charges. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the defendant had earlier been arraigned in November 2016 over alleged fraud of N14 million. The EFCC alleged that while at her duty post between May 2014 and May 2015, the defendant fraudulently forged the signatures of one Garba Mamu, who was a customer of Unity Bank. The defendant allegedly transferred, in bits, over N30 million through a forged letter of transfer of funds into several designated accounts in other banks. Counsel to the defendant, Lawrence Alabi, applied to the court for the defendant to continue on her initial bail terms. Justice Kawu, while granting the request after the prosecuting counsel did not object, adjourned the matter until March 15, for continuation of hearing. He also ordered that all the previous witnesses in the matter be recalled on the next adjourned...
by Admin | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Nigerian national and a Cambodian were arraigned before the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday, January 27, for their involvement in a scheme to steal $300 from a Cambodian woman through a fake promotional contest. 37-year-old Uchechukwu Vincent and 27-year-old Sarim Kunthea had been charged with fraud after being sued by Keo Sotheary, 28, and arrested on September 8, 2016. “They were arrested by the police while coming to get $300 from the victim at a Wing transfer shop in Chom Chao commune,” Judge Ros Piseth said, adding that police had seized the money during the arrest. According to court documents, the pair called the woman and told her she won first prize in a promotional contest in September 2016. But Ms. Sotheary was told to send them $300 through Wing for “information and preparation for receiving the prize.” Ms. Sotheary became suspicious when she received several follow-up calls asking her to send the money. She filed a complaint with police, who subsequently set up a sting operation to arrest Mr. Vincent and Ms. Kunthea at a local Wing shop. The two alleged scam artists, who had been living in an apartment in Sansom Kosal 5 village in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district, denied the charges and said they had never called or spoken to the victim. They claimed a Nigerian friend named Ichinobi told them to pick up the $300 from the Wing shop before they were arrested. “I did not know the victim. I have never called her or contacted her. I did not do anything as the court has accused and I would like them...
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