by Admin | May 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A 29-year-old housewife, Onyinyechi Akunne, was on Monday in Lagos sentenced to seven years imprisonment for stabbing to death her 35-year-old husband, Abuchi Akunne, with a kitchen knife during an argument at home over lotto tickets known as “Baba Ijebu”. An Ikeja High Court sentenced her following a plea bargain where the initial charge of murder was changed to a charge of causing grievous bodily harm to which she plead guilty. Justice Josephine Oyefeso also rejected a clause in the plea bargain agreement where it was proposed that the housewife should serve a sentence of community service instead of a prison term. “In view of the defendant’s pleading guilty, I hereby find her guilty of one-count charge of grievous bodily harm. “I hereby sentence her to seven years in prison starting from the day she remanded in prison custody which was March 28, 2015,” Oyefeso said. Before the sentence was pronounced, Akunne’s counsel, Mrs P.O. Onu, in her plea for mercy, told the court to temper justice with mercy. “The defendant is a first-time offender, she is a mother of a toddler which she gave birth to while in prison custody. Her daughter is a year-and-seven months old, she still has a lot to offer to the society,” Onu said. The judge ordered that the convict’s daughter after weaning her, should be removed from the female prison and be kept in the custody of the relations. During Akunne’s arraignment on March 6, the State Prosecutor, Mrs C.K. Tuiyi-Carena, had told the court that the accused committed the offence on March 28, 2015 at her residence located at...
by Admin | May 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A 22 year old lady along with six other suspects have been arrested by the Decoy Team of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos Police Command over the sale of a day old baby for the sum of N250,000. The lady, Miss Onyinyechi Osoneye, was arrested on Wednesday by the operatives who were working on intelligence over the sale of her baby to Mr and Mrs Ike Nwata. It was gathered that Onyinyechi with the connivance of her mother, Mrs Joy Osoneye concealed the pregnancy from her father knowing his strict position for having a child out of wedlock. It was further revealed that the man who impregnated Onyinyechi had long been informed of the pregnancy but declined to be the one responsible for it. A source revealed that Onyinyechi was admitted at Peninsula Hospital, Ikota, Lekki – Ajah Expressway, where Mrs. Glory Ehinmi, 35, delivered the lady of a baby boy on 1 March, 2017. The source further disclosed that Onyinyechi when arrested had declined the fact that she was pregnant and sold her baby. She was reported to have thereafter burst into tears on further interrogations. She disclosed that Mrs Glory Ehinmi took the baby from her at the point of delivery and gave it to Mrs Prisca Okocha, 45, her sister and the owner of Peculiar Hospital, Orile, who offered Onyinyechi’s mother N250,000. The source disclosed that Okocha thereafter contacted Mrs Regina Anyanwu, 59 who subsequently brought the buyers, Mrs and Mr Ike Nwata. Mrs. Okocha confessed to investigators that she sold the baby for N850, 000 but gave the mother N250, 000....
by Admin | May 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Gunfire rocked the Lanre, Igando area of Lagos as teams of policemen from Anti-Kidnapping Squad and Special Anti- Robbery Squad stormed a kidnappers’ hideout to rescue a white man. The operation was led by the officer in charge of Anti-Kidnapping Squad, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Mr Akinade Adejobi, and the second in command of SARS, a Superintendent of Police (SP), Mr. Amadu Adamu. The policemen, who surrounded the building, before storming in, found the white man tied. They also recovered four AK47 rifles, fully loaded, two English pistols, 60 magazines and 5,000 ammunition. The kidnappers are suspected to have scampered on getting information that policemen were already onto them. It was gathered that in their attempt to escape, the abductors abandoned their cache of arms. According to a police source, the teams of police were instructed by the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, to go after the kidnappers, immediately he received information about the abduction of the white man. The victim was said to have been rescued less than 24 hours after he was abducted. It was also gathered that the policemen had been tracking the kidnappers since Thursday. The search narrowed down to a building located at the Igando area of the metropolis, close to the Igando Police Station. The rescue operation took off around 4pm and before 6pm, it was over. Residents of Igando, who heard the area rocking with gunshots, thought armed robbers were in operation. The Lagos Police Command Headquarters was filled with jubilation as the team of policemen arrived with the recovered weapons and still badly shaken victim....
by Admin | May 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Thursday admitted a self acclaimed pastor, Jeremiah Adanlawo, to N700,000 bail. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the accused was charged with N3 million fraud. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Y.O. Aje-Afunwa, granted Adanlawo bail with two sureties in like sum. Aje-Afunwa directed that the sureties must show evidence of payment of three years tax to the Lagos State Government and adjourned the case till July 12. The accused, who resides at Pasede Village, Awoyaya, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of stealing and fraud. Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Peter Nwangwu, had told the court that Adanlawo committed the offences in 2008 at Ayeteju Town, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos. Nwangwu said that Adanlawo fraudulently obtained N3million from one Jacob Oluwole on the pretext of selling four plots of land to him at Ibeju Lekki in Lagos State. The prosecutor said that the complainant later discovered that the accused had duped him of his hard earned money. “The accused converted the money to his personal use and absconded to an unknown place and all efforts to recover the said money proved abortive,’’ Nwangwu said. He also said that the accused threatened Oluwole on the few occasions he was able to reach him on phone, forcing the matter to be reported to the police. The prosecutor said the offences contravened Sections 285 and 312 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and his lawyer applied for bail in liberal terms. (NAN) source: Daily...
by Admin | May 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, arraigned the duo of Buhari Fannami and Ba-Kura Abdullahi before Justice M. T Salihu of the Federal High Court Maiduguri, for allegedly giving false information to the agency under the whistle blowing policy. EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement said Fannamit had misled the EFCC with the information about illegally acquired monies purportedly buried at the residence of one Ba’a Lawan but the information turned out to be false after the execution of a search warrant. The charge reads, “That you, Buhari Fannami on or about the 8th day of May, 2017 at Maiduguri, Borno State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did make statement to Officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission under the Whistle Blowing policy to the effect that large sums of money being the proceeds of crime were buried in the residence Ba’a Lawan at Pompomari Layout along Pompomari Bypass, Maiduguri which information/statement you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under sections 39 (2) (a) and 39 (2) (b) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act 2004 respectively”. The accused person pleaded not guilty to the charge. Counsel to the prosecution Alkassim Ja’afar asked for a trial date and prayed the court to remand the accused person in the prison custody pending trial. Justice Salihu adjourned the matter to June 7 and 8, 2017 for hearing and ordered the accused to be remanded in the prison custody. On his part, Ba-Kura Abdullahi also gave false information to the effect that large sum...
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