by Admin | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A lotto player, Nurudeen Olalakan, was on Tuesday arraigned in an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court for alleged breach of peace and playing lotto of N25,000 without payment. Olalakan, 37, is facing a two- count charge of causing breach of peace and stealing. The prosecutor, Insp. Olakunle Shonibare, told the court that the accused committed the offences on Feb. 9, 2017 at Iporo Ake junction, Isale-Ake in Abeokuta. Shonibare said the accused person conducted himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace by playing a BET9JA game of N25,000, from one Mr Adeniji Moses, the manager of Grand Harvard Integrated and failed to pay. The complainant said that the accused had earlier played a game in the morning and won N40,000, and later came in the evening to stake another N25,000 game without making any payment He said the accused told one of the staff, Afusat Ishola ,to play the game for him from a betting machine which she did, but failed to pay. Shonibare said that all efforts made to retrieve the money proved abortive, which compelled the complainant to call the police to arrest him. The prosecutor said that the offences contravened Sections 249(d) and 390(9) of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun State, 2006. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Magistrate, Mr Idowu Olayinka, granted the accused bail in the sum of N50,000 with one surety in like sum. Olayinka adjourned the case till March 9 and 10, 2017 for...
by Admin | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Abeokuta – The police on Tuesday arraigned three men–Owolabi Usman, 19; Atapako Hameed, 30; and Adekunle Segun, 48; — in an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court in Ogun for allegedly setting fire on a jeep and a motorcycle. The accused, whose addresses were not given, are facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, causing breach of peace and unlawfully setting fire on a jeep. The prosecutor, Insp Sunday Eigbegiale , told the court that the accused committed the offence on Feb. 1, 2017 at about 2.p.m at Alatise Street, Ikereku, Ogun. Eigbegiale said the accused set fire on the jeep valued at N6 million and belonging to one Abiodun Ayinde while the owner of the motorcycle had yet to be known. According to the prosecutor, the driver of the jeep had hit a motorcycle while the trio who were passing by at the time of the incident set the vehicle on fire with others still at large. The prosecutor said the offences contravened Sections 443(A), 516 and 411 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun, 2006. The trio, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges against them. Chief Magistrate Oriyomi Sofowora granted the accused bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum. Sofowora adjourned the case till Feb. 28 for...
by Admin | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI FUTA VC remanded in SCID The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, February 14, 2017, arraigned the duo of the Vice Chancellor, Professor Adebiyi G. Daramola and the Bursar, Emmanuel Ayodeji A. Oresegun, before Justice S.A Bola of Ondo State High Court, Akure Ondo State, on a 9-count charge bordering on obtaining under false pretense, abuse of office, misappropriation of funds and conspiracy to steal to the tune of N156,984,455.33 (One Hundred and Fifty Six Million Nine Hundred and Eighty Four Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty Five Naira Thirty Three Kobo). The VC and the Bursar’s journey to the dock followed a petition received by the EFCC in 2016, alleging that the duo and the governing council of the University were entrenched in unmitigated corruption, fraud, mindless stealing of the funds of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State. It was alleged that the VC misapplied funds, collected housing allowances whilst living in the government residential quarters, drew Furniture Allowance annually instead of once in 4 years as approved by the income and wages Commission, used public funds to finance private expenses, illegal payment of allowances to Council members of the university, gives self excessive cash advance, direct procurement of motor vehicles without approval/waiver from Bureau of Public Procurement, collecting bogus monthly interest, transferred and placed N100,000,000.00 funds of the University in a fixed deposit account without due authorization. The 2 accused persons, however pleaded not guilty to the charges. One of the count charge reads: “That you, Professor Adebiyi G. Daramola on or about the 2nd of September, 2016 at Akure within the...
by Admin | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Cross River Police Command has arrested one Anyanime Festus, 33, for killing his twin children, Emediong Festus and Mfoniso Festus, both 11 years old for allegedly being witches. Presenting the suspects to newsmen in Calabar on Tuesday, the Acting Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Hafiz Inuwa, alleged that the suspect killed his twins for confessing to being witches. Inuwa said that the incident happened on Jan. 11, 2017 in Uyanga community in Akamkpa Local Government Area of the state. He said that the matter was reported to the police by one David Innocent and Joseph Orok from the same area. “The incident happened on Jan. 11, 2017 in Uyanga community in Akamkpa Local Government Area following a report to the police by one David Innocent and Joseph Orok. They reported that the two female identical twins were found lying along Uyanga bush track in Akamkpa. “According to them, one of the twins was found dead while the other was lying down and was unable to speak. “Much later, the other twin that was lying down was able to speak and she gave her name as Emediong Festus and that of her twin sister as Mfoniso Festus, both 11 years. “That on Jan. 10, 2017, their father told them he was taking them to their mother, and on getting to a bush track, he gave them malt drink suspected to be mixed with poisonous substances. “Shortly after they drank the malt, her sister died and their father abandoned them there,’’ he said. The commissioner further said that the other twin later died in the hospital,...
by Admin | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI INTERPOL and the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) have apprehended the head of an international criminal network behind thousands of online frauds in a joint operation. According to a post on the EFCC website the 40-year-old Nigerian national, known as ‘Mike’, is believed to be behind scams totalling more than USD 60 million involving hundreds of victims worldwide. In one case a target was conned into paying out USD 15.4 million. The network compromised email accounts of small to medium businesses around the world including in Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Romania, South Africa, Thailand and the US, with the financial victims mainly other companies dealing with these compromised accounts. Heading a network of at least 40 individuals across Nigeria, Malaysia and South Africa which both provided malware and carried out the frauds, the alleged mastermind also had money laundering contacts in China, Europe and the US who provided bank account details for the illicit cash flow. Following his arrest in Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria, a forensic examination of devices seized by the EFCC showed he had been involved in a range of criminal activities including business e-mail compromise (BEC) and romance scams. The main two types of scam run by the 40-year-old targeted businesses were payment diversion fraud – where a supplier’s email would be compromised and fake messages would then be sent to the buyer with instructions for payment to a bank account under the criminal’s control – and ‘CEO fraud’. In CEO fraud, the email account of a high-level executive is compromised and a request for a wire transfer is sent to...
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