by Admin | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday arrested one Benjamin Aduli for offences bordering on criminal breach of trust and obtaining by false pretence. A statement by EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said operatives got wind of his nefarious activities through a petition by one of his victims. According to the petitioner, Aduli claimed that he could “help source for a loan facility of $30 million in Dubai” that would be used to finance Fleet farms, a company belonging to the petitioner. Having convinced the potential investor of the “good deal”, he demanded for a contributory fee of $154,146 which he claimed would be remitted to ABA investment LLC in Dubai as “a condition for accessing the loan”. The petitioner, not sensimg any foul play, paid the said sum to a Micro Finance Bank on the instruction of Aduli, for onward remittance as promised. However, since payment was made, no loan was provided for the petitioner, while the money was never returned. The suspect will be charged to court as soon as investigations are elapsed. Meanwhile, the EFCC says it is currently intensifying investigations into the shady activities of a serial fraudster, Adeolu Adeyanju, who in spite of being behind bars is still defrauding unsuspecting individuals. “His fraudulent activities out of the prison yard, came to the fore after a complainant, a friend to a director at the Petroleum Products and Marketing Company, PPMC, petitioned the EFCC that Adeyanju conned him into paying him N9 million. “His modus operandi was to clone the telephone number of the director, using same to instruct the petitioner to “make...
by Admin | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Police on Wednesday arraigned a former banker, Christopher Ademola, 49, at a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos over alleged N250,000 fraud. The accused is being tried on a four-count charge bordering on fraud, forgery, theft and impersonation. The Prosecutor, ASP. Richard Odigie, said the accused committed the offences on Jan. 21 at about 10:00 a.m. at Okesuna Street on Lagos Island. He said that Ademola, a sacked employee of one of the new generation banks, under a false pretext, obtained N250, 000 from one Balikis Sholaja, a customer of the bank. Odigie alleged that Sholaja, who thought the accused was still a staff of the bank, entrusted him with N250, 000 to assist her to open a fixed deposit account. The prosecutor told court that the accused also forged the bank’s credit alert text message and sent it to the complainant as evidence that he had opened the fixed account. He said that the offences contravened Sections 78 (a), 285, 312, 327 and 363 (1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty. The Magistrate, Mrs F.O. Ikobayo, granted the accused bail in the sum of N500, 000 with two sureties in like sum. She ordered that one of the sureties must own a car while the other should have landed property in Lagos. Ikobayo adjourned the case till March 15 for...
by Admin | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday re-arraigned two former Managing Directors of Bank PHB Plc (now Keystone Bank Plc) and the defunct Spring Bank Plc, Mr. Francis Atuche and Mr. Charles Ojo, before a Federal High Court in Lagos. The accused are facing 45- count charges bordering on fraud and sundry financial crimes. The re-arraignment of the two former bank chiefs was sequel to the transfer of the former trial judge, Justice Saliu Saidu, to Port-Harcourt, Rivers State Division of the court. Consequently, Atuche and Ojo are being re-arraigned before Justice Ayokunle Faji, who is the fifth judge to handle the matter. After the re-arraignment, the EFCC prosecutor, Kemi Pinheiro (SAN), told the court that he had tendered 65 documents as evidence in the case before the former trial judge and still has additional 110 documents to tender. He also asked for a quick trial of the matter, which he said, had been in court since 2007. He added that the prosecution was at risk of memory loss of some of the witnesses intended to call in the matter. However, an attempt by Pinheiro in urging the court to give the two defendants new bail conditions, was unsuccessful. Atuche’s counsel, Chief Anthony Idigbe (SAN), represented by Mr. Kanu Okorie and Mr. Osahon Idemudia, representing the second defendant, passionately pleaded with the court to allow their clients continue with the bail conditions earlier granted by the first trial judge, Justice Akinjide Ajakaiye. Ajakaiye had admitted them to bail in the sum of N20 million with one surety in the same sum, who must be a property...
by Admin | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI A barber on Monday at Burutu town, Delta State, shot dead a policeman attached to the Burutu Police division during an attempt to arrest the suspect on allegation of some criminal activities including oil theft and illegal oil bunkering. According to the Burutu community public relations officer, Napoleon, Kanerekedi, the policeman simply identified as Akintunde in company of another of his colleague, had gone to the residence of the suspect to arrest him only for the suspect under the pretence of going into his apartment to dress up, came out with a gun and shot the policeman in close range. He said: “While his colleague fled the scene of the incident, Akintunde was confirmed dead after he was rushed in a motorcycle to the Burutu General Hospital for medical attention.” Condemning the incident, the Burutu clan chairman, Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Binebai Princewill said: “The parents of the suspect who is from Kiagbodo community are both being detained at the Burutu police station, youths from the town have been mobilized on a manhunt in collaboration with security agents in ensuring that the suspect is apprehended and made to face the law. Confirming the incident when contacted, the state police public relations officer, Andrew Aniamaka, said: “Yes, we just got report of the incident and we are investigating what actually happened with plans to bring the culprit to...
by Admin | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI A Nigerian, Babs Rasaki, based in Brazil, has appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman in Guyana to answer to fraud related charges. The man was remanded to prison. Rasaki denied the charge which alleged that on January 9 and 13, at Georgetown and with intent to defraud, he obtained from the Lucky Dollar store one washing machine, a television set and other articles valued at Guyanese $582,495( $2794 US), by virtue of an American Express credit card, in the name of Ann Clara Angelino, knowing same to be forged. The second charge read that the accused, on January 10 at Wellington Street, Georgetown, and with intent to defraud, obtained from Gizmos and Gadgets two iPhones, valued $550,000, ($2638 US)by virtue of an American Express credit card in the name of Ann Clara Angelino, knowing same to be forged. Rasaki, who was unrepresented, told the court that on the days in question, he had accompanied Angelino, who is of Brazilian descent and does not speak English, to the business enterprises and made the purchases on her behalf. Bail was refused on the grounds that he does not have family in Guyana or a local address in the jurisdiction. Police are also currently conducting an investigation with regards to the other documents found in his possession. The man will face Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on February...
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...
by Admin | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI UGHELLI— THE 73-year-old priest of St. Joseph Catholic church, Okpare-Olomu, Delta State, Very Rev. Fr. Stephen Ekakabor, was, yesterday morning, axed in the head by gunmen that invaded the mission house. Though details of the incident were sketchy at press time, a parishioner told Vanguard that the priest is currently receiving medical attention at the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, DELSUTH, Oghara. According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, “his forehead was cut open by his assailants with a battle axe after disposing him of cash and other valuable items in the house. “Owing to the gravity of the wound on his head, he was rejected at several hospitals he was rushed to for medical attention, as it was said that the cut affected the frontal lobe of his brain.” Confirming the incident, a senior police officer at the Otu-Jeremi Police Station said: “Some members of the church came this morning (Sunday) to report the incident to us. “We are investigating the matter and would do everything to ensure that the culprits are brought to...
by Admin | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered that a teenager and his accomplice be remanded in Ikoyi prison over alleged murder. The accused, Bidemi Adefor, 17, and Lekan Sanusi, 21, were arraigned on a two-count charge for conspiracy and murder. The plea of the duo was, however, not taken. The Magistrate, Mr T A. Elias, ordered that the duo should be remanded for the next 30 days pending the legal advice from the State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP). Earlier, the police prosecutor, Insp. Moses Uamdemevbo, said that the accused persons committed the offences on Feb. 1, at about 5.40 p.m., at Iddo terminus. He alleged that the duo and six others now at large had rounded up the deceased, Idris Aloma, stabbed him with broken bottles and rip his intestines. The offences committed contravened Sections 219 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos state, 2011. Section 219 provides for death sentence for offenders while 409 prescribes a two year jail term. Further hearing has been adjourned till March 23 for legal...
by Admin | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Honourable Justice Sale Kogo Idrissa of the Federal High Court sitting in Kano on Friday, sentenced an automobile parts dealer, Okeke Chika Victor to ten years imprisonment over heroin smuggling. He pleaded not guilty to a one count charge of unlawful importation of heroin filed against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). After five months of intense trial, Justice Sale found him guilty and sentenced him to ten years imprisonment. The heroin weighing 10.6kg and concealed inside new submersible water pumping machines were illegally imported from Maputo in Mozambique in April 2016. NDLEA officers at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) made the discovery during an inward screening of an Ethiopian Airline flight. After an intense follow-up operation the convict, Okeke Chika Victor was arrested on September 3, 2016 and charged to court. According to the NDLEA Kano airport commander, Ambrose Umaru, the arrest of the convict was made possible by the tenacity of officers who successfully monitored the convict. “After the heroin seizure was made in April 2016, we organised a man hunt that eventually led to the arrest of Okeke Chika Victor in September 2016. Although he pleaded not guilty but he was unable to prove his case before the court”. Meanwhile the convict in his statement said that he was promised the sum of five thousand dollars. “I was asked to bring the heroin to Nigeria for a fee of $5,000 but my arrest had turned the table against me. I had wanted to invest the money in automobile parts business” he stated. Okeke hails from Anambra State. The Chairman/Chief...
by Admin | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Cross River police command, has paraded a 35-year-old man, Sunday Ushie, who confessed to killing his girlfriend identified as Nnena Samuel and went ahead to have sex with the corpse. Hafiz Inuwa, the acting Commissioner of Police in Cross River, who paraded the suspect before journalists on Monday in Calabar, said the deceased was a mother of two. He said the incident happened on January 27, 2017 at Adijinkpor village in Ikom Local Government Area of the state. “The incident happened on January 27, 2017, following a report at Ikom Divisional Police headquarters from one Cletus Etta of Adijinkpor village that his tenant had killed someone. “Upon receiving this information, my men swung into action and arrested the suspect. “The suspect confessed to have killed the woman before having carnal knowledge of her. “Investigation is ongoing after which the suspect will be charged to court for murder,” Mr. Inuwa said. The commissioner appealed to members of the public to continuously avail the command with useful information that would help it respond to emergency cases promptly. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, Mr. Ushie, a cocoa farmer, said the deceased never gave him the opportunity to have sex with her while alive. He told NAN that he invited the deceased to his house and killed her with a knife before having sex with the corpse. Ushie, who said he regretted his action, blamed the incident on the devil. “It is the work of the devil. I do not know why the devil used me. I am the one that killed her. I killed her...
by Admin | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI A 22-year-old Nigerian National, who had befriended a married woman in Sri Lanka over Facebook and later lured her into giving him Rs 4.3 million, was apprehended in Malabe. It was gathered that the suspect identified as Benson David seduced the 38-year-old woman and won her heart over Facebook by allegedly promised to give her valuable presents after showing her photos of gold jewellery and other valuables. The suspect had then informed the gullible woman that in order to release the parcels containing these valuables, a customs duty amounting to Rs4,360, 000 needed to be deposited to three accounts. The woman had readily agreed and deposited the money to Benson David, who is a student at a reputed private institute of higher studies. The complainant woman is a mother of one and her husband is employed abroad. Her husband had been remitting about Rs 100,000 every month to her while he was abroad. At the time of the arrest the suspect had a total of Rs1.8 million in his bank account. He was produced before the Passara Magistrate yesterday, Thursday, February 9th and was remanded until the 22 on the orders of Magistrate Rasanjana...
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