by Admin | Jan 16, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested a female principal for allegedly buying two female babies from a suspected child trafficking syndicate. The principal was apprehended in Uburu community, in the Ohaozara Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the principal was arrested after the police smashed the syndicate, which specialised in buying and selling of babies. The Desk Officer of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related offences (NAPTIP) in Ebonyi State, Mrs. Florence Onwa, said the suspect was arrested following a tip-off that the woman was in possession of two suspected stolen babies. Onwas said, “After weeks of thorough investigation, a crack team from NAPTIP in collaboration with operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), stormed Uburu where they arrested the school principal and recovered the stolen babies. “We discovered that the suspect did not give birth to the babies, and the babies were not even in her late husband’s house; they were in her sister’s house,” she said. The Director, Child Trafficking Department, Ebonyi State Ministry of Women Development, Mr. Igwe Godwin, advised parents to protect their children. Source: Punch...
by Admin | Jan 16, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Found the heartbreaking story on MediaTakeOut. Read below… A 42 year old man named George Joseph McShane is being charged with murdering his wife. Police found him Tuesday, with his engine running in the garage of his home after he was reportedly trying to kill himself, police said. When police searched the house, they found the dead body of his wife Kristen McShane, police said. Police were first called to the home, when family members were unable to contact Kristen – and got worried. Police said George tried to alleviate the family’s fears by logging onto his wife’s Facebook and posting that she dropped her phone in the toilet. George posted, “I can’t believe I dropped my phone in the toilet. I’m such an idiot. Message me here, til I can get it fixed.” It worked for a few days, but family and friends continued their suspicion – and eventually notified authorities. George is charged with murder and domestic battery by...
by Admin | Jan 2, 2017 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI According to the Tribune Newspaper, AN Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in charge of Training and Development at the Edo State Police Command has reportedly committed suicide in Benin City. The police chief, whose name was given as ACP Christopher Nosakhare Osakue, was said to have shot himself in the head with his service pistol in his private residence in Upper Sokponba area of Benin City on Wednesday. The Edo State-born police chief was reported to have sent a woman and a boy living with him on an errand so that he could carry out the act without anybody noticing him. It was gathered that ACP Osakue suffered a partial stroke a few years ago and was gradually recovering when he took his own life. He was said to have left no suicide note for his wife and children. The deceased’s residence was deserted on Saturday while an ash-colour Lexus SUV with number plate ONDO NND-131HV was seen in the compound of the bungalow. A neighbour said she heard a gunshot inside the ACP’s residence at about 5.00 p.m. on Wednesday. It was further learnt that the police officer hosted some youths in his area who visited him last Christmas to a reception. The ACP family members could not be reached for comment. Meanwhile, investigation at the Edo State Police Command headquarters in Benin City revealed that the ACP was posted from Ondo State police command recently. Contacted, the Commissioner of Police in Edo State, Mr Haliru Gwandu, said that it was a case of suicide. Mr Gwandu said the pistol he used to commit the act...
by Admin | Oct 28, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Police have raided a baby factory and arrested at least six pregnant women who are allegedly planning to sell their newborn babies after delivery in Delta State. The police said the arrest was made in Okwe community, Oshimili South Local Government Area of the state in Nigeria’s South-south region. They revealed that a victim, Blessing Aondoseer, had reported that her husband allegedly connived with some people to take away her two weeks old baby. The suspected baby factory syndicates were paraded on Saturday at the Police Headquarters in Asaba, the Delta State capital. The spokesman for the Command, Celestina Kalu, said the police recorded another breakthrough when they apprehended a 74-year-old man reported to have defiled a 14-year-old girl. The police mouthpiece said investigation was ongoing to apprehend other members of the syndicate who were at large. He noted that the rising incidences of baby factories had added to Nigeria’s human rights issues. Mr Kalu, however, said that the Nigeria Police was committed to ensuring that issues of child abuse and trafficking became a thing of the past. While some of the suspects spoke about their involvement in the crime, Aondoseer claimed that her baby was taken away by her husband after...
by Admin | Oct 28, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Kaduna State Command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has seized illicit drugs worth over 30 million Naira and arrested nine suspected drug addicts and peddlers in Zaria. Parading the suspects before journalists at the command’s headquarters in Kaduna, the state commander, Samuel Azige, said the suspects were arrested during a raid at their hideouts in Zaria where they stored the illicit drugs in a warehouse. According to him, preliminary investigations revealed that the suspects stored in cartons banned tramadol drugs weighing over 500 grams. He explained that the drug apart from being banned by the World Health Organisation, (W.H.O) has also expired and therefore harmful for human consumption. The NDLEA Commander stated that the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded. He said the command has made several seizures of illicit drugs amounting to over 20 tons as well as over 50 arrests since the beginning of this...
by Admin | Oct 28, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI A 55-year-old man who claims to be an Assistant Comptroller of the Nigerian Customs Service has been arrested by the police. The man arrested in Ogun State, police say, has duped unsuspecting Nigerians. Mr Ariyo Wasiu, a resident of Lagos island was said to have been dismissed six years ago from the mechanic department of the customs for an act of indiscipline. According to the police, the dismissed officer was arrested while allegedly perfecting his act at a company in Agbara area of Ogun State in south-west Nigeria The spokesman for the police in Ogun State, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi, said investigation had begun to determine the culpability or otherwise of the fake Assistant Comptroller of Customs. He said charges would be filed after investigations. Upon interrogation, the suspect, however, claimed that he was lured into duping as a result of the current harsh economic reality. source: channels...
by Admin | Oct 28, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Nigeria Police Force has reaffirmed its commitment to tackling the upsurge in cases of cybercrime in Nigeria through forensic investigation. The technical adviser to the Inspector General of Police, Mr Tolu Ogunshakin, made the remarks on Monday at a training for officers of the force in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. He said that cybercrime has assumed a worrisome level globally and emphasised the need for scientific investigation of such crimes. He urged Nigerians to protect their identities, stressing that Nigeria has lost over 1.2 billion Naira to criminals who engage in identity theft. source: channels...
by Admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday admitted 13 more exhibits tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the ongoing trial of former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh. Badeh is being prosecuted by the EFCC alongside his company, Iyalikam Nigeria Ltd., for an alleged N1.4bn fraud while in office. He denies the accusation. He is accused of stealing the dollar equivalent of the sum from the accounts of the Nigerian Air Force to buy property in choice areas of Abuja between January and December 2013. According to the commission, the offence, contravenes Section 15 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 as amended, and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act. The court had admitted in evidence two documents showing payments allegedly made to contractors working for the defendant, on Oct. 11. The earlier exhibits were part of the testimony of the sixth prosecution witness, Air Commodore Mohammed Sinni, who is the Director of Finance and Accounts at the NAF headquarters. During Thursday’s hearing, counsel to the EFCC, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), led the seventh prosecution witness, Oluwatoyin Oke, a business woman, in evidence. The witness allegedly sold a choice property in the Wuse 2 area of Abuja to the defendant. Oke reportedly told the court that she used to own and live in No. 19, Kumasi Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja, until 2013 when she put it up for sale for N260m. She stated that thereafter, one Abba Maidama contacted and informed her of an interested buyer. A statement by EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said, “Upon inspection...
by Admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI A self-proclaimed Zimbabwean Bishop, who with his brother raped and impregnated a 17-year-old congregant at their church has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. 41-year-old Bishop Andrew Mnkandla and his brother Lovemore, 34, a pastor at the church, held the victim hostage at his house and raped her on different occasions. They threatened that if she told anyone, “the demons they had exorcised from her would return with scores of others to haunt her. The court heard he went to the teen’s mother with his wife and tried to bribe her so that she convinces her daughter to change her statement in court. Mnkandla had pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of rape before magistrate Chrispen Mberewere. The court was shocked when Mnkandla failed to recite four common Bible verses. Mr Mberewere asked Mnkandla to recite Genesis 1 verse 1, Psalms 23 verse 1, John 3 verse 16 and John 14 verse 1. He drew laughter from the gallery when he said John 3 verse 16 reads: “Let your hearts not be troubled,” but it actually reads: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” ‘Oh well bishop, it looks like the Bible is giving you a hard time,” said Mr Mberewere. “You can’t even recite very common verses familiar to many people. Let’s just get back to the business that brings you here, that of bedroom issues, because you seem to be better in that department.” The magistrate convicted Mnkandla and sentenced him to 20 years in...
by Admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI A Federal High Court in Enugu on Thursday convicted and sentenced one Mrs Chika Charles to 90 years in prison for a N5.6m university admission scam. The jail term comprises three years on each of the 30-count charge preferred against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, a statement by the commission’s Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, s aid. The statement said that the sentences would run concurrently from the date of her conviction. The presiding judge, Justice D. Agishir, found Chika guilty of swindling three young Nigerians to the tune of N5.6m. During the trial, the court heard that the convict obtained the money under the guise of helping her victims to secure admission into the Enugu State University of Science and Technology. She was said to have perpetrated the crime through her unregistered non-governmental organisation known as Bold and Dynamic Gender Initiative. One Simon Chidubem and Friday Ali, both at large, were named as her accomplices, while Okudoh Obinna was mentioned as one of the victims. But Chika ran out of luck in 2007 when one of her victims petitioned the EFCC on her fraudulent...
by Admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Ogun State Police Command has arrested two suspected hired-assassins and a female banker over failed attempt to assassinate her ex-husband identified as Tochukwu Onyebuchi. The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu paraded the suspects at the command’s headquarters in Abeokuta on Wednesday. He said the banker, Oluchi Tochukwu, hired the suspected criminals to assassinate her husband in his residence at Ayobo area of Lagos State. Iliyasu named the two suspected assassins as Chigozie Smart (32) and Kingsley Ikechukwu (36). He said they were intercepted and arrested on Oct. 19 at Ijebu-Ode while attempting to escape to Onitsha with the victim’s Range Rover Jeep. He said Oluchi was arrested at Ayobo area of Lagos State. He said, “One Oluchi, a 32-year-old banker, who is married to one Tochukwu Onyebuchi years ago, got separated from her husband following some matrimonial problems. “The custody of their only child is currently being contested in the court but Oluchi has another plan. “She connived with the trio of Chigozie Smart, Kingsley Ikechukwy and one other who is now at large to eliminate her husband. “She arranged for the weapons which includes cutlass, iron rods and acid which she kept in her husband’s compound at Ayobo area of Lagos State and described where she kept it to the assailants. “The suspects went there on Wednesday as planned and matcheted the man severally on his head and poured the acid on him. “The suspects thereafter abandoned the victim and took away his range Rover Jeep which Oluchi instructed them to drop at her brother’s place in Onitsha, Anambra State. “Luck ran against them...
by Admin | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumugobia was granted bail on Saturday evening after detectives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) searched her home in Lagos, SaharaReporters has learned. When the agents were done with their search, the Federal High Court judge, who was caught in a fake attempt to check herself into Golden Cross Hospital in Ikoyi in order to avoid her summons, was weeping like a baby. The EFCC found several documents showing the judge had bought homes abroad and also recently, on Park Avenue in Ikoyi. The most damning document shows that the judge, who once freed former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode on a technicality over corruption charges, had wired at least $900,000 to foreign banks between 2014-2016. She could not explain the source of the funds to investigators, who asked her to return to their offices on Monday. Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia turned herself in to the EFCC on Thursday after she was traced to a hospital in Lagos where she had claimed she was admitted. As soon as the detectives found out her admission was fake, they arrested the medical director of the hospital, which led the judge to surrender. Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia is one of the eight judges currently under investigation by the EFCC for various corruption...
by Admin | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed. A top source in the anti-graft agency told our correspondent on Monday that the former FCT minister was arrested around 10.39am on Monday and taken into custody for interrogation by a team of operatives, who were awaiting his arrival. The source said Mohammed was still writing his statement as of the time of filing this story. It was gathered that the commission commenced discreet investigations into the activities of the former minister following a petition against him in 2013 while he was still in office. “We have been on the probe for some times. As we are talking now, the former minister is writing his statement,” the source said. It was learnt that the EFCC was investigating the ex-minister for alleged fictitious contracts worth N1bn and the allocation of 12 properties and 37 commercial plots of land to a suspected front of Mohammed and a controversial Abuja land swap deal put at N1tn. It was learnt that prior to the arrest of the ex-minister, the EFCC had interrogated top directors of the FCT. Those quizzed, the source added, included the Director of Treasury, Ibrahim Bomoi, his counterpart in charge of Land, Babayo Mainasara, and the Director in charge of Abuja Geographical Information Service, Ms Jamila Tangaza. The commission was also said to have quizzed the son of the former minister, Samshudeen Bala, and one Tariq Hammoud, said to be a front for the minister. “His arrest is the high point of the investigation in which the owners of...
by Admin | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Four kidnappers who took mother and daughter penultimate Sunday in the G.R.A Benin city but met their Waterloo within...
by Admin | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Commissioner of Police in charge of the Abia State Police Command, Adeleye Oyebade, on Monday paraded a suspected rapist, identified as Emeka Asibiriobwu, who was accused of defiling a two-year-old girl kept under his care. Oyebade said the suspect was arrested by the officers of the Abia State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Umuahia, the state capital. He said the suspect, who was still being investigated by policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, had raped the girl at Oriendu, a suburb of the state capital. The police boss said, “The suspect was arrested when the mother of the victim raised the alarm on sighting her daughter crying, while blood and fluid were gushing out of her private parts. “The victim was taken to a hospital where the rape case was established. The suspect has confessed to the crime and will be arraigned in court after the conclusion of police investigation.” Speaking with PUNCH Metro, the suspect, who could not state his age, however, denied raping the victim. He claimed that the mother of the victim did not keep her daughter under his care on the day the incident took place. He said, “My neighbour just accused me of raping her daughter; but I didn’t do it. I have told everyone in our community that I have no hands in the ugly...
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