by Admin | Aug 20, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested two undergraduate Internet scammers and six other fraudsters at the upscale 1004 Housing Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos. One of the undergraduate, Hope Olusegun, a 25 year-old indigene of Okene, Kogi State, claims to be a student of Computer Science at the Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia. He was arrested by operatives of EFCC over allegations of fraud and internet scam. A petition by a concerned group alerted the Commission about the activities of Olusegun and his co-travelers at the elite 1004 Housing Estate where the fraudsters engaged in fraudulent activities of obtaining money by false pretences and forgery. A search conducted by EFCC operatives at Olusegun’ s apartment led to the recovery of several items such as laptops, iPad phones, travelling documents, cheque books, flash drives, internet modem, and three exotic cars – a Mercedes Benz Jeep, One 4Matic Mercedes Benz Car and a Range Rover Sport SUV. When asked how he came about the cars, Olusegun said the cars belonged to his sister who he claimed lives in the United Kingdom. Operatives of the EFCC also downloaded over 80 implicating documents from the laptops recovered from Olusegun. However, the Commission is making effort to track down other members of Olusegun’s syndicate who are currently at large. Tunde Wasiu Sodiq, another undergraduate and member of another syndicate with close affinity to Olusegun’s gang was also nabbed by operatives of the EFCC at the Housing Estate. Besides Sodiq, six other members of the syndicate were equally arrested. They are: Badmus Akeem O, Ajijola Oluwatosin Emmanuel, Adebesin Olalekan, Raji Resaq O,...
by Admin | Aug 20, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Abia State Police Command has handed over a stolen boy back to the parents after an alleged disappearance with a woman in Imo State, southeast Nigeria. The Abia State Police Commissioner, Adeleye Oyebade, said that the boy, Joseph Okafor, who hails from Eluma Lokpaukwu Umuchieze in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State, was stolen from his father’s compound on May 27, 2015. He was found in 2016 at Okigwe in Imo State, in the custody of a foster mother who claimed the late husband adopted him. Handing over Joseph to his parents, Mr Oyebade vowed to ensure child stealing and kidnapping among other crimes were eradicated from the state. He also warned those involved in the act of stealing children to desist, saying that the police would ensure that their activities were exposed. The Police Commissioner further urged the public to make inquiry of the type of adoption services they patronise, stating that anyone found wanting would face the full wrath of the law....
by Admin | Aug 20, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The spokesman for the Kano State Police Command, Magaji Majia, confirmed the arrest in an interview with our source. He said that the suspects were currently being interrogated and would soon be paraded before the general public. “It is true that our Anti-Kidnapping Unit attached to Karasa village in Doguwa Local Government Area had encounter with a group of suspected kidnappers during which we arrested about 17 of them. “We are questioning them,” the Police Public Relations Officer said. This latest arrest followed a series of reported cases of kidnapping in Doguwa LGA and other neighbouring villages around Falgore forest. Although Mr Majia did not confirm whether or not there were casualties during the encounter, he said some livestock and weapons of different types were recovered from the suspects. “We have also recovered cows and sheep, face masks, cartridges and other equipment used to commit crimes,” he added. The Police spokesman called on residents in the village to remain vigilant by reporting any suspicious individual or group to the police. He also assured them that the Kano State Police Command would continue to do its best in protecting their lives and...
by Admin | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The EFCC, has arrested one Chike Nnaemeka, alias Dr. Justified Isioma Nnaemeka Emerald, for conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of about N6.7million. Nnaemeka, who claimed to be a gynaecologist, allegedly collected the sum of money, under different requests, from his victim, Ani Nkechi Joy, an employee of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, after she was introduced to him by one of her classmates at the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State. Following their meeting, the suspect, who also claimed to be an orphan and a lone Prince of Ihekpe Kingdom in Ogwuashi-Uku, Delta State, was joined in a traditional wedding with the victim on June 6, 2015. In her petition, the complainant said: ‘‘During the wedding preparation, Justified brought up so many stories bordering on cultural issues that I or anyone from my family is not supposed to visit his home town until after my marriage. He also said that the tradition of his place as a lone Prince demands that I sponsor every financial aspect of the traditional marriage, but that he would refund me to the last one Naira I spent.” However, the complainant became ensnared in the suspect’s web of lies when he claimed to have properties that both Zenith Bank Plc and Diamond Bank Plc were purportedly interested in. The suspect was said to have shown the complainant some documents to the properties, while also requesting her to provide some money to enable him complete the process. Unsuspectingly, the complainant allegedly transferred some amounts of money to the suspect, after being assured that he would refund her. But...
by Admin | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a fake lawyer, Thankgod Okachi Echem in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for defrauding his ” client”, a sum of N7,000,000. Okachi, who confessed to be a School Certificate holder, was arrested based on a petition to the EFCC by one of his “clients”: Mr. Jonny Wali who alleged that the fake lawyer defrauded him of the sum of N7,000,000, being part of the money awarded him by a Rivers State High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, as compensation in a legal battle involving him and the former Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) now Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company. Wali reportedly sued the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company in a matter bordering on land trespass in suit number PHC/468/09 before Justice W.A.Chey Chey of the Rivers State High Court and was awarded the sum of N10,000,000( Ten Million Naira only) as compensation. However, the company failed to pay the compensation to him. In seeking redress for the payment of the money, he reportedly employed the legal services of Thankgod hOkachi Echem and Felix Agbarake (Thank God/ Felix & Co. Norugema Chambers). In 2015, the court ruled in his favour and granted another sum of N8,000,000( Eight Million Naira only) as the accumulated interest on the initial N10,000,000 granted as compensation by the court. A sum of N18, 000,000( Eighteen Million Naira only) was consequently paid by the Electricity company to him through Echem’s chambers. Trouble crept into the whole matter when Echem( who was later found to be a fake lawyer) connived with his colleague: Felix...
by Admin | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a suspected impersonator posing as the former Executive Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde. The suspect, Promise Tochi Nwalozie was arrested in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in a sting operation that yielded the arrest of six other internet fraudsters. One of the fraudsters, Onukagba Uche Prosper, is a youth corps member serving in the Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State. Nwalozie was using the identity of Lamorde to send scam mails to foreigners, mostly Europeans and Americans and in the process extorted sizeable amount of foreign currencies from them. His weapon of fraudulent interaction with his victims was a fake electronic copy of the identity card of the former EFCC’s boss. Besides, he was also posing as Barrister Peter Jackson, a spurious lawyer working with the National Judicial Council, NJC in Nigeria. As a lawyer, he was defrauding his victims by assuring them that he would help in the recovery of money lost to different Nigerian cyber fraudsters. To do this, Jackson was collecting various sums of money as service charges from his victims. Some of his victims are: Betty. G. E, an American and Georgina M, an Australian. In addition to all these, Nwalozie had multifarious electronic scam documents in various folders in his e-mail box, ostensibly for the payment of a spurious N12,500,000.00( Twelve Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira only) to one Robert Giese, an American, by the “Office of the Presidency, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Abuja”. To further deceive Giese, he swore to a fictitious ” Affidavit Of Claim of Federal...
by Admin | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI According to the Punch News, a Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the remand of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, and two others in prison over an alleged fraud of N4.6bn. Justice Suleiman Hassan gave the remand order shortly after Fani-Kayode, Nenadi Usman and Danjuma Yusuf were arraigned before him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The judge said the three accused persons were to remain in the prison custody pending the determination of their bail applications, the hearing of which has been fixed for July 1, 2016. Joined with Fani-Kayode, Usman and Yusuf in the 17 counts filed by the EFCC was a company, Joint Trust Dimension Nigeria Limited. The charges bordered on conspiracy, unlawful retention of proceeds of theft and money laundering. Fani-Kayode, who was the spokesperson for former President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign organisation in the 2015 general election, was accused of conspiring with the others to directly and indirectly retain various sums which the EFCC claimed they ought to have reasonably known were proceeds of them. The accused persons were said to have allegedly committed the offences between January 8, 2015 and March 25, 2015 in the build-up to the general election. In one of the counts, the EFCC alleged that Fani-Kayode, who it listed as the seconnd defendant in the charge sheet, and his co-defendants conspired among themselves to “indirectly retain the sum of N1,500, 000,000.00, which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: stealing.” The EFCC prosecutor, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, told the court that the said conspiracy...
by Admin | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Few days after Toyin Aimakhu wished her estranged husband, Niyi Johnson well in a birthday message, pictures arriving recently shows he has proposed to another woman. He is yet to confirm if this is a real proposal or a scene from a Nollywood movie. The lightening of the location however doesn’t look like that from a shooting set. If these are real, then it is further proof that anything is...
by Admin | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Maroko Police Division in the Lekki area of Lagos State has arrested a self-acclaimed Alfa, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahamido, for allegedly defrauding a trader, Sarah Moses. Our source, learnt that Ahamido collected N350,000 from Moses, promising to boost her business by turning the money to N5m. He was, however, alleged to have fled with the money, after giving his girlfriend, Hawa Musa, N100,000 to “renew their love”. A source explained that the victim had been introduced to Ahamido sometime in December, 2015, in a restaurant in Lekki. Ahamido was said to have boasted special powers that could make him multiply money after prayers. The source said, “The woman initially did not believe. So, he promised to help her bring out her child, who at the time was arrested by the police for an offence he committed. “He prepared some concoction for her, and just like that, the woman’s son was released which convinced her to trust him She was said to have asked him for help concerning her business, which was not doing well. The suspect reportedly asked her to give him N350, 000 so he could turn it to N5m which she gave to moses She said, “ i told him I would be travelling to Ghana in December 2015, and I would return in January 2016. He gave me something to put under my pillow. He said when I return from my trip, I should check the pillow and the N5m would be there. “When I returned, I checked under the pillow, but I did not see any money. I called him to inform him, and...
by Admin | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, has shifted the trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on the 13-count corruption charge filed against him by the Federal Government to March 11. The Justice Danladi Umar-led tribunal, which initially gave Federal Government the nod to open its case against Saraki on March 10, deferred the proceeding by a day, following a letter from his new lawyer, Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN. A statement by the Head of Press and Public Relations at the CCT, Mr. Ibraheem Al-Hassan, revealed that Agabi had in a letter dated February 26, pleaded for an adjournment on the ground that he had other cases fixed for March 10. Al-Hassan quoted Agabi’s letter as stating: ‘I write as lead counsel to the above defendant to apply that the matter which is now scheduled to come up on the 10th day of March 2016, subject to the convenience of the honourable tribunal and learned counsel for the prosecution, be taken on the 11th day of March, 2016, due to my earlier and urgent commitments in other courts on the 10th. The Supreme Court had on February 5 okayed Saraki for trial over allegations that he falsely declared his assets.” In a unanimous judgment, a seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, held that the Senate President had a case to answer before the CCT. The apex court, while dismissing the appeal that Saraki lodged to stop his trial, affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal in Abuja which...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI A suspected thief has been arrested for raping two women at the same time in Osun state. According to the police, the 27-year-old suspect was part of a criminal gang that focused on robbing women. Oyetola was arrested for breaking into a home where 8 women were reside. He threatened the women with a gun and stole their cash. He then sexually assaulted one woman before she fled. Oyetola then raped two other women at the same time while threatening them with his gun. He was arrested and charged with two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault and several counts of theft. He was booked in to jail, and denied...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI Following rumours that Mabel Makun had split up with hubby, Ayo Makun, popularly called AY, the interior designer on Monday shut down the mill by declaring the comedian as her “man crush for life”. Mabel made the revelation on her Instagram page. She wrote: “If you don’t know my story, don’t try to tell it.” Many people believe her post was targeted at top blogger, Stella Dimoko-Korkus, who broke the story and insisted that it was true. Following the rumours, the duo has been sharing new photos and touching words on their social media timeline with the intent to render the rumour as false. AY, as he is popularly known, has been the subject of rumours concerning a possible breakup with his wife, Mabel, who allegedly left their matrimonial home over a misunderstanding. AY recently displayed his romantic side in a lovely Instagram post talking about his affection and relationship with Mabel. He shared this on Twitter where he talked about the value of having a wife, who also fits the image of a friend. He said: “The best part of having a friend and a wife like you is that I always have happy days to look forward to. “We can never be perfect enough to stop anyone from having an opinion about us. Thanks to everyone who gave us reasons to love each other even more.” The comedian has now finally dispelled the rumours in his recent post, which can be seen as a statement that everything is “alright” between...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI A retired officer of the State Security Service, Mr Hosea Danjuma, was on Tuesday abducted by gunmen at his residence in Baisa, headquarters of Kurmi Local Government Area of Taraba. The Caretaker Chairman of the council, Mr Steven Agya, confirmed the development in an interview with our source in Jalingo. Agya said that the council had mobilised youths to join hands with security agents in searching for the kidnapped man. “Yes, Danjuma was kidnapped around 1:47 a.m. on Tuesday by unknown gunmen at his residence in Baisa. A family member , Mrs Adama Danjuma said that the gunmen destroyed the back gate of the house from where they gained entrance into the compound. She explained that the gunmen were furious and threatened to shoot anybody, who resisted the abduction of her uncle. According to her, the abductors used motorcycle to whisk her uncle away to an unknown destination. The abduction occurred two weeks after the mother of the Deputy Governor of the state, Hajiya Beli Manu, was kidnapped for several hours before she was released. Source:...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI There is an uneasy calm in Ihuokpara Community, in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State following the death of two men last week as a result of an adulterous woman. One of the men, New Telegraph learnt, was the husband of the woman while the other was the woman’s secret lover. According to unconfirmed reports, the woman, whose name has not been ascertained at the time of filing the report, after having her normal outing with her secret lover, returned home and shortly after her husband died mysteriously. Following his death, the villagers put two into two together and concluded that it was the open secret love that caused the man’s...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog
Follow @NigeriaPI A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former president Goodluck Jonathan and late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s government to account for all the loots they recovered during their administrations, our source reports. Delivering judgement in a Freedom of Information suit filed by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) today March 1st, the presiding judge, Justice M.B. Idris, ruled that successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999 “breached the fundamental principles of transparency and accountability for failing to disclose details about the spending of recovered stolen public funds, including on a dedicated website.” He thereafter ordered that President Buhari “ensures that his government, and the governments of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and former President Goodluck Jonathan account fully for all recovered loot.”. Details ordered by the court to be made public include: information on the total amount of recovered stolen public assets by each government; the amount of recovered stolen public assets spent by each government as well as the objects of such spending and the projects on which such funds were spent. Source:...
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