by Admin | May 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The defendants were docked for allegedly collecting the sum of N111,500,000.00 as a bribe during the weeks leading to the 2015 presidential election. Justice P.I. Ajaku of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State on Thursday ordered that the duo of Uluocha Obi Brown, an Administrative Secretary of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Delta State and Percy Okojie, a renown legal practitioner and former President, Rotary Club, Benin-City be remanded in prison custody, following their arraignment before her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on an 8-count amended charge, bordering on conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of N 111,500,000 (One Hundred and Eleven Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira only). The defendants were docked for allegedly collecting the sum of N111,500,000.00 as a bribe during the weeks leading to the 2015 presidential election. They are among the over 100 INEC Officials that allegedly collected part of the $115million (N23bn) disbursed by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison- Madueke, during the countdown to the 2015 presidential election. Brown was arrested sometime in 2016, following an intelligence received by the EFCC on the activities of some INEC Staff, who allegedly connived with the West African Network of Election Observers (WANEO), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), in defrauding the Federal Government huge sums of money, running into billions of Naira during the 2015 general elections. Count one of the charge read: “That you Uluocha Obi Brown and Percy Okojie and others now at large on the 27th day March, 2015 at Benin within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did conspire among...
by Admin | May 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A 45-year-old man, Kayode Oladapo, who posed as a travel agent, was on Friday hauled up before an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court for allegedly obtaining N300,000 from a woman on the pretext of procuring Turkish visas for her and her son. The accused, whose address is unknown, is facing a two-count charge of fraud and stealing. Oladapo, however, pleaded innocence of the offences. But the Prosecutor, Insp. Olakunle Shonibare, insisted that the accused committed the offences sometime in 2015 at Onikolobo area of Abeokuta. Shonibare said Oladapo, who posed as a travel agent, had promised to assist the complainants, Mrs Folashade Willams and her son, Akinwunmi, to secure two Turkish visas and was paid N300, 000. “After collecting N300,000 from the complainants, the accused failed to get the visas as promised but converted the money to personal use.” The offences contravened Sections 390(9), 419, and 516 of the Criminal Law of Ogun State, 2006. The Magistrate, Mr Idowu Olayinka, granted the accused bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum. Olayinka said the sureties should produce evidence of tax payment to the Ogun Government and should be resident in the state. She adjourned the case until May 22 for hearing. Source: Today...
by Admin | May 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector-General of Police has arrested three students and one other person, who allegedly posed on Facebook as customs officers auctioning cars. The Leader of the IRT, ACP Abba Kyari, confirmed the arrest in Lagos on Thursday. He said that two of the students were from the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, and one from the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, both in Edo. Kyari said that the suspects also posed on some other social media as customs officers auctioning cars. “After several complaints to the I-G about activities of some fraudsters posing as Nigeria Customs officers on social media and defrauding millions of naira from innocent Nigerians in the guise of auctioning cars, I-G Ibrahim Idris directed the IRT to trace and arrest the criminals. “After analysis of intelligence on ground, two IRT teams were deployed to Edo, and eventually, four suspects were arrested in Ekpoma. “All the suspects confessed to the crimes and stated how they swindled millions of naira from innocent Nigerians while posing as customs officers auctioning cars. “Exhibits such as customs documents, pictures of genuine customs officers they impersonated, bank account numbers they used for the crime, and communication between them and their victims, were found in their phones and laptops,” Kyari said....
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....
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