by Admin | May 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Thursday admitted a self acclaimed pastor, Jeremiah Adanlawo, to N700,000 bail. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the accused was charged with N3 million fraud. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Y.O. Aje-Afunwa, granted Adanlawo bail with two sureties in like sum. Aje-Afunwa directed that the sureties must show evidence of payment of three years tax to the Lagos State Government and adjourned the case till July 12. The accused, who resides at Pasede Village, Awoyaya, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of stealing and fraud. Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Peter Nwangwu, had told the court that Adanlawo committed the offences in 2008 at Ayeteju Town, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos. Nwangwu said that Adanlawo fraudulently obtained N3million from one Jacob Oluwole on the pretext of selling four plots of land to him at Ibeju Lekki in Lagos State. The prosecutor said that the complainant later discovered that the accused had duped him of his hard earned money. “The accused converted the money to his personal use and absconded to an unknown place and all efforts to recover the said money proved abortive,’’ Nwangwu said. He also said that the accused threatened Oluwole on the few occasions he was able to reach him on phone, forcing the matter to be reported to the police. The prosecutor said the offences contravened Sections 285 and 312 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and his lawyer applied for bail in liberal terms. (NAN) source: Daily...
by Admin | May 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, arraigned the duo of Buhari Fannami and Ba-Kura Abdullahi before Justice M. T Salihu of the Federal High Court Maiduguri, for allegedly giving false information to the agency under the whistle blowing policy. EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement said Fannamit had misled the EFCC with the information about illegally acquired monies purportedly buried at the residence of one Ba’a Lawan but the information turned out to be false after the execution of a search warrant. The charge reads, “That you, Buhari Fannami on or about the 8th day of May, 2017 at Maiduguri, Borno State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did make statement to Officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission under the Whistle Blowing policy to the effect that large sums of money being the proceeds of crime were buried in the residence Ba’a Lawan at Pompomari Layout along Pompomari Bypass, Maiduguri which information/statement you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under sections 39 (2) (a) and 39 (2) (b) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act 2004 respectively”. The accused person pleaded not guilty to the charge. Counsel to the prosecution Alkassim Ja’afar asked for a trial date and prayed the court to remand the accused person in the prison custody pending trial. Justice Salihu adjourned the matter to June 7 and 8, 2017 for hearing and ordered the accused to be remanded in the prison custody. On his part, Ba-Kura Abdullahi also gave false information to the effect that large sum...
by Admin | May 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Blood flowed in Etogi community, Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger State, when gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, in the early hours of Saturday, killed 21 people and injured about 15 others. This latest attack is almost two months after the last herdsmen’s attack on Lefu community, in Gurara Local Government Area, where seven people were killed and 10 others kidnapped. It was gathered that the Saturday night attack was in reprisal for an earlier disagreement between some Fulani youths and members of the affected community, which ked to the death of a herder. According to a source close to the community, the herdsmen were offered land by the community as their settlement, on the agreement that a certain amount of money would be paid to the village head every year. Trouble started when the herdsmen failed to remit the agreed amount this year, claiming that the land in question now belonged to them. This did not go down well with the youths in the community who went on rampage, leading to the death of a herder. The herders were said to have reached out for support from their kinsmen elsewhere and launched an attack on the community mosque, when Muslim faithful were observing their early morning prayers. Malam Mairo Mohammed, who lost a brother in the attack, told Daily Sun on phone that the attackers, who laid siege to the mosque, waiting for early morning worshippers, killed everybody in the mosque, including the Imam. Women and children, who were woken by the commotion, took to their heels, with about 15 of them sustaining injuries in...
by Admin | May 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode was on Monday re-arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos, over charges bordering on laundering N4.6 billion. Fani-Kayode was re-arraigned alongside former Minister of State for Finance, Sen. Nenadi Usman and Yusuf Danjuma, former National Chairman, Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON). Also charged is a company, Jointrust Dimentions Nigeria Ltd. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) re-arraigned the accused on 17-counts charge of money laundering. Their re-arraignment was sequel to the transfer of the case file to a new trial judge, Justice Mohammed Aikawa. The charge, which was previously before Justice Sure Hassan, was re-assigned to Justice Aikawa following an application by counsel to Fani-Kayode, Mr Norrisson Quakers. Quakers had urged Hassan to withdraw from the suit alleging that he (judge) would be biased as he previously worked for the EFCC. Meanwhile, before the re-arraignment of the accused, defence counsels, Mr Wale Balogun (SAN) and Mr Abiodun Owonikoko (SAN) had informed the court of their application seeking transfer of the case from Lagos division. The application was however, opposed by the prosecutor, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, who argued that the pleas of the accused ought to be taken first. The trial judge then ordered that the pleas of the accused be taken. The accused persons however, pleaded not guilty of the charges. Justice Aikawa then adjourned the case till June 7 and June 9 for trial and decision on the application to transfer the case. In the charge, the accused were alleged to have committed the offences between January and March 2015. In counts one to seven, they...
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Follow @NigeriaPI A police sergeant attached to Ipakodo Police Division has been arrested after confessing to selling police arms and ammunition to suspected militants in Lagos. It was gathered that the suspect, identified as Sergeant Sunday Odu, attempted to shoot himself dead at the station, but was prevented by a team inspecting the armoury. A source told Punch that the sergeant had been detained and put in a cell at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba, where the case was being investigated. The source said that the incident happened on Thursday, saying Odu indicted another policeman, whom he claimed connived with him in selling the arms. “A police audit team, led by an assistant commissioner of police, went to the station on Thursday. It was a verification exercise to know the situation of arms and ammunition at the station. “They attempted to bribe the team, but they insisted on doing their job and going on with the inspection of the armoury. “During the audit, they discovered that they had sold many of the arms and ammunition. To be precise, about 162 arms had been sold. Immediately the situation was discovered, the armourer, a police sergeant, cocked his gun and wanted to kill himself. “But the team quickly seized the gun from him and handcuffed him. He has been taken to the SCIID. After much interrogation and beating, he confessed that he sold the arms and another policeman was involved,” said the source. Also, a source at the SCIID confirmed that the policeman was in custody, adding that the number of ammunition sold was large. He said, “I...
by Admin | May 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A 24-year-old student, Chijioke Samson, who allegedly broke into a house and robbed a woman, Mrs Modupe Adebayo of her wedding ring and laptops at gunpoint with others still at large, was on Monday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. Samson, who resides in Ikotun, a Lagos suburb, is facing a three-count charge bordering on unlawful possession of firearms and stealing. Although the accused denied the charge, the prosecutor, Insp. Simeon Imhonwa told the court that the accused committed the offences with others still at large on April 3 at about 9.30 p.m. at No. 21, Ore-ofe St., off Governor’s Road, Ikotun. He said the accused broke into the complainant’s house and robbed her of her wedding ring, two laptops, a phone, all valued at N575, 000 and N108, 000 cash. “The accused was apprehended by the police in his escape bid while accomplices fled in an unmarked car.’’ According to Imhonwa, police recovered one locally-made gun with two live cartridges from the accused. The offences contravened Sections 295, 296 and 297 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (revised). The Chief Magistrate, Mrs B.O. Osunsanmi ordered that the accused be remanded in prison and directed that the case file should be sent to the State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice. Osunsanmi adjourned the case until July 24 for mention. Source: P.M...
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