Court remands 3 fraudsters in Kirikiri prisons •For allegedly duping retired naval officer of N3.8m

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has remanded in Kirikiri Maximum Prison, those accused of duping Rear Admiral B. J. C Noshiri (retd) of N3.8 million.
Of the six accused charged over the alleged crime by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, before Justice Adebisi Akinlade, only three were docked, while the rest were reportedly at large.
The accused allegedly a carrot seed deal to dupe him of the said amount.
The six suspects were Dave Akanni Joel (alias Dave Bobby Mamello), David Omowunmi (alias Haastrup Ogedengbe), Oluwole Adegbite (alias James Tokunbo), Yusuf Adegoke (still at large), Oyebisi Olasukanmi (still at large) and Dr Ouldslimane (still at large).
They were arraigned on a five-count charge of intent to defraud and conspiracy to obtain money by false pretence from Rear Admiral Noshiri (retd).
Prosecution alleged that the accused fraudulently sold a carrot seed business idea to the retired military officer and, in the process, collected the sum of N3.8 million in various instalments from him for the regularisation of the business; supply of carrot seeds to Al-Camac Beverages Production Company based in Jedda, Saudi Arabia and for accessing the sum of $7 million earmarked by the company for the business.
The trial judge ordered that the accused be remanded in Kirikiri and adjourned further hearing till December 3.

Fuel scarcity will persist till March 2013 - Reps’ report

INVESTIGATIONS by the House of Representatives into fuel scarcity across the country have revealed that the scarcity would last till the first quarter of 2013. This is coming just as House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) disclosed that some oil marketers were fraudulently indebted to the Petroleum Equalisation Fund to the tune of billions of naira.

Chairman of the committee, Honourable Dakuku Peterside, who presented the report to the House, affirmed that relevant government agencies should be blamed for the fuel scarcity, adding that they did not  provide accurate data on consumption need of Nigerians to the government.

The report also revealed that the scarcity would continue to linger, owing to the collapse of System 2B, “which distributes about 70 per cent of petroleum products across the country.”