Juliana Francis Blog: October 2016

Monday, October 31, 2016

Drama as kidnappers abduct brothers bearing ransom …demand for another payoff

Nine suspected kidnappers have been arrested after they pulled a fast one on the families of their victims.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a driver, Chinwoke Onyedinazu before Justice M. A. Liman of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for duping a Briton, Paul H., the sum of One Hundred and Eighty Two Thousand, Sixty Four Pounds, Ninety Nine Shillings (182, 064.99). He was docked on a nine- count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretense.

Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Father Matthew Hassan Kukah has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, over the state of its facilities in Abuja, which he described as ‘clean and orderly”.

A teacher, with Agbokunloko College, Ikotun, Lagos Statem, yesterday angrily denied defiling a 12-year-old pupil, insisting that he only put his manhood into her mouth.

Police accused of collecting N192,000 bribe from UK-based Nigerian

A United Kingdom -based Nigerian, Mr. Yinusa Owolabi, has accused the Nigeria Police, specifically, the International Police (INTERPOL), Force Criminal Investigation Department Annex, Alagbon, Lagos, and its Headquarters in Abuja of demanding and collecting N192, 000 bribe from him before his international passport and UK Residence Permit could be released.

A woman, Mrs. Chika Amsy Charles, who swindled three desperate university admission seekers N5,620,000.00, was yesterday, sentenced to 90 years imprisonment.

A police corporal has been arrested after he followed a suspect, who flouted traffic rule to nearest ATM gallery to collect N30, 000 bribe.

Man conceals 620kg of Indian hemp in cloth

A 35-year-old man has been arrested after policemen, attached to Border Patrol Unit, Ogun State, discovered 620kg of Indian Hemp concealed inside wands of clothes.

Governor El-Rufai of Kaduna State commends the Police

· Nip In The Bud The Source Of Insecurity

The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has expressed gratitude to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris, NPM, mni, and the Nigeria Police Force for the determined efforts to ensure that peace and security prevail in Kaduna State.

Justice Tukur Mu'azu of Kaduna State High Court has convicted and sentenced the immediate past sole Administrator of Kaura Local Government, Kaduna State, Ibrahim Akut Baba to seven years imprisonment without option of fine for offences bordering on obtaining money by false pretence.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, October 27, 2016 arraigned one Moses Godia Shipi, managing director, La Shipson Construction Nigeria Limited before Justice Hussein Baba-Yusufu of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 16-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N6.5million.

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on Thursday, October 27, 2016 admitted another thirteen exhibits tendered before it by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the ongoing trial of a former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh (rtd).

The trial of Abiodun Agbele, aide and confidant of Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, got underway Thursday in Abuja with the first prosecution witness, providing a blow by blow account of how the accused supervised the disbursement of a sum of N1, 219, 490,000 part of the N4.7billion that was transferred from the imprest account of the Office of the National Security Adviser to the bank account of Sylvan McNamara, a company allegedly owned by the sons of a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro.

The need to engage the youth in the anti corruption fight was emphasized in a meeting between Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka and the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, today in Lagos.

The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, has been drawn to myriads of petitions by concerned Nigerians, following the arrest of the Managing Director of “Lets Partner With You Ltd.”, Chief Patrick Shanchi Nwokike, an alleged wonder Bank operator, who is currently in our custody alongside his wife who is also a signatory to the company’s various bank accounts.

Some hoodlums have attacked a man, Ganiu, and his lover, identified only as Ibiyemi, in Ago Egun community, in the Ilaje, Bariga area of Lagos State, during which they gang-raped the woman.

There were indications on Thursday that former Nigerian leaders, traditional and religious leaders from across the country were listed as beneficiaries of the $2.1bn arms funds in the final report of the Presidential panel which probed military contracts from 2007 to 2015.

Two killed, many injured as masquerade festival turns bloody

Two people were killed and many injured on Saturday, after masquerade festival turns bloody at the Lagos Island area of the state.

The police detectives attached to the Anti Kidnapping Unit of zone 2 command headquarters,onikan Lagos have arrested 5 suspects for conspiracy and stealing pharmaceutical products worth almost 56 million naira (#55,980,000 ) in Lagos.

The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered an investigation into the purchase and distribution of vehicles by his predecessors.

CP Lagos, Fatai Owoseni

Detectives attached to the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a man, who claimed to be the former chef of the late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has prevented a 30 year-old Brazil-based hair stylist from smuggling cocaine into the country.

A 15-year-old girl, allegedly kidnapped and turned into a sex slave by a 28-year-old tricycle rider, has said that the cyclist used to pounce and rape her every time she visited his home without using condom.

Recession: Robbers target cyclists, kill father of three

Commercial cyclists in Ofada area of Ogun State have blamed economic recession for the sudden increase in robbery attacks on them and snatching of motorbikes.

‘My hairstyle implicated me in robbery’

Like most youths his age, 20-year-old Fatai Salami, must have been warned several times about sporting dreadful looking hairstyles by his parents.

OOUTH must explain my wife’s disappearance –Husband

Muftau Muritala, the husband of a 40-year-old woman, Ajarat, who reportedly disappeared from the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, has insisted that his wife was abducted from the hospital.

‘I exposed him because he killed our member’

Twenty-seven-year-old Shola Farotimi knew he was in a big trouble when Anti-Robbery Policemen, attached to Area J Police Command, Ajah, Lagos State arrested him for being a cultist and having a gun.

Fake LASTMA officials tow vehicles, sell parts

The recent arrest of three suspects by detectives attached to the Lagos State Police Command has revealed how some criminals, pretending to be officials of Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA), used to tow and steal vehicles parked along roads.

For 24-year-old Joseph Izu, who played in the defence for Nigerian Premier League club, Shooting Stars of Ibadan, Sunday, October 16 was like every other day as he came back to his country home Okarki in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State to pay visit before setting out to Ibadan.

Checking extra-judicial killings, torture Obtaining confession under duress

Many innocent Nigerians have confessed to crimes they knew nothing about while several others have been either maimed or killed during torture by law enforcement agents, reports JULIANA FRANCIS

“Ropes were tied round my two hands. My two legs were tied, then both legs and hands bended and tied together with a rod passing through in between them and then elevated to a perimeter wall.

Gang planned to kidnap Onibeju of Ibeju-Lekki Kingdom, after abducting landlords

Twenty-nine-year-old Natei Okunna, also known as Osama, is the gang leader of the kidnappers that abducted three landlords and their aerobics instructor at the Isheri area of Lagos State, some weeks ago.

The South East Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu secured a total of Fourteen (14) convictions in the last ten months and recovered over Two Hundred and Forty Four Million, Five Hundred and Eighty Seven Naira, Twenty Kobo (N244,574,587.28).

A witness in the trial of Patrick Ziadeke Akpobolokemi, Major General Emmanuel Atewe, Kime Egozi and one Josephine Otuoga today told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos how Major General Atewe, former Commander of the Joint Military Task Force, Operation Pulo Shield, disbursed over N8.5bn from the account of the Joint Task Force, domiciled in Zenith Bank Plc.

In less than ten months of being in operation, the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has recovered N57, 316,607.15.

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for its assistance in the recovery of pension assets.

The trial of a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, before Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the FCT High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja was stalled on Thursday, October 20, 2016 as Dariye’s counsel, Nantok Joshua, asked for an adjournment to enable the defence produce a ruling purportedly delivered by a Kaduna State High Court, which it intended to tender and build on with its next witnesses.

The North East Zonal Head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Maiduguri, Borno State, Ibrahim Bappa on Thursday, October 20, 2016 disclosed that a sum of N196, 670.000.00 (one hundred and ninety-six million, six hundred and seventy thousand naira) had been recovered by the anti-graft agency in the zone.

Police Sergeant charged with robbery, sues Lagos CP

Police personnel of the Lagos State Police Command were shocked after they heard that one of them, identified simply as Sergeant Oluwaseyi, sued the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, and two other policemen for N50 million.

Three policemen, who followed a suspected fraudster into a banking hall to withdraw money meant for bribe from his account have been arrested and dismissed.

There was palpable tension in the air on October 5, 2016, at the Lagos State Police Command’s Headquarters, Ikeja, as the state commissioner of police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, reads the riot act to his policemen.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday October 17, 2016, arraigned one Joseph Ovbokhan Odubu and his company, Even Handed Services Limited before Justice P. I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court, sitting in Benin, Edo State on a 3-count charge bordering on forgery, uttering and obtaining money by false presence to the tune of Nine Million Three Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira (N9, 360,000.00).

The trial of a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, continued on Monday, October 17, 2016 before Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Gudu, Abuja, with a defence witness, Paul Datugum, a staff in the Office of the Accountant-General, Plateau State Ministry of Finance, failing to substantiate an alleged raid by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on the Ministry in 2005.

Arrested judges: Lawyer sues Buhari, DSS, AGF, others for N50bn

A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, has filed a N50bn suit against President Muhammadu Buhari, the Department of State Services and its Director-General, Lawal Daura, along with others for allegedly violating the rights of judges whose houses were raided by the DSS operatives between October 8 and 9.

Police in Lagos have arrested a 64-year-old James Turner man from the Republic Ireland for allegedly infecting his girlfriend with Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

Lagos destroys 2m litres of adulterated diesel

Officials of the Lagos State Task Force yesterday dislodged diesel bunkerers and destroyed over two million litres of aduletrated diesel near Coker by Diamond Bank, Orile.

Fire, which gutted a shopping complex at Yaba in Lagos yesterday, destroyed property and goods believed to be worth several millions of naira. About 94 shops in the complex opposite the Presbyterian Church, Yaba, were completely razed.

There was chaos at Iya Abiodun bus stop, Ifo, Ogun State, after a security guard, Abdullahi Muhammed, caught a 60-year-old trailer driver, Lawal Bankole, allegedly having sex with his wife, Tope, on their matrimonial bed.

A former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of plotting to convict him at all cost.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 24-year-old suspect, Tayo Adeyemi, who confessed to have been hired to kill a female hotel lodger in the Alakija, Satellite Town area of the state.

21 rescued girls reunite with parents
FG: Bigger batch of abducted girls on the way

The 21 Chibok Girls who regained their freedom last week Thursday have revealed that they stayed without food for one month and 10 days while in the custody of the Boko Haram insurgents.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has dismissed 17 junior officers for drug addiction, certificate forgery, theft and absenteeism.

The Cameroonian government has arrested four Nigerian ladies, alleging heading to Russia with a notorious Cameroonian sex worker trafficker, for prostitution.

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21 rescued girls reunite with parents

FG: Bigger batch of abducted girls on the way