A 30-year-old man, Ayodeji Ayeni, was on Thursday brought before an Ado-Ekiti Chief agistrates’ Court over alleged N2 million fraud. The defendant, whose address was not given, is facing a two-count charge of fraud and impersonation. The prosecutor, Inspector Akinwale Oriyomi, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on November 28, 2024 at Olorunda Zone 1 in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. Mr Oriyomi alleged that the defendant obtained the sum of N2 million from the complainant, Balogun Ismaila, on the pretext of selling an uncompleted building to him. He also alleged that the defendant claimed to be an estate…
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An hotelier and Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Leuven Empire Hotel and Suites, Ejigbo, Lagos, simply identified as Macdonald, has been arrested and paraded by the Zone 2 Police Command for allegedly sodomising a 16-year-old secondary school boy. The suspect denied using the boy for rituals but admitted to having sex with him twice. According to the boy’s father, Edozie Christian, a spare parts dealer at Ladipo market, the suspect lured his son and four other teenagers to his hotel, where he sodomised them and warned them that they would die if they revealed the incident to anyone.…
Fire raged on Thursday killing many livestock and grain silos at Danzago community in the Damabatta Local Government Area of in Kano State.This is contained in a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the State Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi, in Kano.It stated, “We received an emergency call from a resident of the community, one Abdurashid Sha’aibu, at about 10:48 a.m.On receiving the information, we quickly sent our rescue team at about 11:22 a.m to the scene.’’He said that on arrival, the rescue team found one family house, known as gidan Ado Yubai, engulfed by fire.The PRO further explained that…
Young Progressives Party aspirant in the Anambra South Senatorial District by-election, Samben Nwosu, has expressed shock over the death of kidnapped Anambra State House of Assembly member, Justice Azuka. Mr Azuka represented Onitsha North 1 Constituency in the state House of Assembly. He was kidnapped on December 24, 2024 and founded dead by a team of police and Anambra Vigilance Group, on Wednesday. The Police Public Relations Officer, Anambra State Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, had said that the team went to rescue Mr Azuka but found his lifeless body. In a condolence statement to journalists in Awka on Thursday, Mr Nwosu…
The police in Lagos State on Thursday dragged a 37-year-old woman, Jennifer Edward, before an Ojo Magistrates’ Court for allegedly obtaining N4.01 million under false pretences. The defendant was arraigned before Magistrate Funke Ogun, who presided over the case on behalf of Magistrate L.K J Layeni. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge of fraud and stealing. Earlier, the prosecutor, Inspector Esther Adesulu, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on October 14, 2024, at the Alaba International Market, Ojo. She alleged that the defendant obtained the sum of N4.01 million from one Chidi Innocent,…
President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, dissolved the entire governing council of the Yakubu Gowon University (formerly UniAbuja), and relieved Professor Aisha Maikudi of her duties as its Vice-Chancellor with immediate effect. “To succeed Maikudi, President Tinubu appointed Professor Patricia Manko as Acting Vice Chancellor at the Yakubu Gowon University for a six-month term,” Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, revealed in a statement he signed on Thursday. The statement is titled ‘President Tinubu announces leadership overhaul at Federal Universities.’ “She (Prof. Manko) will not be eligible to apply for the substantive Vice Chancellor position when it becomes…
On Thursday, the House of Representatives Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution disclosed that it has received proposals for the creation of 31 new states from all six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu presented a letter from the committee during plenary, detailing the requirements for the approval of any new state creation. The proposals cover various regions, with five suggested states from the North Central, four from the North East, five from the North West, five from the South East, four from the South South, and seven from the South West. Among the proposed states…
The Nigeria Police Force has withdrawn a fraud charge against Mr. Gbolahan Obanikoro, and four others, over alleged N1.3 billion fraud involving Access Bank. Obanikoro alongside, Adejare Adegbenro; Balmoral International Limited; M.O.B. Integrated Limited; and DDSS International Company Limited were billed for arraignment before Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court in Lagos on February 27. PUNCH Online reports that the Federal High Court in Lagos had on Jan 31, 2025, fixed February 27, 2025, for the arraignment of Gbolahan Obanikoro, the son of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, and four others for alleged N1,356,057,330.43 fraud. //punchng.com/n1-3bn-fraud-police-to-arraign-obanikoros-son-others-feb-27/ However, in a statement…
The First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has condoled the families of people who died in a fire outbreak that affected an Islamic school in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State, on Tuesday night. The Police in Zamfara confirmed the death of 17 Almajiris (street urchins) while 17 others were injured in the fire incident in Kaura Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Tinubu in a statement on Thursday also commiserated with Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara over the tragic incident. “I pray Allah to comfort and give the families and loved ones of the departed the fortitude to bear this painful loss.…
A 21-year-old sales boy, Abdullahi Dalhatu, was arraigned on Thursday before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kaduna over alleged theft of phone accessories worth N3.9 million. The defendant, a resident of Kinkinau in Kaduna, was standing trial for a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and theft. The prosecutor, Chidi Leo, told the court that one Haruna Jafar of the same address as the defendant reported the matter at the state Criminal Investigation and Intelligent Department on January 25. “The defendant, a sales boy at “Jafar Jafar Phones and Accessories” at Kawo Kaduna, conspired with two others at large and stole…