Crime
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Lawyer fumes over High Court’s decision to hear matter on Appeal Court verdict
Tension arose at the Ondo State High Court in Akure as Judge Justice David Kolawole sought to preside over a case already settled by the Federal Court of Appeal. The courtroom…
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Court Jails Charcoal Producer for N7m Fraud
Justice H.H. Kereng of the Gombe State High Court sitting in Gombe, Gombe State has convicted and sentenced President of National Association of Charcoal Producers and Exporters, Edu Babatunde Azeez to…
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ONSA Arms Deal: N4.6b was Traced to Bafarawa’s Son-Witness Tells Court
The Second Prosecution Witness, 2PW, Hamza Abdullahi in the trial-within-trial of former Sokoto State governor, Attahiru Bafarawa and four others, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, told Justice Y. Halilu of the Federal…
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EFCC Arrests Nine Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Port Harcourt
Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested seven suspected internet fraudsters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. They were arrested following actionable intelligence…
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Alleged N3bn Fraud: How Oyo-Ita, Allies Diverted Public Funds to Private Companies
Prosecution Witness Eight, (PW8), Hamma Adama Bello in the trial of former Head of Service (HoS), Winifred Oyo-Ita on Thursday, April 25, 2024 narrated before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal…
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Alleged fraud: Former Ekiti Gov, Fayose’s trial stalled
The absence of Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke in the alleged money laundering trial of a former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, stalled the proceeding on Thursday at the Federal High Court in…
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One dead as Amotekun, cultists clash in Ondo
One person has been shot dead in a clash between operatives of the Ondo State Security Network codenamed Amotekun Corps and some suspected cultists at Igbokada, headquarters of Ilaje local government…
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EFCC freezes 300 illegal forex accounts
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has frozen 300 illegal forex accounts trading on a peer-to-peer platform. The EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, revealed that the accounts were suspended on Monday following…
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Tragedy: Five Children Found Dead in Car in Minna
The police command in Niger has verified the tragic deaths of five children due to suffocation inside a car on Sunday in Minna. DSP Wasiu Abiodun, the police public relations officer…
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Unemployed man jailed six months for stealing motorcycle
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, on Monday, sentenced an unemployed man, Usman Abubakar, to six months’ imprisonment for stealing a motorcycle. Mr Abubakar, a 20-year-old of an undisclosed address,…
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EFCC Arrests Six Suspected Internet Fraudsters
Operatives of the Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Saturday,April 21, 2024 arrested six suspected internet fraudsters in Kaduna State. The alleged fraudsters were arrested at…
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Kano anti-graft agency traces N51.3bn misappropriated by Ganduje
The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, PCCAC, says it has traced about N51.3 billion allegedly misappropriated by former governor Abdullahi Ganduje, current national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC.…