Crime & City Diary
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Alleged N6.9bn fraud: Emefiele’s arraignment stalled again
The arraignment of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, over an alleged procurement fraud to the tune of N6.9 billion on Wednesday has again been stalled. The matter was not listed on the cause list of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja on Wednesday with no reason given as lawyers…
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BREAKING: Diezani to appear before UK court October 2 over bribery charges
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, is to appear before a Westminster Magistrates Court in the United Kingdom over bribery charges in the UK. The former minister faces the charges after a comprehensive investigation conducted by the National Crime Agency (NCA). In a statement published on its website, the NCA said it has reason to suspect that she accepted…
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Family declares Olatimilehin Babatunde Samuel missing
The entire family of Olatimilehin is looking for their son, Mr. Olatimilehin Babatunde Samuel and wife, who were last seen on 23th July 2023. The entire family had been in fear due to the fact that they have not heard from him and his wife. He got missing after he escaped from kidnappers/ritualist on the 15th June, 2023. According to…
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EFCC charges youths to stop rationalising criminality
The Acting Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulkarim Chukkol, has charged youths across Nigeria to shun cybercrime and the tendency to rationalise criminality. Chukkol gave the charge on Wednesday, August 16, 2023 at a town hall meeting tagged, Nzuko Umu Ntorobia (the gathering of the youth) organised by a Non-Governmental Organisation, Di Nma Forum at Oakland Hotels, Ebeano Estate, Ogui, Enugu. Chukkol…
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Gunmen abduct pastor’s wife in Kwara
By Mosunmola Ayobami,Ilorin Unidentified armed men, numbering about seven and suspected to be kidnappers on Thursday night invaded a sleepy Elerinjare community in the Ifelodun local government area of Kwara state, abducting wife of a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) pastor during the attack. The abducted wife of the pastor, identified as Mrs. Blessing Ajiboye, was abducted alongside two…
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Tragedy as thunder kills tea seller, customer in Ilorin
…residents call for lifeless bodies evacuation By Mosunmola Ayobami,Ilorin Thunder strike has reportedly killed a Tea seller and one other person at Onigbegiri Junction, Eyenkorin in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State. Westernpost gathered that the sad incident occurred Thursday evening during a heavy downpour. An eyewitness, Mr Mojeed Onigbegiri who said that an Hausa Tea Seller and another…
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Lawyer bags six months imprisonment over libelous publication against Dangote
A magistrate court in Abuja has convicted and jailed a lawyer for six months over defamatory publication against Dangote Cement Plc. The convict, Augustine Addeh, of the law firm, Mokidi and Co., had caused the publication of an advert in the Nation Newspapers of Friday November 6, 2015, where he falsely alleged that the Dangote Cement caused the invasion of…
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Alleged illegal arms possession: Court strikes out charges against Emefiele
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday struck out charges of illegal possession of firearm and ammunition preferred against suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. Justice Nicholas Oweibo struck out the charges for lack of diligent prosecution, following an application by the Federal Government to withdraw the charges. The oral application was made on Tuesday by…
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Customs intercepts 1,245 live ammunition concealed in rice
The Ogun Area 1 Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted 1,245 live ammunition ingeniously concealed in 203 Bags of foreign rice abandoned in a bush path at Tombolo Junction, near Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State. Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Bamidele Makinde, who briefed newsmen on Monday, 14 August 2023, at Customs House in Abeokuta, the…
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Prison returnee arrested for attempting to steal cars Abeokuta
By Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested one Sunday Dosunmu, 53, a prison returnee, while trying to steal a car with fabricated Master keys at Leme area of Abeokuta on Saturday. SP Omolola Odutola, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Sunday. According to Odutola,…
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