Crime & City Diary
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Access Bank, executives face criminal charges over alleged N1bn loan fraud
Fresh details have emerged about how Access Bank allegedly granted a clandestine N1 billion loan to DDSS International Company Limited using a property belonging to another company, MOB Integrated Services, without the owner’s consent. According to insiders, the property—owned by MOB Integrated Services and managed by businessman Gbolahan Obanikoro—was initially used to secure a N193,139,200 loan for Balmoral International Limited…
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Justice Dipeolu sets aside freezing orders against GHL
In a landmark victory for General Hydrocarbons Limited (GHI), the Federal High Court in Lagos has set aside an order of Mareva injunction freezing the assets of the company and its directors. The court, while upholding the arguments of GHL’s counsel, Abiodun Layonu, SAN as well as the arguments of Olumide Aju, SAN representing the 2nd to 5th defendants in…
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1 dies, 3 severely injured in lone auto accident in Lagos
A grievous lone vehicular accident involving a Toyota car at Conoil inward secretariat along the Lagos/Ibadan expressway has claimed the life of a driver while three other occupants severely injured. It was gathered that the deceased driver was under the influence of alcohol and lost control of the vehicle while traveling at an excessive speed. Fifteen sachets of alcoholic gin…
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Five kidnappers shot dead as police rescue victims in Ogun
Ogun State Police Command successfully rescued three kidnapped victims on January 29, 2025, following a swift operation that led to a gunfight with a gang of kidnappers along the Sagamu-Ijebu Ode Expressway. On January 25, 2025, around 7:00 PM, the Area Commander of Sagamu received a distress call from commuters about an ongoing armed robbery near Ilishan. Upon arrival, officers…
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JUST IN: Court lifts asset freeze on General Hydrocarbons Limited
…judge rules First Bank misled court, oil firm seeks $1bn in damages Presiding over the case between General Hydrocarbons Limited (GHL) and First Bank of Nigeria, the Federal High Court in Lagos has set aside a Mareva injunction that had frozen the assets of GHL and its directors. Justice Dehinde Dipeolu ruled that the injunction, which was obtained at the…
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No lady was fined N150,000 for not visiting boyfriend – Osun Judiciary
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo The Osun State Judiciary has refuted a viral claim that a Magistrate Court in the state fined a lady N150,000 for failing to visit her boyfriend after receiving N3,000 as transport fare. In the widely circulated fake news trending on social media over the weekend, it was alleged that one Rhoda Adu collected N3,000 from Olapitan…
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Ex-Ooni’s wife, others reappear in court over Christmas stampede deaths
Naomi Silekunola, the former wife of the Ooni of Ife; Oriyomi Hamzat, Chairman of an Ibadan-based broadcasting station; and Abdulahib Fasasi, Principal of Islamic High School, Basorun, appeared on Monday before the Chief Magistrate Court in Ibadan. The trio are facing four charges, including conspiracy, murder, manslaughter, and negligence, following the tragic deaths of 35 children during a stampede at…
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Man arrested in Enugu for cutting off wife’s wrist with cutlass
Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command, have arrested Sunday Echege, a 33-year-old man from Ibagwa-Agu Farm Settlement in Ibagwa-Ani community, Nsukka LGA, for cutting off the left wrist of his wife, Chinonso Echege. The Spokesperson of the command, SP Daniel Ndukwe, confirmed the incident. According to the police, Echege admitted committing the crime. The suspect said he attacked his…
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Yobe: NDLEA seizes 537kg of illicit drugs, nabs 46 suspects, secures 21 convictions in 2024
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Yobe State, on Tuesday said it has seized over 537 kilogrammes of illicit substances and arrested 46 suspects in 2024. NDLEA Commander, Mr Abdulazeez Ogungboye, stated this in Damaturu while reviewing the activities of the agency in the last one year. He said the seized drugs included 396.526kg of Marijuana and 141.2kg of…
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Lagos Neighborhood officers nab three for stealing electricity cable
Neighborhood Officers of the Egbe-Idimu command has apprehended three notorious cable thieves while on night patrol in Egbe Idimu Local Council Development Area of Alimosho, Lagos State. The suspects, Balogun Quadri (M) 26 of Moshood Balogun street of Greenland Estate and Yusuf Idris (M) 23 an itinerant scavenger from Kano were apprehended while cutting Transfomer supply cables. The suspects named…
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