Crime & City Diary
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Court grants N72.2bn damages against Ecobank in favour of Honeywell
The legal dispute between Honeywell Flour Mills and Ecobank has been a subject of significant attention within the business community for almost a decade, with the Federal High Court in Lagos, providing a new chapter to the story by awarding a staggering N72.2 billion in damages against the bank on Tuesday. The case started when Ecobank obtained ex-parte orders from…
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Fraudster who poses as ‘American sugar mom’, one other jailed for cybercrime in Kwara
By Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Tuesday, convicted a 24-year-old Francis Stephen Oke Eghele for presenting himself to be a female American woman to defraud unsuspecting victims. He was convicted alongside one Adeniyi Adekunle Aliyu from Iworoko, Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ekiti State over a similar offence. The…
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Customs intercepts arms, ammunitions in Lagos, arrests 2
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 31 rifles and ammunition concealed in plastic drums and sacks of charcoal within the first two weeks of July 2023. The Ag. Comptroller General of the Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, who is on a working visit to Lagos, made this known at a press briefing on Monday. He stated that the Customs Intelligence…
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Court sentences cleric, one other to death for killing 400L LASU student
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo An Osun State High Court sitting in Ikire, Irewole Local Government, on Monday, sentenced a 42-year-old Prophet, Philip Segun and Adeeko Owolabi (23) to death by hanging over the murder of a 400-level Sociology student of Lagos State University (LASU), Favour Oladele. Also, the mother of Owolabi, Adeeko Bola (46), was sentenced to two years imprisonment…
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Army foils international arms smuggling syndicate en route Anambra
The Nigerian Army has foiled an attempt by an international ammunition smuggling syndicate to transport a truck load of ammunition to Anambra State. In a statement by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, the smuggling syndicate was busted during a stop and search operation along Ajilete-Owode Road in Yewa North LGA of Ogun State. The statement also…
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BREAKING: Fire guts motherless babies home in Lagos
An inferno on Sunday destroyed a part of Tower of Refuge Motherless /Orphanage Babies Home located at 7, Wole Madariola Street off Enitan Kusimo Street Aguda, Surulere area of Lagos. The one-storey building, housing an orphanage/motherless babies home caught fire in the early hours of today. WesternPost gathered that the fire started from an air conditioning unit in the house…
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BREAKING: Fuel tanker crushes hawker in Lagos
A fully loaded tanker on Saturday crushed an egg hawker in a multiple accident at Otedola Bridge inward Berger in Lagos. It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 3:20pm. Eyewitnesses disclosed that the deceased was hawking her wares in traffic before the truck ran over her. The accident, according to the eyewitnesses, involved two other vehicles that were…
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Auto crash claims 10 lives in Kwara
By Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin Ten persons were on Thursday evening, killed in a fatal multiple auto accident in the Ile Pupa area, along Jebba-Bode Saadu Expressway in Kwara State. WesternPost gathered that the accident was caused by wrong overtaking and speed violations. It was also gathered that three vehicles were involved in the crash, while the dead included seven male…
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Again, court dismisses Nnamdi Kanu’s rights suit against DSS
A Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) against the Department of State Services (DSS). Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that Kanu’s suit lacked merit and ought to be dismissed. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Kanu, in the…
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17-year-old girl lures man from Lagos to Osun, robs him of N1.5m
Operatives of the Osun State Police Command have arrested a 17-year-old girl who allegedly lured her victim from Lagos to Osun, through social media. The Command Spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, made this known on Tuesday in Osogbo. Opalola said the victim was lured to Ikire in Irewole Local Government Area by the teenager, on June 28. According to her, the…
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