Opeyemi Kadiri joined the Nigerian Police Force six years ago, but his journey has been cut short because of his disobedience to the Inspector-General of Police directive, banning the searching of phone unless the phone is a subject of investigation. He was also punished for assault and disobedience to lawful authority. The dismissed officer was captured in a viral video where he was searching through commuters phones and assaulting a young man that reminded him of the IGP’s directive against that. This development was revealed by the Police Spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi on Friday. “The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed Force No. 509745…
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Again, Aisha Alkali Wakil alias Mama Boko Haram has been convicted and sentenced to another seven years in prison for stealing N66million. This judgement is coming barely two months she was jailed for five years for fraudulently obtaining 3,000 bags of beans. This time around, she was again convicted in Maiduguri alongside her accomplices; Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyede The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC secured the conviction and sentencing of the three convicts on a three count charge of conspiracy and stealing to the tune of N66m before Justice Kumaliya The…
Over 100 staff of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, have been trained by Centre for Civilians in Conflict, CIVIC, on civilians harm mitigation during crisis in the country. The collaborative effort with NSCDC was hinged on protecting civilians during conflict crisis. The Director, Public Relations, NSCDC National Headquaters, Abuja, DCC Olusola Odumosu disclosed this in a communication on Friday. CASEFILE gathered that the beneficiaries of the training were drawn from the National Headquarters of the Corps and Federal Capital Territory Command, however, personnel of the security outfit across the country would be trained also. The Commandant General, Dr.…
An unemployed 21-year-old Michael Chinasa, has been remanded by an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court on Thursday for alledgedly setting ablaze a BRT bus terminal at Oyingbo in Lagos during a protest in October 2020 over alleged police abuses. The defendant, said to be an indigene of Anambra State, lives at 21, Ilogbo Street, Apapa Road, Lagos. He is being tried for conspiracy, arson, and causing a breach of peace. On Thursday, the Magistrate, Mrs M.C. Ayinde refused to take the defendant’s plea, ordered that he should be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre until September 1, pending legal advice. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp…
The 62nd Annual General Conference, AGC, of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, is set to hold from 19th to 26th August 2022. The Association has unveiled a schedule of programmes for the conference. The Chairman of the NBA Technical Committee on Conference Planning, Mr. Tobenna Erojikwe, TCCP, in a release disclosed that there will be a total of six plenaries and five groups of breakout sessions over a three-day period spanning 22nd to 24th August. A breakdown of the programme schedule shows that the first plenary, which comes up on 22nd August, will have the key Presidential candidates in Nigeria’s…
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of a Special Offences Court, Ikeja has heard how one Abdulsalam Ibrahim, alledgedly stole N45 million Naira belonging to Flour Mills Nigeria, PLC. A policeman, Saheed Omosanya, while being led in evidence by Ebareotu Pereagbe, a counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, testified as the fifth prosecution witness at the ongoing trial on Wednesday. The prosecution witness attached to the Special Fraud Section, Force Criminal Investigation Department, Annex Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos explained that he investigated the case in which the defendant was alledgedly involved. According to him, he received a distress call on 1st…
Although there was no official confirmation nor a denial, but eye witnesses said it happened at the foot of Ota Bridge, Lagos-Abeokuta Expresses Way. It was a reported face-off between the then Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and the the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Honourable Dimeji Saburi Bankole. We were told that the Speaker got late to the venue for the commissioning of the palliative on the bridge which had become a nightmare to the motorists and residents. The Speaker had an invite that stipulated a different time for the event, by the time Bankole arrived at…
Yusuf Olawale Adetokunbo, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for being in possession of a document containing false pretence on Monday. This is the judgement of Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court after the defendant pleaded guilty to a count charge bordering on the offence as slammed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The judge also gave the the convict an option of a fine to the tune of N150,000 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira). The presiding judge further directed that the convict forfeits the sum of N200,000 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira),…
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court Ikeja refused to entertain an application by Abubakar Ali Peters seeking for release of his international passport to enable him travel for medical attention outside the country. The judge denied the request due to the vacation judge‘s unfamiliarity with the details of his ongoing trial in alleged N1.4 billion fraud, being prosecuted on a 27-count charge and 21-count charge bordering on forgery and subsidy fraud to the tune of N762,628,993.84 before two Justices, Justice Christopher Balogun and S.S. Ogunsanya of the Lagos State High Court respectively. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…
A 90-year-old retired soldier, Usman Adamu has been arrested in Mailalle, Sabon Birni LGA of Sokoto State for supplying bandits illicit drugs. The suspect was arrested on Wednesday 3rd August in possession of 5.1kg cannabis sativa. This is according to Femi Babafemi, the Spokesperson of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. He also said a trans-border drug dealer, Pastor Anietie Okon Effiong was arrested by operatives of NDLEA, with three drums of crystal methamphetamine, locally called Mkpuru Mmiri, believed to have been imported from India. The consignment weighing 90 kilograms and loaded into a commercial bus with registration number RSH 691XC…