A Federal High Court, in Abuja has granted bail to former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha. Justice Inyang Ekwo granted his application for bail on Tuesday. Okorocha was docked on Monday, May 30, 2022, alongside Anyim Nyerere (a.k.a Anyim Chinenye), Naphtali International Ltd, Perfect Finish Multi Projects Ltd, Consolid Projects Consulting Ltd, Pramif International Ltd and Legend World Concepts Ltd on 17-count charge of stealing, conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of N3,147,000,000.00 (Three billion, One Hundred and Forty Seven Million Naira). During trial on Tuesday, counsel for the first defendant, Oke Amaechi, SAN, prayed the court to grant…
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The weekend emergence of Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President and a staple of Nigeria’s presidential contests for three decades, as the 2023 presidential candidate of the PDP has all but affirmed the party’s neglect of the widespread call for an equitable shift of power to the southern region, and has provided its chief opponent, the All Progressives Congress, APC, with a tremendous opportunity to contrast the party on this important front and rally to a convincing win at the polls when INEC declares the contest open. To take full advantage of this opportunity, the APC must look no further…
The Lagos Social Democratic Party, SDP, Governoship Candidate in Lagos, Kunle Uthman is promising residents of Lagos a better deal. In his address shortly after clinching the ticket, he said Lagos has not benefited from the governance routes by the ruling party. According the him, this is the time to salvage Lagos, by voting the right Candidate that the SDP presented. “Having received the Party’s mandate, it is my intention, plan and indeed desire to work tirelessly with all Party faithful to ensure that the motto of our Party (Progress) and its symbol of a white sparkling horse bestrides the geographical…
An INTERPOL-led operation targeting malware cyber fraud across Southeast Asia leads to the Nigeria arrest of three suspected global scammers. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arrested the suspects in a sting operation conducted simultaneously in a Lagos suburb called Ajegunle and in Benin City, 300 km to the East of the commercial capital. The Nigerian sting operation comes as part of a global operation codenamed “Killer Bee” involving INTERPOL National Central Bureaus, NCBs, and law enforcement in 11 countries across Southeast Asia. The arrests follows the publication of an INTERPOL Cyber Report linking a suspected syndicate of Nigerian…
A widow of a slain Police Inspector, Francis Ilesanmi Adekunle, Mrs. Itunnu Adekunle on Monday said a Police sergeant, Ukeme Asuquo hacked her husband to death with a sword. While being led in evidence-in-Chief by State Prosecutor, M.O Abari, the wife of late Inspector told Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja how her husband died due to the defendant’s attack on her husband. According to her, “We just got home from work around 8:00pm on June 4, 2020 and while burning some refuse outside our compound, the defendant approached me and asked to see me,…
“My wife deserted our home and prevented me from gaining access to our two children.” This is the word of a popular Nollywood actor, Kalu Ikeagwu on Monday, he told an Ikeja High Court about the relationship with his estranged wife, Ijeoma. This was revealed during the proceedings in the suit marked LD/8939HD/2021, where he is seeking a dissolution of his six-year-old marriage to Ijeoma.Apart from the disillusion of the marriage, the actor is also seeking full custody of his three-year-old son and 10-year-old step-daughter. He claimed that his wife packed out of his matrimonial and sent him a mail that she…
The Social Democratic Party, SDP, on Monday held its Primaries for Lagos State Governorship race. In a well attended event, a legal Practitioner, Kunle Uthman emerged winner and is now the candidate to square it up with other parties in 2023. He recieved a reounding congratuatory message and he also promised to work towards ensuring the success of the party at the poll.
Three robbery suspects, Abolaji Kehinde, Uche John and Tunde Jamiu have been fingered in a robbery spree unleashed on a neighbourhood of Mowo, Badagry, Lagos in 2018. An officer of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Okafor Emeka Felix appeared on Monday before an Ikeja High Court, in Lagos, claiming that Abolaji Kehinde was among the robbers that attacked his apartment and that of his in-laws on June 14, 2018. The officer claimed Abolaji Kehinde, was one of the robbers that robbed him, his in-laws and some neighbours of their valuables, including watches, ATM Cards, money, wallet, Insurance card,…
A wanted suspected drug kingpin allegedly behind the 2000.6kg Cannabis Sativa seized in a concrete mixer truck in Adamawa State on December 2021, Henry Chukwuneku Okamaru (alias Lawrence Ik Okamaru) has been arrested in Ondo State. A statement from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says his arrest is coming after five months of manhunt. The Agency’s spokeperson Femi Babafemi said two suspects: Matthew Donuwe and Friday Nmborgwu were arrested in connection to the consignment last December. Investigations reveal that Okamaru is one of the leaders of a cannabis cultivation cartel that operates in the Ondo-Ekiti axis, while he…
Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, have arrested four suspects for extorting motorists in the State while posing as officials of the disbanded Lagos State Committee on the Removal of Abandoned Vehicles, RAVC. Those arrested are: Taiwo Falodun, alias Biggy, 48 years, Adedire Olaniyi, 42 years, Femi Osunkoya, 53 years and Olalekan Edu, 51 years. Two of the suspects, Adedire and Osunkoya, were arrested on Thursday after impounding the vehicle of a motorist for changing lanes at Alausa. The motorist stated that the suspects took her vehicle to a park in front of Elephant Cement House, where she was…