Funke Busari, Lagos An internet fraudster, Pelumi Glory arrested alongside some suspects at the Ziroc Hotel, Lekki in January 2021 is on the way to six months in jail if he fails to pay the fine of N200,000 for engaging in internet fraud. The Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday sentenced him after he pleaded guilty to the charge pressed against him. This is the order of Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo. The convict was arraigned before the court on a two-count charge of cheating and possession of fraudulent documents. According to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, prosecutor, Nnameka Omewa, the commission arrested…
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Seven persons including a family of three in Ntak Inyang, Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, were killed in a road accident at the failed portion of Calabar Itu Highway, near the state Broadcasting Corporation’s Transmitting Station. Eyewitnesses accounts said that the incident which took place near the state Broadcasting Corporation’s Transmission Station occurred when a truck conveying petroleum product rammed into a tricycle and a motorcycle, conveying the victims. According to the report, the vehicles were on one of the lanes of the highway, due to the closure of the other part of the road for months, following the repair…
Funke Busari, Lagos CuItists and members of secret societies will cease to hold sway without adequate punishment in Lagos as the State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed the Prohibition of Unlawful Societies and Cultism of 2021 into law, approving 21-year jail term for convicted cultists in the State. The law and three others were given assents to tackle cultists activities and other infractions in the State. The bills signed into law are the Lagos State Audit Service Commission (Amendment) Law of 2019, Lagos State Public Procurement Bill of 2021 and Coronavirus Pandemic Emergency Law of 2021. Recall that the State’s House…
Germany, France and Italy have stopped the rollouts of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, after a series of incidents in Europe involving blood clots. The countries have joined several smaller European nations who have halted vaccinations as a precaution while checks are made. The World Health Organization, WHO, has said there is no evidence that the incidents are caused by the vaccine. It said it was reviewing reports relating to the jab, but it was important vaccinations continued. It added that it was good practice to investigate potential adverse events.
Bandits seems to have declared an attack on the Kaduna State Education sector as gunmen on Monday morning whisked unspecified number of teachers and pupils from Universal Basic Education, UBE, Primary School in Rama village of Birnin-Gwari local government area of Kaduna State, whisking away yet to be ascertained number of teachers and pupils. Report says the incident occurred around 8:45 a.m when the pupils were just leaving the assembly ground to their classes. It was gathered that the bandits invaded the school in about 20 motorcycles and went away with their victims. The Kaduna State government confirmed the incident, saying…
Funke Busari, Lagos Twenty-three year old Taiwo Summonu is an ex-convict who was recently released after serving five years at Kirikiri Correctional facility, but returned to crime shortly after his release, he is again in Police net singing like a bird. He confessed that he is also a member of the gang who robbed some residents of Lagos at Ajayi Street, Otto-Awori, Ijanikin area of Lagos State on Saturday. The ex-convict made the startling revelation that sooner than he left the the prison in November, 2020, he has participated in robbery on 13th March, 2021 at 11:30pm and other crimes. Upon…
Funke Busari, Lagos A total number of 257 Senior Naval Officers have been redeployed following the vacancies over the appointment of new Service Chiefs. The postings affected 60 rear admirals, 123 commodores and 74 captains. A statement signed by Commodore Suleiman Dahun on behalf of Chief of Naval Staff said that in the postings, Rear Admiral Francis Isaac, formerly the Navy Secretary, has been appointed Chief of Administration, Naval Headquarters while Rear Admiral Abraham Adaji, formerly Group Managing Director, Nigerian Navy Holdings Limited is now the Chief of Training and Operations, Naval Headquarters. Rear Admiral Danjuma Dogonyaro moves to Naval Doctrine…
Funke Busari, Lagos A-39 years old Marc Chidibere Nwadi who was arrested by the officers of the Nigeria Police Force, now has a reason to smile as the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Restitution and Inquiry set up to investigate cases of police brutality especially involving officers of the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, has awarded him the sum of N7.5 million on Friday. Chidibere Nwadi was arrested, detained, tortured by police and later remanded in prison custody for six years awaiting trial but the Panel has reverse his pain with a whooping sum as compensation for what he went through during his…
Funke Busari An officer of with the Nigeria Police Force, Celestine Obot Williams, who was unjustly dismissed from the Force in 2000 has been reinstated. He was a Constable at the time of his dismissal from the police 21 years ago. The police officer who hails from Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State and had to consistently contested against the wrongful dismissal. He was reported to have filled a petition with Senator Bassey Albert Akpan who represents Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial District, requesting his reinstatement for wrongful dismissal. The lawmaker Albert Akpan asked the Senate to intervene…
The new Commander, Nigerian Army Ordnance Corps, Major General Adamu Dauda, has reaffirmed the commitment of the service to training as the bedrock of professionalism. Maj. Gen. Dauda reiterated the commitment of the service on assumption of office as the new Commander of Nigerian Army Ordnance Corps, Abalti Barracks, Lagos. CASEFILE gathered that Dauda took over from the outgone Commander, Major General Omotomilola Akintade. Speaking on Wednesday, he said, “The Department of Operations and Training has been split into two, giving further prominence to training because training is the bedrock of professionalism. “In the past, training has suffered because we…