Author: Wura Kelani, Crime Reporter

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Monday, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to immediately release the $9.8 million belonging to the former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, being held by the anti-graft agency despite an earlier judgment ordering the release of the money. The court said the money must be deposited with the Chief Registrar of the court, in the interest of justice. Yakubu had approached the court seeking an order compelling…

A driver, Chimobi Nwoko, has been at loggerheads with his boss, identified simply as Akazue, after he allegedly deceived him into donating one of his kidneys to his younger brother, Osinachi, and failed to fulfill his promise of compensating him for the donation. Nwoko, while narrating his ordeal on Tuesday, said Akazue promised to give him $20m, a house, and a driving job in the US, but since undergoing the kidney transplant at a popular hospital in Lagos State on December 22, 2018, Akazue has failed to honour his promises.…

Lagos-based medical doctor, Olufemi Olaleye, the medical director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his wife’s niece. The judge, Rahman Oshodi, of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Lagos found the doctor guilty on Tuesday. Mr Olaleye was charged with a two-count charge of defilement and sexual assault by penetration of his wife’s niece, offences which he was alleged to have committed between March 2020 and November 2021. The defendant was arraigned on 30 November 2022 and pleaded not guilty…

Two Point of Sale (POS) agents, on Thursday, October 12, appeared before an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for allegedly stealing N942 million belonging to their employer. The defendants – Chigozie Omeje, 26; and Irene Andrew, 29; – whose addresses were not disclosed, are facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, cybercrime, and theft. They, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The prosecutor, ASP Jimoh Joseph, told the court that the POS agents and some others at large committed the offences in June and July at Odugunyan in…

The duo of Adama Joseph and Oreoluwa Davies, suspects arrested by the Nigeria Police for killing a club owner in Kwara State, Adeniyi Ojo, have given reasons why they killed the socialite. The ladies paraded by the police in Abuja on Wednesday evening confessed to the crime, attributing the causes of their action to the late socialite’s covetousness, stinginess, and lack of care. Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, while parading the suspects said, “On October 6, 2023, police operatives apprehended the two suspects, Adama and Oreoluwa, who are…

A vigilante group in Rivers State said its men have arrested a 14-year-old boy with a pistol while robbing residents of Ikwerre Road in the Mile 1 axis of Diobu in Port Harcourt. The local vigilante, known as Diobu Security Services revealed that the teenager (name withheld) allegedly led a three-man criminal during the operation on Sunday night. The Commander of the Diobu Security Service, Prince Amatari, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. Amatari explained that the boy’s arrest followed a distress call put across…

Umaru Mohammed, a Major -General in the Nigerian Aemy has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a Special Court Martial sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, October 10. The General was convicted and sentenced for stealing $2,178,900 and N1.65 billion belonging to the Nigerian Army Property Limited (NAPL) when he served at its Group Managing Director. The court ordered the convicted senior officer to refund monies he stole, back to the company’s coffers. The eight-man panel led by Maj.-Gen. James Myam at its sitting on Tuesday found Gen. Mohammed guilty…

Police personnel on duty at the Lagos State Police Command’s Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos on Wednesday October 4, demanded and collected a bribe of N5000 from a PUNCH newspaper undercover reporter who disguised as a friend to see embattled musician, Azeez Fashola aka Naira Marley. According to a report in The PUNCH newspapers, “meanwhile, when our correspondent arrived at Panti at about 10am, she had approached the front desk, where she met two policewomen and asked to see Marley, claiming to be his friend. She was…

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Idowu Owohunwa, has disclosed that late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba aka Mohbad, began vomiting and developed goosebumps after he was injected three times by a nurse, Feyisayo Ogedemgbe, on September 12, 2023. The Lagos CP disclosed this at a press briefing on Friday at the state Command headquarters, Ikeja, Lagos. Owohunwa was giving preliminary reports of investigation conducted by the police team to unravel the circumstance that led to the death of Mohbad. “As of today, a total of 26 witnesses have been interviewed,”…

Three members of an Abuja based family, Mistura Olasinde and her two daughters, Hauwa and Fatima, residents of Starwood Estate, Galadimawa, in the Federal Capital Territory, were abducted on Friday, September 8, 2023. Mistura’s husband, Surajudeen Olasinde, a staff member of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria, revealed that the incident happened at Kabusa Garden Estate while his wife and children were driving home in their Toyota Highlander from Garki to Starwood Estate located in-between Galadimawa and Lokokogoma areas of Abuja, where they…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a drug kingpin, Ngene Onyedikachi, who was responsible for recruiting fake couple smugglers arrested in Lagos on August 1, 2023, while hard drugs of various forms were seized across the country in different operations. The fake couple, Onyebuchi and Nonyelum were arrested by operatives of the NDLEA for ingesting 184 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.322kg with 100grams of the drug also concealed in the woman’s private part. Meanwhile, the agency, on Sunday said it arrested some other suspects, Peter Iwebema,…

The Ogun State Police Command said its operatives at the Owode Egba division, on Friday, arrested a suspected vandal, Adewole Adekunle. The suspect, said to be based in Eleko, Ajah, Lagos State, was allegedly found with some vandalised transformer parts which belonged to the Showo Community, Kobape, along Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway and owned by the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company. These were disclosed in a statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Omolola Odutula. According to Odutola, the suspect was arrested following complaints by villagers who tipped the police around…

A100-level course 9 police cadet, A.S. Jika, dropped dead at the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State, on Saturday, after being continuously starved and malnourished for over two weeks. Some of the cadets accused the Commandant, Assistant Inspector-General, Sadiq Abubakar, of high-handedness and financial mismanagement of feeding allowance meant for the students. Jika, who hailed from Adamawa State, and was in the Department of Computer Science, collapsed inside the toilet in the early hours of Saturday. A cadet, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid being victimized, said the…

A widow, Adewunmi Taiwo, who tried to export 5.70 kg of Codeine to the United Kingdom, was on Tuesday sentenced to six months imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. Justice Akintayo Aluko sentenced her after she pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful exportation of Codeine preferred against her by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency. The NDLEA prosecution counsel, Abu Ibrahim, told the court that she committed the offence on July 27, 2023. He said the incident took place at Skyway Handling Company export shed, a…

A Lagos socialite, Farida Abdulkabir, popularly known as Farida Sobowale, has seek forgiveness from her children over her attempt to plunge into the Lagos lagoon on the Third Mainland Bridge. In a video clip that went viral on Thursday evening, the owner of Phreedah Body Care and Spa in Surulere, Lagos, was seen being pacified by several men with her black-coloured Sport Utility vehicle parked beside her. The rescuers in the footage could be seen holding the entrepreneur, persuading her not to take her life. City Round gathered that Abdulkabir…

Men of a special unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency intensified their anti-drug operations last week and over the weekend with the clampdown on some drug kingpins in Lagos State, recovering multi-billion naira worth of drugs. The agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on Sunday. According to the statement, a female head of one of the syndicates, Ebele Nwankwo, was arrested last Wednesday at her residence, House 6, C Close, 3rd Avenue, in the Festac area of…

Mr Adeniyi Sanni, a senior aide to the senator representing Ogun West in the National Assembly, Solomon Adeola, has been shot dead. The spokesperson for the senator, Kayode Odunaro, in a statement in Abuja said the incident happened on Saturday morning. He said the lifeless body of Sanni was found with gunshot wounds dumped at Toyota bus stop in the Oshodi area of Lagos State. Odunaro said the deceased had earlier called his wife to request the details of his vehicle papers when he was stopped by security operatives at…

The Ondo State Police Command on Friday said it had begun the trial of a man, identified as Bode, for killing one Tunde Akinmoyewa with a dane gun at Laoso Village in Ondo West Local Government Area of the state. According to the police, the 27-year-old man, who was described as an ex-convict, was shot dead by his friend while testing a new locally-made gun last Tuesday. However, a source stated that the deceased was shot dead by his friend while testing a bulletproof charm at the village. The source…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have thwarted plans to smuggle over five million pills of Tramadol said to be worth N3.7bn into the country. The agency’s Director, Media, and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists. Babafemi said the feat was achieved through the collaboration of men of the Nigeria Customs Service and others working at the airport’s DHL cargo warehouse. He, however, did not disclose when the pills were intercepted.

A businessman, Amarah Kennedy, who was accused of circulating nude photos of his former lovers was on Wednesday arraigned at a Chief Magistrates’ Court, in Ogba, Lagos. Kennedy was arraigned on six counts charge of provocation, unlawful conversion of funds and publication of nudes on social media without the consent of the persons. The charge read in part, “That you, Amarah Kennedy, sometime in September 2022, in a hotel, at Olodi Apapa, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, insulted, annoyed, disgraced and/or provoke one (names withheld) without her consent did…

The Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), retired Brig.-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa has ordered a nationwide clampdown on illegal sale and use of nitrous oxide, otherwise know as ‘laughing gas’. The order is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi on Tuesday in Abuja. Marwa directed all NDLEA commands and formations to immediately clampdown on ‘laughing gas.’ He explained that the directive was sequel to the abuse of the substance by people who use it for recreational purposes. The News Agency of…

Operatives of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, Ogun State have raided and dismantled a Skuchies factory and arrested a suspect, Adekunle Adekola, around Ajaka in the Sagamu local government area of Ogun State. The state commander of the NDLEA, Ibiba Odili, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. The commander said the operatives busted the factory on Thursday and seized some gallons of Skuchies, cannabis Sativa and Codeine among others. Skuchies is a potent and addictive drug, which is a concoction with different types of drugs. The NDLEA commander…