The Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria (AIB-N) on Sunday confirmed the crash of an aircraft belonging to the Nigerian military at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The General Manager, Public Affairs of AIB, Mr Tunji Oketunbi, confirmed this on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. A Nigerian military…
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a 23-year-old labourer, Shehu Abbas, be given 12 strokes of the cane for stealing a Tecno phone valued at 56,000. Abbas, resident of Kawo in Kaduna State, was convicted after pleading guilty to the charge of theft and begged for leniency. The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, said…
Two Internet fraudsters, Ridwan Garuba and Adebayo Agbabiaka, have been sentenced by the Federal High Court in Abeokuta for their involvement in fraud. The convicts were arraigned on separate charges of fraud and impersonation. They pleaded guilty to the charges. Following their pleas, the counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Shamsuddeen Bashir, urged…
A court in Norfolk, Virginia, the United States on Tuesday jailed Nigerian scammer Obinwanne Okeke for 10 years for a computer-based fraud scheme that caused approximately $11 million in known losses to his victims. The sentencing was pronounced by Chief U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith, said the Department of Justice, Eastern District of Virginia….
Charges filed by EFCC shows the alleged fraudulent transactions started about a week before Ms Oduah was removed as aviation minister in 2014. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has indicted a senator, Stella Oduah, and the Nigerian subsidiary of Chinese construction giant, CCECC, in alleged fraudulent cash transactions of about N5billion over five months in 2014….
A Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja has sentenced Afolabi Samuel, a pastor of the Living Faith Church, aka Winners’ Chapel, to three years in prison, for stealing $90,000 and N4.5m which belongs to the registered trustees of the church. Samuel who is the church treasurer was arraigned on two counts of conspiracy and…
Tunji Adeniran, a butcher in the Ilasamaja area of Lagos State, has been arrested. The man was arrested for alleged defilement of his two stepdaughters, Ope and Ola (pseudonyms), aged 10 and 14 respectively. Adeniran, 40, had reportedly been molesting the girls, who are in Primary 5, for a long time until recently when Ola opened…
Angry villagers have set ablaze two robbery suspects allegedly caught robbing a woman of her Android phone in Akuma Community in Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State. The incident occurred Sunday evening, February 7, at Afor Akuma Market square, where the woman had gone to buy something. It was gathered that the three-man…
An 18-year-old girl, Winifred Ngutesen Ingyaji, from Ute-Tse-Kpun, Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State, bathed her mother, Mrs. Mbachirin Ashiekaa to death with hot water. The suspect also injured her sister-in-law, Mrs. Jennifer Betsee, who is currently receiving treatment at Bishop Murray Hospital Makurdi. A few weeks ago, a similar incident occurred in Makurdi…
What is this world changing to, especially among our growing youths? Does it now mean that People are No longer Mindful of what they post Online, things that are supposed to be Kept confidential is now being Exposed on the social media. Does this really mean love is blind or its the height of stupidity?…
