Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has sentenced a 27-year-old fashion designer, Haruna Musa Tolani, to 12 months imprisonment for impersonating and defrauding Callitus Egwuonwu, an investigating officer with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Directorate. Tolani, an indigene of Ilorin East Local Government Area…
Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have arrested a woman who drugged the mother of a two-month-old baby boy using juice and fled with the child. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Olufemi Abaniwonda, who disclosed this yesterday during a briefing at the command’s headquarters, Asaba, said the baby had been rescued and reunited…
Tension gripped residents around Agulu and Nanka communities in the Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, when some yet-to-be-identified assailants shot dead a lawyer and his client after a court session in the area. According to eyewitnesses in the area, the attackers carried out the brutal killings without facing any opposition. Although the circumstances…
Five suspects – one man and four women – have been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly stealing and selling a two-week-old baby of 16-year-old girl for N3 million. Lagos Police Command spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundey in a statement on Thursday said the suspects were arrested by operatives of the State Criminal Investigation…
Suspected Gunmen have abducted a first-class traditional ruler, Oba James Dada Ogunyanda throwing the entire Yagba West Local Government Area into pandemonium. The abduction of the monarch took place in the early hours of Thursday our correspondent gathered. Speaking to our correspondent an eyewitness said, “A group of heavily armed men stormed the monarch’s palace…
kidnappers, who abducted the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman in Ose council area of Ondo State, Nelson Adepoyigi, have detained the ransom bearers. Adepoyigi, who is the chairman of APC at Ward 5, in Ifon, was kidnapped on Monday night at the entrance of his house located on the Ifon/Owo road. It was learnt that…
A Federal High Court sitting in the Jabi area of Abuja has sentenced Danji-Fari Ubadallah to two months imprisonment for defrauding an American $50. In a statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday that the convict was arraigned on a count bordering on Internet fraud. The statement noted that the defendant cheated…
Bandits terrorising North West residents have fed newborn twins to dogs, according to Hon. Aminu Sani Jaji, the lawmaker representing Kaura Namoda and Birnin Magaji federal constituency of Zamfara State. In a chat with newsmen on Wednesday, Jaji said the victim was abducted from a community in Zamfara while pregnant. He said while she was…
In a chilling revelation, the manager of Century Home Hotel in Owhelogbo, Delta State, has confessed to the brutal murder of 22-year-old Point-of-Sale (POS) operator, Onoriode Bethel, who had been missing since December 2024. The suspect, identified as Iboirode, lured Bethel to the hotel under the pretense of resolving a financial dispute. However, he murdered…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have secured the conviction and sentencing of two TikTokers, Babatunde Peter Olaitan and Tobilola Olamide, to six months’ imprisonment each for abusing the Naira. The duo was sentenced by Justice Alexander Owoeye of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, on May 8, 2025. Olaitan, also…