CRIMEBEAT

LAGOS – The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bank, Mrs. Nneka Chinwe Onyeali-Ikpe on Monday, February 6, 2023 sent to six weeks imprisonment over disobedience of a garnishee order of court restraining the Bank from allowing a judgment debtor access to his account. According to Magistrate Lateef …

RIVERS STATE – A middle-aged man identified as Baby Face has been reported to have strangled his lover and set himself ablaze at the Kom Kom area of Oyigbo in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. According to the report Baby Face had interrogated his girlfriend and demanded explanation …

LAGOS – An Investigative Police Officer, IPO, Insp. Israel Ojo, on Monday, January 16, 2023, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how a Nollywood actor, Temitayo Phillips Ogunbusola, allegedly stabbed his neighbour, Oladotun Osho, to death over a N1,000 electricity bill. It would be recalled that the 32-year-old actor is …

…Says, “Former CBN Governor, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi Was Equally Accused Of Terrorism Financing And Arrested” LAGOS – The Human Rights Lawyer Femi Falana (SAN), has urged the Department of State Security (DSS) to arrest Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), as soon as he returns …

LAGOS – The United States government has said, the All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential candidate in the coming General elections in Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was neither involved nor convicted for criminal drug dealing in the US, falsifying reports amplified by his political opponents who are recycling an unsuccessful …

LAGOS – The United Bank for Africa (UBA) has taken over the assets of Borini Prono (Nig) Ltd in execution of an N831,024,818.30 judgment debt of the Federal High Court in Lagos. Sheriffs of the court, protected by armed policemen, executed the judgment at Borini Prono’s offices in Lagos in …

PORT-HARCOURT – Justice A.T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, sentenced a former staff of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Emeka Okafor, to one year imprisonment, for forgery and uttering of documents. Okafor was jailed after pleading guilty to a …

OKITIPUPA – A30-year-old woman, Faith Ezekiel, has demanded justice after Nigerian billionaire and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Holdings Limited, Mr. Adedeji Adeleke’s aides allegedly ordered her to be locked up in an abandoned building with no electricity, water or functioning toilet in Ede, Osun State. Adedeji Adeleke is the …

OBAJANA-KOGI – Members of Obajana mining and host communities to Dangote Cement have condemned the Kogi State Government for what they described as extra judicial and unlawful deployment of the Vigilantes to cause chaos in the Obajana community. It was scooped that no fewer than seven staff of Dangote Cement, …

ILORIN – The Kwara State Police Command has discovered decomposed bodies of two women in a shallow grave in the office of a Medical Doctor – Abass Adio Adebowale Adeyemi, in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State. According to the spokesperson of the Kwara State Police Command, SP Okasanmi …