CRIME
Man Bags 20-Year Jail Term For Raping Minor For 3 Months
A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a man, Dennis Okubiat, to 20 years imprisonment for raping a 12-year-old girl for three months, which caused urinary incontinence. Justice Ismail Ijelu held that the victim had testified that she went for evangelism and, in the process, went to check on the convict, who had not...
Teenager Allegedly Stabs Foster Mother To Death In Ondo
The Ondo State Police Command, on Wednesday, said it had arrested a 17-year-old girl, simply identified as Wumi, for allegedly stabbing her foster mother, Mrs Funmilayo Adelayi, to death. The incident, which reportedly happened at Oda, Akure residence of the deceased, occurred last Wednesday. It was gathered that the lifeless body of the deceased, who was said to be working at...
FG Charges Binance With Tax Evasion & Others
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has filed criminal charges against Binance, a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform. The lawsuit, filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja under case number FHC/ABJ/CR/115/2024, accuses Binance of four separate tax offenses. They include non-payment of Value Added Tax (VAT); failure to file tax returns; non-payment of Company Income Tax (CIT) evasion and “aiding customer tax evasion”. In...
Popular Crossdresser, Bobrisky Arrested
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested popular social crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky. Sources at the EFCC who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the press confirmed the development to our correspondent on Thursday. Though details of the arrest remained sketchy as of the time this story...
EFCC Operatives Produce Binance Executive In Court
An official of Binance Holdings Limited, Tigran Gambaryan, is in court over allegations of tax evasion. He and fleeing Nadeem Anjarwalla are expected to be arraigned today at the Federal High Court in Abuja. In the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/115/2024, Binance was accused of failing to register with the Federal Inland Revenue Service to pay all relevant taxes administered by the service. The...
Court Adjourns Trial Of Binance, Executives
A Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned the tax evasion case against Binance Holdings Limited and its executives. The Federal Government dragged the crypto firm and its two top officials, Tigran Gambaryan and the fleeing Nadeem Anjarwalla to court on allegations bordering on tax evasion. Binance was charged in the lawsuit filed under case number FHC/ABJ/CR/115/2024 of failing to register...
EFCC Grills Cross Dresser Bobrisky For Naira Abuse
Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have commenced investigation of Idris Okuneye, a.k.a Bobrisky, for allegedly spraying Naira notes. The EFCC had invited the 31-year-old following a video report of spraying and flaunting wads of new Naira notes at the premiere of a movie, Ajakaju, produced by Eniola Ajao, a Nollywood actress...
‘Kidnap Kingpin’ Wadume Arrested By Abba Kyari Receives Rousing After Release From Prison
A large crowd welcomed “kidnap kingpin”, Hamisu Bala, better known as Wadume, to his hometown in Ibbi Taraba State, on Sunday. Wadume, who was arrested by men of the Intelligence Response Team of Inspector-General of Police, in 2019 led by Abba Kyari was released from Kuje Prison in Abuja, on Friday, according to sources. Prison sources said he had concluded his...
Court Sends Binance Executive To Kuje Prison
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has remanded a Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan, in Kuje Correctional Centre, pending the determination of his bail application. The trial judge, Justice Emeka Nwite, gave the order after Gambaryan pleaded not guilty to the money laundering charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday. The judge subsequently adjourned the matter...
Court Sends Emefiele To EFCC Custody Over Abuse Of Office
The Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has ordered the remand of the former Central Bank Bank (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Rahman Oshodi gave the remand order over alleged abuse of office and and $5.5 billion and N2.8 billion fraud. Meanwhile, the judge ordered that Emefiele’s co-defendant, Henry...
