CRIME
Wife beats husband up mercilessly over inability to impregnate her
A 32-year old housewife, Mrs Chinwendu Chita, has been arrested for turning her husband, Okechukwu Chita, into a punching bag in their matrimonial home in Lagos. Mrs Chinwendu claimed that she had been married to Okechukwu for some years, he had been unable to impregnate her and had not shown any commitment for them to have a child. The alleged incident...
Gov. El-Rufai Revokes Abacha Property’s C-Of-O Over Debt
The Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) of the Comatose Durbar Hotel believed to be owned by late Head of State General Sani Abacha has been revoked by Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State over the claims of owing ground rent for 19 years. This was disclosed by the Kaduna State Governor in a letter dated December 31, 2019 which...
Singer Iyanya charged with alleged car theft
Former Mavin artiste, Iyanya Mbuk, has been charged with alleged car theft by the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU), in Ikoyi, Lagos State. He was on Tuesday taken to court and arraigned before Justice Okikiolu-Ighile of an Igbosere High Court, according to a report by The Nation. The prosecution counsel, Chukwu Agwu, alleged that the singer committed the offence sometime in...
Company guard killed while rescuing robbery victim
Residents of Adelabu Street in the Surulere area of Lagos State were thrown into confusion on Tuesday when the lifeless body of a security guard with the National Power Training Institute of Nigeria was found on the road. It was gathered that the guard, identified simply as Sule, was stabbed to death by suspected robbers. Our correspondent was told that Sule...
Wife beats husband up mercilessly over inability to impregnate her
A 32-year old housewife, Mrs Chinwendu Chita, has been arrested for turning her husband, Okechukwu Chita, into a punching bag in their matrimonial home in Lagos. Mrs Chinwendu claimed that she had been married to Okechukwu for some years, he had been unable to impregnate her and had not shown any commitment for them to have a child. The alleged incident...
Drug Lord Escobar’s Hitman Popeye Dies In Colombia
A notorious murderer who worked for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has died of stomach cancer, Colombian officials say. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, who boasted of killing 300 people for Escobar, was 57. Known as "Popeye", he was released from prison in 2014 after more than 20 years and launched a YouTube channel, attracting more than a million followers. But he was jailed...
EFCC Docks Woman for N10m Oil Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Port Harcourt Zonal Office, on Wednesday February 5, 2020 arraigned one Nweite Nneka Anthonia before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Warri, Delta State on one-count charge, bordering on obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of N10,977,600.00 (Ten Million, Nine Hundred and Seventy-seven Thousand Six Hundred Naira). The charge...
26-year-old student in court over alleged assault on neighbour
A 26-year-old Student, Francis Nwadiaru, was on Thursday brought before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, for allegedly assaulting his neighbour with fist blows all over her body and fracturing her finger. Nwadiaru, a resident of Bariga area of Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of breach of peace and assault. He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Modupe...
Appeal Court Affirms Dr. Alanamu’s 12 years jail term
The Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin has upheld the judgement of a High Court which jailed a former Chairman of the Governing Council of Kwara State Polytechnic, Dr Saadu Alanamu, for 12 years. A statement signed on Wednesday by the spokesperson for the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Rasheedat Okoduwa, said Alanamu was nominated into the...
Suswam’s Alleged N3.1bn Fraud: Court Orders EFCC, Police, DSS To Arrest Those Behind False Report Against Trial Judge
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Nigeria Police and Department of State Service, DSS, to fish out the brains behind a false publication that alleged that there was a tripartite secret meeting between prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacob (SAN); APC stakeholders and himself...
