Category: Crime

52-year-old Bishop sentenced to 20-years imprisonment for raping minor

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Bishop Kenneth Duke, a prominent Abuja-based clergyman, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a Federal Capital Territory High Court without an option of fine for rape. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons revealed this in a statement on Wednesday by its National Press Officer, Vincent Adekoye, titled, ‘An FCT High Court sentenced a 52-year-old bishop to 20 years imprisonment for rape.’ NAPTIP had sued the 52-year-old, who hails from Cross River State, for raping a 12-year-old girl (name withheld). Adekoye said the victim is…

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Sen.Ekweremadu’s wife, Beatrice freed from UK prison

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Beatrice Ekweremadu, the wife of former deputy senate president, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu been released from prison in the United Kingdom and she is now back in Nigeria. The lawmaker’s wife returned on Tuesday to celebration and prayers for her husband’s safe return. Beatrice and her husband were convicted for charges bothering on organ harvesting and trafficking in May 2023. The couple had attempted to buy a kidney off a young Nigerian boy to make him a donor to their daughter Sophia. Beatrice, her husband and one Obinna Obeta, a medical doctor, were…

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EFCC officer allegedly absconds with $30,000 cash exhibit in Kaduna

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An official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) based in its Kaduna Zonal Office, tasked with managing exhibits, has reportedly vanished along with over $30,000 and other valuables. It will be recalled that, not long ago, the agency detained 10 officers in Lagos for failing to account for missing operational items which the EFCC did not disclosed the details, but allegations sqid that the missing items include gold bars valued at over ₦1 billion, $180,000, and £140,000. In the latest incident, a staff member known only as Polycarp…

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Court orders arrest of Access Bank’s MD, others for theft and conspiracy

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Justice Ibironke Harrison of the Lagos State High Court has ordered the arrest of Access Bank’s acting Managing Director, Bolaji Agbede and three others for allegedly failing to appear for arraignment. The judge’s order also affected Balmoral International Limited, DDSS International Company Limited, and Adejare Adegbenro. Justice Harrison issued the arrest warrant after the Lagos State prosecution counsel, Uthman̈ Rilwan informed the court that he had served the defendants with notice, but they failed to attend the arraignment. The Lagos State government had filed a four-count charge of conspiracy, stealing,…

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Suspected assassins kill Celestial Church prophet inside his church while preaching

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Suspected hired assassins on Sunday, stormed a Celestial Church of Christ (CCC), Hebrew parish located at the Odo Eran area of the Old Baggage road in Idiroko, Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State where they snuffed life out of the Shepherd-in-charge in a gory manner. The deceased, identified as Yomi Adetula was killed inside his church on Sunday morning around 11.a.m. while preaching. It was reliably gathered that Adetula’s assailants, who were six in number were armed with AK-47 gun each and were all clad in the Celestial Church’s…

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EFCC: Ex-First Bank chairman, Oba Otudeko flees Nigeria over fraud

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Former Chairman of the First Bank of Nigeria (FBN),Oba Otudeko has suddenly left Nigeria, according to a report from online platform, TheCable His departure comes in the wake of his imminent arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 13-count charge of alleged fraud. The report says that the businessman left the country via one of the land borders. According to security sources, he was dropped off at the Nigeria-Benin border on Thursday evening, 16 January, 2025, by a family member. When TheCable reached out to Otudeko,…

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Kwara State: Fake spiritualist jailed for internet fraud

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A 23 year-old man, Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun has been convicted and sentenced to one year imprisonment for internet fraud by Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin. In a statement by head, media and publicity of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Dele Oyewale, he said that Oluwaseun, who hails from Oyo State, defrauded his victims on the internet by posing as an American-based female spiritualist with powers to cause jilted women and estranged wives to regain the affection of their men. The statement…

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Banker killed, corpse dumped on roadside after kidnappers collected ransom

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A female banker named Ifeoma Onyekwelu was reportedly killed in Anambra State after collecting ransom from the family, according to news on social media. Report says, the deceased simply identified was abducted in Onitsha. In several Facebook posts on Tuesday, it was gathered that Ifeoma was an easy going and cheerful lady who was recently promoted to a branch manager by Polaris Bank where she worked. Information gathered revealed that, the attackers murdered and dumped her corpse around Ideani junction, along Nnobi/Alor road. Picture of a woman’s corpse on the…

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Arabic teacher sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for attempted sexual assault of minor

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An Arabic teacher, Oladosu Sakiru, has been convicted and sentenced to 21 years imprisonment by the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday, for attempting to sexually assault a 13-year-old female pupil. The trial judge, Justice Rahman Oshodi, sentenced Sakiru following his guilty plea to the amended two counts of attempted sexual assault by penetration and indecent treatment of a child. Oshodi, in his judgment, reprimanded the convict for breaching the trust the parents of the survivor had in him for enrolling their children in the Islamic school.…

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‘Gospel singer’ who behead girlfriend arrested in Nasarawa

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A gospel musician, Oluwatimileyin Ajayi has been arrested in Orozo, a border community between the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and Nasarawa State, after he was found with a severed human head in a black nylon bag during a church service on Sunday. The incident occurred during a thanksgiving service marking the end of a seven-day fast at the church. According to the church’s Bible Study Teacher and General Secretary, Caleb Umaru, the suspect’s actions were first noticed by a member, Brother Victor, who saw Ajayi moving suspiciously near a…

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