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Channels Television     The police have brought at least five charges against the former Caretaker Chairman of Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State, Haruna Musa Mota, who was arrested for allegedly aiding banditry in the state. The charges which include among others, criminal breach of trust; inciting disturbance; aiding and abetment of armed robbery; kidnapping and terrorism, were presented at the Chief Magistrate Court on Tuesday. Mota who is currently remanded at a Katsina Correcti...

Daily Post Nigeria Published An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of a dismissed personnel of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Tokunbo Ajisafe, accused of defrauding one Raji Jimoh of N673,000. The prosecution counsel, Mr Kehinde Ajide, told the court that the defendant had presented himself as the Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to the complainant. Ajide said the dismissed personnel promised to help the complaint secure employment in the ...

iPhone theft sends 22-year old man to jail Published Clinton committed the offence on November 18, 2020, around 11 a.m. at Mayfair area in Ile-Ife. The Prosecutor, Inspector Sunday Osanyintuyi, told the court that the convict stole one iPhone 8plus mobile phone, valued at N166,000 belonging to Adediwura Ogunleye. He added that the convict also fraudulently obtained N50,000 from one Shittu Samuel and pretended to use the money to pay house rent for him which he failed to do. The prosecutor said ...

Police arrest two pastors over alleged extra-marital affair An angry husband, who accuses his wife of engaging in extra-marital affair, invites the police. The two are clerics heading two new generation churches. Mr Otinjele is a pastor with the Liberty International Gospel Centre, Yola in Adamawa, while Mrs Daniel is also a female pastor at the Encouragement Fellowship International. The two suspects are currently being held in police custody at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Yola...

Views: Visits 57 Two officials of the Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC), Ebenezer Otinjele and Juliana Daniel, have been arrested by the police in Adamawa over an alleged extra-marital affair. The two suspects are currently being held in police custody at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Yola. It was gathered that Mr Otinjele is a pastor with the Liberty International Gospel Centre, Yola, the Adamawa State Capital, while Mrs Daniel is also a female pastor at Enco...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Police in Bauchi State has arrested 22 persons for organising a sex party in Dass, the headquarters of Dass Local Government Area of the state. This was revealed on Wednesday at the state Police Command headquarters in Bauchi by the state Commissioner of Police, Lawan Tanko Jimeta while parading the suspects. Represented by the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, the police boss said the arrest of the suspects, who had formed ...

Welcome To Ladun Liadis Blog Monday, December 14, 2020 Double wahala! Offa Poly expels student jailed for fraud The authorities of the Federal Polytechnic Offa, Kwara State, have expelled Oladipo Juwon, a student of its Business Administration Department who was recently convicted for his involvement in cybercrime. The 23-year-old student was sentenced to nine months imprisonment or an option of N250,000 fine by a High Court in Ilorin, Kwara State on Thursday. Mr Oladipo was arraigned by the Il...

Offa Polytechnic expels student jailed for Internet fraud The student was prosecuted by the EFCC and was jailed by a high court in Ilorin. The authorities of the Federal Polytechnic Offa, Kwara State, have expelled Oladipo Juwon, a student of its Business Administration Department who was recently convicted for his involvement in cybercrime. PREMIUM TIMES reported how the 23-year-old student was sentenced to nine months imprisonment or an option of N250,000 fine by a High Court in Ilorin, Kwar...

and induced him to send you the sum of $235 through gift cards “A representation you knew to be false, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 324 of the Penal Code and punishable under the same section of the Law.” The accused person pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him. In a testimony, Enoch Onyedikachi, an operative of the EFCC, had earlier told the court that on Sept. 7, 2020, the EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office, received anonymous petitions from...

  Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has sentenced one Oladipo Juwon to nine months imprisonment for his involvement in an internet scam. Juwon, a 23-year-old HND 1 Student of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa in Kwara was sentenced on Thursday, the spokesman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement. He was arraigned by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the anti-graft agency on three counts bordering on cheating ...