A final year student of the Institute of Management and Technology, IMT, Enugu, Muonwuba Valentine, has bagged a two-year imprisonment for conspiracy, uttering, impersonation and attempting to steal. Valentine was brought before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside one Frank Joseph, who also committed the same offence. The trial judge,…
An internet fraudster also called Yahoo Boy has been sentenced by Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Justice H.A. Nganjiwa, on Friday, sentenced the fraudster, Frank Emem, to 10 years imprisonment for internet-related offenses. The judge found him guilty of two-count of obtaining money by false pretences brought against him by the…
A taxi driver based in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State, Iseuru Ekpe, has been dragged before an Apapa Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly beating up a policeman. Ekpe was arraigned on Friday for an alleged unlawful assault. According to the prosecutor, Inspector Tony Elibeh, the accused committed the offence on June 13…
A student who claimed to be a pastor has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court in Osun. The convict, Akintunde Olatunde, 28, was said to have committed the said crime on June 10 at about 5:00 p.m., in Omobolanle area of Osogbo. According to the prosecutor, Inspector Fagboyinbo Abiodun, Olatunde,…
One lecturer at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, that people are taking about presently in Africa is Prof. (Mrs) Olagunju Funke Iyabo. The beautiful lady, who was born in 1971, is in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. She had her BSc, MSc and PhD in…
A banker with one of the new generation banks, Cletus Emuh, was on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, brought before Justice F.N. Azinge of the Delta High Court in Asaba by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Cletus, 36, was arraigned on a 34-count charge bordering on obtaining credit by false pretence, forgery, and uttering,…
A Kano-based man, who is presently serving a four-year jail term for a separate offence, has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Usman Umar was brought before Justice Idrisa Kolo of the Federal High Court, Kano, on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence. He was alleged of defrauding…
Foremost financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, is set to hold the 6th edition of its Annual Autism Conference. The two-day programme, which is free and open to the general public, will hold on the 20th and 21st of June, 2016 at the MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos. Themed “Managing Autism: The Next Generation, Consideration and…
**Decry Abuse By Policemen A coalition of commercial $ex workers in Nigeria, the Ohotu Diamond Women Initiative, ODWI, has lamented the harassment they get from security operatives in the country, especially the police. They have therefore called on the Nigeria Police to stop abusing them. The group, in a statement made available to newsmen, pointed…
Leader of the notorious ‘Awawaa Boys’ Tobi Akinbayo, also known as Scorpion, has been apprehended by operatives of the Lagos State Task Force. Scorpion was nabbed on Tuesday alongside two others; Muyideen Olayinka and Ibrahim Olaniran, at Aluminium Village, Dopemu, Agege area of Lagos State. While parading the three suspects, chairman of the Lagos State…