Crime

Death

Australian Gran Wins Malaysia Death Sentence Appeal

November 27, 2019 2:50 pm

An Australian grandmother who claimed she was tricked into carrying drugs into Malaysia after falling for an online romance scam Tuesday won her final appeal against the death penalty and will be freed.

Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto was arrested in December 2014 while in transit at Kuala Lumpur airport with 1.1 kilos (2.4 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine stitched into the compartment of a backpack she was carrying.

Read Also: London-Abuja Flight Interrupted After Losing Engine Mid-Air

She was initially cleared of trafficking after a judge ruled in 2017 she did not know she was transporting the drugs, but the acquittal …

EFCC

EFCC To Re-Arraign Former Lagos Speaker Ikuforiji

November 27, 2019 12:22 pm

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday fixed Dec. 11, for re-arraignment of a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, charged with laundering ₦338.8 million.

Ikuforiji was charged alongside his former aide, Oyebode Atoyebi, on 54 counts.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that they were first arraigned on March 1, 2012, before Justice Okechukwu Okeke on a 20-count charge bordering on funds misappropriation and money laundering.

They, however, pleaded not guilty and were granted bail.

The defendants were subsequently re-arraigned before Justice Ibrahim Buba, following a re-assignment of the case.

On Sept. …

FG Investigating ‘Turkish Support For Boko Haram’

November 26, 2019 6:20 am

A report that Turkey is supplying sophisticated weapons to Nigeria’s terror group, Boko Haram, is receiving attention at very high strategic level of the federal government, the Defence Headquarters told THISDAY yesterday.

Egyptian Television, Ten.tv, cited by CBN News Channel, had recently reported that Turkey was a major supplier of arms to Boko Haram even as Turkish Airlines had also been accused in the past of shipping arms to Nigeria.

Saying the reported supply of arms to Boko Haram by Turkey was a serious national security issue, Defence Headquarters spokesman, Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu, said the matter was receiving attention at …

EFCC

200 Yahoo Boys Arrested In October – EFCC

November 25, 2019 2:10 pm

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), said it recorded no fewer than 200 arrests of Internet fraud suspects, popularly known as ‘Yahoo Boys’, in October alone.

The Acting Chairman of the commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu, stated this at an interactive session with newsmen on Friday in Abuja.

According to Magu, the biggest catch of the commission was Instagram celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, a.k.a Mompha, and his Lebanese accomplice, Hamza Koudeih.

He said the suspects, who were “kingpins of an Organised Cyber Syndicate Network (OCSN)”, allegedly laundered a total of N33 billion.

Magu said: “Five wristwatches valued at over N60 million …

Army Officers Arrest Peddler With 60 Wraps Of Cocaine

November 23, 2019 10:52 am

 The 9 Brigade Command of the Nigeria Army, Ikeja Cantonment in Lagos State,  on Saturday paraded a hard drug peddler, Okafor Collins,  caught with 60 wraps of substance suspected to be cocaine.

The 30-year-old  suspect,  was arrested at 311 Road, adjacent Cincillati Club House, Festac Town.

The Commander of the Brigade, Brig. -Gen. Musa Etsu-Ndagi, told newsmen on Saturday that the suspect was arrested in the early hours of Friday.

Etsu-Ndagi  said that the suspect was arrested by the men of the Exercise Crocodile Smile, adding that  the exercise was already yielding results.

The commander added that  the suspect would …

Port

Payback For Jezebel

November 23, 2019 9:11 am

Unfathomed atrocities were exposed recently when operatives of Eagle Crack Squad of the Rivers State Police Command, acting on a tip-off, stormed a hotel located at Mile 1, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, and busted a prostitution ring run by a 44-year-old kingpin identified as Esther Isama.

The operation liberated some teenagers, aged 13 to 15, who had passed through harrowing experiences ranging from being locked up in a hotel against their will to being forced to take an oath to being coerced into drug abuse and paid sex while their captor was smiling daily to the bank.

The

…
DPO

DPO, Bizman Kidnapped In Adamawa

November 21, 2019 9:02 am

A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Mubi North, Adamawa State, Ahidjo Mohammed, was kidnapped by gunmen around 7pm on Tuesday. The officer was kidnapped while returning to Mubi from Yola, where his mother had been receiving medical attention.

The kidnappers are demanding N50million ransom. Similarly, another resident of Mubi, a trader, Alhaji Mahmudu Mbilla, from Mbilla village was also kidnapped on Monday night and the kidnappers are demanding N5million from the family of the victim. Police public relations officer, Usman Nguroje, confirmed the kidnap and said the state police command had dispatched personnel, including the IGP anti kidnap squad, …

Police Nab Most Wanted Serial Rapist In Lagos

November 20, 2019 5:07 pm
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a  suspected most wanted serial rapist at the Egbeda area of the State.
The suspect, Chuks Emmanuel, is currently facing interrogation at the Area F Police Command, Ikeja , for alleged rape and fraud.
Emmanuel , according to a  police source has been on the police wanted list for over a long period of time until last week when a special squad deployed by the Area F Commander, ACP Olasoji Akinbayo , picked him up in a hotel.
According to the police , female victims had complained bitterly on how Emmanuel lured them
…

1 Shot, Many Injured As RTEAN/ NURTW Clashed In Lagos

November 20, 2019 5:05 pm
 One person was shot while many others were yesterday injured at the Igando area of Lagos State when members of the  National Union Of Road Transport Workers (NURTW ), and the Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria (RTEAN) clashed. Already, I0 persons have been arrested in connection with the pandemonium.          
The War of supremacy between the two Unions, which was said to have disrupted economic and social activities in the area, raged on until 1 pm.
The fight started as early as 7 am, leading to panic and confusion as residents and passersby scampered for safety.
It gathered that
…

Dismissed Cop Arraigned For Murder Of Kolade Johnson

November 19, 2019 9:00 am

Dismissed police inspector, Ogunyemi Olalekan, was on Tuesday at an Ikeja High Court remanded at the Ikoyi Prisons after his arraignment for the alleged murder of Kolade Johnson, a 35-year-old man at a viewing center in Lagos.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Olalekan, 45, during his arraignment pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder.

Following his plea, Mr Yhaqub Oshoala, Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution, requested that Olalekan who has been incarcerated at the Ikoyi Prison since his arrest, continue to be remanded at the facility.

“We ask that the defendant continue to be detained

…

Blind African Student Dragged By Ankles Out Of Oxford

November 18, 2019 9:55 am

One of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious debating societies has been slammed after a blind Ghanaian postgraduate student was ‘dragged by his ankles’ and thrown out of a debate in a ‘disgraceful’ incident. 

Ebenezer Azamati was expelled from a debate at the Oxford Union after he attempted to attend a talk on the motion ‘This House has no confidence in HM Government’. Oxford University said: “The Oxford Union is an independent society. The university has no control over its events.”

The 25-year-old arrived early at St John’s College on October 17 to reserve a seat as he was worried there …

Woman Drags Businessman To Court For Alleged Sodomy

November 18, 2019 9:55 am
A physically challenged mother, Latifa Umar, on Monday, dragged Rabiu Abdulrazak, a businessman to a Sharia court l sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna for allegedly having sex with her eight-year-old son.
The complainant, who resides at Kano road area of Kaduna, told the court that the defendant had been taking her son out without her consent.

“He used to take my son out to spend one or to two days with him; my son always comes home late at night; when I asked him about my son, he pushed me and called me a mad woman,” she said.

…

TRENDING

Breaking

𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬, 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤, is a nonpartisan online news portal founded on the truth to provide you with weekly, insightful articles written with precision and current updates on current events from Africa in particular and the rest of the world in general. All of our reports undergo extensive fact-checking to ensure their veracity, and we adhere strictly to the facts, no matter whose ox is gored.

follow on social media

Facebook Twitter Youtube Telegram Linkedin

subscribe to newsletter

© 2018 - 2020 Africa digital news, New York
Powered by

People and Polity