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EFCC Detains 16 LG Chairmen For Fraud

EFCC Detains 16 LG Chairmen For Fraud

Nigeria’s anti-fraud office on Friday said it is questioning 16 chairmen of different local governments in Kwara State for alleged misappropriation of N4 billion loan and the state’s internally generated revenue.
EFCC’s spokesman Wilson Uwujaren said the agency gathered that the chairmen after securing the controversial loans, held a meeting and decided that N100m will be shared among themselves from the loan.

The chairmen listed are Risikat Opakunle, Saidu Yaru Musa, Umar Belle, Ayeni Dallas, Fatai Adeniyi Garba, Lah Abdulmumeen, Raliat Funmi Salau, Aminat Omodara, Muyiwa Oladipo.

Others are, Oladipo Omole, Abdullahi Abubakar Bata, Saka Eleyele, Lateef Gbadamosi, Oni

Police Arrest Notorious Kidnapper In Kaduna, Rescue 8

Police Arrest Notorious Kidnapper In Kaduna, Rescue 8

The Kaduna Police said they had arrested a notorious kidnapper and rescued eight victims, including a 13-year-old boy.
Yakubu Sabo, spokesman of the command, said in a statement on Friday that the arrest of the notorious kidnapper led to the rescue of the eight victims in different locations of the kidnappers’ den.

He said the operation took place on Tuesday and Thursday, adding that the notorious kidnapper whose name was given as Mustapha Ibrahim, is assisting the police in investigation.

Sabo said the victims were rescued at Rigasa and Narayi, both in Igabi and Chikun
Local Government Areas of Kaduna …

Israel Arrests Palestinian Leftist Figure Khalida Jarrar

Israel Arrests Palestinian Leftist Figure Khalida Jarrar

Israeli forces arrested a prominent Palestinian politician from her home in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah overnight on Thursday.

Khalida Jarrar, a former member of the defunct Palestinian Legislative Council, was arrested at 3am local time (00:00 GMT) and taken to an unknown area, local media reported.

According to her daughter Yara Jarrar, the house was surrounded by more than Israeli 70 soldiers who arrived in 12 military vehicles.

“Mom and sister were asleep when they approached,” Yara said in a post on Twitter.

The 56-year-old Jarrar, who is associated with the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation

Cape Town Woman Scammed Of R844k By Catfish On Tinder

Cape Town Woman Scammed Of R844k By Catfish On Tinder

A Cape Town woman was allegedly scammed of R844,000 by a person she believed to be the love of her life after meeting on the dating app Tinder, the Hawks said on Wednesday.

Two women and a man have since been arrested in connection with the scam, said Lt-Col Philani Nkwalase.

Gcobisa Sintu was arrested in Port Elizabeth and Tando Magwevana was arrested in East London on October 25 and 26 respectively. A third suspect, Luyanda Bacela, was arrested earlier this month in Cape Town. They have already appeared in court.

The three allegedly pocketed money from their 54-year-old victim

Gunmen Abduct Appeal Court Justice in Edo

Gunmen Abduct Appeal Court Justice in Edo

Few days after Justice Abdul Dogo of the Federal High Court, Akure, Ondo State, regained his freedom from Kidnappers, suspected gunmen yesterday in Benin City, abducted Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme of the Court of Appeal, Benin Division.

The gunmen also killed her police orderly before taking her away to an unknown destination.

This incident is also coming barely a month after gunmen kidnapped the Chief Medical Director of Irrua Specialist Hospital, Prof. Sylvanus Okogbeini, on his way to Benin City to board a flight to Abuja for a meeting, killing two of his police orderlies.
According to an eye witness report, …

Boyfriend Of Teacher Stabbed To Death In Appears In Court

Boyfriend Of Teacher Stabbed To Death In Appears In Court

Allison Plaatjies and her boyfriend of three years, Philip April, in happier times. April has been charged for her brutal murder.

Allison Plaatjies and her boyfriend of three years, Philip April, in happier times. April has been charged for her brutal murder.

The boyfriend of 26-year-old schoolteacher Allison Plaatjies – who was found dead in her apartment in Clanwilliam, north of Cape Town, on Sunday – appeared in the Clanwilliam magistrate’s court on Wednesday.

Philip April, a 24-year-old student teacher, was arrested after police discovered that Plaatjies had sustained multiple stab wounds.

April and Plaatjies had been dating since 2016 and met in Wellington, where they studied together at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)

Teen Who Pushed Friend Off Washington Bridge Sentenced

Teen Who Pushed Friend Off Washington Bridge Sentenced

The Washington teenager who pleaded guilty to pushing her friend off a 60-foot bridge will spend just two days behind bars.

Taylor Smith was sentenced to two days in jail and 38 days on a county work crew after pleading guilty to reckless endangerment last week, according to The Columbian. She must also pay a fine of $300 and has been prohibited from talking to the victim for two years.

The 19-year-old was caught on a 10-second video pushing Jordan Holgerson, then 16, off the bridge at Moulton Falls after her friend said she didn’t want to jump.

Helgerson suffered

84yr Old Arrested For Trying To Burn Down Mosque

84yr Old Arrested For Trying To Burn Down Mosque

84-year-old Claude Sinké was arrested by France security on Monday after he allegedly shot and injured two Muslim worshippers at a mosque in Bayonne, south-western France.

The suspect according to report was trying to burn down the mosque during the time he inflicted the harms on the victims.

Sinké was a former election candidate for Marine Le Pen’s far-Right National Rally. He was arrested at his home in Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx, near Bayonne after fleeing the scene by car. He reportedly set a vehicle on fire before he left. Police found a gas canister and a handgun in his car.

Patrice Peyruqueou, …

Off-Duty NYPD Police Officer Busted For Attacking His Wife

Off-Duty NYPD Police Officer Busted For Attacking His Wife

An off-duty NYPD housing cop assaulted his wife during an argument inside their Brooklyn home, police said.

Cops from the 83rd Precinct in Bushwick took Police Officer Manuel Cantor-Alonso into custody about 2 a.m. Saturday after his wife called 911 and said her husband had attacked her, police said.

The two were in the middle of an argument when the 38-year-old officer pushed her to the ground and kicked her, said cops. The woman was not seriously harmed.

Cantor-Alonso, a 12-year NYPD veteran, was charged with assault. His arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending Saturday.

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Seven Dead In West Texas Shooting

Seven Dead In West Texas Shooting

A lone gunman fleeing a traffic stop set off on a rampage that left seven dead and at least 22 injured, including three cops, in a West Texas shooting on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
Police killed the shooter at the Odessa Cinergy movie theater after the suspect was pulled over at an interstate traffic stop for failing to signal a left turn and he opened fire. The gunman went on to hijack a postal service vehicle and began shooting innocent bystanders in the West Texas cities of Odessa and Midland.
Nigerian Jailed For 78 Months In US For Marriage Frauds

Nigerian Jailed For 78 Months In US For Marriage Frauds

A Nigerian national resident in Atlanta, Georgia, Olufolajimi Abegunde has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for cyber fraud.

Abegunde, an MBA graduate from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, who also ordered to pay $57,911.62 in restitution to the victims of his offense, a statement by the United States Department of Justice said.

Abegunde, 32, and Javier Luis Ramos-Alonso, 29, were both charged in a criminal organisation in which members “spoofed” emails and created fake profiles on dating websites.

The court said Abegeunde played a key role, along with Ramos-Alonso, in laundering fraud funds from an October …

Maina And His Son Faisal To Be Arraigned Today By EFCC

Maina And His Son Faisal To Be Arraigned Today By EFCC

The former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina and his son, Faisal, will today be arraigned by Nigeria’s anti-fraud office.

Maina will be arraigned for alleged fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission while his son, a final year Telecommunications Engineering student in a Dubai University, is still unknown.

“Also to be arraigned on the same day, in the same court on a separate but similar charge is his son, Faisal,” the EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwujaren said in a statement on Tuesday.

Uwujaren said Maina will be arraigned on a 12-count charge bordering on “money