Tag: crime

  • Former PS jailed 12 yrs, forfeits N97.3 million, $139,575, £10,121 to Nigerian Govt

    Former PS jailed 12 yrs, forfeits N97.3 million, $139,575, £10,121 to Nigerian Govt

    A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced a former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Productivity, Dr Clement Illoh to 12 years imprisonment. He was sentenced to four years imprisonment on each of the three-count charges bordering on non-declaration of assets. The presiding Judge Babs Kuewunmi sentenced Illoh after he changed…

  • U.S. Court Orders FBI To Arrest, Detain Abba Kyari Over Hushpuppi Multimillion-Dollar Fraud

    U.S. Court Orders FBI To Arrest, Detain Abba Kyari Over Hushpuppi Multimillion-Dollar Fraud

    A warrant of arrest has been issued for Nigeria’s police commissioner Abba Kyari. Otis Wright of the United States District Court for the Central District of California ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to track down Mr Kyari and produce him in the United States for his role in a multi-million dollar fraud perpetrated…

  • U.S. Court Orders FBI To Arrest, Detain Abba Kyari Over Hushpuppi Multimillion-Dollar Fraud

    U.S. Court Orders FBI To Arrest, Detain Abba Kyari Over Hushpuppi Multimillion-Dollar Fraud

    A warrant of arrest has been issued for Nigeria’s police commissioner Abba Kyari. Otis Wright of the United States District Court for the Central District of California ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to track down Mr Kyari and produce him in the United States for his role in a multi-million dollar fraud perpetrated…

  • Husband Beats Wife To Death Over N2,000 Loan

    Husband Beats Wife To Death Over N2,000 Loan

    A husband, an indigene of Delta State, simply identified as Christopher, has beaten his wife, Mrs. Isoken Christopher, to death for allegedly refusing to offer him N2,000 loan. The 45-year-old, described as a chain smoker and drunk by the eldest of his three children, Augustine, beat the businesswoman to death on Saturday night at No.…

  • Gunmen Kill Ex-Oyo Commissioner’s Wife

    Gunmen Kill Ex-Oyo Commissioner’s Wife

    Wife of a former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters Olayemi Odetomi was killed on Friday by unknown gunmen in the Akobo area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The husband of the deceased, Mr. Peter Odetomi served during the late governor Abiola Ajimobi’s tenure in Oyo State. The police spokesman, Adewale Osifeso, confirmed…

  • Gunmen Kill Ex-Oyo Commissioner’s Wife

    Gunmen Kill Ex-Oyo Commissioner’s Wife

    Wife of a former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters Olayemi Odetomi was killed on Friday by unknown gunmen in the Akobo area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The husband of the deceased, Mr. Peter Odetomi served during the late governor Abiola Ajimobi’s tenure in Oyo State. The police spokesman, Adewale Osifeso, confirmed…

  • Police Parade Kidnappers Of Ogun Monarch, OOU Students

    Police Parade Kidnappers Of Ogun Monarch, OOU Students

    The suspected kidnappers of students of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ayetoro campus and the community leader in the state, Chief Tajudeen Omotayo, were on Wednesday paraded by the Ogun State Police Command. The police also paraded a suspected kidnapper, who sold an AK-47 rifle to an undercover police operative for N1million. The Commissioner of Police…

  • AIG Zone 11 Command, Ajani Resumes Office

    AIG Zone 11 Command, Ajani Resumes Office

    The new Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 11 Command Osogbo, AIG OLASUPO BABATUNDE AJANI has on Wednesday assumed office in Osogbo and commenced duty immediately. This was contained in a release signed and made available to Daily Mail by the Zonal Police Public Relations Officer, Ayeni Benjamin. According to the release, AIG…

  • AIG Zone 11 Command, Ajani Resumes Office

    AIG Zone 11 Command, Ajani Resumes Office

    The new Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 11 Command Osogbo, AIG OLASUPO BABATUNDE AJANI has on Wednesday assumed office in Osogbo and commenced duty immediately. This was contained in a release signed and made available to Daily Mail by the Zonal Police Public Relations Officer, Ayeni Benjamin. According to the release, AIG…

  • Police Rescue Kidnapped Student in Osun

    Police Rescue Kidnapped Student in Osun

    The Osun State command of the Nigeria Police has rescued a 25-year-old student of the State College of Health Technology, Ilesa, Rukayat Bayonle from kidnappers. She was kidnapped by five men, who invaded students’ hall of residence at Olomilagbala Area, Ilesa and took her to the bush. A release signed and made available to newsmen…