By Abimbola Ogunnaike One Innocent Udoh, 54, appeared before an Iyaganku Magistrate’s Court, Ibadan, Oyo State capital presided over by Mrs T. B. Oyekanmi on Friday, 31 March, 2023 for allegedly stealing 70 phones worth N1.75 million. Udoh, whose address was not provided, is charged with conspiracy and theft. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge leveled against him. The prosecutor, ASP Sikiru Ibrahim, told the court that Udoh and others at large committed the theft on March 30 from 12.00 am to 5.00am at the Mokola area of Ibadan. Ibrahim alleged that Udoh stole 50 pieces of…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike One Suliyat Ganiyu, aged 40, was on Friday, 31 March, 2023 arraigned in Ibadan, Oyo State capital for allegedly stealing a handbag. Ganiyu, whose address was not provided, is charged with theft before an Iyaganku Magistrate’s Court presided over Mrs T. B. Oyekanmi. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The prosecutor, ASP Sikiru Ibrahim, told the court that the defendant committed the theft on Feb. 16 at 2:00pm at the Itamaya area of Ibadan. Ibrahim alleged that Ganiyu stole the bag from one Mrs Omolade Adekola, adding that the bag contained automated teller machine…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Actress Foluke Daramola has denied allegation that she snatched her husband, Kayode Salako, from his ex-wife and allegedly took over her school. A Twitter user had claimed to have witnessed the incident which also made headlines years ago, in response to Foluke’s post where she lashed out at youths who disrespect older people online. The actress in a video she shared, stated that she’s not an academic and never met her husband at the school. She said they met on a “neutral” ground.Foluke, who averred that she is the only legal wife of her husband, admitted that…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Drama occurred in Tombo Mbatie, in Buruku local government area of Benue State as a family was said to have rejected a coffin brought by their son in-law for the burial of his mother-in-law. Bem Raphael Aondongu, a Facebook user, who disclosed this on his page, said the incident happened on Thursday, March 30, 2023. “In the early hours of today, an undisclosed family rejected a casket brought by son in-law for the burial of mother in-law.“As the TIV tradition demands, when a mother or a father dies, the first female child who is married is saddled…
For locking up her personal assistant, Ms. Deborah Longs Nanpon in a dog cage for three days, a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has awarded the sum of N30 million naira as damages against Dr. Mrs. Marianne Ahmadu Ali, wife of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmadu Ali. The court in its judgment of Tuesday, 28 March, 2023 delivered by Justice Akanbi-Yusuf agreed with Ms. Nanpon’s lawyers — the International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA Nigeria that the Applicant was unlawfully detained by Mrs. Ali and dehumanized by being locked up in…
(Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, March 31, 2023) Was. Is. Will. The spellbinding sight of the throne would blush King Solomon green with envy. With a grin, the elephant walked majestically towards the throne, swishing his tail as its tree-trunk legs embossed map-like footprints in the brown earth. He clambered up to the throne, turned around, made a throaty sound of satisfaction with his skyward trunk, and lowered his bulk into the baited throne, tumbling down the covered pit underneath. Many traps don’t bear warnings. You’ve just walked into my trappy headline, “Yoruba rascals and Igbo idiots.” My trap…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned the General Manager, AGB Limited, Friday Adodo and a businessman, owner of FMateck Limited, Abdulrasheed Yusuf, for forging contract documents. The two defendants were to have been arraigned on 24th March, 2023, before Justice Abdul Dogo of Federal High Court, Makurdi, Benue State, on a 3-count charge bordering on forging contract documents to bid for a contract at the Lower Benue River Basin Development Authority (LBRBDA) Makurdi, Benue State which is contrary to section 97 of the Penal Code and Section 58(1) of the Procurement Act, 2007. The…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of Umar Hussaini, a lawyer to former Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NSC), the late Abdullahi Dikko, over a N1.1 billion fraud. ICPC, in a Charge No: FHC/ABJ/CR/74/2020, had arraigned Hussaini before Honourable Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja over his complicity in inducing the Managing Director of Cambial Limited, Mr. Yemi Obadeyi, who was the complainant, to pay N1.1bn into the account of Capital Law Office on the 6th of March 2010, as refundable “completion security deposit” for the procurement of 120…
A Superintendent with the Nigeria Correctional Service, Lafia, Nasarawa State, Mr. Eyimoga Moses, has been arraigned in court before Hon. Justice Abdul Dogo of the Federal High Court, Makurdi, by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for the fraudulent act of job racketeering. According to ICPC counsel Barr. Bako Alongs, the defendant, Eyimoga Moses, who is a Superintendent with the Nasarawa State Command of the Service, was arraigned on one-count charge of corruption before Hon. Justice Abdul Adogo, for collecting N800,000 from a couple for two vacancy slots at the Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State, which…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has arraigned a lecturer of the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) for demanding sexual and monetary gratification from a female student of the institution. The defendant, Dr. Balogun Olaniran was brought before Hon. Justice Osinuga of the Ijebu-Ode High Court, sitting in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State by ICPC on a one-count charge for violating Section 8(1) (a) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000. ICPC Counsel told the court how the defendant, Dr. Olaniran, while being the Head of Department of Religious Studies at TASUED sometime…