Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have raided the hideout of internet fraudsters in Lagos and arrested fourteen suspect. EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed in a statement that the cybercrime suspects, whose names were listed in the state, were arrested last Saturday, at Westwood Estate, in the Badore area of Ajah. Uwujaren said items recovered…
Faults banks unwillingness to cooperate The Lagos State Police Command has advised victims of robbery attacks to report to the police and make sure to follow-up such cases. The Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, made the call in reaction to growing complaints of the activities of robbers who operate in private vehicles. The gang of hoodlums…
Armed robbers on Tuesday evening, April 13, 2021, attacked One Source Mart shopping mall on Ligali Ayorinde Street, in Victoria Island, Lagos. Eyewitnesses said the gang of armed robbers include four men and a woman, who arrived at the shopping mall on power bikes. Those who recounted their experience said their robbers fired gunshots inside the mall,…
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja, has jailed one Olaniyi Ogungbaiye for eight years for internet fraud. The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission dragged Ogungbaiye before the court on two counts of receiving stolen property and fraud. Ogungbaiye pleaded not guilty to the charges, but Justice…
Men of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command arrested ISIAKA on top of Iddo Bridge, and recovered a toy gun from him, among other items. Isiaka reportedly told the police in confession that once he pulled out his toy gun, his victims become afraid and immediately surrender their valuables. The RRS Commander, Yinka…
One Ocholi Edicha has been sentenced to twelve years and six months in prison over the 2019 murder of the PDP woman leader in Kogi State, Salome Abuh. Justice Fola Ajayi of the State High Court in Idah handed out the judgment after finding Edicha guilty of culpable homicide over the death of Abuh. The woman was…