Court orders remand of 26-year-old murder suspect

An Osogbo Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded one Afeez Alabi in prison custody, over alleged robbery and murder.
Alabi, 26, was brought to the court by the police for allegedly shooting to death a security guard in Osogbo.
The prosecutor, Mireti Wilson told the court that the accused committed the offence on July 27, at about 2:00am on Television Street in Awosuru area of Osogbo.

Ex-Minister Laurencia Mallam, husband kidnapped in Kaduna

A former Minister of the Environment, Laurencia Laraba Mallam, and her husband, Pius, have been kidnapped.
The former Minister and her husband, according to the credible online news platform, were

I kidnapped my friend’s daughter to raise money for cosmetics – Suspect

A Ghanian, and her Edo State indigene friend, have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a -nine-year-old girl.
Detectives at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), of the Lagos state Police Command, are interrogating the suspects, Miss Believe and Agatha.
A mother of three, who claimed she had lived in Nigeria for 17 years, said she organised the abduction of the little girl to be able to raise money to shop for some of the most sophisticated cosmetics and make-ups.
“I am a Ghanaian and I am married with three children. I used to work as a nanny in an embassy

Ogun police nab man with two human skulls

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Oluwatosin Akorede who was alleged to be in possession of two human skulls.
The suspect was arrested in the Isale Oko area of Sagamu on Sunday, at about 7pm.c
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect was arrested by a police patrol team led by the Divisional Police Officer, Moses Aduroja.
Oyeyemi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, said the suspect, who is said to be working in a cemetery along Ayepe Road, Sagamu, “is currently undergoing interrogation with a view to

Police seeks international co-operation to fight cyber crime

The Police have said international cyber crime experts must collaborate to develop new skills and technologies to make the cyberspace safer.
Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, who spoke yesterday in Abuja at the Interpol Cybercrime Training for Practitioner Investigators from African Countries, stressed the need to boost the capacities of investigators in related fields.
Idris said having set up and deployed a hi-tech and cybercrime unit within the Interpol National Central Bureau in Nigeria, efforts were being pursued to equip the unit with tools and techniques to boost its capacities in various fields.
The IGP, who was represented by the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in charge of Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (FCIID), Hyacinth Dagala, said the leadership of the force had made provision for capacity initiatives, with the vision of getting experienced members of the unit deployed in state police commands where cybercrime offences are prevalent.
The three-day training session organised by the Singapore-owned Interpol Global Complex for

About 100 INEC officials to be tried over 2015 poll slush cash

About 100 officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who allegedly collected over N23.29b bribe to influence the 2015 general election will soon face trial.
There are indications that the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, and the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, have met to perfect the modalities of the trial.
The EFCC, which has been investigating the bribe, allegedly facilitated by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, implicated two Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs), 16 INEC Directors and 82 others.

EFCC denies clearance for FAAN MD in alleged N3bn fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday denied that it has cleared the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Saleh Dunoma, of alleged N3 billion fraud and other corrupt allegations.
It said there was no iota of truth in the allegations that the MD was given clearance after paying bribe to some of its officials and those of the Ministry of Transport.
The anti-graft agency however asked those with evidence of such bribery to come forward with evidence.
The EFCC made the clarifications in a statement in Abuja by its Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren.
The statement said: “The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) has been drawn to a report entitled, ‘N3b Found In FAAN MD’s Bank Accounts Sparks Discontent Over His Clearance By EFCC And Shabby Running Of The Agency’, which appeared in an online news portal, with claims that the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria