Crime & Metro

Former directors and owners of Union Bank are accused of engineering a financial catastrophe, manipulating reports, concealing massive losses, diverting foreign loans, and treating depositors’ funds as their personal property, nearly bringing one of Nigeria’s major banks to the brink of collapse. Investigators uncovered billions of dollars in misconduct. These…

Chinedum Ukaegbu At the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, what looked like an ordinary travel day quickly turned into a moment of reckoning for 37-year-old Friday Ehianuka. Packed neatly inside his luggage were containers of skin-lightening cream, items that rarely raise suspicion. But hidden within…

Michael Olumide Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal Directorate 1, has arraigned four suspects: Adetunji Mathew, Victor Damilare Olaomo, Douglas Agorom Ikwugwu and Arowolo Adeniyi Abiodun, before different judges at the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, Lagos, over alleged fraud and theft. According to the Head, Media…

Michael Olumide A three-member panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal, Justice Abba Mohammed, Okon Abang and Eberechi Nyesom have affirmed the conviction and sentence of former Group Managing Director of Nigerian Army Properties Limited (NAPL), Maj.-Gen. Umar Mohammed, for offences bordering on theft and misappropriation of company funds.…

Stanley Ihedigbo Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 74-year-old man, Ikwuakalom Nwakoro Emeka, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, after discovering 11 kilograms of cocaine concealed in his luggage while attempting to travel to the United Kingdom. The suspect, who claimed he was…

Michael Olumide A mining company, Glister Success Limited, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of harassment, arbitrary seizure of its vehicles and intimidation of its employees, calling for urgent intervention by the agency’s leadership. The company made the allegation in a formal letter of complaint addressed to…

Mr Lawrence OnwukwemHon. Davies Ijele Michael Olumide Controversy has erupted following the disappearance of a Lagos landlord, Lawrence Onwukwem, and two of his associates, months after they were sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for contempt of court by a Lagos Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Eti-Osa. The court had convicted…

Michael Olumide A former two-term councilor in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, Sheleru Sadiq Olalekan, has fallen from public service to criminal suspicion after being arrested by Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for trafficking drugs concealed in baby diapers. According to the Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi…

Stanley Ihedigbo Justice Maryam Sabo of the Kano State High Court sitting in Kano has convicted and sentenced Ebonine Rita Uzoamaka to seven years imprisonment for obtaining the sum of N5.6 million by false pretence. The convict was arraigned on August 18, 2021, on five-count charges of dishonest misappropriation of…

Michael Olumide Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Ikoyi, Lagos, was arraigned a former Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Fidet Okhiria Edetanle, before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, over alleged $385,000 and ₦165,438,000.00 fraud.…