Prosecutors said before a London court on Wednesday that employees and agents of a British unit of mining and trading company Glencore used private aircraft to transport money to pay bribes to oil authorities in West Africa. In June 2022, Glencore formally entered a guilty plea to seven charges of bribery related to oil activities Read More…
Gloria Aduwo, a 42-year-old point-of-sale operator, was charged with stealing N543,867 from her company on Wednesday in Lagos’s Ojo Magistrates’ Court. The police accused Aduwo of stealing. But she entered a not-guilty plea to the accusation. The defendant committed the crime in June at the Trade Fair complex in Ojo, according to the prosecution’s attorney, Read More…
Titilayo Adawi, 73, was killed instantly after being struck by a truck driven by Kazeem Ajibola on Monday on the Lekki-Epe Expressway, according to the Lagos police. The event was reported on Tuesday by SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Lagos State. According to Hundeyin, the incident occurred on Monday and Read More…
This week, the White House will welcome representatives from 13 international firms and representatives from 37 nations, including Nigeria, to discuss the rising danger posed by ransomware and other cybercrime, including the unauthorised use of cryptocurrency. Last year, the informal Counter-Ransomware Initiative was launched online. This year, seven more countries and a number of new Read More…
After many weeks of orientation, the Lagos State Government’s Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) has officially welcomed 210 pupils from Education District V into the Queen’s and King’s Club. The DSVA Executive Secretary, Mrs. TitiLola Vivour-Adeniyi, said that the students will represent the cause of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) during the induction ceremony Read More…
In an FCT High Court, Maitama, on Wednesday, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) re-arraigned suspended Accountant-General of the Federation Ahmed Idris and three other people for an alleged N109.5 billion fraud. Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Usman, and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited are additional defendants. They were initially charged with misappropriation of N109.5 Read More…
The Lagos State Government has mandated a coroner’s inquest to determine the exact cause of death of the late Bimbo, the famous auto dealer Ikechukwu Ogbonna’s (also known as IVD) wife, who was recently reported to have passed away from serious burns. The instruction was given in a statement on Tuesday by Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo, Read More…
Taofeek Alabi, an unemployed guy, appeared before a Lagos High Court in Tafawa Balewa Square on Tuesday for allegedly robbing a pedestrian of a phone. Alabi, whose home location was omitted, is awaiting trial on two counts of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. The Lagos State Government’s charge against the defendant, however, was one Read More…
Due to the absence of a prosecution witness, the trial of undergraduate Chidinma Ojukwu for the murder of Super TV CEO Mr. Usifo Ataga was postponed on Tuesday. Ojukwu is on trial in front of the Tafawa Balewa Square-based Lagos High Court. Along with her sister Chioma Egbuchu and another person named Adedapo Quadri, she Read More…
A 17-year-old has been charged with two counts of alleged drug trafficking by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) before the Federal High Court in Lagos. In a charge sheet signed by NDLEA prosecutor Mr. L.N. Nor, the NDLEA claimed that the youngster had committed the crime on October 3 in the Lagos neighbourhood Read More…
