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  • Property developer arraigned for attempted murder, robbery

    Property developer arraigned for attempted murder, robbery

    An Igbosere Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Tuesday remanded a property developer, Felix Ezeamama, for attempted murder, armed robbery and unlawful damages.

    Chief Magistrate Abimbola Komolafe made the order following an application by the Officer in Charge, State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Departing (SCIID) Panti, Lagos, Effiong Asuquo, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).

    Asuquo, relying on Section 264 (1) & (2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) 2015, said the application would enable the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) to issue legal advice on the allegations against the suspect.

    Ezeamama, according to a charge sheet, committed the alleged offences on May 6.

    Asuquo said the suspect, alongside others now at large while armed with dangerous weapons, including guns, cutlasses, sledge hammers, invaded a property located at 41, Alfred Rewane Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, and demolished it.

    According to him, the suspect attempted to kill one Alhaja Halima Abubakar and her 91-year-old mother, and also carted away £7000, $5,000 and N5million as well as some jewelleries.

    Ezeamama, he added, shunned police invitations on several occasions, but was arrested following the issuance of a warrant against him on May 9, by Chief Magistrate O. O. Oshin.

    He urged the court to grant the application to remand the suspect in prison.

    Chief Magistrate Komolafe remanded Ezeamama in prison for the first 30 days pending the DPP’s advice.

    She adjourned the matter till June 30.

  • 10 arraigned for ‘publishing’ unlicensed Biafra Times

    The police Monday arraigned 10 persons at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly publishing inciting news.

    They were accused of publishing an unlicensed newspaper called The Biafra Times.

    Police prosecutor, Effiong Asuquo, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), said the accused persons “projected obscene article in an unlicensed publication” known as The Biafra Times on January 29.

    The publication, the prosecution said, contain pictorial displays of persons living and dead in a manner likely to provoke or cause disaffection among some Nigerians.

    The accused were also alleged to have conducted themselves in a manner likely to constitute a breach of peace, by inducing fear in the public to abstain from going about their lawful businesses.

    The police said the alleged offences contravened Section 58, 59 and 403 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, Cap C17 Laws of the Federation, 2015.

    The accused are: Peter Eke, Jamiu Eke, Azeez Ayoola, Akeem Adebakin, Bisi Akeem, Adewumi Temitope, Sakiru Folorunsho, Rafiu Qudus, Kunle Olusola, and Ayodeji Odunyingbo.

    They were arraigned before Chief Magistrate, Aje Afunwa and pleaded not guilty to the seven count charges preferred against them by the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID).

    Their lawyer, Lucy Baadoo moved an application for their bail, praying the court to grant them temporary freedom on liberal terms.

    The magistrate, however, refused the application after Asuquo raised objections.

    The magistrate instead ordered accelerated hearing of the case.

    Asuquo, Officer-in-Charge of Legal Department, SCIID, Panti Yaba, alleged the defendants reproduced statements, rumors and reports calculated at inciting the secession of a section of the Nigerian Federation.

    Trial will begin on February 10 and continue on February 17 and 24.

     

  • Alleged N30m fraud: FCMB suit for April 7

    Alleged N30m fraud: FCMB suit for April 7

    The alleged N30 million fraud suit instituted against First City Monument Bank Plc (FCMB) and its former branch Manager, Rosemary Usifo at a Federal High Court in Lagos, has been adjourned till April 7.

    At the resumed trial before Justice Saliu Saidu yesterday, counsel to FCMB, Lanre Ogunlesi (SAN) prayed the court for an adjournment to commence trial.

    The prosecution had at the last adjourned date, informed the court that the bank was willing to settle; but Ogunlesi, while praying for a trial date, said the bank never conceded to settling the complainant, Archibong Nkanga, a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, with the amount as alleged in the charge.

    Usifo, a former Manager of the Okerin branch of defunct Fin Bank Plc (now FCMB), was alleged to have defrauded the complainant of N30million from his fixed deposit account.

    She was arraigned by the Special Fraud Unit (SFU), on December 5, 2013. But she allegedly committed the offence in 2011.

    Usifo had pleaded not guilty to the alleged offence which contravenes Sections 1(2)(a), (c) and 3(1)(2) of the Miscellanous Offences Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

    Since the prosecutor, Effiong Asuquo, did not object the prayer of the defence counsel, Justice Saidu adjourned the case till April 7 for trial.

     

  • Alleged fraud: ex-FCMB manager faces trial January 30

    A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday fixed January 30 for trial of Rosemary Usifo, a former Branch Manager of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), over a N30 million fraud.

    Usifo, a former manager of the Oke Arin branch of the defunct Finbank (now FCMB), is standing trial on a charge of fraud.

    At the resumed hearing of the case on Tuesday, the prosecutor, Effiong Asuquo, informed the court that the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU) could not produce the accused in court due to some challenges.

    He, therefore, applied for a definite date for the commencement of trial and for an order to move the accused from detention at SFU to Kirikiri Prisons.

    Asuquo said the inability to move the former bank manager to Kirikiri Prisons was as a result of the challenges faced in bringing her to court.

    Justice Saliu Saidu adjourned the case to January 30 for trial and ordered the accused to be remanded at the Kirikiri Prisons.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Usifo was arraigned on December 5, 2013 for fraudulently removing N30 million from a customer’s fixed deposit account.

    She, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge and was ordered to be remanded at the SFU pending her bail application.

    The prosecutor had alleged that the accused committed the offence in 2011.

    He said that the accused forged a letter with which she fraudulently obtained the sum of N30 million from the account of a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, Archibong Nkanga, a customer of the bank.

    According to Asuquo, the accused, who had been at large since the commission of the crime in 2011, was apprehended by the police in November 2013.

    He said the offence contravened Sections 1(2) (a), (c), and 3 (1), (2) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, Laws of the Federation, 2004.