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  • ‘God told me to build a church on someone’s land’

    ‘God told me to build a church on someone’s land’

     The Federal Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID), Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos on Tuesday brought a Christian cleric, Felix Moses, before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court for allegedly building on someone’s land.
    Moses, pastor of Capernaum Christian Ministry located at 34/36, Tijani Ashogbon Street, Bariga, was docked on a one-count charge of unlawful encroachment on a property.
    According to the police, Moses built the church in 2016 on land owned by the complainant, Mr. Toyin Omonijo.
    Prosecuting counsel Henry Obiazi, a Superintendent, said the defendant built his church on the land without the complainant’s permission.
    According to the prosecutor, Moses told the police that “God Almighty directed him to build a church on the land.”
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     Obiazi said the offence contravened Section 4(5) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
    Moses pleaded not guilty.
    Chief Magistrate O.O Oshin granted him N250,000 bail with one surety in the like sum.
    She remanded the defendant in Ikoyi Prison till he fulfills the bail conditions.
    The case continues on March 27.
  • Man docked for N6.75m petrol supply scam

    Man docked for N6.75m petrol supply scam

    A man, who allegedly obtained N6,750,000 from a businessman under the pretext of supplying him petrol was yesterday docked at an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

    Raphael Ajogu, 56, was arraigned by the Zone 2 Police Command before Chief Magistrate Patrick Adekomaya on a three-count charge of conspiracy to obatin under false pretence, fraud and stealing.

    According to Prosecuting Sergeant Friday Mameh, the defendant and his accomplices, who are now at large, committed the alleged offences atabout 11am, sometime in April 2016.

    Mameh told the court that Ajogu persuaded the complainant, Oguntelure Olusoye Isaac, that he would supply him 45,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), at N135 per litre, at a total value of N6,750,000, “a representation he knew to be false.”

    The court heard that Ajogu obtained the sum from Isaac, but failed to supply the fuel.

    Read Also: Man docked for threatening wife’s life over son’s paternity

    According to Mameh, the alleged offences contravened sections 287, 314(a)(b) and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
    Ajogu pleaded not guilty.

    Chief Magistrate Adekomaya granted him N1million bail with two sureties in the like sum.
    The case continues on January 30.

     

  • Man ‘flees with employer’s $12,000

    Man ‘flees with employer’s $12,000

    …Gives girlfriend N700,000′

    An office assistant, Ifeanyi Anyanwu, Wednesday admitted to an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, that he stole his employer’s $12,000, from which he gave his girlfriend N700,000.

    Anyanwu, 28, an employee of a financial services firm, was arraigned before Mr. B. A. Sonuga on a count of stealing.

    Prosecuting Corporal Friday Mameh said the defendant committed the alleged offence during his employment with the complainant, Mr Olalekan Salami, a financial analyst.

    He said the incident occurred at No. 32 Furo Ezimora Street, Lekki Phase 1, in Eti-Osa Local Government Area, Lagos.

    Mameh alleged that Anyawu stole $12,000 (about N4.5million) belonging to the complainant and fled to Calabar, the Cross River State capital.

    “The defendant was arrested through the help of his girlfriend in Calabar, after she tried to withdraw the N700,000 that she deposited in her First City Monument Bank (FCMB) account.

    “After her arrest, she told the police how she came about the money, and then took the police to the defendant’s residence in Calabar where he was apprehended and brought to Lagos,” Mameh said.

    According to him, ‎the offence is punishable under Section 287(7) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    Anyawu pleaded guilty.

    Magistrate Sonuga adjourned till October 31, for a review of the facts and ‎sentenc

  • Lawyer faces N2m fraud charge

    Lawyer faces N2m fraud charge

    A self-proclaimed lawyer, Segun Harrison, who allegedly converted N2million belonging to his client to his personal use, was Thursday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

    Harrison, 53, of Isheri-Osun, Lagos, is standing trial on a two-count charge of fraud and misrepresentation before Mr B. I. Bakare.

    Prosecuting Inspector Ingobo Emby told the court that Harrison committed the alleged offences sometime in July 2015, at Power Line Road off Ajiboye St, Orile-Agege, Lagos.

    He said the defendant falsely represented himself as a lawyer and defrauded the complainant, Mrs Omolola Dawodu.

    “Harrison fraudulently sold a two-bedroom bungalow valued at N5 million, belonging to the complainant and converted N2 million to his personal use without the consent of the complainant.

    “The said bungalow was situated at Power Line Road off Ajiboye St, Orile-Agege, Lagos,” Emby said.

    According to him, the offences contravened Sections 287 (7) and 380 (2) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    Harrison pleaded not guilty.

    Magistrate Bakare, granted him N500,000 bail with two sureties in the like sum.

    The sureties must be gainfully employed, be resident in Lagos State, and have their addresses verified.

    The case continues on October 5.

  • Two bankers charged with N500, 000 fraud

    Two bankers charged with N500, 000 fraud

    Two Skye Bank Plc staff Aina Tolulope, 30, and Lukman Okunade, 28, who allegedly defrauded the bank of N500,000, were Tuesday arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court Lagos.

    ‎The defendants were docked by the police before Magistrate A. F Botoku on a three-count charge of conspiracy, impersonation and stealing.

    Tolulope, of 12 Aric Close, Bariga and Okunade, of No. 8 Alayaki Street Mushin, Lagos respectively, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

    Prosecuting Sergeant Chinedu Njoku said the defendants and two others Ekeolere Sheriff and Auwa Garba, who are still at large, committed the alleged offences on July 14, 2017.

    He said that the incident took place at Skye Bank Plc, Apapa Road Branch Lagos, at about 12:30pm.

    According to Njoku, the duo impersonated as both Transaction Officer and Customer ‎Service Officer and fraudulently transferred the said amount to Sheriff and Garba’s accounts

    The prosecutor said the money was the property of the bank’s customer, Hassan Ibrahim, who approached the bank to convert Euros to Naira, when he was defrauded.

    “Ibrahim went to the bank to change foreign currency when he met Tolulope and Okunade, who gave him a fake form to fill which he did. He then asked them to transfer the money into his bank account, which they did in his presence with a fake alert confirming that the money was in his account. Unknown to him, the money was transferred to the two suspects.

    “Afterwards when the complainant tried to withdraw the sum he found nothing in his account, only a fake bank alert. He immediately returned to the bank and complained following which the defendants were arrested,” Njoku said.

    According to the prosecutor, the offences were punishable under Section 411, 325 and 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    Magistrate Botoku admitted each defendant to N500, 000 bail with one surety in the like sum.

    The case was adjourned till September 13.

     

  • Acid attack: Court extends couple’s detention in prison

    Acid attack: Court extends couple’s detention in prison

    …DPP’s report’ clears suspect’s wife

     

     

    An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos Thursday extended the remand order against a man, Chidi Ubochiajonjo and his wife Nkiru, charged with pouring acid on a woman, Ogochukwu Nwosu.

    Magistrate J. O. Adepoju remanded the defendants for another 30 days pending the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP)’s advice on the case on July 14.

    Chidi, 39, and Nkiru, 40, were arraigned last March 15, on four counts of conspiracy, attempted murder, threat to kill and causing grievous bodily harm.

    According to the charge marked O/18/2017, the defendants, last October 6 at Ilasamaja Bus Stop, Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, Lagos attempted to murder Nwosu, 26, “by bathing her with susbstances suspected to be acid” thereby causing her grievous bodily harm.

    Nkiru was also accused of threatening to kill Nwosu by way of Short Message Service (SMS) on October 7, 2016.

    According to prosecuting counsel Ochogwu Ogbeh, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), the alleged offences contravene Sections 230, 232, 245 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    They were remanded in prison custody pending the DPP’s advice.

    At the resumption of proceedings yesterday, Magistrate Adepoju stated that the report on the case forwarded to her office from the DPP contained a different case number from what is on the charge.

    She directed the prosecutor to ask the DPP for another report bearing the correct charge number.

    According to the DPP’S report of May 30, 2017 signed by Mr Y. G. Oshoala, seen by The Nation, there is no basis for prosecuting Nkiru.

    “The Office shall not be prosecuting Nkiru Ubochiajonjo as there is no sufficient evidence in the duplicate case file tying her to the crime,” the report stated.

    It, however, noted that “there are sufficient facts to establish a prima facie case” to prosecute Chidi.

    Defence counsel C. C. Echemazu moved an application for the defendants to be released on bail.

    He stated, among others, that the defendants had been in detention since their arraignment and for a cumulative period of almost six months since their arrest.

    This was opposed by Ogbeh, who argued, among others, that “the victim of the offence is still critically ill, battling for her life in hospital.”

    He said after the attack, Nwosu, who worked at Computer Village in Ikeja, sustained burns on her face, neck, breasts, among other parts of her body.

    Magistrate Adepoju adjourned till July 14 for ruling on the application and DPP’s advice.

     

  • Three petrol dealers face N58m fraud charge

    Three petrol dealers face N58m fraud charge

    Three petroleum products dealers who allegedly obtained the sum of N58 million from a businessman under false pretences, were on Thursday charged before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

    The accused: Abubakar Adamu, 40; Abubakar Aliyu, 54, and Isah Ibrahim, 34, are standing trial on a three-count charge of fraud, stealing and conspiracy.

    The accused, however, denied the charge.

    The Prosecutor, SP Eshiet Eshiet, had told the court that the accused committed the offences between March and April in Lagos.

    Eshiet said that the accused obtained the sum of N58 million from the complainant, Virginus Erims, of Virgiman Nigeria Ltd., under the guise of supplying six trucks of 50,000 litres of petrol (PMS) to him.

    He said that other products the accused promised to supply to the complainant were one truck of 50,000 litres of diesel (AGO) and one truck of 50,000 litres of kerosene (DPK).

    “The accused knew that the representation was false, therefore, stole Mr Erims’s N58 million without supplying the products which the money was meant for,” Esheit said.

    According to him, the offences contravene Sections 285, 312 and 409 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2011.

    Counsel to the accused, Mr Casmir Okoli, urged the court to grant them bail on liberal terms.

    The Magistrate, Mrs S.K. Matepo, admitted each of the accused to bail in the sum of N5 million, with two sureties each in like sum.

    Matepo said that the sureties must be gainfully employed and that one of the sureties must be a blood relation of the accused.

    She also said that the sureties must show evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government and must produce relevant documents.

    She adjourned the case until July 10, for mention.

     

  • Man ‘hypnotises’ boy, steals N230, 000

    Man ‘hypnotises’ boy, steals N230, 000

    A man, who allegedly hypnotised a 17-year-old boy and stole his N230, 000, was Monday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

    Sunday Omoloye, 32, of no fixed address, was arraigned before Mrs A. T. Omoyele on a three-count charge of fraud, obtaining by false pretence and stealing.

    Prosecuting Sergeant Cyriacus Osuji said Omoloye and others at large committed the alleged offence on May 31, 2017 at Ikate in Eti-Osa Local Government Area.

    The defendant, he alleged, fraudulently obtained the sum of N230, 000, from the teenager, who was by his mother to deposit the money into the bank account of her customer.

    Osuji said: “When the teenager got to the bank, the place was filled up so he decided to try another branch, but as he came out of the bank, the defendant and others at large met and touched him.

    “He immediately lost his senses and later found himself with the defendant and others at Aboki Estate, Ikate, close to Eleguish Beach.

    “As soon as he regained his senses, he raised the alarm and passersby apprehended the defendant while the others fled.”

    ‎According to the prosecutor, the offences are punishable under Sections 411, 314 (1b) and 287, of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The defendant pleaded not guilty.

    Magistrate Omoyele granted him N200, 000 bail with two sureties in the like sum.

    She adjourned till July 7, for mention.

     

  • Woman slumps in court looking for lawyer she paid money

    Woman slumps in court looking for lawyer she paid money

    An elderly woman collapsed Thursday afternoon on the first floor of the Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

    She was looking for a lawyer to whom she allegedly paid money to facilitate the settlement of her son’s criminal matter.

    The Nation learnt that the unidentified woman told her rescuers that she regularly gave an undisclosed sum to the lawyer, who was defending her son in a criminal matter.

    It was part payment for a settlement agreement that her son, who is on bail, entered with the complainant so that the charge against him can be dispensed with.

    But she arrived in court yesterday and, after asking around the four-storey multi-courtroom edifice, could not find the lawyer.

    She, again, climbed the staircase from the ground floor but slumped on the first floor a few metres from the Prosecutors’ Office.

    The staircase is right in front of the out-of-service twin elevators.

    Chief Security Officer (CSO) Lateef Bello alerted his colleagues and they tried to revive her.

    But she began shivering, passing urine and could neither speak nor get on her feet.

    After some minutes, Commissioner for Oaths O. A. Mustapha was informed and she went to the nearby High Court on Igbosere Road, to get a Toyota Hiace bus.

    The bus, with the inscription ‘Lagos State Judiciary Probate Registry’ and registration number: EL822LSD, conveyed the unconscious woman to the Lagos Island General Hospital.

    A lawyer, who declined to be named, said she saw the woman being carried into the bus.

    “She was dressed in a native attire and looked elderly,” the source said, adding, “I didn’t really know what was happening at that time, but I saw the security officers carrying her into a bus.”

    An eyewitness, who spoke to The Nation on condition of anonymity, said the woman was revived at the hospital.

    “I learnt she gave money to a lawyer but he disappeared with it. She was running around looking for the lawyer before she collapsed.

    “We quickly informed the Commissioner for Oaths who sourced for a vehicle and we took her to hospital where she was revived.”

    Another source said the woman’s son was arraigned last year before Magistrate for allegedly obtaining money from the complainant under the pretence of helping him to clear his goods from a Lagos port.

    He was said to have spent the money without clearing the goods.

    “He was on bail already and, in accordance with the terms of the settlement, had been paying a certain amount at regular intervals. His mother had been assisting him in paying the money.”

     

  • Five charged with N1.094b fraud

    Five charged with N1.094b fraud

    Five men, who allegedly stole N1.094billion from a firm, Mainstreet Bank Registrars Ltd, a subsidiary of Skye Bank Plc, have been charged before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

    Oluwadamilare Akingbola, 40, Suleiman Adedokun, 46, Adegbami Adedoke Elijah, 43, Patrick Okoh, 35, and Dauda Taiwo Oluwashola, 43, were arraigned on May 25, 2017 by the Force Criminal Investigation &Intelligence Department (FCIID), Ikoyi, Lagos.

    Arraigned with them for the same alleged offence was one Udoka Martins Uwah, still at large.

    They are standing trial before Magistrate (Mrs) O. G. Oghre on a seven-count charge marked H/20c/2017 bordering on conspiracy and stealing.

    Prosecuting Counsel Henry Obiazi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) said the defendants committed the alleged offences between December 2016 and February 2017 at the firm’s Maryland office.

    He said the defendants and others at large connived and fraudulently withdrew the stolen N1.094billion in tranches of N280,000,000, N760,000,000, N13,5000,000 and N40,000,000.

    He said the offences contravene and are punishable under Sections 287(5)(a)&(9)(c) 410 and 411, of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.

    The defendants pleaded not guilty.

    Magistrate Oghre admitted each defendant to bail in the sum of N5 million with two sureties in the like sum and adjourned the case till June 29, for mention.