Nelson Ugwuagbo

The Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday gave a double life sentence to 65-year-old Igwe Ambrose for sticking his fingers into the private parts of his tenant’s seven- and eleven-year-old children.

Justice Abiola Soladoye ruled that the prosecution had proven Ambrose’s four counts of sexual assault by penetration and indecent treatment of a child beyond a reasonable doubt.

According to Soladoye, the defendant was a filthy old man who while ostensibly offering to assist the survivors with their schoolwork, caressed their breasts and touched them indecently.

She said the defendant had been identified and that the survivor’s evidence had shown him to be an unreliable, dishonest, and unworthy liar.

“The children decided to open up to their mother, who then informed her husband; he thereafter confronted the defendant and the matter was reported to a police station.

“The police visited the scene and the defendant was invited to the police station where he denied the allegations against him.

The judge, therefore, found the defendant guilty of all four counts against him, which were brought against him in violation of Sections 135 and 261 of the Lagos State 2015 Criminal Laws.

Mrs. Olufunke Adegoke, the State Counsel, called four witnesses: the mother of the survivors, the IPO, who submitted five exhibits, and two survivors.

According to the prosecution, the defendant committed the charges at Shagari Estate in Ipaja, Lagos, between January and June of 2021.

Officers of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, of the Nigeria Customs Service, have arrested a 41 year old man, Ifeanacho Marcellinus Ugbor, for allegedly being in possession of fake $10,000.

The suspect was arrested while trying to board an Ethiopian Airline (flight ET900) to Brazil on Friday November 10, 2023. As at the time of his arrest, the suspect was with a valid Nigerian passport with the No. B00033052.

The Customs Area Controller, MMIA Command, Ikeja, Comptroller Charles Orbihi, said aside from being fake, the action of the suspect violates section 15 of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (As Amended) Act No 11, 2011 and Act No1, 2012,

The Controller said the passenger contravened a part of the section within, which according to him is with the jurisdiction of the Service.

“This passenger, named IFEANACHO MARCELLINUS UGBOR, is a forty-one (41) years old Nigerian from Enugu State with a valid Nigerian Standard passport No. B00033052 who was scheduled to travel from Murtala Muhammad International Airport with the Ethiopian Airline (flight ET900) to Brazil on Friday 10th November, 2023 was suspected to have contravened the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act of Nigeria.

“The above-named suspect, having declared the sum of $10,000 USD on our Currency Declaration Form, our officers took a step further to examine the currency in line with section 66 of the Nigeria Customs Service Act 2023, and they (officers) discovered that the sum of $10,000 United States Dollars were all counterfeit. The suspect was refrained from travelling and detained for further investigation.

“This achievement was as a result of due diligence of our officers. We have eagle eyes officers in this Command, they are ready to work for twenty-four (24) hours of the day and seven (7) days of the week (24/7) combating all Customs related crimes and bringing to limelight the perpetrators.

“We hereby handover the sum of $10,000 USD counterfeited currency to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), the suspect, a valid Nigerian Standard passport No. B00033052, two phones and his baggage for further necessary action” he said.

One Buguwa Kwaji, a 30 -year-old man residing at Aljannaru village in Song Local Government Area of Adamawa State, has reportedly raped a 2-year-old girl after drinking alcohol.

Kwaji who’s said to be married and expecting his wife to deliver any moment from now blamed the alcohol for his action.

The suspect was caught red handed by the victim’s elder sister which made her raise an alarm, as a result, he got arrested by the police.

He was arrested by the Adamawa State Police Command on the 12 November, 2023 following a tip off and had confessed to having a carnal knowledge of the little girl.

Kwaji said: “After drinking a gin known as voltage on that fateful day, I lay down, and the little girl came and started playing on my body. So I raped her because I could not resist the urge for sex.”

The Spokesman of the Police Command, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje confirmed his arrest, adding investigations are underway to prosecute the suspect.

The Adamawa state Police Command attached to the Girei Divisional Police Headquarters, in collaboration with Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, disconnected the criminal network of some kidnappers in the state.

According to a press statement by SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, the Police Public Relations Officer Adamawa, 7 suspects were arrested in connection to kidnapping activities connecting part of Girei, Tambo, Borong villages in Girei and part of Demsa Local Government Areas.

The statement said the Command’s renewed Commitment to checkmating Crimes and criminality in the State forced it collaborate with the “Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association,” to disconnect “the criminal network of Kidnapping activities, connecting part of Girei, Tambo, Borong Villages in Girei and part of Demsa Local Government Areas.

Nguroje said the suspects are all residents of Tambo Village and Girei Local Government Area who were trailed to their hideouts after kidnapping a victim who lived in the same location identified as Koire Alhaji Ruwa and demanded a ransom of N10m.

Nguroje noted that: “Interestingly, when the Coordinator of the Organised Crime was apprehended, he immediately confessed and gave instructions to his collaborators to unconditionally release the kidnapped victim to prevent him from facing the consequences of the crime he committed. There and then, the victim was released unhurt.”

The police spokesman said the suspects were arrested on Friday, and he listed their names to include: Kabiru Muhammed (42years), Ibrahim Audu (17years), Hassan Usman (40years), Musa Sani (22years), Bello Ibrahim (35years), Abdullahi Saidu (17years) and Muhammed Abdu (40years).

He attributed the success of the arrest to the command’s renewed commitment towards checkmating crimes and criminality in the State.

“These successes are a result of the command’s renewed strategies to ensure public order, public safety and security to all citizens in the State,” he said.

He added that the Commissioner of Police, Afolabi Babatola, expressed happiness for the success recorded and further directed a total clamp down on criminals who are bent on disrupting the peace of the public.

The CP also called on the populace to always inform the police of the whereabouts of criminals, collaborators and their hideouts.

He equally assured the government and people of Adamawa state of the Command’s effort to dislodge all criminal hideous and black spots in the state.

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the remand of Godwin Emefiele, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to Kuje Correctional.

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the remand of Godwin Emefiele, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to Kuje Correctional facility pending ruling on his bail application.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned the former bank chief on a six-count amended charge.

Emefiele was arraigned before Justice Hamza Muazu.

Mathew Burkaa, SAN, his counsel, had moved the application for his bail but Rotimi Oyedepo, the EFCC counsel, opposed on behalf of the Federal Government.

After listening arguments, Justice Muazu said he needed a little time to study the exhibits supplied by Emefiele to support his request for bail.

He thereafter adjourned the case till November 22, 2023.

Emefiele’s travail began after President Bola Tinubu suspended him on June 9, 2023, and ordered a probe of the apex bank under his watch.

Tinubu later appointed a Special Investigator to probe CBN.

Amid this probe, the apex bank released its audited financial statement, which showed that it was owing JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs a combined sum of $7.5 billion as of the financial year ended December 2022.

After months in custody of the secret police, he was transferred to the EFCC, which arraigned him in court and he was granted bail.