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Court Sentences Oluwatimileyin Ajayi To Death For Killing Salome Adaidu
The High Court in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has sentenced Oluwatimileyin Ajayi, the suspected killer of a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Salome Adaidu, to death by hanging.
Internet scammers busted: 29 Jailed as Court seizes iPhones, dollars, motorcycles
A Federal High Court in Kano has slammed the gavel on 29 internet fraudsters, sending shockwaves across Nigeria’s cybercrime underworld.
How my elder brother Jude Okoye stole $1m, £34,537: Peter Okoye speaks in court
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, May 16, 2025, presented its first prosecution witness, PW1, Peter Obumuneme Okoye, (a.k.a Mr P) against Jude Chigozie Okoye, elder brother and former Manager of Paul and Peter Okoye, before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos.
Bamise’s murder: Justice at last as Lagos BRT driver bags death sentence
More than three years after he murdered his passenger, Oluwabamise Ayanwola, a Lagos High Court on Friday, sentenced a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominikoron, to death by hanging.
Court jails man caught with undeclared $40,000 at Lagos Airport
One Igboezue Emeka who was caught at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, with undeclared $40,000( Forty Thousand United States of America Dollars) has been sentenced to one month imprisonment for money laundering.
NDLEA strikes fear in drug rings, uncovers shocking stashes across Nigeria
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intensified its relentless war on drug trafficking, striking at the heart of illicit networks across multiple states in a sweeping operation that led to major arrests and jaw-dropping drug seizures.
Kwara Court Sentences Two Chinese Nationals for Unlawful Mining
On Friday, March 7, 2025, Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court, Ilorin, delivered a conviction and sentencing of two Chinese individuals, Yang Chao and Wu Shan Chuan, along with their company, Crius Chemical Nigeria Limited, for engaging in illegal solid minerals mining in Kwara State.
U.S Mission Nigeria Reaffirms Robust Relationship with EFCC
The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Richard M. Mills Jr. has reaffirmed that the robust working relationship between the United States government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, would continue in order to achieve significant success in the fight against economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption.
LASU seeks justice for slain 28-year-old graduate
The Lagos State University has called for timely justice over the death of one of its recent graduates, Adedamola Ogunbode, popularly known as Horlar.
Police arrest suspected one-chance gang member, recover operational vehicle
Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on Monday night arrested a member of a 4-man one-chance gang and recovered their operational Toyota Camry, 1999 model.