Crime

Olubunmi Abodunde murdered his wife Taiwo in their Newmarket home, London, last November, and has just got life imprisonment. The Nigerian couple moved to the UK recently, and their domestic violence which had started in Ondo early on escalated..  The Ipswich Crown Court  heard they had been having incidents over…

Two witnesses the EFCC brought to court have narrated how they gave and took $600,000 in kickback for Godwin Emefiele. But the CBN former governor facing a $4.5 billion corruption trial has kept saying it wasn’t him. Victor Onyejiuwa and John Ayoh testified separately before the Lagos Special Offences Court…

Hadi Sirika, former aviation minister, awarded multi-billion naira aviation contracts to his family members while he held sway as minister. EFCC alleged the fraud added up to N2.7 billion, and the perpetrators did it in the Nigerian Air Project. Sirika now faces six counts of abusing his office, according to…

Gloria Akpaku and her kept man Akpoveta School in their last pillow talk promised him N100,000. But things changed when School overreached himself, threatening to reveal their relationship to the sugar mummy’s son. According to Delta Police Command, Gloria dared him to go ahead.  And School did—by stabbing her three…

Garuba Mumuni and his gang of six kidnapped three women in Ondo, herded them into the bush, and nodded off. Two of the victims, a pastor’s wife and a member, were in their church when the kidnappers struck. The third was on her farm. “The victims however escaped from their…