What is a city without crime? thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi.
Chinese arraigned for misleading EFCC (Punch)
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arraigned a Chinese national, Liu Beixiang, also known as Lao Liu, before Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court in Lagos, over an allegation of providing false information to a government official.
Liu is facing a one-count charge bordering on deliberately supplying false information to an officer of the EFCC during the course of official duty.
EFCC told the court that Liu, sometime in December 2024 in Lagos, gave information that he knew to be false to an officer of the Federal Government of Nigeria in the discharge of his duties. (Read more)
Cable thief meets waterloo at Lagos Housing electric station (TheNation)
An attempt by a suspected cable thief at a critical power facility in one of the Lagos Housing schemes has ended in tragedy, as the suspect was shocked by the electricity facility.
The suspect, Sadiq Danjuma, who said he lives in Igando, came with an accomplice named Yahoo to steal cable at the Lateef Kayode Jakande (LKJ) Gardens, Igando.
The duo scaled the estate’s fence beside the LASU-Iba Expressway into the compound around 2am. After cutting some underground cables, Danjuma went inside the Injection Sub-Station (ISS) to steal some electrical equipment. (Read more)
Couple accuses Lagos task force of unlawful property takeover (Punch)
A couple, Kunle and Ronke Ajayi have accused the Lagos State Task Force of unlawfully locking up their property located on Plot 170B, Oyadiran Estate, Sabo in the Yaba area of Lagos State.
Speaking with PUNCH Metro, at the weekend, the wife said men from the task force office stormed their residence on Thursday, March 20, and locked up the property, citing environmental infractions.
Ajayi, who claimed to have been absent when the incident happened, added that his neighbour and two plumbers who were working on the premises were arrested and taken to their office in the Oshodi area of the state. (Read more)
Family feud: Peter alleges Jude diverted N1.3bn P-Square earnings (Punch)
Music star Peter Okoye, one half of the iconic duo P-Square, on Monday narrated to the Federal High Court in Lagos, how his older brother and former manager, Jude Okoye, secretly registered a new company in his wife’s name and used it to divert royalties belonging to the defunct music group, P-Square.
Jude Okoye is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on a seven-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of N1.38 bn, $1M, and £34,537.59, alongside his company, Northside Music Limited.
Testifying as the first prosecution witness, Peter revealed that Jude incorporated Northside Music Ltd, a name strikingly similar to their original company, Northside Entertainment Ltd, without informing him or his twin brother, Paul. (Read More)
EFCC arraigns man for non-declaration of £8,020, $704 at Lagos Airport (Tribune)
Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, arraigned Agudosi Christopher Okechukwu for alleged non-declaration of £8,020 and $704 before Justice Yelim Bogoro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos.
The accused was apprehended in December 2024 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) for non-declaration of some money in Pounds and Dollars, and was handed over to the EFCC for further investigations.
The EFCC took its official X account with a statement to confirm that the defendant was also arraigned on Tuesday on a two-count charge surrounding money laundering, for which he pleaded guilty. (Read more)