What is a city without crime? thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys the craziest crimes in LasGidi.
LASTMA kicks as commercial driver stabs officer (Punch)
The General Manager of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Mr. Bolaji Oreagba, has said the agency would no longer tolerate any act of assault, physical attack or attempted murder on any official working for the government, especially LASTMA officers.
He noted that the perpetrators of such misdemeanors would be made to face the full wrath of the law by the state government.
Oreagba said this in light of “attempted murder” by a Zuzuki commercial mini bus driver (Korope) with registration number KJA 953 YE, Ibrahim Yusuf on a LASTMA officer, Traffic Manager Awotola Victor, operating at the Ojodu-Berger-Ogba axis.
It was learnt that Victor was stabbed while he attempted, alongside the patrol team, to apprehend Yusuf who was causing obstruction around 3.30pm on Saturday, February 12, 2022. Read more
Court Jails America-trained Surgeon 27 Years For N35m Fraud (Leadership)
Justice Abdulazeez Anka of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday convicted and sentenced an American-Trained medical doctor and surgeon, John Nweke, to a total of 27 years imprisonment without an option of fine over his involvement in an N35 million fraud.
Justice Anka jailed Dr. Nweke after he found him guilty of allegations of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence, made against him by the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU), Ikoyi, Lagos.
Nweke who also claimed to be one Senator Haruna Baba Musa, a Senator from Sokoto State was convicted and given jail terms by Justice Abdulazeez Anka, after pronouncing him guilty.
The convict was arraigned before the court on October 8, 2016, alongside Anike Igwe Stephen (now deceased) and Kelechi Chetachi Emenike (a cart pusher), on a five-count charge of conspiracy, money laundering, false representation and obtaining high-class phones valued at N35 Million from an online sale outlet, Konga. Read more
Court jails driver for life for defiling minor (Leadership)
Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Lagos State Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court in Ikeja on Thursday convicted and sentenced a driver, Abiodun Matthew to life imprisonment for defiling a four-year-old pupil at the Women Society School, located within the premises of the University of Lagos (UNILAG).
The state government had arraigned the 39-year-old Matthew before the court on allegations of sexual assault by penetration.
The state’s Department of Public Prosecution (DPP) had told the court that the convict, who was a driver with the school, committed the offence on March 23, 2019.
The DPP claimed that the convict sexually assaulted the pupil by penetrating her vagina with his finger. Read more
Ataga’s hands, legs were tied, witness tells Court (Guardian)
A Co-founder of Super Network Limited, Mr. Raman Obiorah Saliu yesterday, informed a Lagos High Court sitting at the TBS that the late Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga had seven multiple stabs on his neck.
Saliu spoke as a prosecution witness, in an ongoing trial of Chidinma Ojukwu, the alleged murderer of Ataga before Justice Yetunde Adesanya.
Ojukwu, a 300-level, Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, is facing trial alongside her sister, Chioma Egbuchu and one Adedapo Quadri, for Ataga’s murder.
In his Evidence-in-Chief led by the state Deputy Director of Public Prosecution (DDPP), Mrs A. O. Oluwafemi, the witness, a network engineer, told the court that he met the late Ataga, 10 years ago, in the course of building the Super TV App. Read more
NDLEA intercepts N2b worth of Codeine at Lagos port (Channels)
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized about two billion naira worth of codeine weighing about 40,250 kilograms imported in two 40 feet containers from India.
This comes barely a week after operatives of the agency seized 14,080kg of Codeine-based syrup and 4,352.43kg cold caps used to conceal it in a 40 feet container also imported from India, on Wednesday, February 2, 2022.
A statement issued on Thursday by the Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi says the latest consignments intercepted on Tuesday 8th February were brought into the country in two containers marked HLBU 2239792 with 1,125 cartons of the drug and HLBU 1067338 with 1,751 cartons, with a market value of N2, 012, 500, 000 (Two Billion, Twelve Million and Five Hundred Thousand Naira).
Mr. Babafemi said that the consignments were seized at the Port Express Bonded Terminal, Berger-Apapa after they were discovered concealed behind cartons of hypergra 200mg and deluxe chilly cutters, after which the Agency’s sniffer dogs were brought in to identify the illegal substance. Read more
Police nab 22 land grabbers in Lagos (Independent)
The police in Lagos have arrested 22 suspected land grabbers in the state.
Daily Independent gathered that they were arrested over the weekend and immediately charged to court by the operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Land Grabbing.
It was gathered that the suspects were arrested following a petition to the Task Force by a company in the state .
The suspects, it was further revealed, were also immediately charged before the Special Offence Court of Lagos State, held in Oshodi. Read more
Indian Businessman detained over smuggling of 134,700 bottles of codeine into Nigeria (Independent)
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said it has taken an Indian businessman, Vyapak Nutal into custody for interrogation over the smuggling of 134,700 bottles of Codeine syrup into the country through the land border between Nigeria and Niger Republic in Sokoto State.
The suspect had loaded the consignment into trucks in Cotonou, Benin Republic, and drove through the land borders via Niger Republic before entering Sokoto state at the Illela border. settled in a hotel in Sokoto State. Credible intelligence revealed that Nutal began to look for buyers for the controlled drug. While operatives were on his trail, officers of the Department of State Security were able to apprehend him and swiftly handed him over to NDLEA on Wednesday 10th February 2022.
In a related development, attempts by drug traffickers to export large quantities of Heroin, Methamphetamine, Khat, Tramadol and Cannabis through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) as well as three courier companies in Lagos have been frustrated by narcotic officers who intercepted the illicit consignments.
At the Lagos airport, operatives on Tuesday 8th February arrested one Felix Rotimi Eshemokhai with 1.75kg heroin while trying to board Royal Air Maroc to Casablanca, Morocco while another trafficker, Okafor Emmanuel Onuzuruike was also nabbed same day during his Bus to travel on Rwand Air to Dubai with 2.2kg of Cannabis concealed in food stuff. Read more