A Nigerian has been sentenced to prison by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.   Adedayo Akinwunmi Agbayewa, 45, of College Park, Georgia, was convicted to five years in prison and ordered to pay $7,784,415 in restitution, officials said. Agbayewa and his co‑conspirators were involved in a lottery or sweepstakes telemarketing enterprise that hoodwinked elderly victims. Using pseudonyms, they informed their targets by mail or telephone that they had won sweepstakes or lottery and must first pay taxes or fees. The victims mailed checks or deposited money into bank accounts provided by the individuals but never received any prize money. Assistant U.S. Attorney Christina McCall prosecuted the case, the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and IRS‑Criminal Investigation. The U.S. Department of Justice, through the Elder Justice Initiative, works to combat elder abuse, neglect, as well as financial fraud...

The National Industrial Court Abuja has struck out a suit sponsored by one Umar Lawal, the President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, asking the Academic Staff Union of Universities, to call off its seven-month-old strike and return to school. Lawal had instituted the case on behalf of himself and the association. Justice Polycarp Hamman struck out the suit on Tuesday after the counsel to Lawal, Debo Ikuesan, withdrew the suit on the grounds that the student body is challenging his position as president, denying that he is the leader of NANS as he had deposed to. Counsel to ASUU, Marshal Abubakar also informed the court that he is not opposing the application to withdraw the suit. In the suit, Faruk, who claimed to be the president of NANS sought the court’s order mandating ASUU to call off the industrial action it commenced in February 2022. He said the strike action affects students’ right to education under section 18, Chapter 2 of the 1999 constitution as amended. ...

  The national electricity grid suffered a fresh system  collapse  on Monday, plunging the country into darkness.  Major cities in Nigeria including the commercial nerve centre Lagos and the nation’s political capital Abuja are experiencing blackout on Monday as the National Grid collapsed for the umpteenth time in 2022. The electricity distribution companies informed their customers of the development in notices. Ikeja Electric said the national grid collapsed at 10:50am on Monday. “This has affected the Transmission Stations within our network and resulted in the loss of power supply to our customers,” the notice partly read. Eko Electricity Distribution Company also stated, “We regret to inform you of a system collapse on the National Grid at precisely 10:52 am. Presently all our injection substations are out of supply. “We are working with our TCN partners to restore supply as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience.” The Abuja Electricity Distributi...

  Putin Hundreds of people have been arrested by authorities as protests against Russia’s new “partial mobilisation” continue across the country, an independent rights group has said. It was reported that 724 people were detained across 32 different cities on Saturday September 24,2022. Widespread demonstrations have broken out since President Vladimir Putin announced plans to draft 300,000 men to fight in Ukraine. Unsanctioned rallies are banned under Russian law. But Mr Putin’s move to draft civilians into the military has sparked large scale protests in urban areas, with more than 1,000 people being detained at demonstrations earlier this week. In Moscow, journalists reported witnessing one demonstrator shouting “we are not cannon fodder” as she was arrested by officers. And in St Petersburg, Russia’s second city, one man told reporters: “I don’t want to go to war for Putin.” Seventy-year-old Natalya Dubova told journalist that she opposed the war and confessed she was “afraid f...

The server of an old generation bank in the country has been hacked into by suspected fraudsters who stole the sum of N523,337,100,00 from the account of a customer. Meanwhile, two  suspects has been arrested in connection with the cyber attack. The Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU) Ikoyi, Lagos, SP Eyitayo Johnson, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. The PPRO said the hackers stole the huge sum using 18 different customers accounts and dissipated same via Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Cash, ATM/POS,Withdrawals and e-transfers. The PPRO said police have arrested two suspects while operatives are following other leads in order to apprehend the remaining members of the syndicate. “Hackers hit an Old-Generation Bank, Transferred Five Hundred and Twenty-Three Million, Three Hundred and Thirty-Seven Thousand and One Hundred Naira (N523,337,100.00) to eighteen (18) different customers’ Accounts and dissipated same via ...

  Ten suspects including a dismissed operative of the Department of State Services (DSS) have been arrested for robbing a bullion vehicle in Abia State. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Janet Agebe, disclosed this on Monday in a press conference in Umuahia, identifying the ex-DSS operative as Prosper Israel from Abia State. Israel was paraded on Monday alongside nine other suspects at the Police Headquarters in the state capital two months after the robbery. It was reported that the suspects were part of the 14-man robbery gang that ambushed a bullion van near Ntigha Junction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway, on July 26, 2022. The Police Commissioner stated that during the robbery, the cash officer of a new generation bank was killed, while the suspects carted an unspecified amount of cash being conveyed by the armoured cash transport van.

Chukwudumeme Onwuamad Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamad  Ike a.k.a   Evans, and his co-defendant, Victor Aduba, to  21 years imprisonment for kidnapping one Sylvanus Hafia. They were accused of conspiring and kidnapping Sylvanus Ahanonu Hafia at about 5:30 pm on June 23, 2014, at Kara Street, Amuwo Odofin in Lagos and were alleged to have captured and detained Hafia and demanded a ransom of  $420,000.  The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Evans’ accomplice, Victor Aduba,  an ex-soldier, was also sentenced to 21 years imprisonment on a four-count charge  bordering on kidnapping and unlawful possession of firearms. Delivering judgement, Oluwatoyin Taiwo, held that the prosecution had successfully proved the case of kidnap and possession of firearms against the convicts. But they pleaded not guilty to the four charges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=475jBY_...

  The United Kingdom government has released the names and information of 6,743 persons who have died with unclaimed estates. Some of the names published are 56 Nigerians officially recorded to have died between 1996 and 2021 in the United Kingdom. The unclaimed estates have a 30-year time limit from the date of death before it is removed if no one comes for it.  According to data from UK Treasury Solicitor and last updated on September 8, 2022, one of the Nigerians identified is Julius Taiwo, who died on July 19, 1995, at Derby Derbyshire, UK. A familiar name on the list, according to BusinessDay, is a certain Victor Adedapo Olufemi Fani-Kayode, who is said to have died on August 15, 2001, in Birmingham, with the informant on his death listed as the Birmingham City Council.  However, there is little information on relatives to whom their assets may be transferred. https://youtu.be/Q1Cf8WckHB4

An armed robbery suspect was arrested by the State So-Safe Corps in Ogun State after he allegedly attacked a commercial motorcyclist in Idiroko.  The suspect, Ibrahim Oluwaseun, 22, a resident of Olorogbo Compound in the Asheko/Ibatefin Area of the Ipokia Local Government in Ogun State was detained on Friday and  have been handed over to the Nigeria Police, Idiroko Divisional Headquarters for further investigation. According to  a statement issued from the office of the State Commander of the So-Safe, Commander (Dr) Soji Ganzallo through the Director of Information and Public Relations of the Corps, Assistant Commander Moruf Yusuf, said that during the decoration of the new Ipokia Area Commander, ACC Yusuf Aliu, few weeks back, the Divisions under the Area Command were put on their toes to curb series of crime emanating from some okada riders and to put a stop to miscreants attacking okada riders. From the reports credited to the outfit; this faithful day, Mr. Ibrahim Ol...

  The Country Representative, the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo, has said that globally that it is estimated that over 700,000 people take their lives annually, adding that 77% of all global suicides occurred in low-and-middle-income countries. Mulombo said this in commemoration of the 2022 World Suicide Prevention Day. He commended the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire stakeholders for their commitment towards suicide prevention in Nigeria. He praised health experts for their efforts towards suicide prevention in the country. He called on individuals to play a role in supporting those experiencing a suicidal crisis or those bereaved by suicide whether as a member of society, saying, “We can all create hope through action and be the light”. He assured that, together, by raising awareness, reducing the stigma around suicide, and encouraging well-informed action, “we can reduce instances of suicide in our country and inadvertently around the world”. He...

  Chidozie Collins Obasi A 29-year-old Nigerian man, Chidozie Collins Obasi, has been declared wanted in the United States for alleged fraud. Obasi is being accused of allegedly defrauding US hospitals of $31 million by offering non-existent COVID-19 ventilators for sale. The US Department of Justice (D. O .J) in a statement on Friday, said the suspect carried out and executed the scheme from Nigeria with the help of co-conspirators abroad between September 2018 and June 2020. Obasi and his accomplices allegedly obtained more than $31,000,000 through a complicated fraud scheme, the majority coming from the State of New York. “The scheme alleged in the Indictment began in September 2018, with a spam email campaign that offered phony “work from home” jobs. When a person responded to the phony job offer, Obasi or a co-conspirator posed as a representative of a legitimate company, often a supposed medical equipment supplier based outside the United States, and offered the person a job ...

  The Police in Oyo State have announced that they have located and notified the family members of the man whose skeleton was found in his house recently.  The statement signed by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Adewale Osifeso, said the discovery was a result of “solid partnership and provision of credible information to the Oyo State Police Command.”  Oyo Police Command said: “Anchoring on the strength of solid communal partnerships and provision of credible information to the Oyo State Police Command, on Sunday 04/09/2022 at about 1400hrs, representatives from the Landlord/ Landlady’s Association of Idi-Orogbo, Adeosun, Life Forte Area, Awotan, Apete, Ibadan reported a case of suspected sudden and unnatural death at Apete Divisional Police Headquarters.  “In swift coordinated response to the information provided, the Divisional Police Officer and a team of crime and forensic detectives approached the three-bedroom block residence of the deceased and fo...

  The Lagos State Government is  committed to continually  improving  and  regulating  the parking refinement for residents in order to make parking convenient, safe and secure. Speaking at a  news-conference,  to inform stakeholders and the public on the mandate and activities of the Lagos State Parking Authority (LASPA), the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, explained that the functions of the Agency are constitutional and the State Government will never resort to any untoward means in its dealing with the people. Addressing the misinformation recently circulated about the activities of LASPA by a company alleging that it was charged for parking within its own premises, the Commissioner urged Lagosians to be wary of political jobbers and individuals who willfully distort facts. Oladeinde stated that LASPA was established to promote parking policies tailored to suit the peculiarity of the State in line with modern internati...

  The Federal Government has threatened to sanction foreign airlines operating in the country but refuse to accept naira payment for flight tickets. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, made this known at a briefing today after the Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari. He said intelligence reports indicated that some of the airlines refuse to sell in naira but charge ticket fares in dollars instead, in violation of Nigerian laws. The minister disclosed that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has been directed to deal with any of such airlines that are caught flouting the laws. The Minister stated that the foreign airlines made over $1.1 billion from Nigeria in 2016, which could have been retained in the country if they were local airlines. Sirika explained that the airlines remitted over $600 million to their home countries in 2016. He also noted that over $265 million was released this year out of about $484 million due to them. He also clai...

The  United States based Delta Airlines, has revealed that from October 4, 2022, it will suspend flight operations between JFK airport, New York and Lagos. The airline said that it cannot continue operating this route without generating revenue, meanwhile Its Atlanta to Lagos route will remain in service until further notice. This announcement comes within weeks of Emirates and British Airways' decisions to suspend flights to the African nation. These airlines have cited the same reasons as Delta for their withdrawal. The Nigerian Central Bank previously claimed that releasing the funds could crash its travel economy; now, it claims that it has not had sufficient foreign currency to pay the airlines. Another suspended route Delta Air Lines announced on August 29th that it would suspend all flights connecting New York (JFK) and Lagos (LOS). The route will enter its temporary suspension on October 4th. This suspension is the result of the African country withholding revenue from Del...

                      Landon Parrot, 19.   Ohio father  charged  with  murder after leaving  his one- year - old son  in a  130 - degree hot car . Landon Parrot, 19, has been  charged with murder,  two counts of endangering children and involuntary manslaughter and is currently held at Tuscarawas County Jail, New Philadelphia Police Chief Michael Goodwin said in a statement on Facebook on Friday.  "The child passed away after being left in the car unattended for approximately 5 hours, with an outside temperature of 87 degrees," the chief wrote. "During the interview it appears that this was not a matter of forgetting the child but was a deliberate act so as the child would not be a disturbance while in the house." "We estimate that would’ve made the interior of the car about 130 degrees and this child was in there strapped into a car seat with no fluids, no air conditioning, nothing,...