The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) Ilorin Zonal Command arrested 29 people yesterday for their alleged involvement in internet and other related fraud activities.

The suspects were apprehended at various locations in Offa, Kwara State’s Offa Local Government Area.

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Sikiru Mustapha, Abdulmartin Olawale, Gbolahan Abdulamin, Abdulfawaz Olakanmi, Tunde Saheed, David Komolafe, Adebayo Ridwan, Oluwatobi Akinbo, Fatimehin Kayode, Ibrahim Zakariya, Olajide Moshood, Ikudaisi Adesoji, Habeeb Adeyemi, Hassan Akorede, Ibrahim Zakariya.
Others are: Ahmed Quadri, Olanipekun Ibrahim, Olabisi Ololade, Ahmed Akorede, Wasiu Adesina, Damilola Samsudeen, Olaloye Damilare, Nathaniel Laoshe, Adeniyi Opeyemi, Adebayo Shahajudeen, Segun Ajila, Kehinde Olaniyi and Ibitowa Toyeeb.

A statement issued by the Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren and made available to journalists in Ilorin stated that, the arrest of the affected suspects was due to credible intelligence received by the command on the activities of the suspects.

The statement said: “Items recovered from them include mobile phones, laptops and cars.”

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The statement therefore added that the suspects have confessed to the crime and they will be charged to court upon the conclusion of the ongoing investigation.

Suspected gunmen are said to have killed two people on the Tsokundi expressway in Taraba state’s Wukari council.

According to The Guardian, the incident, which occurred around 12 p.m. on Tuesday, heightened tension in a neighborhood already plagued by violent crime.

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Aside from the recent development, several bandit attacks have been reported in the council and other parts of the state.

The travellers were killed on their way from Wukari town to Tsokundi village, according to the council chairman, Dr. Daniel Adigrace.
He said the victims were traveling on a motorbike when they were ambushed.

He charged the security operatives to arrest and prosecute the attackers who have been terrorising the community.

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Adigrace called for urgent stakeholders meeting, which he said would help to address the security challenges in the council.

He also requested additional security operatives in the area.

Bright Kester, a murder suspect in the death of Mary Ngozi, a POS operator and Nollywood actress, has been reported dead.

According to reports, the 22-year-old suspect died at a general hospital in Delta, where he was rushed for treatment after being injured by a mob.

This comes as the police rescued Onyeka Ifeanyi, a 19-year-old suspect, from the enraged mob.

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They were apprehended by police after an angry mob threatened to lynch them.

The police recovered one cut-to-size double barrel gun from the suspects after the rescue.
The suspects, during interrogation, confessed to have robbed several POS operators in the town.

The Delta State Police Command led by CP Ari Muhammed Ali confirmed the report in a statement signed and made available to the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe.

The Police image maker said, “They also confessed that their gang members were responsible for the robbery and murder of one Mary Ngozi, a POS operator and Nollywood actress at Deeper Life road on 7/12/2021.

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According to DSP Edafe, “One of the suspects, Bright Michael Kester, was taken to the general hospital for treatment due to injuries sustained from the mob attack but gave up the ghost while receiving treatment. Investigation is ongoing.”

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arrested one Labaran Tanko, a Joint Admission Matriculation Board official, in the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja.

Tanko was charged with a five-count amended charge of conspiracy and criminal breach of trust in the amount of N46 million before Justice Hassan Babangida on Wednesday.
One of the counts reads, “That you Labaran Tanko sometime between July 2013 and July 2016 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court while being the State Coordinator of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Nasarawa Zonal Office, and in such capacity entrusted with dominion over certain properties to wit, 22,257 (Twenty Two Thousand, Two Hundred and Fifty-Seven) units of e- facility cards of the Joint Admission & Matriculation Board (JAMB) committed criminal breach of trust in respect of the said properties when you disposed of the cards without duly rendering accounts of the disposal to JAMB and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code Law.”

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The defendant pleaded not guilty to all the charges, a statement from the agency noted.
The prosecution counsel, Ekele Iheanacho informed the court that there had been an existing bail earlier granted the defendant, as he requested for a date for the commencement of trial.
The presiding judge granted the defendant bail in the sum of N10 million and a surety in like sum. The surety must be a civil servant on Grade Level 12 or above and be resident in Abuja.

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The defendant, who was the state coordinator of the board in Nasarawa was initially arraigned before Justice Olasunbo Goodluck who has been elevated to the Court of Appeal.
The JAMB staffer, Labaran Tanko, had claimed his car got burnt and in the process scratch cards worth N23million were destroyed in the inferno.
However, the board said after a thorough investigation, it discovered that the cards which Tanko claimed were burnt alongside his car were used by students in Nasarawa State to register.
It said this was easy to discover through simple checks carried out by its officials.