How Ogun Senator, Solomon Adeola’s Close Aide, Adeniyi Sanni Was Murdered In Lagos

Mr. Adeniyi Sanni, an aide of Ogun state Senator, Solomon Olamilekan Adeola (popularly called Yayi) has been was yesterday shot dead in Lagos.  Reports said he was killed by yet to be identified persons in the early hours of Saturday. His last moment was when he was stopped at a checkpoint where he was questioned about documents of the vehicle he was driving. He went silent afterwards and was later found with bullet wounds.

Justice For Iniubong Umoren: Court Sentences Killer Of Uyo Job-Seeker To Death By Hanging

Justice Bassey Nkanang of the Akwa Ibom State High Court has this morning sentenced Uduak Akpan to death by hanging for the murder of late Iniubong Umoren. The court however discharged the father and sister of the accused who equally stood trial. Nigerians have waited anxiously to know the judgement that would be delivered in the matter. Umoren’s case from onset attracted a lot of attention, especially on the social media. Late Iniubong Umoren, a graduate of Philosophy, University of Uyo, (UNIUYO) was allegedly raped, murdered and buried in a shallow grave by a suspected serial rapist and killer, Uduak-Abasi Akpan, in April 2021.

Justice For Late Funke Olakunri As Court Sentences Pa Fasoranti's Daughter's Killers To Death 3yrs After

An Ondo State High Court, Akure, today sentenced three persons to death for killing Mrs Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of the Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti.

UPDATE: Concerned Group Advocates Psychiatric Test, Mental Care For 22yr Old Who Drowned Her Baby

Some concerned groups have been calling for further steps to be taken on a young lady that killed her baby in Lagos few days back, rather than just proceeding with her prosecution.

After 12yr Fraud Trial: Ex-Abia Gov, Orji Kalu Bags 12yr Jail Term, Loses Company To FG

A former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu, has been sentenced to 12 years in jail after he was found guilty of N7.65bn fraud by Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos.

His company, Slok Nigeria Ltd, was ordered to be forfeited to the federal government.

The court found the second convict, his former commissioner for finance, Jonnes udeogo guilty of 34 counts.

Mr Kalu, who was Abia governor between 1999 and 2007, was re-arraigned in July last year on a 39-count amended charge by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). They were first arraigned in 2007 before Justice Adamu Bello but several adjournments and transfer of judges stalled the trial.

The court initially fixed December 2 to deliver judgment but, last Friday, announced that the judgment would be delivered today.

How First Nation Airline Boss, Kayode Odukoya Used Fake Document To Get N1.7b Loan From Skye Bank

A prosecution witness, Mr Patrick Ogo, on Friday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court that Kayode Odukoya, Managing Director, FirstNation Airways, secured a N1.7 billion loan from Skye Bank with a forged document.

Ogo, a Legal Officer with Polaris Bank, formerly Skye Bank, testified at the beginning of the trial of Odukoya over alleged N1.7 billion theft.

He was led in evidence by Mr Anselm Ozioko, lead counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), prosecuting the case.

The legal officer, who is the first prosecution witness, said that Odukoya, the alter ego of Bellview Airlines and FirstNation Airline (the second and third defendants) had, from 2007 to 2012, obtained various loan facilities from the bank.

He said: “As at December 2016, he obtained facilities accumulating to about N3.4 billion and 2.4 million dollars.

“At the point of the first application for these facilities, the defendant undertook to avail the bank of some collateral.

“The collateral include properties at 29 and 30 Oduduwa Way, Ikeja, and 35 Ladipo Bateye St, Ikeja, which the first defendant alleged belonged to him.

“On the basis that the property belonged to him, the bank disbursed the loan facilities to the defendants.

“When the bank commenced mortgage of these properties with particular reference to the property at No. 29, Oduduwa Way, Ikeja, with registration No. 33 on page 33 volume 1011 at the Lagos State Land Registry, Alausa, it was discovered to be false.

“Relying on same, the bank wrote to the Land Registry to confirm the registered number as furnished by the defendant and the bank received a response that the referred number does not exist in the record to the referred property.”

The prosecution witness said that the bank, upon receiving feedback from the Land Registry, contacted Odukoya who provided a memorandum of loss, a sworn affidavit, police extract and a March 8, 2013 publication of National Mirror newspaper.

Ogo informed the court that page 50 of the newspaper publication declared that the title document of the property was missing, stating that whoever found the document would be rewarded handsomely.

He said that further investigations by Polaris (Skye) bank revealed that the registration number of the property was fake and that Odukoya had used the same property as collateral for another loan from another bank.

“The bank’s internal investigation in respect of that property showed that the registration number of that property was Page 5, Vol. 5 of 1011, which the first defendant had used as collateral.

“The bank thereafter instructed its external solicitor to petition the EFCC as regards the act of the defendant.

“The instructed solicitor also wrote to the defendant referring to the converted sums of the bank which were earlier stated as N3.4 billion and 2.4 million dollars.

“The defendant responded that the referred amount was not involved but rather it was N1.7 billion.

“Subsequently another petition was written by our lawyer to the EFCC to carry out investigation on the fraudulent act of the defendant of obtaining the bank’s money by false representation of facts.

“Investigations were carried out which consequently made me to make statements to the EFCC in respect of the suit,” Ogo said.

The witness said that the loans were granted to Odukoya because his application inferred some urgency for the funds to run the operations of FirstNation Airways and Bellview Airlines.

Barbarism In Oyo! Youths Hack To Death, Burn Budding Yoruba Actor

The case of a budding Yoruba actor, who was last Friday hacked to death and burnt by some youths in Lanlate, a town in Ibarapa East local government area of Oyo state is currently causing heightened tension in the area, and unless the law takes it place, it may degenerate into a communal clash between the town and their neighbors, Eruwa, the headquarters of the local government.

Last Friday, October 11, 2018, Sola Adiekola was gruesomely killed by some identified youths who carried out jungle justice on him.

According to eye witnesses who spoke with CityScoop, he was alleged to have stolen. It was during the daylight, so it was shocking that they did not hand him over to the police after he arrested. 

The late Sola's accusers, who later turned his murderers we were told alleged him of other sins, including sleeping with the wife of one of them. 

Reports say the victim was trailed and chased from Lanlate by his killers and after overpowering him, they took him back to the border between Lanlate and Eruwa and butchered him to death. They later set his body ablaze. 

Sola, an indigene of Eruwa was a bidding drama practitioner and a vulcanizer. He sometimes does commercial motorcycle (Okada) transport business part-time before his murder. He was well known in both Lanlate and Eruwa, which made it more difficult to phantom what his killers were up to. 

CityScoop's account even had it that the late Sola was set ablaze after being killed in the presence of his father. The father was also threatened to be set ablaze by the attackers, we were told. 

Meanwhile, we have heard that the police are currently investigating the case, although no official statement has been obtained from the Oyo State Police command as at the time of filing this report. 

What the people of Eruwa are however clamoring for right now is for justice to take its course. They want the perpetrators apprehended and prosecuted. 

Eruwa and Lanlate have had history of soft communal disturbances in the past and this particular case if not well handled, does not portend a good omen for the peace both communities have enjoyed I recent years.