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‘White American prostitute’ jailed 12 months for N57.8m fraud in Kwara

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Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has sentenced a 20-year-old man, Fawas Oyelowo, to 12 months imprisonment for offences bordering on cybercrime.

The convict, who hails from the Atiba Local Government Area of Oyo State, was sentenced on Friday in Ilorin.

He was prosecuted on a two-count charge by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Oyelowo, among other things, claimed to be a white female professional prostitute practising in the United States of America.

According to the prosecution, the defendant disguised to swindle his unsuspecting victims out of various sums before the long arm of the law caught up with him.

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The charges read in part: “That you, Oyelowo Mayowa Fawas, sometime between June 2020 and June 2021 in Ilorin, Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did knowingly have under your control the sum of N57,837,710 paid into your Access Bank account number 0804708906, reasonably suspected to have been unlawfully obtained, thereby committing an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 319A of the Penal Code.”

The defendant pleaded guilty when the two counts were read to him.

Following his plea, counsel for the EFCC, Innocent Mbachie, called a witness, Udo Iniubong, an operative of the agency, to review the facts of the case.

The witness told the court how credible intelligence led to the arrest of the defendant in Malete, Moro LGA of Kwara State.

The statements of the defendant, iPhones and a laptop recovered from him at the point of arrest were tendered and admitted in evidence.

In his judgment, Justice Abdulgafar found Oyelowo guilty of the two counts and sentenced him to six months’ imprisonment on each count with a fine option of N100,000 on each count.

The judge also ordered that the phones and the laptop used to perpetrate the crime and the sum of $700 raised as restitution by the convict be forfeited to the Federal Government.

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Defamation: Court orders arrest of prophet, two others

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Defamation: Court orders arrest of prophet, two others

Justice Olaolu Olanipekun of Oyo State Magistrates’ Court 7 sitting in Iyaganku, Ibadan, has issued a warrant for the arrest of a prophet of a Cherubim and Seraphim (C&S) church, Ojo Amos (aka Elewuogbo).

Justice Olanipekun ordered that Elewuogbo and his two sureties be arrested and detained for jumping bail.

Elewuogbo is on trial for alleged defamation of character of the Founder of One Love Family, Sat Guru Maharaj Ji.

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Elewuogbo and a Lagos-based blogger, Gbenga Asabe, had, through publications, accused Maharaj Ji of selling human body parts for money rituals.

The court also granted request for consolidation of the cases against Elewuogbo and Asabe brought by Maharaj Ji’s counsel, Dapo Akinosi.

Akinosi prayed the court that since the facts were related, they should be merged. The court granted the application and adjourned the case till April 30.

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Students drag university to court over payment of registration fees

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Students drag university to court over payment of registration fees

Three students of one of the universities in northern part of the country, Al-qalam University, Katsina, have dragged the institution to a High Court in Katsina over payment of registration fees.

The applicants, Hauwa’u Sani-Barda, Rabi’atu Sani-Barda and Hafsat Sani-Barda, all students of the respondent, got admission in 2018 and 2019, and graduated in 2022 and 2023.

They, however, claimed that the respondents had refused to mobilise them for the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), because they had not settled all fees due to the institution.

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During the proceedings on Thursday, the applicants’ counsel, Muhammad Mukhtar-Lawal, told the court that his clients had filed an exparte motion in pursuance to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).

Mukhtar-Lawal said that the application sought the leave of the court to apply for judicial review.

After the counsel’s submission, the judge, Justice Abbas Bawale, said that the applicants should have filed a motion on notice.

Bawale, however, granted a leave order to the applicants to apply for judicial review by way of mandamus.
He said after that, processes would be served on the university and enable the court to hear the case.

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NAFDAC busts fake Eva water factory, arrests suspect

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NAFDAC busts fake Eva water factory, arrests suspect

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has exposed a counterfeit bottled water operation in Port Harcourt, specifically targeting the renowned brand Eva water.

Following a tipoff, NAFDAC officials conducted a raid on a derelict shop situated on Pipeline Road, Eneka.

The establishment disguised as a pool house and served as the hub for producing the fraudulent water.

During the operation, authorities discovered that used Eva plastic bottles were being refilled with contaminated water sourced from a paint bucket.

The water was then filtered through unhygienic rubber funnels covered with cloth.

Counterfeit Eva labels were affixed to the bottles, which were subsequently sealed with fake Eva corks.

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One suspect, identified as Chibunna James, was apprehended while in the process of loading the adulterated water for distribution. However, the mastermind behind the operation remains at large.

The confiscated products were promptly evacuated to the NAFDAC office for further investigation and analysis.

Cyril Monye, NAFDAC’s Public Relations Officer for Rivers State, disclosed that the scheme of the perpetrators involved repackaging contaminated water in used Eva bottles, employing makeshift filters made from unsanitary materials, and applying fake labels and corks to deceive consumers.

While efforts are underway to locate and apprehend the ringleader of the syndicate, NAFDAC urges the public to provide any relevant information that could aid in their apprehension.

Furthermore, Monye revealed that thirty packs of the counterfeit products were confiscated and transported to the NAFDAC office in Port Harcourt for thorough investigation. To prevent the circulation of the counterfeit water, the uncorked bottles were emptied and disposed of.

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