Man Impersonates EFCC Operative, Extorts Money from CEO
A man, Paschal Ugwu, has been arrested by the police for posing as an employee of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and defrauding unsuspecting persons.

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Edgal Imohimi, who paraded Ugwu along with other suspects on Monday, said the imposter was nabbed on October 5, 2018, in Ijegun, in the Isheri-Osun area of the state.

He said, “He pretended to be an EFCC officer and accused the Chief Executive Officer of Wire-My-Cake Company of defrauding GTB.
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POLICE HUNT FOR ABUJA NANNY WHO STABBED EMPLOYER TO DEATH
The police have launched a manhunt for a nanny, Becky Johnson, who allegedly killed her employer, Yemisi Haasz, at her Asokoro, Abuja home, before fleeing with the victim’s property.

The Federal Capital Territory police spokesman, Anjuguri Manzah, said the “police are working on the case,” adding that efforts were in top gear to apprehend the suspect.

Haasz was buried last Wednesday at Apo cemetery, Abuja.
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DANE ONCE THREATENED TO KILL WIFE, DAUGHTER WHILE DRUNK, DRIVER TELLS COURT
A Lagos High Court in Igbosere yesterday heard that a Danish national, Peter Nielsen, once threatened to kill his 37-year-old Nigerian wife, Zainab, also known as Alizee, and their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Petra, while drunk before they were allegedly murdered at their Banana Island home in Ikoyi, Lagos. Nielsen was alleged of the murder of his wife and daughter at their residence at No. 4, Flat 17, Bella Vista Tower, Banana Island Ikoyi at about 3:45a.m. on April 5, 2018.

A prosecution witness, Daniel Simon Joel, told Justice Mobolanle Okikiolu-Ighile that the late Zainab was afraid her husband, who he called ‘Oga’, was “running mad.” The court also heard that Nielsen made the threat in August 2017 and was arrested but afterwards released by the police. At the last hearing of the matter on June 13, the court authorised the Lagos State government to obtain Nielsen’s blood for DNA analysis.
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PORT HARCOURT COURT SENTENCE SHELL MD, 2 OTHERS TO THREE MONTHS IN PRISON
A Port Harcourt High Court has sentenced Mr Osagie Okunbor, the managing director of Shell Petroleum Development Company, and two others to three months in prison with hard labour.

The sentencing was a result of a contempt charge against them.
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MISSING GENERAL: SOLDIERS DETAIN JOURNALIST, OTHERS FOR 28 HOURS
PUNCH newspapers correspondent in Plateau State, Friday Olokor, has been arrested by some soldiers in Jos, the state capital.

Olokor, who had reportedly gone to eat at a restaurant, Anne Breeze Restaurant, in the Rayfield area of Jos, was picked up by masked military officials around 9.15pm on Saturday.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the soldiers, who were attached to a special quad in Maiduguri, Borno State, were recently deployed in the state by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Yusuf Buratai, over the ethnic and religious crisis in Plateau State.
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