The police in Accra have nabbed 30 suspected cyber crime syndicate last Saturday at popular Achimota Mile 7 Police in Accra. 29 of the suspects are Nigerians while one is a Ghanaian. They were arrested in an early morning swoop on a house at Alhaji Tabora in Accra.
According to GhanaWeb, the police retrieved 34 laptops and 48 mobile phones from the suspects. The suspects are also linked to a dead body that was found wrapped at the Apenkwa neighbourhood two weeks ago.
The suspects are aged from 21 to 30. Another suspect, Peter Konadu Frimpong, 34, who was on top of a storey building videoing the police action, was also arrested.
The suspects
Among the suspects rounded up were Ike Ogu, 24; Ike Iduozi, 23; Blessing Adebayo, 25; Awudu Abdul Razak, 23; Daley Emmanuel, 26; Moses Madjaki, 30; Onaghnise Osahou, 24; Peter Andrews,25; Benjamin Akumeze, 25; Kelvin Osayi, 23; Oforufemi Adrigu, 25, Anthony Irughe, 22 and Kelvin Uche, 22.
Others were Timothy Irughe, 22; Elvis Uzeogbu, 24; Owen Zakari, 24; Joe Steve Obozu, 29; Festus Owubu, 25; Abraham Femi, 24; Suleman Abudu, 25; Abraham Femi, 24; Age Michael, 25; Philip Aghariaha, 25; Nathaniel Owobu, 27; Teddy Atigbin, 23; Henry Onege, 27; Daniel Ukuokolo, 21; Osas Uhuns, 22; Kelvin Ola, 23, Lucky Osahou,21 and Yakubu Dido, 26.
Tip-off
Briefing the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday, the Accra Regional Police Commander, DCOP Osabarima Oware Asare Pinkro II, said the police, acting on a tip-off, kept the house under surveillance before conducting the
He said the police met almost all the suspects busily engaged in fraudulent cyber activities during the swoop around 7 a.m. last
“The suspects were all living in one big house where they undertake their nefarious activities,” he
Link to dead body
On the dead body found at Apenkwa which was linked to the suspected cyber fraudsters, DCOP Pinkro said a search on the body revealed that the victim had been killed somewhere and dumped at the place.
Information gathered by the police indicated that the deceased was one of the Nigerian suspects who had gone missing.
“The information was that he was beaten to death and wrapped and dumped there for leaking the group’s activities to a third party whom we cannot name. They saw it as a betrayal. We are investigating this case, in addition to the cyber crime cases,” he said.
The suspects will be put before court today, pending further police investigations.
Simultaneous swoop
In a related development, the Accra Regional Police Command, on March 10, 2017, simultaneously carried out swoops in all 14 of its divisions in parts of the city believed to be dens of criminals.
In the process, 112 suspects were arrested in areas including Adenta, the Odorkor Market, Kwashieman, Gbawe, Anyaa, Sowutuom and its environs, the Achimota Charcoal Station, Aborfu, the Santana Market, the Abeka Market, Kissieman, Akweteman, the Madina Market, the Redco Flats, Madina Zongo, the Madina Lorry Station, Madina Firestone, Adabraka, Tuobodom at Adabraka, the Obra Spot at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle and Accra New Town.
Apart from the items, including electronic gadgets, retrieved from the suspects, the police found wrapped substances suspected to be Indian hemp.
At Accra New Town, for instance, the police collected 179 wrapped dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp, 61 wrapped whitish substances suspected to be narcotic drugs and 65 wrapped rock-like material suspected to be narcotic drugs.
Accra Regional Police Commander, DCOP Osabarima Oware Asare Pinkro II
Danger
Commenting on the suspected narcotic drugs seized, DCOP Osabarima Pinkro said: “It tells you the danger of people abusing drugs in the city. This is a contributory factor to the violent crimes, including murder, suicide and robbery.”
He said it was, therefore, important that the police conducted those swoops to get rid of criminals to make the communities safer.
he appealed.
He urged the public to erase the perception that when they reported crime to the police, the police would turn around to reveal the identities of the informants to the criminals.

A native doctor identified has reportedly died, while having a sex romp with an alleged prostitute in a brothel at Anara, Isiala Mbano local council area of Imo State.
Vanguard gathered that the late native doctor, hailed from Ehime Mbano local government area, also of Imo State, “was having a good time with the sex worker when death came calling”.
An unconfirmed story that made the round in the community had it that the deceased usually visited the brothel to not only assuage his segxwal appetite, but to also buy used condoms containing human sperms from the sex workers.
, a villager told Vanguard.
Although the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Andrew Enwerem, a deputy superintendent of police, said he was yet to be briefed about the incident, a police officer at the Anara police station, who spoke on strict grounds of anonymity, however confirmed the incident.
He told Vanguard that they got wind of the incident and rushed to the scene, “some people who claimed to be close members of the dead man’s family, equally came and took the corpse away, stressing that they were not interested in making the incident a police matter”.
Answering another question, the police officer said that the deceased man’s family did not make any formal report to the police on the matter, adding that there was nothing they could have done in the circumstance.

The Federal High Court, Abuja, will on April 25 rule on whether or not the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu and three others, should be admitted to bail.
The judge, Justice Binta Nyako, gave the date after hearing arguments from counsel to Kanu and those of the three co-defendants – Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi.
Counsel to Kanu, Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, in his argument, told the court that the proof of evidence filed by the prosecution against his client was not strong enough to warrant his continued detention.
According to him, the proof of evidence is empty and not strong enough to sustain the charge against him and his health is deteriorating.
Ejiofor said.
He acknowledged that bail was at the discretion of the court, and urged the judge to exercise the descretion in favour of his client in the most liberal terms.
Mr Inalegwu Adoga, counsel to Onwudiwe, urged the court to admit his client to bail, adding that bail was constitutional, temporary and would end if the defendant was convicted.
He argued that his continuous detention amounted to him already serving a jail term even though the constitution held that he was innocent until proven otherwise.
He expressed concerns that he might not be able to properly defend his client while in detention as the DSS was making it impossible to have access to him.

Mr E.I Eseme, Counsel to Madubugwu, told the court that his client was being held on a two-count charge which was not even remotely related to a capital offence.
He said that since his client had no previous criminal record, he was entitled to bail, adding that when released on bail, he would not commit any other crime.
Nwawuisi’s counsel Maxwell Okpara also appealed to the judge to grant his client bail, adding that the court’s last ruling, which struck out some of the charges against his client gave hope to a lot of people.

The prosecuting counsel, Mr Shuaibu Labaran, opposed the application for bail, arguing that the first, third and fourth defendants premised their applications on non-existing laws.

Labaran prayed the court to refuse the bail application and maintain the order of accelerated hearing for the case.
Nyako adjourned the matter until April 25 to rule on the bail application.
Kanu and his co-defendants are standing trial on charges of treasonable felony, unlawful possession of firearms and other offences bordering on their agitation for the secession ‎of the Republic of Biafra from Nigeria.
Nyako would be the second judge to hear Kanu’s bail application.
Ademola had in 2016 admitted Kanu to bail unconditionally while ruling in an application filed and argued by his former lawyer, Vincent Obeta.
Kanu, however, during one of sittings told the court that he was no longer confident in the court saying he got information that he would not receive a fair hearing.
The case file was then returned to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, who reassigned it to Justice John Tsoho.
However, following an alleged conflicting ruling given on the issue of secret trial in favour of the DSS, Kanu in a petition asked the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate Tsoho.
He also filed an application asking the judge to disqualify himself from the matter.
Tsoho then hands off the matter on Sept. 26 and sent the case file to Auta who reassigned it to Nyako.
 

According to APC London, here are photos of ex-Chief of Staff AVM, Adesola Amosu’s £2 million posh mansion in the United Kingdom suspected to be purchased with proceeds of corruption.
The mansion allegedly consists of 6 massive bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, 3 recipients and cinema.
Adesola Nunayon Amosu CFR (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Nigerian Air Force Air vice-marshal who served as the 19th Chief of Air Staff.
The mansion allegedly owned by Adesola Amosun
On Jan 27, 2016, the Nigerian anti-corruption agency the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC arrested and detained Adesola Amosu over allegation of corruption in arms procurement during his tenure as Chief Of Air Staff in which over $2.1 billion arms procurement deal were diverted for personal use.

really? but i know them to be productive now.

am sure she will be the one who makes her husband to beat her

What husband? Lol!
This woman on sash shows she is happy for her divorced marriage. Who Knows What Might Cause This Dissolved Marriage?

Facebook user, Lopex Morrissa Escandell took to her page to reveal that she becomes nervous each day her man doesn't beat her.
She wrote; "I love beating Infact beating is my medicine. If bae doesn't beat me a day, I will be so nervous throughout that day. Beating a day makes relationship grow stronger. We call it love beating Before you come here talking trash.....is it your beating ?"

Following the death of a yet to be identified man, pandemonium reportedly broken out at the Orile Agege area of Lagos, at about 7pm during an occasion allegedly organised by the Branch Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), which took place on  Olurinde street in the area.
According to Vanguard, the occasion drew many NURTW Orile Agege members and chieftains but while the occasion was at its peak, one of the chieftains was said to have responded to music by spraying some Naira notes.
It was learnt that in the process, some area boys eulogised him and picked some of the notes but were chased by his body guards and this resulted in a fisticuff.
In order to safeguard the chieftain, one of the body guards was said to have shot into the air to scare the crowd but one of the area boys was hit by a stray bullet and he died on the spot.
Policemen from Elemere were said to have intervened as people scampered for safety.
Effort to get the reaction of NURTW state chairman Tajudeen Agbede proved abortive as his cell phone was unreachable.

Nollywood actress and Purple Campaign founder, Ify Okeke who is very close to Tonto Dikeh has written an open letter addressing the drama surrounding Tonto's marriage. Okeke also confirmed that she has seen photos of domestic violence abuse Tonto had said was inflicted on her by the husband, Olakunle Churchill.
Churchill had during an interview denied ever beating Tonto. But, this new revelation claims that he was actually lying. However, Okeke begged Nigerians to allow the couple sort out their differences instead of worsening the situation.
"PLEASE GIVE THEM SPACE.
I am upset and tired of this Drama. @tontolet you know my stand in this whole issue, that's why I am so upset with you & that isn't gonna change but @bigchurchhaven I am more disappointed at you because I expected you to be more matured & try look for a way to make up with your WIFE as you just called her in the video. Both of you are just making others rich with your private life suddenly everyone is a blogger & has opinions. I want to address this issue because I was once battered & I lied to my friends & siblings even when my younger brother incidentally saw one I claimed I was at fault, I was depressed, I grew this big because I was never this big. I started drinking & hated men for everything.
I didn't date for 5years before I could move on, this is part of the reason I started PURPLE CAMPAIGN. 1 Day in 2015, @tontolet me that I should come around that she was very sick. So I rushed to her house & I saw her very sick also noticed bruises I was shocked but a usual Ifeoma doesn't ask questions that same day she showed me the Ring OLA gave her & gave me the good news of her pregnancy, I was so happy but while gisting I was checking her phone, an iPhone 6 gold.
I saw pictures of her Unclad self with bruises and I quickly asked "Booboo, I hope he doesn't beat you? Or what's with this picture?" Tonto replied "NOOOOO, I fell down the stairs because I was alone at home & very sick." I didn't believe her but I told her, please don't take whatever you won't take later now. I left home with the joy of her engagement & pregnancy. Now my point, OLA have you beaten TONTO before YES because she confirmed it,Tee can be called all sort of names but she's a wonderful girl. Who I saw did a lot things to make you Happy & I remember the last time I saw you guys in Lagos, I knew something was wrong but usually she cover it.
When this whole drama started I begged Tee to hold on, I was angry she choose to talk but if I can preach to other to talk & get help why will I say no to someone i see as a kid sister? I really wanted things to change but with the rate this is happening I have chosen to break my silent and support my own. YOU GUYS NEED HELP, PLEASE GET "

Nollywood Actress, Mercy Aigbe stepped out with her teenage daughter, Michelle. Don't they both look stunning Wearing Same Colorful Shirt

Photos of the medical doctor, Allwell Orji, who committed suicide on 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos after receiving a strange phone call -have emerged. Preliminary investigation at the scene revealed that the man who was said to be driven by his driver, suddenly ordered the driver to pull over, came down from his car and suddenly jumped into the water from the bridge while returning from church....
The vehicle and the driver has been taken to Adeniji Adele Police Station for further investigation, while effort is on going to recover his body from the Lagoon.

Footage of a South African Pastor, inciting his members against Nigerians and other nationals in the country has emerged on line.
In the video, the clergyman was seen telling his members that the only thing Nigerians brought to South Africa was penis enlargement adverts, which is an insult to South Africans.
The clergyman lashed out at the South African government for allowing foreigners, trade in penis enlargement and abortion in the country.
He could be heard saying, “I’m the gate keeper here in Witbank… Stop all these Nigerians who come to our town and go around pasting flyers written Penis Enlargement-“we grow manhood, our job is enlarging manhood, and government says it’s all well halleluiah, that’s an insult.
“You are saying South African men need their penis enlarged. A man comes here from Nigeria, he sees me wearing 3-piece suit and he tells me he wants to enlarge my manhood, I will kick his teeth out with my sharp nose shoe.
“If you have visited my church, better exit now I don’t need that kind of person of her, never!”
Recall that there has been renewed xenophobic attack against Nigerians and other foreigners in South Africa.
Against this backdrop, the Nigerian Senate had recently resolved to send a delegation of lawmakers to the South African parliament.
The essence of the lawmakers visiting their South African counterparts was to find a lasting solution to the crisis.

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A reliable source with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), who disclosed this at the weekend, said that some bankers have been encouraged largely by the reward of between 2.5 per cent (minimum) and five percent (maximum) of the total amount recovered.
According to the source, several former and current public officers who had allegedly stolen from the treasury either hid the physical cash in safe houses or used shell companies, close aides, associates and family members to stash the ill-gotten funds in bank accounts using the names of the companies or their friends, family members and associates.
However, though the accounts are not in the names of the political office holders, they usually operate the accounts themselves, a fact that is well known by the bank account officers who help them to manage the accounts.
As a result, since the federal government unveiled the whistleblowing policy as a means of recovering stolen public sector funds, a number of junior and middle-level bankers have been quietly rating on the true beneficiaries of the accounts in order to cash in on the rewards derivable from the policy.
The EFCC source informed THISDAY that once the commission is contacted by a banker, it is usually easy to identify the real beneficiary of the bank accounts through the Bank Verification Number (BVN), since an account holder can only have one BVN for all of his individual and company accounts.
The source said: “Junior to middle-level account officers in the banks are the major whistleblowers. That is why we (EFCC) have been recovering a lot of money since the policy was unveiled.
“They are ratting on politicians and public office holders. Some of these politicians use shell companies; some use companies in which they are not even directors or shareholders. Some also use friends, family members and associates.
“But because the public office holders still manage the accounts themselves, the BVNs can still be traced to them.
“For instance, once there is a suspicious bank account, the account officer informs the EFCC, which in turn carries out the investigation and then gets a freeze order on the account(s), following which the suspect will be invited for interrogation.”
THISDAY also learnt that the $9.8 million recovered by the EFCC from a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Andrew Yakubu, was the fallout of a clash between Yakubu and his political opponents in Kaduna States, who used a very close family member of the former NNPC boss to snitch on him to the anti-graft agency.
A special operation conducted by EFCC operatives on February 3, 2017 on a building belonging to Yakubu in Kaduna, yielded the staggering sum and another £74,000 in cash. The huge cash was hidden in a fire proof safe in the building.
However, the EFCC source explained that the family member, whose identity has been kept under wraps for security reasons, may not be entitled to the reward provided in the whistleblowing policy, because Yakubu who has maintained that the cash found in the house was a gift, has challenged the temporary forfeiture order obtained by the EFCC from the court to the federal government.
“Should he win his case and the amount returned, the whistleblower will not be entitled to anything,” the source said.
The source said one way that the government could encourage more whistleblowing is by being transparent on how much has been paid to individuals who have gone on a limb to expose illicit transactions without disclosing their identities.
“That way, more people will be encouraged to expose illegal activities in their organisations and in the public sector,” he said.
The federal government last December approved a whistleblowing policy to expose fraud and other related crimes in both the public and the private sectors.
Finance Minister, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, had while urging Nigerians to key into the scheme said the policy devised by her ministry was aimed at encouraging anyone with information about a violation, misconduct or improper activity that impacts negatively on Nigerians and government to report it.
According to her, the policy’s objective is to increase exposure of financial or financial-related crimes; support the fight against financial crimes and corruption; improve the level of public confidence in public entities; enhance transparency and accountability in the management of public funds; improve Nigeria’s Open Government Ranking and Ease of Doing Business Indicators; and recover public funds that can be deployed to finance Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit.
She listed information that could be submitted to include: mismanagement or misappropriation of public funds and assets (e.g. properties and vehicles); financial malpractice or fraud; collecting/soliciting bribes; corruption; diversion of revenue; fraudulent and unapproved payments; splitting of contracts; procurement fraud (kickbacks and over-invoicing etc.).
The minister defined a whistleblower as any person who voluntarily discloses information in good faith about a possible misconduct or violation that has occurred, is ongoing, or is about to occur.
The reward for a whistleblower was put at between 2.5 per cent (minimum) and five per cent (maximum) of the total amount recovered.
Meanwhile, the federal government at the weekend reiterated its desire to protect and reward whistleblowers whose information provide leads in the recovery of stolen funds and assets.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the assurance to the public in a statement after concerned citizens drew the attention of the Presidential Assets Recovery Committee to the recriminations whistleblowers were being subjected to in some public establishments.
While reiterating the desire of government to reward whistleblowers in both the public and private sectors, Mohammed assured them that their identity would be protected and the information they disclosed kept secret.
“’For those who may have suffered any backlash as a result of the information they provide, their cases will be reviewed and appropriate mitigating actions taken.
“Whistleblowers have nothing to fear, because the committee has put in place the necessary measures to safeguard those who give useful information.
“As a matter of fact, whistleblowers have everything to gain and nothing to lose,” he said.
Mohammed stressed that in line with the policy, anybody whose information leads to the recovery of up to N5 billion could be rewarded handsomely to the tune of N210 million, calculated as N50 million on the first N1 billion (five per cent) and N160 million which is 4 per cent of the remaining N4 billion.
He added further that any amount that exceeds N5 billion would attract a higher reward.
“For example, if a whistleblower provides information leading to the recovery of N10 billion, he or she will receive 5 per cent of the first N1 billion, 4 per cent of the next N4 billion and 2.5 per cent of the remaining N5 billion.
“What we have done by making this information public is to reassure potential whistleblowers that the plan to reward is real. We are not just saying we will pay all whistleblowers, but we are letting them know in advance what they are entitled to once the information they provide leads to the recovery of looted funds,” he said.
A civil servant working for the Foreign Affairs Ministry was said to have been sacked after exposing alleged theft in an agency of the ministry.
His case is now under review by the minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, following the directive of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.

 
A notorious kidnap kingpin, popularly called King Solomon, alleged to have been responsible for the abduction of several residents of Festac Town in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos and environs, has been arrested by police in Lagos.
One of his victims, as gathered, included the female Customs Officer attached to Tin Can Command SDV, a bonded terminal of the Nigeria Customs Service, who was abducted in the presence of her two daughters at an eatery on 22 Road, Festac Town, last December.
 Other victims include a pastor of a Pentecostal Church in Festac, identified simply as Pastor Nwachukwu, and two traders at Trade Fair.
The suspect, whose real name is Chukwudi Solomon, used his apartment on 46 Canal View Road as a den, where abducted victims were kept.
He is currently singing like a bird at the police station as efforts are being made by security operatives to arrest other members of his crime syndicate

A 22-year-old Nigerian man, admitted to police he exposed himself to at least three women in a Shopko parking lot at 55 Lake Boulevard in Redding.
Kawan Okoye Gaidowsky admitted to the Redding Police Department he was driving a gray, 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt when he pulled up next to a woman in the Shopko parking lot, pulled out his penis and began to masturbate on Wednesday morning around 8:42 a.m., police said.
The woman, Ashlee Libolt, reported the car's description and license plate to police.
A police officer checked the car's records and found it was registered to Gaidowsky. He was feeling extra generous when he was interviewed by police and admitted he did expose himself to Libolt in the parking lot, but also exposed himself to two other female victims who were caught in his exposure spree, police said.
One exposure was last month and the other was not reported, according to Sgt. Les James.
Gaidowsky was arrested for investigation of indecent exposure and booked at the Shasta County Jail.
Police say there may be more victims, because Gaidowsky admitted this isn't the first time he's exposed himself in public.

The young lady shared her story on break_or_makeup, telling stunned readers about herself.
According to her, she has a dad who never gives her any money even though he has enough. So she decided to get the money by any means possible.
She revealed that she connected her best friend with her dad, since the man loves women. She arranged with the friend to get 50/50 of whatever she gets from her dad. That way, she would make the money she wants.
However, problem started when her friend got pregnant for her dad.

Veteran Ghanaian actor, Prince Yawson who is also known as Waakye has revealed that doctors have advised him to abstain from sex.
Waakye was rushed to a hospital in Osu over mild stroke on Friday, 3rd March 2017, but was later referred to the 37 Military hospital.
The actor who is responding to treatment stated that doctors have advised him to stay way from sex when he had a telephone interview with Razzonline.
‘I’m currently doing well .and I have been discharged from the 37 military hospital…but hahahaha…the doctor has advised me to abstain from sex and any form of hard work’, he told razzonline.

Actress, Georgina Onuoha who recently got out of series of social media war with controversial journalist, Kemi Olunloyo, is pleading for her release as she is still at a Port Harcourt prison for allegedly defaming pastor david Ibiyeomie.
She took to her Instagram to acknowledge that though they had issues, she is human and is not perfect. Read her plea
"A lot of people have been writing me about Kemi or HnnAfrica arrest.. Everyone knows my perception of her.. her lies, falsehood and misinformation to the general public of events that never happened. Yes I fought her vigorously to protect and defend my image is was trying hard to tarnish with lies maliciously.
However, we are all flawed and imperfect. She is an opinionated writer and steps out of bounds most often. Yet, I will plead to the Pastor of the church she accused and Nigerian police Port-Harcourt Branch to please show mercy and release her. She is a mum and needs to be home with her kids.
I call on all well meaning Nigerians to please forgive her and lend your voices towards her release. I beg of you all.
Please free Kemi
God bless you all.
To err is human; To forgive is Divine"