Graduate Forges Customer's Signature, Caught Trying To Steal N110k In GTB Abuja

Luck ran out of a man believed to be in his 30s on Monday as he attempted to withdraw N110,000 (One Hundred and ten thousand naira) from another customer’s account after stealing his transfer slip, then forging the victim’s signature on a bank withdrawals slip right there in the bank before proceeding to carry out the fraud.



However, he was arrested by the Bank’s security personnel who handed him over to the Police when his face could not match that of his victim’s.

The suspect who gave his name as Lukeman Ibrahim said he is from Bauchi state and a graduate of Pure Mathematics from the University of Maiduguri. The victim, Mr. Theophilus Agada who spoke with Vanguard said he had gone to GT bank, Garki branch, Abuja to transfer some money to another account when the fraud was attempted on his account.

He said, unknown to him, the suspect who was wearing a ring believed to be fetish perhaps trailed him to the bank, stole his transfer slip after he had transferred the money and gone and then attempted to withdraw the said sum before he was caught.


He said it was the bank who called his attention to the attempted fraud. According to him, ” I was already out of the bank premises when they called me and said someone wanted to make a withdrawal of N110, 000 from my account. They said they had to call me because the suspect’s face did not match mine.”


Continuing, Mr. Agada said, “on getting to my bank, i saw that the suspect forged exactly my signature and my full name. Everything was perfect except his face which gave him away.”


Mr. Agada said he wants everybody going to transact in the banks to always be wary of the person next to them as such a person could be a fraudster.


“This is the second time the suspect is trying to defraud people at the bank. Last week, he attempted defrauding another person at the Area 3 branch of GT Bank but was arrested and later bailed only for him to repeat the same crime at Area 11 today. I want everybody to learn from this and know that while at the bank, they should be very alert as someone standing next could be a thief claiming to equally be a bank customer.”

The suspect was taken to Garki police station where he was remanded. He said at the police station that the suspect who is visibly under the influence of some drugs pleaded that he went into the fraud business because he was hungry. The ring believed to be fetish was however taken from him by the police personnel. Mr. Agada also revealed that both the state and the bank are pressing charges on the suspect as he would be charged to court.

Kidnappers Abduct RCCG Pastor During Service In Kogi

Pastor Ayo Raphael, a pastor  named with the Redeemed Christian Church of God has been kidnapped by yet-to-be identified persons.

Ayo was kidnapped during the Sunday service at the Resurrection parish of the RCCG in Kabba junction in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital when kidnappers, numbering about 10, stormed the church auditorium at about 9am and ordered the congregation to lie face down.

Eyewitnesses said, “The pastor was dragged out of the church into the bush while the abductors shot sporadically into the air to facilitate their escape.”

 

Although no lives were lost, many members of the congregation were said to have sustained injuries as a result of their scampering for safety as the kidnappers were shooting into the air.

Kidnappers had contacted the church, demanding N50m before the pastor could be released.

Man arrested for beating up Police Inspecto

20-year-old Mamode Samson was accused of hitting Officer Monday Okungbowa of the Ogida Police Station in Benin and also tearing his uniform.

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A young man in Edo State has been arrested and charged to court after he allegedly beat up a Police Inspector.

20-year-old Mamode Samson was accused of hitting OfficerMonday Okungbowa of the Ogida Police Station in Benin and also tearing his uniform.

Mamode is also alleged to have assaulted three siblings, Jennifer Okunrobo, Uyiosa Okunrobo and Eghosa Okunrobo on December 2014.

The suspect has been arraigned before an Egor Magistrate’s Court but pleaded not guilty to the three-count charge.

The case was adjourned to January 7, 2015
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Painful DeathMan mourns young wife killed by Boko Haram

A grief stricken husband is yet to come to terms with the death of his wife in a mindless Boko Haram attack in Jos.

This husband is yet to come to terms with his wife's death at the hands of a female Boko Haram suicide bomber.

For 43-year-old Audu Go­yar Chime, a native of Plateau State, the 11th of December, 2014, will always remain a black Thursday for him as that was the day the dreaded Islamist insurgent sect Boko Haram blown his young wife and mother of his six children, Jummai to death in a market in Jos, the state capital, in what has been described as one of the deadliest in the once peaceful city.

Besides losing his wife in the mindless attack, Chime is yet to come to terms with how he is going to raise the children she left behind, including the toddler who is just one year and two months old.

Audu Chime is beside himself with grief after losing his companion of 22 years. Chime who only got to know that he has lost his beloved wife after going round mortuaries in the city when he could not locate her, Jummai’s husband, is still dazed by the horror and shock of what happened to his wife, seeing the loss as a great disaster for his family, himself and his young children.

Audu recalls that it was after he had gone round the hospitals, and could not locate Jummai, that he was asked to go to the mortuary to check if her remains could be there. It was at the Plateau Hospital morgue that he found her corpse lying on the floor with others.

The grief stricken man narrated his ordeal:

"I was devastated. If she was sick and died, it would have been easier to bear than to find someone who left home hale and hearty dead in a mortuary about 24 hours later. If I say it has been easy for me to bear, I will be lying.

When I went out today, it was to collect drugs from the clinic to help my heart. I cannot think of how I will cater for six children alone. I am a mason. I fend for my family from the proceeds I make from working at construction sites. But lately business has been bad. We do not get much to do.

It was this woman that was helping out from the little she makes. She usually bought what we ate on her way back home. The children are also not finding it easy to bear. The little one cries throughout the night because he cannot get breast milk. We now give him the food we eat and supplement it with Viju milk. When he gets up in the night, we give him Viju milk again. After whimpering for some time, he sleeps off.

I have been hearing about Boko Haram but never thought it will ever come close to me or that I will ever become a victim. We are poor and only going out to look for our own daily bread. If we decide to stay at home, nobody will come to our rescue. So, see what has become of us going to look for our daily bread.

My appeal now is that people should assist me with a job. I do not want to remove my children from school. I have three in secondary school and two in primary. The eldest one needs to write his SSCE exams to be able to further his studies.

It is only the last one that is yet to start school. I am now looking onto God to assist me. When their mother was alive, she was assisting me with their feeding and schooling but now the future looks bleak. Even though the traders were blamed for going to that market, but my own wife was not selling there.

She was just unfortunate to be there at the time of the incident. She has no stall there. There is no way one could have known that danger was lurking at a corner. Govern­ment should know that any gathering can become a target for these evil people. They attack churches and mosques.

Can they also blame people for going there? While my family learns to cope with this sad situation in which we have found our­selves, we leave our fate in God’s hand. Just like my son’s name, we believe God’s will be done."

Going by reports carried by the Sun Newspaper, Jummai who was 36-years-old at the time she died, resided in the Jenta Adamu area of Jos with her family. On the fateful day, she had woke up early in the morning, had the usual morning devotion with her husband and children before leaving for Farin Gada, a popular vegetable market, to buy cucumber, watermelon and paw-paw.

Done with making her purchases, Jummai returned home. After washing the whole stock of fruits, she loaded her tray and set out to hawk, moving from street to street, from Joseph Gomwalk Road to West of Mines, all around Tafawa Balewa Street and eventually trekked up to Terminus roundabout, a daily journey she has been been making for years.

But on that fateful Thursday, a female Boko Haram suicide bomber was lurking in the corner, her weapon of mass destruc­tion primed and ready to explode. When she detonated the bomb around 6.30pm, Jummai and many other people within the destructive range of the bomb were killed.

Fulani herdsmen nabbed for robbing along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

Some Fulani men seem to have abandoned their vocation of tending their cows and are now masters of the road.

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playTwo Fulani herdsmen, Manu Hassan and Mohammed Umar, who were members of a robbery gang that operates along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, especially the Berger axis, have been arrested by soldiers attached to the OP Mesa, the military security outfit in Lagos State.      Hassan and Umar, who are both from Ngaski town in Kebbi State, according to reports from the police, were caught while robbing motorist along the long bridge that connects Lagos and Ogun States on the expressway and handed to the state Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. Three locally-made rifles and some cartridges were recovered from the gang.In a statement by the police, the gang of Fulani herdsmen turned robbers, apart from the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, also has hideouts in the Abbatoirs at Abule Egba and Agege areas of Lagos, as well as Igbo Ora and Saki areas in Oyo State, where they carry out their nefarious acts.    The reports added that the gang of seven were operating when the soldiers swooped on them and arrested Hassan and Umar while the other five managed to escape and are still on the run.Speaking while being paraded by the police, Umar, who is 28-years-old, said he had come to the Kara Market on the expressway to make a living by selling cows before he joined the gang."I am married with two children, and my family is based in Kebbi. I was formerly selling cows at the Kara Market before I was introduced to the gang.      I rob on the highway and also steal cows, although I don’t enjoy it. I have stolen about 12 cows this year.I sold them to one Alhaji Dan Manu in Abbatoir, Agege. I sold six to him for N500,000. I don’t have problem taking the cows away. I know their language."22-year-old Hassan, said the gang had just started their operation when the OP MESA stormed the place.                "It was Mohammed who said they had work to do that night and I should come with them. I thought he was talking about construction labour.But when I knew we were going to rob on the expressway, I told them I could not use a gun. They threatened to kill me, and then handed me one of their guns.We had hardly started the operation when the soldiers arrived at the scene. Others ran away, but I was caught. We were seven in number.      The soldiers might have killed me, but I surrendered to them, explaining that it was my first time."The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the arrest of the herdsmen."They are the ones terrorising the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, especially around the Kara Market. They have confessed to several other robberies. Three locally-made guns and knives were recovered from them.

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Devil Incarnate35-year-old man in soup for raping 6-year-old girl

The devil is taking the blame yet again after a 35-year-old man raped a 6-year-old girl.

play Kazeem Yusuf is now putting the blame on the devil after raping a 6-year-old girl.
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For 35-year-old Kazeem Yusuf, he will have to resort to the oft repeated sing song of blaming the devil after he was caught red handed raping a 6-year-old nursery 2 pupil.

The sordid incident that happened at the Kosodo area of Oranyan, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Sunday, 7 December, 2014, has sent shock waves around the area as many mothers have not come to terms with with the reason a grown man like Kazeem would resort to having carnal knowledge of the toddler.

According to the Nigerian Tribune, the girl was playing in the compound with her friend who is the suspect's niece, when he called on them to run an errand for him.

When the victim and her friend went to answer Yusuf's call, he gave his niece some money to buy sachet water for him, detaining the innocent victim. Immediately his niece was out of the room, Yusuf pounced on the girl and forcefully raped her.

Narrating her ordeal to the police, the young victim said:

"When we got to the man’s house, he gave my friend, who is his niece, money to go and buy sachet water for him. He lives on the first floor of an old storey building with wooden staircase.

Before my friend came back, the man carried me and put me on the bed. He did not remove my dress or my pants but just drew my pants aside. He started doing something to me. I was crying but no one came.

Boys rented for Jonathan's 2015 declaration protest over Money

According to SR, some of the rented supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan lost their patience when it became obvious that someone was trying to escape with the money they were promised.

The boys were said to have staged an embarrassing sit-down protest during Jonathan's official declaration at the Eagle Square to show their anger over non-payment of the N2000 they were promised.