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Fake TASUED Consultant Arraigned for Alleged N600,000 theft

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The police on Monday arraigned a 47-year-old man Sadiku Rasaki, who allegedly impersonated as an educational consultant to Tai Solarin University of Education and obtained the sum of N600,000, from the father of a student of the school.

Rasaki was arraigned before the Igbosere Magistrate Court sitting in Ebute-Metta, on three counts of obtaining, stealing and impersonation, preferred against him by the police.

The prosecutor Inspector Cyriacus Osuji, told the court that the defendant committed the offences sometime in September 2023, in Lagos.

He said that Rasaki, allegedly obtained the sum of N600,000, from one Mr James Oyeleke under the pretence of helping his son, Nathaniel Oyeleke, to facilitate the release of his school certificate.

Osuji said that the money that was stolen, belonged to the father of the student of Tai Solarin University of Education, Mr Oyeleke.

The prosecutor further told the court that Rasaki impersonated by presenting himself to the complainant as an educational consultant to the university.

According to the prosecutor, the offences committed are contrary to section 314 and punishable under Sections 287 and 383, of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015.

Rasaki pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

However, Magistrate Oluwatosin Erinle granted him bail of N300,000, with two sureties who are gainfully employed in like sum.

She said that one of the sureties must be a blood relation, show evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government, six months bank statement and show means of identification.

The magistrate also ordered that the addresses of the sureties must be verified.

The case was adjourned till July 30, 2024, for mention.

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Ogun Police Launches Manhunt for APC Councillor Killers

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Police say they have launched a manhunt for the killers of an APC councillorship candidate, in the Ogun state November 16 local government poll.
The candidate, Adeyemi Adeleke was shot dead on Saturday afternoon at Jide Jones axis of Oke Ilewo, Abeokuta, the state capital.
His assassins shot him at a close range and smashed his head to ensure he was dead before fleeing the scene.
Spokesperson of the state police command, Omolola Odutola said policemen have been deployed to track down the assasins.
Odutola in a telephone conversation said the killers are suspected cultists and were armed with a pump action rifle and a pistol in an unmarked Toyota corrola sport car.
She said police immediately visited the scene after the incident, took photographs, while the family of the late candidate requested to take his body away without a post mortem examination.
The police image maker said police investigations of the incident was underway to arrest the fleeing killers of the candidate.

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Group Raises Awareness on Gender Violence

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The centre for community development, family and health initiative has alerted of the rising reported cases of sexual and gender based violence in Ogun state.
The centre chief executive director, Fidelis Olumide Igbodipe issued the alert in Ijebu Ode during the training organized by the centre for media practitioners on sexual and gender based violence over the weekend.
He explained that the training aimed at raising awareness, promote dialogue and advocacy for policy change to tackle sexual and geder based violence (SGBV) in the state.
Igbodipe said the focus of the training was how the media could assist in continuous advocacy, communtiy mobilization and engagement on the issue.
He called for a change in the perception about sexual and reproductive health rights of the people and zero tolerance for SGBV.

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NDLEA Arrests Drug Kingpin in Abeokuta

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A suspected drug kingpin, Ajiboye Damilare has been arrested by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.
The suspect, according to the anti-narcotic agency, has been on its wanted list for over a year.
He was arrested on Wednesday, last week, in a bank in the city.
Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday said the suspect had been evading arrest since NDLEA operatives raided his warehouse, at Akala Street, Mushin in Lagos on September 4, 2023.
According to Babafemi, a total of one thousand and 101 kilogram of Ghana loud was recovered from the warehouse.
Since then, Babafemi said the directorate of assets and financial investigation of NDLEA which had been tracking him, linked him with 20 bank accounts and blocked them.

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