Crime
Corruption: Ex-NOUN Vice Chancellor, Tenebe loses multi-million hotel to FG
The Justice Inyang Ekwo-led Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has on Monday ordered a final forfeiture of a multi-million naira hotel, Sunflower Hotel Limited, in Kaduna State, belonging to the former Vice Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, Prof. Vincent Tenebe.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has been prosecuting the former Vice Chancellor on allegations of corruption, financial embezzlement and acquisition of property illegal while holding sway as Vice Chancellor of the National Open University.
Justice Ekwo granted the Order following a motion on notice for the final forfeiture of the property moved by the counsel for the anti-graft agency, F.O. Dibang.
“Order is hereby made forfeiting property set out in the scheduled attached herein found in the possession of the respondent as properties reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities to the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” Justice Ekwo said.
The order made on October 22 was obtained in Abuja on Monday, October 28, 2024.
While the EFCC was the applicant in the motion on notice marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/33/2024, Sunflower Hotel Limited was the sole respondent.
The motion was dated and filed on June 21.
Earlier in the year on February 16, Justice Ekwo had granted EFCC’s application for the preservation of the hotel.
Meanwhile, in the affidavit in support of the motion on notice dated and filed on June 21, the operative in the Economic Governance Section of EFCC, Dare Opeyemi, said he had the consent of the commission’s chairman to depose to the affidavit.
Opeyemi said in December 2022, the EFCC received “intelligence report alleging the offence of conspiracy and stealing, diversion of public funds and criminal breach of trust involving one Monday Oyeme, erstwhile Chairman, Delta State Board of Internal Revenue and a former Bursar of NOUN, and one Adamu Danlami, the owner of Crossbill International Limited, who are all at large)”
He said the investigation, which had been concluded, revealed that Onyeme, while he was the Bursar of NOUN, conspired with other staff to divert public funds into companies where he had subsisting interest.
He said that investigations further revealed that Crossbill International Limited, owned by Danladi, received a huge portion of the illicit funds fraudulently diverted from the institution’s account by Mr Onyeme.
Opeyemi added that investigations also revealed that Crossbill, from the illicit funds, diverted from NOUN account, made payments to other entities known as Wanone Investment Limited, Tanadi Limited, Namutane Foundation, and Sunflower Hotel Limited.
Groups operating under the aegis of the Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE) and Campaign for Democracy (CD) South East Zone have called on Governor Chukwuma Soludo to release ritualists and native doctors in detention.
The groups said, the Qnambra Governor should use the three years anniversary of his office to release the ritualists who have been in detention in the government house.
The appeal was contained in a joint statement by the Executive Director of the Human Rights body, CD South East Zonal Chairman Dede Uzor A.Uzor, the groups said he should use their release as a gift to their families in this season and occasion of three years in office.
The group named the native doctors as: Akwa Okuko tiwara Aku in Oba, Eke Hit from Okija and Onyeze Jesus from Nkpor.
The trio were arrested in connection with “spurious and obnoxious social media instigation on our youths” which painted a very bad image for the society.
The group lamented that the native doctors encouraged ostentatious lifestyle and crime, making our youths to believe that hard work doesn’t pay unless you engaged in unwholesome criminal activities like ‘okeite’ or ‘Awale, yahoo plus’ among other false lifestyles.
It also said “their activities promoted serious insecurity and tension in the state with teeming young people turning to such criminal and outlandish lifestyles.
“But since their arrest, we believe they have learnt a big lesson”.
The group advised that Soludo should make them sign undertaking with the hope of discontinuing such crude, unethical and diabolical activities in line with the extant laws of the State,” they appealed to the Governor.
HURIDE said Governor Soludo should grant amnesty to them in the spirit of this successful celebration of three years in office, saying that he has done so much to improve the lives of citizens of the State.
CAPITAL POST recalled that the Soludo administration has been clamping on criminal elements amid high number of missing persons believed to be orchestrated by ritualists in the State.
Crime
Ghana’s anti-drug agency nabs Nigerian drug kingpin, Uchechukwu Chima, seizes $2.1m worth of cocaine, heroin
Ghana’s Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has arrested a drug kingpin of Nigerian origin from the South East , Uchechukwu Chima.
The commission operatives raided his hideout in Accra.
Chima, who is 56 years was arrested on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, following the discovery of 192kg of cocaine and 0.42kg of heroin, valued at $2.1 million on the streets.
The acting Director of of Public Affairs and International Relations at NACOC, Francis Amoah speaking on the matter in Accra, confirmed that the substances seized were indeed cocaine and heroin.
Authorities believe Chima has played a significant role in previous drug-related operations in the country.
He said the operation marks a critical success in the ongoing fight against drug trafficking in Ghana.
“NACOC remains committed to making the country a hostile environment for drug trade and ensuring the safety of both Ghanaians and the international community.”
The Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, attached to Police Mobile Force, 70 Squadron, Kabba today Friday 14th March, 2025 foiled abduction of passengers along Ayere road. This is consequent upon a distress that some armed hoodlums blocked the road in an attempt to abduct some passengers in a Vehicle.
On receipt of the distress call, reinforcement teams from Sharper Corner pindown were promptly mobilized and sent to the scene which equally engaged the hoodlums, and owing to the superior fire power of the Police, the hoodlums fled into the bush and abandoned their victims who were rescued by the Police.
The Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Command, CP Miller G. Dantawaye, has ordered the deployment of additional operational and tactical assets of the Command to embark on thorough combing of the surrounding bushes with a view to apprehending the hoodlums and bringing them to deserved justice.
The CP while commending the unwavering dedication by the men of 70 PMF, Kabba, assured the public that the Police will not rest on its oars in the fight against criminality in the State.
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